Reissues - either forthcoming or ones you'd like to see re-released

[Guest]

This may be of interest to Beethoven string quartet lovers: a forthcoming re-release of the Talich Quartet's cycle by La Dolce Volta, who've already re-issued their Mozart recordings. Not my thing, but sure to be of interest to some of you. It's available for pre-order via Amazon.fr, out on October 9th.

One I'd LOVE to see re-released in a box set is Jochum's first Beethoven Cycle with the Berliner Philharmoniker/Bayerischen Rundfunks. I know it's available for download but I'd much rather have a CD box set. I even wrote to DG this week to suggest they re-release it. Do they dare defy Dr. Thropplenoggin? I think not!

[Petrushka]

I bought that Jochum/Beethoven set in 2003 but the prices asked for it now by Amazon Marketplace sellers are downright stupid.

One release I want to see, along with several others on here who also mention it whenever a thread like this crops up, is the first CD issue of Maxim Shostakovich's 1972 premiere recording of his father's Symphony No 15. Quite why Melodiya have never issued this is a complete mystery. Were copies of the mastertapes destroyed by order of the Kremlin when Maxim defected?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ferneyhough: Transit; Soloists, London Sinfonietta/Elgar Howarth.

http://www.mintlprecords.com/BrianFerneyhough.htm

... this has been rumoured and promised as a CD release for the past 15 years at least - zilch. Nada. Niente. Diddly squat!

[Bryn]

Ferneyhough: Transit; Soloists, London Sinfonietta/Elgar Howarth.

http://www.mintlprecords.com/BrianFerneyhough.htm

... this has been rumoured and promised as a CD release for the past 15 years at least - zilch. Nada. Niente. Diddly squat!

Perhaps Australian Eloquence will serve it up.

[Petrushka]

Perhaps Australian Eloquence will serve it up.

Or, more likely perhaps, NMC.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

NMC were due to reissue it back in 1999 (-ish) but for reasons that I've never been able to find out, the plans fell through. Peters Edition even advertised the CD (it was to be coupled with the BBC Singers performing the Missa Brevis) and gave a catalogue number (NMC DO33), which I duly ordered. This catalogue number was actually given to the reissue of Colin Matthews' The Great Journey, which I consequently own!

Some Headline issues have reappeared on EXPLORE records. Not, alas, the elusive Transit - and I don't think this label exists any more. Australian Eloquence are my latest "hope" - but it increasingly seems that, like its astronomical namesake, it'll be another 112 years before we get another one!


(By the way, "Transit van" was one of the nom-de-webs I considered when I joined the old BBC Messageboards (Ferneyhough and Beethoven combination essential). I decided that, whilst I quite like the shortened "Ferney", "Tranny" didn't have quite the same ring!)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I know I've mentioned this before - Haebler's Mozart Piano Concerto box set.

[Petrushka]

NMC were due to reissue it back in 1999 (-ish) but for reasons that I've never been able to find out, the plans fell through. Peters Edition even advertised the CD (it was to be coupled with the BBC Singers performing the Missa Brevis) and gave a catalogue number (NMC DO33), which I duly ordered. This catalogue number was actually given to the reissue of Colin Matthews' The Great Journey, which I consequently own!

Some Headline issues have reappeared on EXPLORE records. Not, alas, the elusive Transit - and I don't think this label exists any more. Australian Eloquence are my latest "hope" - but it increasingly seems that, like its astronomical namesake, it'll be another 112 years before we get another one!


(By the way, "Transit van" was one of the nom-de-webs I considered when I joined the old BBC Messageboards (Ferneyhough and Beethoven combination essential). I decided that, whilst I quite like the shortened "Ferney", "Tranny" didn't have quite the same ring!)

Have you tried contacting NMC direct?

I wish I could bang a few heads together in Melodiya in Moscow and get that DSCH 15 reissued (and Svetlanov's DSCH 10 while we are about it)

[jayne lee wilson]

Bruggen's Beethoven cycle! Long, long overdue...

Maxim's Melodiya DSCH 15 is tantalising indeed, especially given that his Prague SO one is a good bit quicker (at 43'16) than most recent efforts... "seduce me - slow" is something I don't want from DSCH 15.

Delighted to see the return of Janowski's FNRSO Roussel (on Newt-On - stupid name for a company...) but I can't speak for the SQ compared to the stunning originals.

In IRR this month David Gutman mentions that Berglund's Bournemouth SO Sibelius cycle is due out again soon, no details yet given. Still available 2ndhand on Royal Classics, I hope the new one is sonically well-treated, and that Berglund's remarkably, shudderingly atmospheric Pelleas suite (one of the finest of all accounts) is included.

[Dave2002]

I know I've mentioned this before - Haebler's Mozart Piano Concerto box set.

Seconded!

[Bryn]

One re-issue I mentioned as a hope same months ago has no appeared. The newly released early Colin Davis Icon set includes his Beethoven 7 with the RPO. It's funny how memory can trick you. It still sounds like a decent performance, but nothing like as special as I remembered.

[Dave2002]

I got that a few years ago on a 2fer. I was never totally "in" to that Davis performance, and on LP I had Konwitschny.
I wasn't knocked out when I heard the Davis/RPO CD, though it's perfectly respectable. Things move on.

I don't know who I'd recommend now for B 7 - probably Bruggen, Hogwood or Norrington, and you'd go for Immerseel or Krivine. The only reason I wouldn't follow you is that I don't know those performances quite so well - they could very well be the best available now.

I did hear some very impressive full bodied playing with a modern orchestra by Dudamel - thiugh I think that was B5.

I was listening to some Klemperer Mozart performances a few days ago. Out of tune playing various other problems - as noted by Hornspieler who also listened to some Philharmonia recordings. Standards now are I think, on the whole, very much higher

[Bryn]

I got that a few years ago on a 2fer. I was never totally "in" to that Davis performance, and on LP I had Konwitschny.
I wasn't knocked out when I heard the Davis/RPO CD, though it's perfectly respectable. Things move on.

I don't know who I'd recommend now for B 7 - probably Bruggen, Hogwood or Norrington, and you'd go for Immerseel or Krivine. The only reason I wouldn't follow you is that I don't know those performances quite so well - they could very well be the best available now.

I did hear some very impressive full bodied playing with a modern orchestra by Dudamel - thiugh I think that was B5.

I was listening to some Klemperer Mozart performances a few days ago. Out of tune playing various other problems - as noted by Hornspieler who also listened to some Philharmonia recordings. Standards now are I think, on the whole, very much higher

For a modern orchestra performance on CD I have a very soft spot for that under Barenboim on this disc:

[vinteuil]

I know I've mentioned this before - Haebler's Mozart Piano Concerto box set.

Yes: like Alpensinfonie, I wd very much like to see this reissued on CD.

I notice that Newtown have reissued the Nikita Magaloff complete Chopin as a cheap CD box - as far as I remember, I purchased that Magaloff as a philips LP box set at much the same time as the Ingrid Haebler Mozart, also a philips LP box set.

Perhaps Newtown might now like to do the decent thing and give us the Haebler!

[mathias broucek]

I'd like to see Celibidache's DG material re-released. I have the Brahms and Bruckner but only some of the Strauss and Ravel and none of the Sibelius and Russian material!

Also Ormandy's Mahler 2. Shame this wasn't in the new Sony box.