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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Originally posted by Chris Newman View Post
    Curalach, you are a bad boy. For years I have been searching for a dream Berg Violin Concerto. Usually when a new recording comes out I listen in at Collectors' Corner hoping that I can rediscover the ideal performance I once heard with Georgy Pauk. Your praise of Isobelle Faust and Claudio Abbado tempted me to pull off the shelf the only Berg VC I have (and have never played): a BBCMM from 2002 with Leonidas Kavakos. He was wonderful but Andrew Davis could not get the BBCSO to show any passion. However thanks for making me play the CD.....with the Berg comes a glorious Verklarte Nacht again with the BBCSO but Donald Runnicles is brilliant. He proves why the work is one of the truly great string romantic works of great genius...Dvorak, Elgar, Suk. Thanks for making me listen to this version

    So? Why are you a bad boy? Well, I like Faust and love Abbado so I have pushed the boat out with the river people.

    Cheers, Chris.
    For the Berg, I still go for the combination of Suk, the Czech Phil. and Ancerl. This new Faust, Berlin Phil. and Abbado make a fine 21st Century companion for it though.

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    • mathias broucek
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 1303

      Originally posted by AmpH View Post
      I see that the 1966 / 67 cycle of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas by Josef Suk and Jan Panenka is due to be reissued on 23 April 2012 newly remastered by Supraphon. IMO one of the very best of all cycles of these Sonatas and surely a bargain at this price on Amazon.
      Two fine artists. I have them doing the Archduke together. People remember Suk but Panenka was also a capable artist. I purchased his Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle on LP for what seemed at the time (1983) the amazing price of £6. Must listen to it again...

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      • Curalach

        Originally posted by Chris Newman View Post
        Curalach, you are a bad boy.
        Guilty as charged M'Lud. You won't regret it.
        I see I have 8 recordings of the Berg but not Bryn's Suk/Ancerl. Something I will need to remedy!

        All the best,
        Iain

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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by Curalach View Post
          Guilty as charged M'Lud. You won't regret it.
          I see I have 8 recordings of the Berg but not Bryn's Suk/Ancerl. Something I will need to remedy!

          All the best,
          Iain
          The amazon.co.uk marketplace looks like your best bet at the moment. You get the best known concertos by Mendelssohn and Bruch as the 'fill-ups'. Ancerl Gold is certainly is.

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          • AmpH
            Guest
            • Feb 2012
            • 1318

            Originally posted by DublinJimbo View Post
            That's an amazing bargain! So much for being ahead of the posse: I paid the equivalent of £17 for lossless downloads of this a few weeks ago.

            It really is a magnificent set. Of recent recordings, Faust/Melnikov and Ibragimova/Tiberghien are very impressive (F/M ahead, in my opinion), but it will be the Suk that I'll return to more often.
            Yes, I too like and have the F / M and I / T recordings , both excellent modern sets. I would further heartily recommend the 1958 set from Christian Ferras and Pierre Barbizet in (mono on EMI France) - three sets of the Beethoven Violin Sonata's just aren't enough !!

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            • Curalach

              Originally posted by Bryn View Post
              The amazon.co.uk marketplace looks like your best bet at the moment. You get the best known concertos by Mendelssohn and Bruch as the 'fill-ups'. Ancerl Gold is certainly is.
              Thanks Bryn. Ordered.
              Iain

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              • Petrushka
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12239

                Originally posted by Bryn View Post
                The amazon.co.uk marketplace looks like your best bet at the moment. You get the best known concertos by Mendelssohn and Bruch as the 'fill-ups'. Ancerl Gold is certainly is.
                I'd second Bryn's recommendation for the Suk version of the Berg. The Mendelssohn and Bruch are equally excellent. A much played CD. Yet to hear the Faust/Abbado but it's on the wish list.
                Last edited by Petrushka; 28-03-12, 22:09. Reason: typo
                "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                • Barbirollians
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11671

                  Faust's adaptation of the cadenza in the first movement of the Beethoven is a triumph by the way. I do not have the Suk but it will have to go some to match Faust in the Berg.

                  As for the Beethoven sonatas - Menuhin/Kempff are marvellous .
                  Last edited by Barbirollians; 27-03-12, 23:28.

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                  • PJPJ
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 1461

                    New from Naxos - Schwarz-Schilling from Weimar with Serebrier - worth investigating?

                    From Sessions I did in Weimar with José Serebrier and the Weimar Staatskapelle at the end of April 2011. I was producing and engineering with James Walsh as ...


                    Earlier volume

                    Schwarz-Schilling - Orchestral Works. Naxos: 8570435. Buy CD or download online. Staatskapelle Weimar, José Serebrier

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                    • mikealdren
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 1199

                      Originally posted by AmpH View Post
                      three sets of the Beethoven Violin Sonata's just aren't enough !!
                      The set I return to most is Grumiaux and Haskil and it's very cheap from Brilliant.

                      Mike

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                      • amateur51

                        Originally posted by mikealdren View Post
                        The set I return to most is Grumiaux and Haskil and it's very cheap from Brilliant.

                        Mike
                        plus Ferras/Barbizet but I'm always willing to add other sets to my 'wish list'

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                        • aeolium
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3992

                          Originally posted by mikealdren View Post
                          The set I return to most is Grumiaux and Haskil and it's very cheap from Brilliant.

                          Mike
                          Me too, though I also like Oistrakh/Oborin and Menuhin/Kempff.

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                          • jayne lee wilson
                            Banned
                            • Jul 2011
                            • 10711

                            Just to reiterate a post on the what are you listening to thread, one of the best new releases for me this year is

                            Kalevi Aho Chamber Symphonies 1-3 / Tapiola Sinfonietta/Kantorow/Asbury (BIS 24/44.1 download).

                            As fine a recording of a string orchestra as I've heard, seamlessly smooth, transparent, powerful and natural. Gorgeous alto sax in no.3 (John-Edward Kelly). It's challenging music but I've become especially fond of nos. 2 and 3 over several hearings, music of great intensity, very atmospheric in its contrast of hectic activity and profound stillness. Aho is a true nature poet, the sounds and forces of wild creatures and wild places are always close.

                            Not a new release, but a related discovery for me was:
                            Kalevi Aho Tuba and ContraBassoon Concertos - Bergen PO/Litton, Norrkoping SO/Rondin, Lipnick, Baadsvik (soloists).
                            (BIS 24/44.1)

                            Right between the eyes, the roar and crackle of the tuba, in the context of a substantial, powerfully dramatic concerto, is a rare and slightly scary pleasure! (Remember Birtwistle's Earth Dances?). But both pieces are weighty and long enough to be serious symphonic statements. Highly recommended!

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                            • Mahlerei

                              Jayne

                              Interested to know what you make of the 'Luosto' symphony when you get there.

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                              • mathias broucek
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1303

                                Some new Sony Classical Masters available for pre-order including Fleischer in LvB and Brahms and this



                                The cost is less that his famous stereo Mahler 2 has been going for 2nd hand......

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