Storgards: Complete Sibelius Symphony Box Set

[Guest]

I have just been listening to the review on CD review. I also attended the live performances by the Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. I am on the edge of pushing the order button with the River People. Has anyone heard or purchased this complete set?

John

[Bryn]

Be patient John. I think it quite likely that the recordings will turn up on Afternoon on 3 before too long.

[Black Swan]

Thanks, Bryn. A good idea.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I have just been listening to the review on CD review.

They did sound ryddu good, didn't they!

I also attended the live performances by the Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall.

Oh, you lucky, lucky ...

My own Debit card is saying "Go on, ferney: you know you want to!"

[Black Swan]

Ferney,

My debit card is saying the same thing. I am mulling Bryn's advice. Oddly, what other than the symphonies, I want the fragment played.

John

[Dave2002]

Itchy fingers! I still have Prime membership until Monday, so my fingers might accidentally go down on my keyboard!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Symphonies-Storgards-Philharmonic-Chandos/dp/B00IO56TPS/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1402138005&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=Sibelius+Storgaards

The cheaper marketplace sellers mostly seem to be based in the US - I still don't know if that has ramifications with HMRC. Amazon seem to list a delivery charge - perhaps they have some sort of agreement with HMRC - but then again ... who knows?

Certainly sounded good this morning, though I have other sets - Barbirolli, Vanska I think on MP3, a few other CD sets, including Bernstein, and some of the Naxos sets.

I'm really not so convinced by the fragments - which I've heard before. Even the story about the eighth symphony being burnt doesn't quite make sense. I read elsewhere that Sibelius actually had a bonfire in the garden, which still confirms the burning of manuscripts, but doesn't confirm the special role of the fireplace inside his house. Of course he could have had a bonfire and burnt material in the fireplace.

[Black Swan]

Dave,

I agree about the snippet on the 8th symphony. I too have heard that it was a bonfire in the garden. I also know that they have searched Ianola high and low for a secret compartment or the manuscript to be hidden somewhere. I hadn't heard the fragments before.

[pastoralguy]

I have just been listening to the review on CD review. I also attended the live performances by the Orchestra at the Bridgewater Hall. I am on the edge of pushing the order button with the River People. Has anyone heard or purchased this complete set?

John

Being a big Sibelius fan, I bought them the day they were released. I think they're superb and all that was said this morning was true. My one reservation is the first movt. transition into the 'scherzo' section where there gear changes are, IMHO, just a little clunky. (Not a patch on Karajan, Davis or Gibson).

But I would wholeheartedly recommend them.

[Bryn]

Thanks, Bryn. A good idea.

Not perhaps so good. The 5th, it turns out, was broadcast last December. I'm not sure about the others. However, the set is available in lossless form via Qobuz. Having stumped up my €199 for a year's subscription a few days ago, I have been listening to the 1st, 4th and the fragments today.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

My one reservation is the first movt. transition into the 'scherzo' section where there gear changes are, IMHO, just a little clunky. (Not a patch on Karajan, Davis or Gibson).

The Fifth Symphony, pasto? Interesting that Karajan's third recording also lets the gear changes come through as part of the reading of the work - a greater sense of struggle creating a different (neither "better" nor "worse" IMO) sense of achievement once the Scherzo material emerges. Thanks for your overall recommendation - this is getting more and more difficult to resist!

[pastoralguy]

The Fifth Symphony, pasto? Interesting that Karajan's third recording also lets the gear changes come through as part of the reading of the work - a greater sense of struggle creating a different (neither "better" nor "worse" IMO) sense of achievement once the Scherzo material emerges. Thanks for your overall recommendation - this is getting more and more difficult to resist!

Sorry - of course.

[Parry1912]

Not heard it but Richard Whitehouse in IRR thought very well of the set (although he preferred Vanska/Lahti).

[teamsaint]

probably not the right place really, but Sibelius nuts might be interested in this CD, which includes recordings of three unpublished Sibelius works.

http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/news/latest-news/backman-trio-cd-includes-premiere-recording-of-new-bergman-work

[Roehre]

probably not the right place really, but Sibelius nuts might be interested in this CD, which includes recordings of three unpublished Sibelius works.

http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/news/l...w-bergman-work

The Bergman is an important work. The Sibelius works can also be found in the BIS Complete Sibelius Edition (Vol. 2: BIS-CD-1903/05)

[teamsaint]

The Bergman is an important work. The Sibelius works can also be found in the BIS Complete Sibelius Edition (Vol. 2: BIS-CD-1903/05)

Thanks Roehre.

They are performing some of this music In Salisbury next week, so I may well toddle along to that.

Dont know who thought that concerts during the world cup are a good idea though.