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  • MickyD
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 4748

    Lucky Bryn, with that Demus disc. I've been hoping Deutsche Harmonia Mundi will give us CD transfers of his Schumann recordings on early pianos, but they never seem to appear. I have the old LPs upstairs in a cupboard, but no means of transferring them.

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    • Bryn
      Banned
      • Mar 2007
      • 24688

      Originally posted by MickyD View Post
      Lucky Bryn, with that Demus disc. ...
      I had been waiting in hope of a CD transfer of the Demus Diabellis since the first days of the medium. Hurrah for Aussie Eloquence!

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      • doversoul1
        Ex Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 7132

        BACH: Christmas Oratorio BWV248: 10:20, 7 December

        Most enjoyable 20 munities. What an amazing singer Iestyn Davies has become!! A pupil of CPE Bach’s cantata is, as Andrew said, refreshing, and I very much liked Poulanc’s motet.

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        • johnb
          Full Member
          • Mar 2007
          • 2903

          I can't remember ever getting hot under the collar when listening to CD Review - until this morning.

          That dreadful bloated arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures orchestrated by someone called Breiner. Even worse was the simpering admiration lavished upon it by Sarah Walker. This really undermines the authority of CD Review (which had until now resisted the rush to Radio 2.5). (Or was this a joke which I didn't get.)

          (I need to rush to the bathroom to throw up.)
          Last edited by johnb; 07-12-13, 11:30.

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          • Bryn
            Banned
            • Mar 2007
            • 24688

            Originally posted by johnb View Post
            I can't remember ever getting hot under the collar when listening to CD Review - until this morning.

            That dreadful bloated arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures orchestrated by someone called Breiner. Even worse was the simpering admiration lavished upon it by Sarah Walker. Even CD Review is going Radio 2.5. (Or was this a joke which I didn't get.)

            (I need to rush to the bathroom to throw up.)
            Ah well, each to his own. Went straight on my list of Naxos discs to order before the current (extended) Eurodisc promotion ends.

            [What a quandary! CD or Blu-ray Audio?]

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by Bryn View Post
              Ah well, each to his own. Went straight on my list of Naxos discs to order before the current (extended) Eurodisc promotion ends.
              I think The Grocer is still banging out Naxos @ £3.99 inc free P&P Bryn

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              • Sir Velo
                Full Member
                • Oct 2012
                • 3225

                Originally posted by johnb View Post
                I can't remember ever getting hot under the collar when listening to CD Review - until this morning.

                That dreadful bloated arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures orchestrated by someone called Breiner. Even worse was the simpering admiration lavished upon it by Sarah Walker. This really undermines the authority of the CD Review (which had until now had resisted the rush to Radio 2.5). (Or was this a joke which I didn't get.)

                (I need to rush to the bathroom to throw up.)


                There's Ravel and then there's the rest.

                I've felt for some time that McGregor is far too fixated on orchestrations and arrangements of pieces for combinations of instruments not originally intended. Quite why when there is such a wealth of music out there in its original guise which does not get broadcast I can't imagine.

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                • Bryn
                  Banned
                  • Mar 2007
                  • 24688

                  Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                  I think The Grocer is still banging out Naxos @ £3.99 inc free P&P Bryn
                  I will have a look. Thanks.

                  [Ah, listed there at £4.99 for the CD. They don't list the Blu-ray Audio disc at all.]
                  Last edited by Bryn; 07-12-13, 11:31.

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                  • Bryn
                    Banned
                    • Mar 2007
                    • 24688

                    Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post


                    There's Ravel [who did not bother to orchestrate the whole work] and then there's the rest.
                    Ah well, if half-measures is enough for some ...

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                    • johnb
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 2903

                      Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
                      There's Ravel and then there's the rest.
                      I wouldn't go as far as that. I really enjoyed the Henry Wood orchestration when I last heard it (though it leaves out many of the sections). The arrangement brings a different colour to the piece - possibly a more dark hued Russian flavour, if my memory serves me right.

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                      • Roehre

                        Originally posted by johnb View Post
                        I wouldn't go as far as that. I really enjoyed the Henry Wood orchestration when I last heard it (though it leaves out many of the sections). The arrangement brings a different colour to the piece - possibly a more dark hued Russian flavour, if my memory serves me right.
                        And then the more "authentic" Rimski Korssakow or Stokowski or a "modern" Van Keulen.....

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                        • amateur51

                          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                          I will have a look. Thanks.

                          [Ah, listed there at £4.99 for the CD. They don't list the Blu-ray Audio disc at all.]
                          Sorry to hear that - they sold me the latest Fred Sherry Schoenberg Naxos for £3.99 last week

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Originally posted by Roehre View Post
                            And then the more "authentic" Rimski Korssakow or Stokowski or a "modern" Van Keulen.....
                            ... and, best of all the orchestral versions, Mussorgsky's piano original.
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Bryn
                              Banned
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 24688

                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              ... and, best of all the orchestral versions, Mussorgsky's piano original.
                              No argument from me there.

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                              • Il Grande Inquisitor
                                Full Member
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 961

                                Originally posted by johnb View Post
                                I can't remember ever getting hot under the collar when listening to CD Review - until this morning.

                                That dreadful bloated arrangement of Mussorgsky's Pictures orchestrated by someone called Breiner. Even worse was the simpering admiration lavished upon it by Sarah Walker. This really undermines the authority of CD Review (which had until now resisted the rush to Radio 2.5). (Or was this a joke which I didn't get.)

                                (I need to rush to the bathroom to throw up.)
                                I've just reviewed this for January's IRR. The phrase 'akin to drenching a Fabergé egg in cheap glitter' was used...
                                Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....

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