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Originally posted by MickyD View PostAnd I seem to recall that at least two of the pianists in this box, Mastroprimiano and Hoogland, use period pianos.
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Originally posted by cloughie View PostReceived my November releases email from Naxos. Two interesting boxes - Gerard Schwarz 30CD collection, and an Idil Biret Brahms box which includes his transcriptions of the Symphonies 3 & 4.
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostThis caught my eye, being very keen on all things Bartók.
Has anyone heard it? Any views?
eClassical has it on a special for just over $13 for a Hi-Res (24 bits, but they are silent on the sample rate). Qobuz is 24/96 but is £13.19.
Sounded very good, actually.
And you can buy the CD for £13 .I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostThis caught my eye, being very keen on all things Bartók.
Has anyone heard it? Any views?
eClassical has it on a special for just over $13 for a Hi-Res (24 bits, but they are silent on the sample rate). Qobuz is 24/96 but is £13.19.
Thanks for the heads-up on the eclassical offer - I appear to have been dropped from their e-mail list.
If one is used to rather more hard-edged performances (Julius Katchen, say, in PC3 or Solti in the CfO), it might seem a bit soft-focused and lacking in oomph, but the fine recording (the usual Gasteig venue) and the beautiful playing (the MPO are a classy lot) had me listen again after an initial - and slightly underwhelmed - hearing. I need to get more used to it but Heras-Casado's success in bringing out the colour and playful, almost dance-like elements in the orchestration is beginning to win me over. I hadn't listened to the CfO for ages until I played the Boulez/Chicago SO recording a couple of days ago. This new recording is not in any way inferior to it; it's just a bit different in approach.
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostBeefy
Thanks for the heads-up on the eclassical offer - I appear to have been dropped from their e-mail list.
If one is used to rather more hard-edged performances (Julius Katchen, say, in PC3 or Solti in the CfO), it might seem a bit soft-focused and lacking in oomph, but the fine recording (the usual Gasteig venue) and the beautiful playing (the MPO are a classy lot) had me listen again after an initial - and slightly underwhelmed - hearing. I need to get more used to it but Heras-Casado's success in bringing out the colour and playful, almost dance-like elements in the orchestration is beginning to win me over. I hadn't listened to the CfO for ages until I played the Boulez/Chicago SO recording a couple of days ago. This new recording is not in any way inferior to it; it's just a bit different in approach.
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Just given me this afternoon by one of the performers; Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (London Experimental Ensemble), a 'live' performance given at iklectik just over a year ago. Programme notes by Eddie Prevost. [split rock SR18001]. I have not had a chance to listen to its 2 hours 9 minutes plus yet. I missed the gig itself, so am particularly happy to have this double album.
I don't think this has been officially released yet, and the split rock website appears to be currently under construction.
[Ah. I have just checked and it would seem iklectik have been provided with some advance copies. What the price is I do not know.]
[A little surprised to find the performance was in two parts, with and interval. Thus each of the two CDs ends with applause and closing comment.]
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