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

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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!

The problem may be that when Philips did issue it on CD (briefly) it may not have sold well. However, its rare appearance on the 2nd hand market does suggest it is highly regarded by those who have it. I only have it as part of the Philips "Complete" Mozart Edition on LP (which I would like to see go to a good home).

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Have you tried contacting NMC direct?

Yes - and Peters - when the re-issue was "unannounced" (?*): the nice man at Peters promised a CD-R burnt from the LP, but it never arrived (and I reminded him three times!)

Sorry if I'm hogging the Thread - but, unlike other nominees (and there's been none with which I would disagree) there are no alternative recordings of this seminal work.


(* = can't think of a better word; the announced CD just disappeared into the aether and became the Matthews disc. I gather that "something happened in the woodshed" that neither wished to discuss with an outsider: something to do with contractual problems that NMC and Peters each held the other to be responsible for.)

[Thropplenoggin]

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

I think Konwitschny's Beethoven 7 is still an absolute winner. For once, a performance that lives up to the hype that surrounds it.

[MickyD]

I've certainly said this before, but I would love to see Jorg Demus' Deutsche Harmonia Mundi's recordings of Schumann played on period pianos.

[PJPJ]

I think Konwitschny's Beethoven 7 is still an absolute winner. For once, a performance that lives up to the hype that surrounds it.

I understand some of Konwitschny's recordings were issued shorn of recorded repeats; perhaps they've been reinstated in the current reissues? The "hype" passed me by - I certainly don't remember any, though the cycle did get very good reviews and many enjoyed it.

[Thomas Roth]

Bax: Elegiac Trio - Robles Trio, Argo. Never on CD.
Torroba: Guitar concertos - Romero, Marriner on Philips. Never on CD.

[PJPJ]

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

Dave (and Jayne) - there's a new Beethoven cycle due from Glossa recorded by Brüggen in 2011, live of course. Whether this rules out a reissue of the earlier cycle I do not know but I wouldn't bank on it for some time.

Lots of sound samples here:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-1770-1827-Symphonien-Nr-1-9/hnum/3107492

Tempi seem broader than I expected. I confess I was left cold by Chailly's - got the impression too much concentration on playing as fast as possible and too little on Beethoven. I've not heard the new Brüggen in full.

As for Klemperer, his Mozart seems recorded in long takes. I was surprised how much I enjoyed OK's Mozart - perhaps one of the reasons is it's not over-polished to the point of ein schwindel.

One forthcoming, and soon I hope, is Jordi Savall's Eroica on Alia Vox - I've never heard this but it does have a very high reputation.

[AmpH]

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.

I think another forum member may have previously flagged this up on another thread, but according to this Am link this set is due for reissue in the new year.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tapiola-Finlandia/dp/B0091JQH2Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1349005033&sr=8-1

[Barbirollians]

Kullervo is apparently not included though.

[Barbirollians]

An Icon box of Paul Kletzki's Philharmonia recordings would be good to see.

[johnb]

I think Konwitschny's Beethoven 7 is still an absolute winner. For once, a performance that lives up to the hype that surrounds it.

Absolutely.

I played it (c/o Spotify) after listening to the performance in one of Barenboim's Proms and found the Konwitschny exhilarating, something I couldn't say about the Prom performance.

[Thropplenoggin]

Absolutely.

I played it (c/o Spotify) after listening to the performance in one of Barenboim's Proms and found the Konwitschny exhilarating, something I couldn't say about the Prom performance.

JohnB, this is a great cycle overall. I thoroughly recommend it. The recording is impressively crisp for its age, and even the Ninth is a joy with really vibrant unknown singers. I especially appreciated the clarity of the harmonies in the choral singing, something absent from much more well-known recordings. A decent-ish price, too, replete with most of the overtures.

[johnb]

Thropplenoggin,

Thanks, the thought of buying the cycle has crossed my mind more than once in recent years. I was first aware of it in my teens (many, many decades ago) when my music teacher praised Konwitschny's Beethoven 7 and played some movements to the class. A little later I bought his Nos 1 and 9 coupling on LP.

[Bryn]

Dave (and Jayne) - there's a new Beethoven cycle due from Glossa recorded by Brüggen in 2011, live of course. Whether this rules out a reissue of the earlier cycle I do not know but I wouldn't bank on it for some time.

Lots of sound samples here:

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-1770-1827-Symphonien-Nr-1-9/hnum/3107492

Around £3 to£4 cheaper from JPC than amazon.co.uk (taking p&p and exchange rate into consideration). Just ordered it on trust.

[akiralx]

Haitink's Scheherazade and Enigma Variations. I have just ordered Jochum's DG account of the latter from Japan as that is the only place I could find it.