New Releases

[Roy Bland]

Kazhlayev's egyptian melodies

[Selig]

Bach arranged for viola d'amore a chiavi (=nyckelharpa?)

https://www.artistcamp.com/didier-fran-ois/j-s-bach-sei-solo-sonatas/9008798688944/index.html

[prémont]

Bach arranged for viola d'amore a chiavi (=nyckelharpa?)

https://www.artistcamp.com/didier-fran-ois/j-s-bach-sei-solo-sonatas/9008798688944/index.html

Sometimes we are presented with extraordinarily exotic solutions, e.g. this by Tobie Miller:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8512677--bach-solo

[Madiel]

Sometimes we are presented with extraordinarily exotic solutions, e.g. this by Tobie Miller:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8512677--bach-solo

For it to be a solution, there had to be a problem.

There are in fact Bach pieces that can legitimately be described as having a problem in realising a performance. These are not among them.

[hopefullytrusting]

Sometimes we are presented with extraordinarily exotic solutions, e.g. this by Tobie Miller:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8512677--bach-solo

What an amazing disc!

This is definitely something I'm going to pick up in my next round of buying.

Transcribers are pretty freaking sweet.

All the above also applies to @Selig post, as well.

[prémont]

For it to be a solution, there had to be a problem.

There are in fact Bach pieces that can legitimately be described as having a problem in realising a performance. These are not among them.

Perhaps I should placed the word "solution" in quotation marks to avoid any misunderstanding.

[Madiel]

Perhaps I should placed the word "solution" in quotation marks to avoid any misunderstanding.

I'm trying to think whether there are also alternate words. Exotic renderings?

No matter. My feelings on the majority of transcriptions (and on remixes in pop music) are well known.

[pjme]

interesting re-issues, combined in a box. 

[ritter]

No cover art yet, and no online mentions  I can see yet, but the Catalogue illustré de l'oeuvre de Pierre Boulez (published last week) lists a (2025) release of piano music by Boulez performed by Ralph van Raat on Naxos, including the world premières of two peces of juvenilia (which were not available to the public until now), Trois Psalmodies and Thème et variations pour la main gauche. The disc will also include the short Fragment d'une ébauche (from 1987), which has been recorded previously by Dimitri Vassilakis and by Michael Wendeberg.

Raat had already recorded the early Prélude, toccata et scherzo (for Naxos, on a CD released in 2020).

[Brian]

[Brian]

ok folks, I know it's almost unimaginably far away but Naxos has published their distribution of

JUNE NEW RELEASES

and it looks like a jam-packed month!!



The Chiaroscuro Quartet has a new second violinist and is now all ladies.



Period instruments/gut strings









"The new album by pianist Ragna Schirmer tells the story of the blind composer Maria Theresia von Paradis. Mozart dedicated his Piano Concerto KV456 to her and the pianist was instrumental in developing a writing for the blind, which was established by Louis Braille one year after her death in 1825. Ragna Schirmer plays on an original replica of a grand piano from the composer's time, built by the Greifenberger Institut."

featuring that Mozart concerto, plus solo piano works and an overture by Paradis

[Brian]

JUNE PART TWO



The Ries symphony not numbered on the album cover is called "No. 8" in quotation marks on the back cover.

This might be the first time I have seen a picture of Havergal Brian before he turned, say, 60 





"Alois Hába has gone down in the history of 20th-century music as an experimenter. He studied in Vienna and Berlin under Franz Schreker, studied the tonal principles of non-European music, and developed his own theory of micro-intervallic music although more than half of his works are compositions in the usual system of semitones. He was trying "to find the path from non-traditional training to artistically independent creative work with strongly altered harmony and melody in order to arrive at a personal means of expression following the line leading from Bach to Schumann and on to Reger." He achieved this goal in the Sonata, Op. 3. Erwin Schulhoff premiered the Two Grotesque Pieces in 1922 in Berlin alongside compositions by Satie, Casella, and Stravinsky, and according to a critic, "Hába's compositions made a far more authentic impression than much that surrounded them." After the Toccata quasi una fantasia (1931), Hába returned to writing piano music one last time 40 years later at the end of his life with his Six Moods. As a student in Vienna and Ghent, the pianist Miroslav Beinhauer focused on music of the 20th and 21st centuries. He was introduced to Hába through his compositions for sixth-tone harmonium (Beinhauer is the only player of this instrument, created by Hába), and he went on to study Hába's complete works for "ordinary" piano as well."

and finally, the biggest release of the month by star power:

[André]

and finally, the biggest release of the month by star power:

The playing time is off by 10 minutes.

[Brian]

The playing time is off by 10 minutes.

I opened the booklet PDF and added up every track manually. 71 is right; the 19:11 timing for the Baudelaire poem set accidentally omits a 9:36 track that is included in the 71 total.

[hopefullytrusting]

I cannot wait for this disc. Releasing on May 30, 2025 (easily, the biggest release of the year - it wouldn't surprise me, if this cd broke into a non-classical music chart): Anna Lapwood's, classical music biggest star, Firedove:



https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9765273--firedove

[Roy Bland]

[Mandryka]

What's in this?

[Mandryka]

And finally, the biggest release of the month by star power:

In concert a couple of years ago Kozena and Uchida were really special, hopefully that spirit is captured on disc.

[Brian]

What's in this?

When they say Erato, they really mean Virgin Classics. Two discs of Scarlatti, Tchaikovsky Seasons and his debut as a conductor, his piano transcriptions of Tchaikovsky ballets, and his very much altered Pictures at an Exhibition.

Full contents not announced yet but his discography online should help.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/926728-Mikhail-Pletnev?srsltid=AfmBOoqLnqk1gs0f8AKhYcUlheRL8vQtSzir-ehxwL_yWHdB01zUF5nh

[André]

I opened the booklet PDF and added up every track manually. 71 is right; the 19:11 timing for the Baudelaire poem set accidentally omits a 9:36 track that is included in the 71 total.

Good, thank you. I'm always chagrined to find errors or typos on the front or back covers of CDs. It's the window through which the product is presented after all...