As the contributors to this forum appear to me to have much better taste than this morning's motley crew on CD review (excepting AMcG), what are the 5 recordings new to your collection in 2011 which you have most enjoyed? or to which you would urge others to listen? My choices (in no particular order) are: (1) Alexandre Tharauds's Scarlatti recital; (2) Chiaroscuro Quartet's Mozart Dissonance and Schubert Rosamunde pairing (I know it's HIPP but the playing .....); (3) Yakov Kreizberg's Stravinsky Ballets Russes trio of CDs; (4) the Testament issue of the Furtwängler/BPO Bruckner 5th; and (5) thanks to JLW, the Japanese remastered set of Vaclav Neumann's Martinu Symphony cycle. I could add loads more but these discs seem to be the ones I've listened to a lot (if the Abbado/BPO Das Lied von der Erde had been issued commercially that would definitely appear).
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But I've only bought 4!
Brahms VC Faust/ Mahler CO/ Harding
Chopin Preludes/ PC 2 Pires
Vivaldi 4 seasons etc Carmignola/ Venice Baroque/ Marcon
Schubert Impromptus etc/ Pires
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Panufnik, Symphonic Works Vol.1 "Nocturne"
Panufnik, Symphonic Works Vol.3 "Mistica"
Both Polish Radio SO/Borowicz (CPO)
Martinu Complete Symphonies - Czech PO/Neumann (that Japanese Supraphon Mastersonic remaster as per HD's list - glad you enjoyed it HD!).
Martinu Complete Music for Violin & Orchestra Vol.1 - Matousek/Hogwood/Czech PO (Hyperion)
Zelenka Officium Defunctorum/Requiem - Collegium 1704 & Collegium Vocale 1704/Vaclav Luks (Accent)
Bartok Violin Concerto No.2 - Kelemen/Kocsis/Hungarian NPO (Hungaraton)
Haydn/Mendelssohn/Schubert Symphonies - Josef Krips/VPO/LSO (eloquence)
Er... is that 5 items or 7 - in supermarket terms?
Have to do another list for downloads...Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 18-12-11, 02:49.Comment
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Mozart: Divertimento K.563; Schubert: String Trio in B flat D.471. Trio Zimmermann (BIS)
Dvorak: String Quartets opp. 96 and 106. Pavel Haas Quartet (Supraphon)
Mendelssohn: Concerto for Piano and Strings, Double Concerto. Kristian Bezuidenhout, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra/Gottfried Von der Goltz (Harmonia Mundi)
Smetana: Piano Trio; Liszt: Elegies. Trio Wanderer (Harmonia Mundi)
Fauré Requiem. Sandrine Piau, Stéphane Degout, Accentus, Orchestra National de France/Laurence Equilbey (Naïve)Comment
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Brand new recorings:
Beethoven / Alexei Lubimov - Piano Sonatas Op. 109, 110, 111 on an 1828 pianoforte.
Mahler / Thomas Hampson, Wiener Virtuosen - Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Reissue collections:
Larkin's Jazz - 4CD Proper Box
6CD Bach Concertos - Café Zimmermann
The Art of Christa Ludwig - 5CD EMI boxComment
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I bought the 'Larkin' box set - in fact, I played one-and-a-bit of them yesterday. 'Brilliant' is the word! (And the very informative and comprehensive booklet makes them even more of a bargain).Comment
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Beethoven - Chailly
Martinu - Belohlavek
Ylva Skog - Piano Trio
Music for a time of war - Carlos Kalmar
Fiddler´s Spring - Juha KangasComment
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Originally posted by DublinJimbo View Post
That's also my favourite purchase of 2011.
