BaL - Long Overdue Works

[Nick Armstrong]

One glaring omission is the piano works of Nicolai Medtner. Listening to the Sonata Tragica today reminds one of how transcendentally magisterial works like this ....

Now you're talking Sir Velo!!!

Have you heard the live (Wigmore) performance by Yevgeny Sudbin, available in the very generously-furnished 'media room' of his website? Look five up from the bottom of the list here and just click on the words. Wonderful. The section from 2'55" is among the most gorgeous minutes of piano music/performance I know.

Further up is the gentler Sonata Reminicenza too

[Sir Velo]

Now you're talking Sir Velo!!!

Have you heard the live (Wigmore) performance by Yevgeny Sudbin, available in the very generously-furnished 'media room' of his website? Look five up from the bottom of the list here and just click on the words. Wonderful. The section from 2'55" is among the most gorgeous minutes of piano music/performance I know.

Further up is the gentler Sonata Reminicenza too

I have indeed. Superb performances. In fact, I took advantage of the facility to download the tracks while it was still available.

Good though the likes of Milne and Hamelin are in this repertoire, let's hope the young Russian can be persuaded to record a complete cycle of the sonatas.

Rachmaninov without the tunes - my backside!

[Nick Armstrong]

I have indeed. Superb performances. In fact, I took advantage of the facility to download the tracks while it was still available.

Good though the likes of Milne and Hamelin are in this repertoire, let's hope the young Russian can be persuaded to record a complete cycle of the sonatas.

Rachmaninov without the tunes - my backside!

I imagine he'd be well up for it. Better write to BIS and get them to sort it out...

Hope the above link will provide some discoveries for others

[Ruhevoll]

Now you're talking Sir Velo!!!

Have you heard the live (Wigmore) performance by Yevgeny Sudbin, available in the very generously-furnished 'media room' of his website? Look five up from the bottom of the list here and just click on the words. Wonderful. The section from 2'55" is among the most gorgeous minutes of piano music/performance I know.

Further up is the gentler Sonata Reminicenza too

Any chance of a link for this please? You make a good sales pitch!

[Nick Armstrong]

I thought I had. Saturday brain fade - apologies.

http://www.yevgenysudbin.com/artist.php?view=media

[teamsaint]

Can't beat Milne in Medner. He's the Kiddy.

(Plus he played in a local parish church round here a year or two back).

[LeMartinPecheur]

I note also missing from those lists
...
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
...

Barbirollians, FWIW I can tell you that Andrew Keener's pick c1979 was Belkin/NPO/Ashkenazy, with Oistrakh/Moscow PO/Rozhdestvensky, Milstein/Pittsburg SO/Steinberg and Fujikawa/ Rotterdam PO/ de Waart also in the frame (Fujikawa particularly recommended should you find Belkin too speedy and high-powered).

If you're wondering how I know, in '79/80 OUP issued two volumes of edited-for-press BaLs...

[Anyone interested in more of these ancient divinations can PM me.]

EDIT Have just checked Amazon and all of these Tchaik VC recordings now seem a little elusive...

[pastoralguy]

How about doing a survey of the works of Bo Holten. Well worth listening to!

[Parry1912]

Schmidt: Das Buch mit Sieben Siegeln

[BBMmk2]

Looks as though there could be a set theme radio 3 could be permeating through at the moment? Or are they just taking their time in assessing these works?

[Nick Armstrong]

Organ music, generally speaking, doesn't seem to get a look in, at all on BaL, or CD Review?

They're making up for it somewhat today!

10.25am

Three Centuries of Organ Music at Notre Dame de Paris
SEJEAN: Noel Suisse
CALVIERE: Piece
DAQUIN: Noel Grand jeu et Duo
BALBASTRE: Marche des Marseillois et l’air ca ira
BEAUVARLET-CHARPENTIER: Noels en tambourin
GUILMANT: Finale - Sonata No. 1
VIERNE: Pieces de fantaisie - Claire de lune; Feux follets; Carillon de Westminster
LEGUAY: Prelude IX; Prelude VI; Prelude VII
COCHEREAU: Bolero improvise sur un theme de Charles Racquet*
LATRY: Improvisation
Olivier Latry (organ), Emmanuel Curt and Florent Jodelet (percussion)*
NAIVE V5338 (CD)


