Recordings That You Are Considering

[Mandryka]

How odd -- no one likes Britten's old skool Mozart Symphonies apparently.

Except me.

Britten did my favourite 41.

I'll second Mackerras for New Wave -- in fact his Prague is my favourite of anyone's.

Klemperer is excellent too -- sprightly performances -- v good in 29 esp.

Have not found the perfect Jupiter yet -- suggestions appreciated.

[71 dB]

I'll never understand record companies.

I used to feel the same way but then I realised the whole world is against me and everything is in fact VERY logical. Record companies must offer us something in order to get our money but they never give what we really want because that would make us happy. They prefer torturing us.

[Sergeant Rock]

I used to feel the same way but then I realised the whole world is against me and everything is in fact VERY logical. Record companies must offer us something in order to get our money but they never give what we really want because that would make us happy. They prefer torturing us.

I like your reasoning, and I concur. There really is no other explanation 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Have not found the perfect Jupiter yet -- suggestions appreciated.

I'd nominate Harnoncourt's Jupiter with the COE. He really makes it a grand statement, all repeats taken. Szell, too, of course, is excellent.

Sarge

[71 dB]

I like your reasoning, and I concur. There really is no other explanation 

Sarge

Why do you like it? It means happiness is almost impossible. 

I hate being right this way...

[Lethevich]

Looks exciting!

[Sergeant Rock]

Why do you like it? It means happiness is almost impossible. 

Exactly. Never expect happiness (true happiness is rare and fleeting). Human Life = pain and suffering. To be heroic means accepting this stoically, with the ability to laugh at fate.

Sarge

[George]

Yes, along with Szell and Harnoncourt (I especially like his 39-41 with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe), I consider Klemperer's Mozart essential. I'm annoyed with EMI, though. They haven't put the entire collection (I own a 6 LP box) on CD yet. There's a single disc with 25, 29, 31 and a twofer with 29 (again!), 35, 38-41. Missing are 33, 34 and 36 as well as most of the overtures. I'll never understand record companies.

And Klemperer, in that case; but that is admittedly something of an oddball choice of mine (and Sarge's)!

Klemperer is excellent too -- sprightly performances -- v good in 29 esp.

I will fourth the recommendations for Klemperer. I only have the single CD with the earlier symphonies, but it's great!

[Mandryka]

Exactly. Never expect happiness (true happiness is rare and fleeting). Human Life = pain and suffering. To be heroic means accepting this stoically, with the ability to laugh at fate.

Sarge

Call no man happy until he is dead. (Who said that? -- was it Aeschylus?)

I'd nominate Harnoncourt's Jupiter with the COE. He really makes it a grand statement, all repeats taken. Szell, too, of course, is excellent.

Sarge

Strange how I've never heard Harnoncourt's Mozart symphonies yet I love this conductor in Haydn, in Monteverdi, in Beethoven.

I will check out the Jupiter PDQ.

[Renfield]

I will third the recommendations for Klemperer. I only have the single CD with the earlier symphonies, but it's great!

Hey!



(Just kidding. )

Mandryka: Herodotus.

[George]

Hey!
(Just kidding. )

Fixed. Sorry, it's early and I am not yet sufficiently hydrated. 

[rickardg]

Arnold Schoenberg

Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21 - Luisa Castellani, voice / Andrea Lucchesini, piano
Erwartung, Op. 17 (live recording) - Alessandra Marc, soprano
Six Orchestral Songs, Op. 8 - Alessandra Marc, soprano
Begleitmusik Zu Einer Lichtspielszene, Op. 34
A Survivor From Warsaw, Op. 46 - John Tomlinson, narrator
Chmber Symphony No.1, Op. 9 - for 15 solo instruments
Gurrelieder - Thomas Moser, Deborah Voight, Jennifer Larmore, Bernd Weikl, Kenneth Riegel
(live from the Semper Opera, Dresden)

Anton Webern

Im Sommerwind (Idyll after a poem by Bruno Wille)
Passacaglia Op. 1
Six Orchestral Pieces Op. 6 (arr. For reduced orchestra 1928)
Five Orchestral Pieces Op. 10
Symphony Op. 21
Concerto Op. 24
Variations Op. 30

