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[Mahlerei]

Am51

It's a hybrid SACD, so it has a CD layer that will play on your CD player.

[amateur51]

Am51

It's a hybrid SACD, so it has a CD layer that will play on your CD player.

Many thanks Mahlerei

[cloughie]

I see that Kempe's Beethoven 5,6,& 9 with the Munich PO are to appear on EMI Red Line in May. An odd set of releases when you look at some of the others .

I do think they miss a trick in not having a label like Australian Eloquence .

I think you're right there - let's hope the rest of the MunPO Kempe Beethoven set comes our way!

[hafod]

The performance of The War Requiem I treasure most came out on BBC Legends. The main forces are the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Carlo Maria Giulini. Soloists Stefania Woytowicz, Peter Pears and Hans Wilbrink and the Melos Ensemble are conducted by Benjamin Britten himself and are all very good. The Wandsworth Boys Choir are the best of any I have heard in this work. The performance is very dramatic and captures the power and the space of that wonderful evening (not a Prom) in the Albert Hall. It demonstrates very clearly what BBC sound engineers were achieving in the 1960s and 70s and where they should be aiming now after last year's very mixed bag at the Proms. It is still available for £11 at Presto. Along with Britten's own recording it is a must have.

Thank you for this steer - the War Requiem is a work I admire more than I like and I feel I really must persevere with it. Giulini is a conductor whose work is well represented in my collection (until he decamped to Sony) and I was not aware of the existence of this recording. It therefore seems a good place to try again. Duly ordered from a marketplace seller for £3.25!

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

I think you're right there - let's hope the rest of the MunPO Kempe Beethoven set comes our way!

I really don't understand why EMI hasn't reissued the whole Kempe/ Munich cycle. It would be perfect for one of their Icon boxes.

[AmpH]

I don't think you'll be disappointed. It's reviewed by yours truly in May's IRR.

Thanks for the information - I haven't previously bought IRR - perhaps I will on this occaision !

[PJPJ]

I really don't understand why EMI hasn't reissued the whole Kempe/ Munich cycle. It would be perfect for one of their Icon boxes.

If you have deep pockets...... sorry, very deep pockets....... they'll be too deep to get the money out.

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/Ludwig-van-Beethoven-1770-1827-Symphonien-Nr-1-9/hnum/3005702

[cloughie]

I see that Universal/Decca are marketing a complete Beethoven symphony set in the way they would usually do a sampler!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-For-All-The-Symphonies/dp/B007TKKPZO/ref=sr_1_18?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1335280921&sr=1-18

[cloughie]

I really don't understand why EMI hasn't reissued the whole Kempe/ Munich cycle. It would be perfect for one of their Icon boxes.

Was available on Disky briefly!

[Bryn]

I see that Universal/Decca are marketing a complete Beethoven symphony set in the way they would usually do a sampler!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Fo...280921&sr=1-18

Surely the "FOR ALL" is there as a reference to the East West Divan Orchestra's ethos and composition?

[Bryn]

Three new releases announced by Matchless Recordings:

Volume 2 of Feldman's Music for Piano and Strings (Audio DVD - that's DVDV standard, not DVDA) John Tilbury | Smith Quartet members

Impossibility in its purest form (CD) Eddie Prévost | Sebastian Lexer | Seymour Wright

All Told (CD) Eddie Prévost | Evan Parker | John Edwards

http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/

All three now ordered.

[Actually I already have the recording of one of the items on the Feldman DVD (in the form of a near 90 minute overburn CD) from an earlier stage in its editing. It's Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello and the performance is pure magic. I am very much looking forward to listening to Cooper and Tilbury's performance of Patterns in a Chromatic Field. How will it compare with the Deforce/Oya and the Curtis/Karis? I regret to say I have never heard the de Saram/Schroeder.]

[LeMartinPecheur]

Blow me, here's a personal first. In the middle of CD Review this morning I've pre-ordered a disc! The Andras Steier Diabelli Var's (Beethoven's of course but also others from D's published anthology) on a contemporary fortepiano with lots of bells and whistles like a Janissary 'stop' it sounded absolutely wonderful, and revelatory on what 'special effects' noises LvB might reasonably have expected on the fp's of his time.

The good news on the pre-order is that the disc is out tomorrow so not too much wait

[Bryn]

Blow me, here's a personal first. In the middle of CD Review this morning I've pre-ordered a disc! The Andras Steier Diabelli Var's (Beethoven's of course but also others from D's published anthology) on a contemporary fortepiano with lots of bells and whistles like a Janissary 'stop' it sounded absolutely wonderful, and revelatory on what 'special effects' noises LvB might reasonably have expected on the fp's of his time.

The good news on the pre-order is that the disc is out tomorrow so not too much wait

A year or so ago I downloaded from a Czech (IIRC) radio station an mp3 of a live performance of much the same programme as is on the CD. Very fine indeed. I have been hoping to find the CD at a price more competitive than the £11 including p&p at hmv.com, but without luck, so have just placed an order with said supplier.

[Dave2002]

This Mahler set seems good value (about £1.50) per CD, though it's pehaps much better for anyone who hasn't already got most of these pieces and/or recordings - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gustav-Mahle...d_rhf_ee_shvl1

[Bryn]

bryn

These days they release these things quite a while before the disc. And yes, I'd forgotten about 15.

While we wait for the work to appear on BIS, this morning's TtN had the 15th in a performance by the Sydney Symphony Orchestra under Mark Wigglesworth's baton. I have not listened to it yet but will once it appears in the iPlayer's Listen Again listing.