Re Rachmaninov Box Set. Though it looks quite interesting and cheap, I got the Brilliant Classics set a few years ago which is also pretty good and two complete boxes would surely be gluttony.
Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post.................11.40 Disc of the Week: Gerontius (downside: Ms. Connolly Hope he concentrates on the tenor, and ignores the Sea Pictures filler )
(Something of a shock to the system - well, my system. Like expecting a performance from John Gielgud, but finding his last minute replacement is Russell Crowe......).
However, its a good opportunity to check the studio recording. (There were recording sessions in Croydon, prior to the Barbican performance).
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Originally posted by Alison View PostEnjoy Mr Caliban! Shame it isn't Harriet Smith reviewing the Rachmaninov to complete your pleasure ...."...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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Originally posted by Bryn View PostDamned silly having that DoG recording as CD of the week. Is not the whole thing available on the iPlayer offering of yesterday's Ao3. It is that performance upon which the Chandos SACD issue is based, is it not?
And I've just noticed that there are two Discs of the Week, bits of DoG being followed by bits of the MusicAeterna/Teodor Currentzis Cosà fan Tutte. In which case it might be doubly-silly if they're cramming in the same DoG as was broadcast in toto yesterday... because the Currentzis Nozze di Figaro was such a revelation that I'd rather hear more of that.
And an hour of cosy chat with Harriet Smith
You lot have put me right off the whole thing
"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View Post[COLOR="#0000FF"]........ Or was the Chandos issue compiled from the Croydon performances? In which case - yes, it's the same thing ... ....................
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Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostAt the risk of labouring the point,the booklet available on the link below(last page,small type)states it was recorded in Croydon on dates preceding the Barbican performance. There were no performances at the Fairfield Hall. So CD review will offer the chance of comparison to the performance which was re-broadcast on Thursday.
http://www.theclassicalshop.net/Deta...r=CHAN%205140M"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostAnd an hour of cosy chat with Harriet Smith
You lot have put me right off the whole thing
Let's have a butcher's at her critical faculties !
"...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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Originally posted by Bryn View PostDamned silly having that DoG recording as CD of the week. Is not the whole thing available on the iPlayer offering of yesterday's Ao3. It is that performance upon which the Chandos SACD issue is based, is it not?
Originally posted by Caliban View PostHope he ... ignores the Sea Pictures filler
"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI misunderstood (it was late!) ... not Harriet Smith, but Sarah Walker! That's alright, looking forward to hearing Sarah released from the shackles of the weekday morning format.
Let's have a butcher's at her critical faculties !
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I really enjoyed the piano three-way on this morning's CD Review. A lot of piano playing to enjoy - above all, for me, the extracts from Alessio Bax's 'Hammerklavier' sonata! They sounded revelatory, and the piano and its recording seemed miraculously good. I have duly purchased the Studio Master ALAC download via the Hyperion site and am revelling in it !!
Vignoles is fast becoming one of my favourite contributors to CD Review."...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI really enjoyed the piano three-way on this morning's CD Review. A lot of piano playing to enjoy - above all, for me, the extracts from Alessio Bax's 'Hammerklavier' sonata! They sounded revelatory, and the piano and its recording seemed miraculously good. I have duly purchased the Studio Master ALAC download via the Hyperion site and am revelling in it !!
Vignoles is fast becoming one of my favourite contributors to CD Review.
Also downloaded the Haydn Sonata E Flat they excerpted, from Rozhukhin, a pianist I'd not heard of. He plays Haydn on the piano with the naturalness and spontaneity that Colin Davies brings to the symphonies....lovely.
I agree with you about Vignoles.
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Originally posted by Caliban View PostI really enjoyed the piano three-way on this morning's CD Review. A lot of piano playing to enjoy - above all, for me, the extracts from Alessio Bax's 'Hammerklavier' sonata! They sounded revelatory, and the piano and its recording seemed miraculously good. I have duly purchased the Studio Master ALAC download via the Hyperion site and am revelling in it !!
Vignoles is fast becoming one of my favourite contributors to CD Review.
also, this looks interesting.....
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