BaL 29.10.16 - Brahms: String Sextet No.1 in B flat major, Op. 18

[Beef Oven!]

I looked on Presto after Amazon, but obviously overlooked it!

Anyway, I’m not in the market. I just played the Amadeus through while tidying up the breakfast clutter and it is a wonderful performance.

Edit: R3 sells? I see that Presto have already updated their listing for this CD, boasting 'Building A Library First Choice October 2016' with the Red Radio 3 logo!

[HighlandDougie]

Amazon is perplexed,

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leipziger-Streichquartett-Rohde-Sanderling-Brahms/dp/B00004SWM8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1477737782&sr=8-1&keywords=ASIN%3A+B00004SWM8

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leipziger-S...%3A+B00004SWM8

- an hour ago, the disc was listed as "Currently Unavailable - we don't know when it will become available" when I searched (under "Leipzig Quartet", "Leipzig Quartet, Brahms"; "Leipzig Quartet, Sextet"; "Brahms Sextet", "MDG Brahms sextet" - it wasn't for the want of trying. Nor for the realization that I really should have better things to do with my life on a Saturday morning!)

[Bryn]

I missed the BaL this morning. Was any mention made of when the chosen recording will be broadcast?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I missed the BaL this morning. Was any mention made of when the chosen recording will be broadcast?

The implication was that it isn't - the regular broadcast of the chosen one has been swept away on the tides of the river.

[PJPJ]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Leipziger-S...%3A+B00004SWM8

and

http://www.mdt.co.uk/brahms-string-sextet-b-flat-op-67-leipziger-streichquartett-mdg.html

[visualnickmos]

I, too, wasn't 'taken' with the laurel-clad winner. Sounded a bit laboured - not free-flowing enough. Anyway - I was taken with the extracts of the Amadeus's recording. And - no doubt for all the wrong reasons(!) the Menuhin extract... which I see has Maurice Gendron playing a cello. That's a big plus point for me.

For now, I'll have to be content with my two versions - Raphael and Stern/Ma et al, which I don't think got the merest mention... both very satisfying performances, nevertheless.

[Richard Tarleton]

Academy of St Martin (Ken Sillito and friends) got an honourable mention....think I'll leave it at that.

[BBMmk2]

Academy of St Martin (Ken Sillito and friends) got an honourable mention....think I'll leave it at that.

I gave this a spin on Spotify and rather liked it. Had a lot of flow to it and I prefer this version to the recommended one!

[gurnemanz]

I gave this a spin on Spotify and rather liked it. Had a lot of flow to it and I prefer this version to the recommended one!

I noticed this enticing-looking Brahms Chamber Box bargain selection coming up from France Musique. The Academy of St M recording you mention is on there. A couple of duplicates for me but also many recordings I would like to get to know. I think I may well get it. Already out in France where you can listen to samples.

[Barbirollians]

If it is correct that the Raphael did not even get a mention this sounds like a BAL worth skipping on i-player

[visualnickmos]

If it is correct that the Raphael did not even get a mention this sounds like a BAL worth skipping on i-player

Spot-on.
Same goes for the Naxos recording with the superb Stuttgart Soloists - a lovely CD of both the sestets.

[BBMmk2]

I noticed this enticing-looking Brahms Chamber Box bargain selection coming up from France Musique. The Academy of St M recording you mention is on there. A couple of duplicates for me but also many recordings I would like to get to know. I think I may well get it. Already out in France where you can listen to samples.

All in French, though?

[LeMartinPecheur]

If it is correct that the Raphael did not even get a mention this sounds like a BAL worth skipping on i-player

They were favourably mentioned, but reviewer thought they were a tiny bit too polite, underpowered IIRC.

[pastoralguy]

Im listening to the ensemble led by Augustin Dumay on ONYX Classics. Gorgeous playing. Definitely 'up there' with best, IMHO, if not displacing my beloved LPO Principals led by Rodney Friend. (Which seems to have slipped under the drivers seat of the PG limo!)