The Genius of Cavaille-Coll
Documentary and music played on various Cavaille-Coll organs and featuring:
Michel Bouvard, Gerard Brooks, Ronald Ebrecht, Jean-Pierre Griveau, Olivier Latry, Eric Lebrun, Kurt Lueders, Thomas Monnet, David Noel-Hudson, Pierre Pincemaille, Daniel Roth, Carolyn Shuster Fournier (organ)
For full details see: https://www.fuguestatefilms.co.uk/ca...l/default.html
FUGUE STATE FILMS FSFDVD007 (3DVD + 2CD)


Widor - The Complete Organ Symphonies Volume 3
WIDOR: Organ Symphony No. 3 in E minor Op. 13 No. 3; Organ Symphony No. 4 in F minor Op. 13 No. 4
Joseph Nolan (Cavaille-Coll organ of La Madeleine Paris)
SIGNUM SIGCD334 (CD)


Charles-Marie Widor Volume 2
WIDOR: Les Pecheurs de Saint-Jean: Cello Concerto Op. 41; Symphony No. 2 in A Op. 54
Torleif Thedeen (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates (conductor)
DUTTON CDLX7303 (CD)

[ardcarp]

Organ music, generally speaking, doesn't seem to get a look in, at all on BaL, or CD Review

OTOH, R3 is always playing Stokowski's ruddy Bach orchestral transcriptions, and CDR is doing it right now. I just hate the muddy, muddy textures and can't see what anybody finds good about them. In general, R3 likes to play all Bach organ works in transcription, eg chorale preludes for Andean nose flute, banjo and bagpipes.

[Sir Velo]

Obviously the Wrecker has a similar contempt for the organ as he does for the guitar.

No guitar recitals (not even the Concierto de Aranjuez since at least 1999; i.e. 14 years ago.

Julian Bream's recent 80th birthday anniversary would have made an ideal opportunity for rectifying this, particularly when one considers the large number of works he commissioned (including Britten's Nocturnal; and pieces by Henze; Tippett; Walton; Berkeley et al); as well as the great Spanish literature in the genre, or Villa Lobos' seminal studies for the guitar.

I mean, seriously, how could any self respecting "library" go 14 years without acquiring a single work from the guitar repertoire?

[BBMmk2]

They're making up for it somewhat today!

10.25am

Three Centuries of Organ Music at Notre Dame de Paris
SEJEAN: Noel Suisse
CALVIERE: Piece
DAQUIN: Noel Grand jeu et Duo
BALBASTRE: Marche des Marseillois et l’air ca ira
BEAUVARLET-CHARPENTIER: Noels en tambourin
GUILMANT: Finale - Sonata No. 1
VIERNE: Pieces de fantaisie - Claire de lune; Feux follets; Carillon de Westminster
LEGUAY: Prelude IX; Prelude VI; Prelude VII
COCHEREAU: Bolero improvise sur un theme de Charles Racquet*
LATRY: Improvisation
Olivier Latry (organ), Emmanuel Curt and Florent Jodelet (percussion)*
NAIVE V5338 (CD)


The Genius of Cavaille-Coll
Documentary and music played on various Cavaille-Coll organs and featuring:
Michel Bouvard, Gerard Brooks, Ronald Ebrecht, Jean-Pierre Griveau, Olivier Latry, Eric Lebrun, Kurt Lueders, Thomas Monnet, David Noel-Hudson, Pierre Pincemaille, Daniel Roth, Carolyn Shuster Fournier (organ)
For full details see: https://www.fuguestatefilms.co.uk/ca...l/default.html
FUGUE STATE FILMS FSFDVD007 (3DVD + 2CD)


Widor - The Complete Organ Symphonies Volume 3
WIDOR: Organ Symphony No. 3 in E minor Op. 13 No. 3; Organ Symphony No. 4 in F minor Op. 13 No. 4
Joseph Nolan (Cavaille-Coll organ of La Madeleine Paris)
SIGNUM SIGCD334 (CD)


Charles-Marie Widor Volume 2
WIDOR: Les Pecheurs de Saint-Jean: Cello Concerto Op. 41; Symphony No. 2 in A Op. 54
Torleif Thedeen (cello), Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates (conductor)
DUTTON CDLX7303 (CD)

Yes they are! That Genius of Cavaille-Coll set is a reallyv quite a must buy!

[visualnickmos]

.....I mean, seriously, how could any self respecting "library" go 14 years without acquiring a single work from the guitar repertoire?

Put like that, exactly - how? Especially with a huge guitar repertoire from almost pre-Baroque to the present day