New releases

[jayne lee wilson]

Outstanding new release, 24/96 or CD...
Check out my detailed review under Record Review...

[BBMmk2]

Heard sound bytes of Ted Gardner's new recording of Elgar's Intro & Allegro and Symphony No.1. It certainly well worth getting!

[jayne lee wilson]

Beethoven Piano Concertos 1 & 2.
Yevgeny Sudbin/Tapiola Sinfonietta/Osmo Vanska. BIS 24/96 Download (eclassical) New Release 2017.

Exceptionally transparent, spacious sound from BIS; unusually probing, thoughtful, wide-ranging performances... Sudbin's control, precision and note-to-note, phrase-to-phrase spontaneity are truly extraordinary - and perfectly mirrored by Vanska.

It may at first audition seem as if the 1st Concerto here is at times a shade cool and detached; but it soon begins to reveal depths of interpretative interest running deeper than most. Given that the B Flat here is very, very special, one of the finest ever of a work which is my Beethoven favourite just now - this becomes one of those albums you need to return to often, seeking more of its subtleties....

[silvestrione]

Two newish Profil releases of Sviatislav Richter in Schubert (10 CDs) and Beethoven (12). Always difficult to assess what, if anything, is new in these recordings. Anyone tried them?



hhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Klaviersonaten/dp/B06VX6QXZ3/ref=pd_sim_15_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=J43NC2 14ZFZ5VHTX3A2H

hhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Klaviersonaten/dp/B06VX6QXZ3/ref=pd_sim_15_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=J43NC2 14ZFZ5VHTX3A2H

[Bryn]

Two newish Profil releases of Sviatislav Richter in Schubert (10 CDs) and Beethoven (12). Always difficult to assess what, if anything, is new in these recordings. Anyone tried them?



[h] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Klaviersona...14ZFZ5VHTX3A2H

[h] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-K...K8FER2RV7GF46F {revised}

You need to learn to drop your aitches, (the initial ones, that is).

[silvestrione]

You need to learn to drop your aitches, (the initial ones, that is).

Whoops, not very good at this business...thanks, Bryn.

[teamsaint]

http://www.mdt.co.uk/suk-asrael-essen-philharmonic-tomas-netopil-oehms.html

Josef Suk.
Asrael.


Essen Phil/Netopil.

[Beef Oven!]

http://www.mdt.co.uk/suk-asrael-esse...pil-oehms.html

Josef Suk.
Asrael.


Essen Phil/Netopil.

It’s available with booklet from Qobuz. 16 bit CD quality download. £7.99

[teamsaint]

It’s available with booklet from Qobuz. 16 bit CD quality download. £7.99

not a real booklet though.

One you can pop your cuppa on.

( Just had a listen to 1st Mvt. Sounded a bit smooth edged and careful to me on first hearing.)

[Beef Oven!]

not a real booklet though.

One you can pop your cuppa on.

( Just had a listen to 1st Mvt. Sounded a bit smooth edged and careful to me on first hearing.)

I’ve had the Libor Pešek, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Virgin for donkey’s years and I think I’ll stick with that.

[teamsaint]

I’ve had the Libor Pešek, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra on Virgin for donkey’s years and I think I’ll stick with that.

That's sort of how I have felt in the past, but I do love it, so perhaps ought to search something new out.Just spinning the Malaysian Phil/Flor (in the Naxos Library), which IIRC JLW likes ( and she knows this better than anybody round here i would guess).

Prefer this considerably so far to the Essen.

[Stanfordian]

Delius
String Quartet in E minor (1917) ‘Late Swallows’
Two movements from original three movement version of String Quartet (1916 )
assembled by Daniel Grimley (2016)
Elgar
String Quartet in E minor
Villiers Quartet
Recorded 2016 St. Silas Chuch, Pentonville, London
Naxos

Highly enjoyable - recent release!

[HighlandDougie]

http://www.mdt.co.uk/suk-asrael-esse...pil-oehms.html

Josef Suk.
Asrael.


Essen Phil/Netopil.

In driving from Scotland to France next month, I'm stopping off in Cologne for two nights and going to hear the Essen Philharmonic/Tomas Nepotil combo one night (and Ben Grosvenor the next) so I might just buy it if they have a CD stall in the Essen concert hall. Kubelik/Bavarian RSO for me in Asrael, although it's not a work I want to listen to very often (although when I do, it goes on in my head for days afterwards). I've heard it live in Edinburgh but I cannot remember who conducted it (it was the Czech PO). Best performance I've ever heard was Sir Simes and the BPO - not, alas, available on disc as far as I know.

[mahlerei]

not a real booklet though.

Real enough to those of us with severe sight issues. Kindle ditto :)

Never really got on with Suk, though I rather like Praga.

[teamsaint]

Thanks goodness for contact lenses, inventive opticians, reading glasses and modern day choice in how we access our recorded music and associated literature.