Together with (I'm going to break the rules as I can't decide):
- Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (& Prokofiev PC#2): Yundi Li - BPO/Ozawa (DG)
- J.S. Bach: Missae Breves BWV 233 & 236: Pygmalion/Pichon (Alpha)
- J.S. Bach: Concerts avec plusieurs instruments V: Café Zimmermann (Alpha)
- Shostakovich: Complete Preludes & Fugues: Alexander Melnikov (HM)
- J.C. Bach: Symphonies Hw1, Nos. 6, 10 & 20: Leipziger Kammerorchester/Schuldt-Jensen (Naxos)
- Shostakovich: Symphonies 6 & 12: RLPO/Petrenko (Naxos)
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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A fine selection Brother CalibanOriginally posted by Caliban View Post
That's also my favourite purchase of 2011.
Together with (I'm going to break the rules as I can't decide):
- Ravel: Piano Concerto in G (& Prokofiev PC#2): Yundi Li - BPO/Ozawa (DG)
- J.S. Bach: Missae Breves BWV 233 & 236: Pygmalion/Pichon (Alpha)
- J.S. Bach: Concerts avec plusieurs instruments V: Café Zimmermann (Alpha)
- Shostakovich: Complete Preludes & Fugues: Alexander Melnikov (HM)
- J.C. Bach: Symphonies Hw1, Nos. 6, 10 & 20: Leipziger Kammerorchester/Schuldt-Jensen (Naxos)
- Shostakovich: Symphonies 6 & 12: RLPO/Petrenko (Naxos)
I've listened to Yundi's Prokofiev piano concerto no 2 with great pleasure but I'm yet to listen to the Ravel - perverse to the end, c'est moi!
I must explore the others toot sweetComment
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Do start with the Accentus Fauré Requiem... though the Bach Missae Breves would be more apt for the season...Originally posted by amateur51 View PostA fine selection Brother Caliban
I've listened to Yundi's Prokofiev piano concerto no 2 with great pleasure but I'm yet to listen to the Ravel - perverse to the end, c'est moi!
I must explore the others toot sweet
The Gloria from the Missa Brevis in F is possibly my favourite single track of the year: it's now my alarm music on my mobile - I wake to it each morning!! Grab 10 seconds here... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0042I25V8... or splash out a princely 79p for the whole track
What better way is there these days of spending 79p? Why, you can't even buy a decent snack-size pork pie for that!!! )
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Corking stuff, Calibs, I must agree! It has gone on the listOriginally posted by Caliban View PostDo start with the Accentus Fauré Requiem... though the Bach Missae Breves would be more apt for the season...
The Gloria from the Missa Brevis in F is possibly my favourite single track of the year: it's now my alarm music on my mobile - I wake to it each morning!! Grab 10 seconds here... http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0042I25V8... or splash out a princely 79p for the whole track What better way is there these days of spending 79p? Why, you can't even buy a decent snack-size pork pie for that!!! )
Does the fair Anna know of your early morning habits?
The pork pies she may well find alluring but such raucousness at dawn might be a deal-breaker
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Struggling not to lower the tone and offend everyone, not least the fair Anna, with a post involving morning Glorias.... but it's beyond me!Originally posted by amateur51 View PostCorking stuff, Calibs, I must agree! It has gone on the list
Does the fair Anna know of your early morning habits? The pork pies she may well find alluring but such raucousness at dawn might be a deal-breaker
"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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The Virtual Haydn / Tom Beghin, fortepianos / naxos
Beethoven - Symphonies / Krivine
Gluck - Ezio / Curtis
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique / les Siècles; Roth
Mozart - die Zauberflöte / JacobsComment
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Halvorsen - Orchestral Works vol 3 Jarvi
Mahler 2 - Jurowski
Tchaikovsky 6 - Mackerras
Benjamin Grosvenor debut Decca recital
Shostakovich 15 - Haitink
NB Faure Requiem - EquilbeyLast edited by Alison; 18-12-11, 21:33.Comment
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Kalinnikov symphonies (Bakels)
Langgaard Music of the spheres (Dausgaard)
Mahler 2 (Levine)
DSCH 4 (Raiskin)
Balakirev (Driver)Comment
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