New Releases

[JBS]

For 11/22.



The key word there is "stereo"--because it doesn't include the mono 1956 recording of the Requiem that was in this set

[Todd]

This release will fall into one of two categories: hot garbage or dumpster fire.  I shall let others find out.











A welcome corrective.











Gosh, I hope the young Ms Dueñas' outfit does not doom her career in the eyes, and at the wicked sharp typing fingers, of tastemakers and moralists alike.  I mean, she's showing some shoulder. 

[Mandryka]

15 Novemeber

[vandermolen]

Mid November (UK)

[Brian]

Complete track listing including which performer does which work:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Earliest-French-Piano-Recordings/dp/B0DHBNJM8Q/

[JBS]

Complete track listing including which performer does which work:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Earliest-French-Piano-Recordings/dp/B0DHBNJM8Q/

The Warner Saint Saens Edition set seems to include all those recordings of Saint-Saens the performer, plus some earlier piano roll recordings he did that include a Chopin Impromptu--a total 19 tracks for 75 minutes of music.

[relm1]

Woohoo!  I used to work for him, can't wait to hear this.  From what I heard in clips, it's great!

[ritter]

The French label Maguelone (known to me mainly for a series of CDs with music by Reynaldo Hahn) is the unlikely source of a new recording (AFAIK, it's the work's only second studio recording) of Schoenberg's Von heute auf morgen.



The CD also includes Schoenberg's arrangements of the Kaiserwaltzer and Funiculì-Funiculà.

[Brian]

Some releases coming in 2025



and a November release I had not noticed before



piano:
Michael Rosenberger, Vienna, 1800 (sonata nos. 1-9), Edwin Beunk Collection
Michael Rosenberger, Vienna, ca. 1820 (sonata no. 10), on loan from the collection of the Nationaal Muziekinstrumenten Fonds

[Roy Bland]

[vandermolen]

This release will fall into one of two categories: hot garbage or dumpster fire.  I shall let others find out.











A welcome corrective.











Gosh, I hope the young Ms Dueñas' outfit does not doom her career in the eyes, and at the wicked sharp typing fingers, of tastemakers and moralists alike.  I mean, she's showing some shoulder. 

The Nosferatu Symphony looks fun!

[Brian]

look what just appeared on Amazon.de



94 CDs

[Mookalafalas]

look what just appeared on Amazon.de



94 CDs

Yeah, we all knew it'd be coming soon... I love that "Philadelphia Sound" from the second (that is, after the mono edition) box. However, apparently everyone got tired of him towards the end of his career in Philadelphia. I guess the big question is, did the music get worse, or did the audience just want a fresh face and new approach. I'll be curious to see how this is received.

[Todd]

[Brian]

some JANUARY 2025 stuff that hasn't been posted already



"By 2014, Éric Montalbetti had amassed 20 years of experience as Artistic Director of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. All the while, he had also been composing, something he had been engaged in since childhood—an activity he did not publicly reveal until 2015. Conscious of the heritage of Debussy and Messiaen ('my very first heroes'), as well as skilled in the serialism of Boulez—whose teaching courses he attended at the Collège de France—and fascinated by the sonic nuances of spectral music, Éric Montalbetti seeks a point of convergence, a possible synthesis enabling him to blend modality and serialism without rejecting the harmonic contours of composers such as Murail. This new album dedicated to Montalbetti's work includes a Flute Concerto, whose commission was encouraged by Emmanuel Pahud; its telling title is Memento vivere (Remember that you must live)."



The Schubert is arranged for the same forces as the Schubert Octet.

[ritter]

...



"By 2014, Éric Montalbetti had amassed 20 years of experience as Artistic Director of the Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra. All the while, he had also been composing, something he had been engaged in since childhood—an activity he did not publicly reveal until 2015. Conscious of the heritage of Debussy and Messiaen ('my very first heroes'), as well as skilled in the serialism of Boulez—whose teaching courses he attended at the Collège de France—and fascinated by the sonic nuances of spectral music, Éric Montalbetti seeks a point of convergence, a possible synthesis enabling him to blend modality and serialism without rejecting the harmonic contours of composers such as Murail. This new album dedicated to Montalbetti's work includes a Flute Concerto, whose commission was encouraged by Emmanuel Pahud; its telling title is Memento vivere (Remember that you must live)."
...

Montalbetti's name is completely new to me, but the blurb you posted led me to sample some of his music on YouTube (the Ouverture Philharmonique and the String Quartet "Harmonieuses dissonances") and liked what I heard. Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

[Mandryka]

Nov 8, he's already released the first partita for DG, and there are other examples on youtube. I think people who can enjoy Glenn Gould's Bach may find something valuable there.

[Madiel]

some JANUARY 2025 stuff that hasn't been posted already

Well this is already out on digital at least. Perhaps January is when a physical CD comes out?

Interesting in part because she's doing the rather rare op.7, Songs from the Dvur Karlove Manuscript (the only other recording is Bernarda Fink). I shall have to give it a listen... even if I can't readily justify another copy of the other collections she's doing...

[prémont]

15 Novemeber

Any information whether it's MI or PI?

[Mandryka]

Any information whether it's MI or PI?

No, but I saw them with MI, it was one of the more enjoyable concerts I've been to this year. Their Beethoven is good too.