New Releases

[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...

[Roy Bland]

Orazmukhamed Kurban-Niyazov (1920 - 2008)

[Brian]

A few more summer preview items...
(or winter for Madiel)



I think Apple fired all BIS' graphic designers.

[Madiel]

A few more summer preview items...
(or winter for Madiel)

THANK YOU!

Pokemon Go has just started a spring event today. I ground my teeth slightly. It's amazing just how many things that are claiming to be worldwide make zero acknowledgement of the southern hemisphere existing.

[Florestan]

THANK YOU!

Pokemon Go has just started a spring event today. I ground my teeth slightly. It's amazing just how many things that are claiming to be worldwide make zero acknowledgement of the southern hemisphere existing.

Btw, how do you folks manage to live with your head oriented downwards? 

[Madiel]

Btw, how do you folks manage to live with your head oriented downwards? 

Look, if you've spent your whole life that way you get pretty used to it. Or you take a break by orienting yourself appropriately while riding around in a kangaroo pouch.

[André]

A few more summer preview items...
(or winter for Madiel)



I think Apple fired all BIS' graphic designers.

Curious about Nagano's Brahms and Furtwängler's symphony.

[André]

This one deserves an accolade for its cover picture:

[JBS]

This one deserves an accolade for its cover picture:

Joseph Alanen (1885-1920, Finland)
"Disease and Death"
Among the holdings of the Finnish National Gallery, but not currently on display

https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/1801422

[André]

Joseph Alanen (1885-1920, Finland)
"Disease and Death"
Among the holdings of the Finnish National Gallery, but not currently on display

https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/object/1801422

Ha ! When I saw it, it reminded me of some cover pics of Finnish music (Sibelius, Klami, etc).

[Brian]

MORE JUNE RELEASES





reissue from 2007/2010



with 140 page booklet



2CD



36, 16, Violin Concerto in C, 13 in that order on the disc



"The German-Greek pianist Danae Dörken belongs to the elite of a new generation of internationally sought-after artists. The current album is a tribute to the great Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis on the 100th anniversary of his birth, which is on 29 July 2025. Theodorakis's compositions blended classical, folk, and modern elements, often expressing the struggles and spirit of the Greek people. The Staatskapelle Weimar, under Kornilios Michailidis, is accompanying the pianist with Suite No. 1 and the Helikon Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra."



Just for former GMGer Ken B, this contains an arrangement by Sally Beamish of.... La mer!!



What a bizarre program.



Unusually, this comes with a praise quote from a fellow pianist on the back cover. "Apart from it being quite rare to see a pianist so dedicated to such difficult pieces, it is even less common to see a young musician mastering them with such musical intelligence and deep knowledge of the orchestral score, coupled with a great sense of rhythm and a masterful technique!" - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

[Selig]

BWV 1014-1019

A third instrument (viola da gamba) is added for sonatas 1, 2, and 6.

[prémont]

BWV 1014-1019

A third instrument (viola da gamba) is added for sonatas 1, 2, and 6.

Wonder about the philosophical reasons for not adding a gamba in sonatas 3,4 and 5.

Maybe a lack of coin. 

[brewski]

Over the next few weeks, digging into this massive box (94 CDs) of recordings made from 1964 to 1983 by Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra, for an article I'm writing for WRTI.

From the press release:

Some of these performances — including the complete recording of Bach's St. John Passion, Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis, Schubert's Sixth Symphony and a disc of opera choruses with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, as well as Ginastera's Concerto for Strings and the ballet music from Massenet's opera Le Cid — have never appeared before in the digital medium, and they shine a light into new corners of Ormandy's astonishingly large repertoire.

Also new to CD are two late symphonies by Haydn — No. 96 "The Miracle" and No. 101 "The Clock" — a prime example of Ormandy excelling in repertoire not normally associated with him.

[Que]

Over the next few weeks, digging into this massive box (94 CDs) of recordings made from 1964 to 1983 by Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra, for an article I'm writing for WRTI.

From the press release:

Some of these performances — including the complete recording of Bach's St. John Passion, Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis, Schubert's Sixth Symphony and a disc of opera choruses with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, as well as Ginastera's Concerto for Strings and the ballet music from Massenet's opera Le Cid — have never appeared before in the digital medium, and they shine a light into new corners of Ormandy's astonishingly large repertoire.

Also new to CD are two late symphonies by Haydn — No. 96 "The Miracle" and No. 101 "The Clock" — a prime example of Ormandy excelling in repertoire not normally associated with him.

Nice! You'll have your work cut out for you.... 

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

Heads up Saariaho fans --- to be released in a matter of days:

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

A candidate for 'Worst Cover Art'? It certainly would receive my vote.

[Brian]

On closer inspection, I think it is an AI generated "painting" so yeah, I agree that it is a candidate for the Worst!

[Madiel]

A candidate for 'Worst Cover Art'? It certainly would receive my vote.

My honest view is that it would barely create a ripple on the relevant thread. It only raises to the level of "slightly tasteless". We expect shocking incompetence.

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

My honest view is that it would barely create a ripple on the relevant thread. It only raises to the level of "slightly tasteless". We expect shocking incompetence.

But as @Brian points out, it appears to be an AI-generated image and these get an automatic raspberry from me.