Alban Berg

Violin Concerto "To The Memory of an Angel" - Reiko Watanabe, violin
Chamber Concerto for Piano, Violin & 13 Wind Instruments - Reiko Watanabe, violin / Andrea Lucchesini, piano
Three Pieces From The Lyric Suite - Alessandra Marc, soprano
Three Fragments from the Opera "Wozzeck" - Alessandra Marc, soprano
Symphonic Pieces from The Opera "Lulu" - Alessandra Marc, soprano
Seven Early Songs - Orchestral version 1928 - Juliane Banse, soprano
Altenberg - Lieder, Op. 4 - Alessandra Marc, soprano
Der Wien - Doborah Voigt, soprano
Three Orchestral Pieces, Op. 6

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm a fan of Sinopoli and already own many of these performances: the gorgeous, highly romanticized Berg VC and the Chamber Concerto; the enthralling and dramatic Erwartung and Pierrot; the Webern pieces. I would like to own the rest, especially Gurrelieder, about which Gramophone wrote: "Sinopoli is more likely than Chailly to let his orchestra rip (the Staatskapelle Dresden letting rip is an awesome sound)..." That alone makes me want to hear it!    Much of this music is available quite cheaply on single discs, but if the box can be had for a good price, I say go for it.

Sarge 

[George]

"Steven Osborne's live performances of Rachmaninov's preludes were greeted ecstatically by critics and audience alike: a new benchmark for performances of these works, and a new departure for this most subtle and sensitive of pianists. Now Steven has committed the complete cycle to disc - a surprisingly rare recording venture in itself. His matchless musicianship has rarely been so blazingly evident as it is here. Also apparent is his deeply individual relationship with the repertoire. This is a disc to treasure."

'A catalogue of revelations on how the Russian composer's piano music should sound ... one of the finest performances I've ever heard from the Scottish pianist - Osborne presented a textbook demonstration of clarity of thought and purpose ... a philosophy which banished notions of Rachmaninov's music as turgid, densely textured emotional upheaval in sonic form. This was so clear it had a rare purity, wholly refreshing the music in all its parts' (The Glasgow Herald)

'Textures that on the page look impossibly convoluted emerged wonderously clear, fluent and beauteous' (Financial Times)

[Brian]

"Steven Osborne's live performances of Rachmaninov's preludes were greeted ecstatically by critics and audience alike: a new benchmark for performances of these works, and a new departure for this most subtle and sensitive of pianists. Now Steven has committed the complete cycle to disc - a surprisingly rare recording venture in itself. His matchless musicianship has rarely been so blazingly evident as it is here. Also apparent is his deeply individual relationship with the repertoire. This is a disc to treasure."

'A catalogue of revelations on how the Russian composer's piano music should sound ... one of the finest performances I've ever heard from the Scottish pianist - Osborne presented a textbook demonstration of clarity of thought and purpose ... a philosophy which banished notions of Rachmaninov's music as turgid, densely textured emotional upheaval in sonic form. This was so clear it had a rare purity, wholly refreshing the music in all its parts' (The Glasgow Herald)

'Textures that on the page look impossibly convoluted emerged wonderously clear, fluent and beauteous' (Financial Times)

That was the inaugural disc in my "Recordings You Are Looking Forward To" thread, and I'm really interested in hearing people's initial reactions as well. I like Osborne's pianism even better than that of his Hyperion colleagues Hough and Hamelin.

[Que]

I'm considering beefing up my Early Music collection with some box sets by the rare but high quality Spanish Cantus label. They have a new website that is still under development, which is unfortunate because direct-ordering is not yet available again.

A Machaut set: (click pictures for details)



It has these three discs:


Another 3CD set is with Spanish Renaissance music:





For those who really want to splash out on French Medieval Music, there is this 7CD set, which includes the Machaut discs!



Q

[Harry]

Que, that looks absolutely mouth watering.

[George]

That was the inaugural disc in my "Recordings You Are Looking Forward To" thread, and I'm really interested in hearing people's initial reactions as well. I like Osborne's pianism even better than that of his Hyperion colleagues Hough and Hamelin.

More Info Here

[Que]

Que, that looks absolutely mouth watering.

That makes two of us!

Q

[The new erato]

Glossa is starting av major Sweelinck series with a double CD of Chansons soon to be released. Strangely enough the two same discs seem to be included in a triple with book destined for the Dutch market, if I understand their website correctly, with a grand total of 16 discs to be released overall. Anyway, I will watch this closely....