NEW RELEASE OF THE DAY - Lintu Luto Lotto Winno!

[Beef Oven!]

Oddly enough Beef that Salonen Lutoslawski 4th - its premiere recording - was by far the most disappointing I heard during the last week. It isn't terrible, but seemed comparatively pale and featureless to me, like a studio try-out of unfamiliar music...

I don't think that's odd at all. People are different.

I prefer Esa-Pekka Salonen's performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic because to my ears, he gets across the lyrical nature of this late, autumnal work, but also finds the darker undercurrents; something that I'm not getting with the Lintu. Also on further listening to Lintu's performance of Lutoslawski's symphony no.1, I get further confirmation that I don't care much for this work, despite the excellent sound quality and fine playing of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

[Beef Oven!]

Do you know his Ligeti disc (Lontano, Atmosphères, San Francisco Polyphony and the Violin Concerto)? I don't think there are better recordings of any of those pieces. There's also the Berio disc, though I don't yet know that one so well. I hope he gets a change to release more of that kind of late 20th century repertoire (Stockhausen, Boulez, Xenakis, Nono) which is generally a bit neglected these days.

I've seen that recording here and there, but not heard it. I'm always happy to hear those works in different hands, so I shall check out a stream

[Richard Barrett]

Lintu's is a very rich and individual catalogue.

Isn't it. There are a few Nordic composers there that I've never heard of - Puumala, Melartin, Fagerlund... I imagine that this is because their work falls outside my sphere of interest, but I guess I ought to find out.

[jayne lee wilson]

I don't think that's odd at all. People are different.

I prefer Esa-Pekka Salonen's performance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic because to my ears, he gets across the lyrical nature of this late, autumnal work, but also finds the darker undercurrents; something that I'm not getting with the Lintu. Also on further listening to Lintu's performance of Lutoslawski's symphony no.1, I get further confirmation that I don't care much for this work, despite the excellent sound quality and fine playing of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra.

Always interesting to see first reviews of new works, and AW in 11/94 said of the Salonen that: "it conveys the spirit of a subtle and brilliantly crafted score, though by definition Salonen's reading is not the fruit of long acquaintance..."
Well, exactly...How very politely and pragmatically put...!

Like me he found the LA disc a little too distanced, and when the Naxos/Wit appeared, felt the work benefited from the immediacy of the recorded sound.

[Beef Oven!]

Always interesting to see first reviews of new works, and AW in 11/94 said of the Salonen that: "it conveys the spirit of a subtle and brilliantly crafted score, though by definition Salonen's reading is not the fruit of long acquaintance..."
Well, exactly...How very politely and pragmatically put...!

Like me he found the LA disc a little too distanced, and when the Naxos/Wit appeared, felt the work benefited from the immediacy of the recorded sound.

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