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  • pastoralguy
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    • Nov 2010
    • 7739

    Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
    Her Wigmore Hall concert of the 'Goldberg's' got a poor review in The Times so it must have been been outstanding...
    My copy arrived yesterday but, alas, I've not had the time to listen to it yet.

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    • pastoralguy
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7739

      Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
      My copy arrived yesterday but, alas, I've not had the time to listen to it yet.
      Listening to this now. A very intimate and thoughtful recording imho. Well worth hearing.

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      • PJPJ
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 1461

        Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
        Listening to this now. A very intimate and thoughtful recording imho. Well worth hearing.
        I acquired an off-air recording from a festival in Montpellier and loved Rana's playing. The studio recording is on my to-get list.

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        • Stanfordian
          Full Member
          • Dec 2010
          • 9309

          Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
          Listening to this now. A very intimate and thoughtful recording imho. Well worth hearing.
          Hiya pastoralguy,

          I am enjoying the album greatly.

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          • pastoralguy
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 7739

            Originally posted by Stanfordian View Post
            Hiya pastoralguy,

            I am enjoying the album greatly.

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22115

              Whilst browsing forthcoming releases I was checking on the progress of Slatkin's Ravel on Naxos and an April release is Antar incidental music based on orchetral music by Rimsky Korsakov. Has anyone on these boards come across this music before? I see there is a narrator and a mezzo on the recording but the latter may just be on the Scheherazade coupling. I shall certainly look to buy out of curiousity. Budget label Naxos once the under a fiver bargain now over the years have increased by 50%, or even more by the looks, but I guess still good value but £20 now buys less than 3 instead of 4!

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              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                Gone fishin'
                • Sep 2011
                • 30163

                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                • Jonathan
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                  • Mar 2007
                  • 945

                  Really looking forward to the next volume of the ongoing Liszt Naxos piano music, the Douze Grandes etudes...it's out on the 15Mar.
                  Best regards,
                  Jonathan

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                  • pastoralguy
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7739

                    Two CDs for me. Schubert. 'Death and the Maiden'

                    Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. An unusual disc where Schubert's masterpiece is interjected by works by Nörmiger, Dowland, Gesualdo, Kurtag and anonymous. I'm not sure how I'll listen to it but I'm prepared to follow PatKop's programme at least once. Although I don't always agree with PatKop's concepts I have such respect for her as an artist that I'm prepared to try her recipe.

                    The other cd are the Brahms' String Sextets . The Cypress String Quartet with Barry Shiffman, viola and Zuill Bailey, 'cello. This was the Quartet's last recording and has disbanded. Alas, I've read two reviews in Gramophone and BBC MM which are hardly glowing. Still, I'll listen myself and make up my own mind.

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                    • AmpH
                      Guest
                      • Feb 2012
                      • 1318

                      VPO 175th Anniversary Edition



                      Slated for release 17 March 2017

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                      • silvestrione
                        Full Member
                        • Jan 2011
                        • 1700

                        Stravinsky The Soldiers Tale Manson Ensemble Oliver Knussen Linn
                        STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale. Dame Harriet Walter, Harrison Birtwistle, George Benjamin, Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble / Oliver Knussen. Linn

                        Anyone understand this? Are Birtwistle and Benjamin playing on this disc (or speaking?)?

                        It includes some small pieces by Birtwistle, but nothing by Benjamin is listed.

                        It's from the MDT pre-release list.

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12793

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                          from the prestoclassical site :


                          Stravinsky:
                          L'Histoire du Soldat
                          Harrison Birtwistle (The Soldier), George Benjamin (The Devil), Dame Harriet Walter (narrator)
                          Fanfare for a New Theatre

                          Royal Academy of Music, Oliver Knussen
                          For his debut recording with Linn, conductor Oliver Knussen has assembled an impressive cast of contemporary composers for The Soldier's Tale: Harrison Birtwistle as the soldier and George Benjamin as the Devil, with actress Dame Harriet Walter as the narrator. The longest work on this disc, The Soldier's Tale mixes fiendishly difficult changes of time signature with Stravinsky's newly discovered love of jazz with melodies which echo his larger pre-war scores. It is also a work that demonstrates immense clarity and moving simplicity at times, and a sardonic wit at others.

                          With such a starry cast this recording will be of particular interest to those with an interest in contemporary music, especially considering the addition of two new Birtwistle world premiere versions of Chorale from a Toy Shop written specially for the recording.

                          The rest of the programme includes an exquisite Knussen arrangement of Maxwell Davies' Canon ad honorem Igor Stravinsky, intermixed with Stravinsky's own late commemorative miniatures.

                          And on amazon, details on back of disc :

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                          • Bryn
                            Banned
                            • Mar 2007
                            • 24688

                            Originally posted by silvestrione View Post
                            Stravinsky The Soldiers Tale Manson Ensemble Oliver Knussen Linn
                            STRAVINSKY The Soldier’s Tale. Dame Harriet Walter, Harrison Birtwistle, George Benjamin, Royal Academy of Music Manson Ensemble / Oliver Knussen. Linn

                            Anyone understand this? Are Birtwistle and Benjamin playing on this disc (or speaking?)?

                            It includes some small pieces by Birtwistle, but nothing by Benjamin is listed.

                            It's from the MDT pre-release list.
                            More info here.

                            Booklet here.

                            [While it looks like a 'must get' I am torn between waiting for a lower priced CD option in a few months via Amazon/Ebay or stumping up for a high definition download from the Linn site.]
                            Last edited by Bryn; 02-03-17, 12:10.

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                            • Pulcinella
                              Host
                              • Feb 2014
                              • 10892

                              Apologies if this duplicates information already given in the links, which I've not checked out, but the Gramophone (March 2017) review says that the original plan had been to have PMD involved, but he was too ill to take part, and George Benjamin stepped in.

                              Also mentions different text than we may be used to (sadly missing in the booklet), but gives a general thumbs up.

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                              • ostuni
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 549

                                Thanks for posting links to the booklet, Bryn. I see that the original casting was going to feature Max's Devil opposite Harry's Soldier: such a shame that Max's final illness ruled this out - it would have been perfect!

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