New releases

[vinteuil]

Still far too much duplication for me but the Warner Complete Beethoven has now dropped to around £80 (including p&p to the UK) from amazon.it...

hi Bryn - your link takes us to a virginmedia account...


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[Bryn]

It did, but I have now amended it. I'd be grateful if you deleted the link in your quotation.

[sgjames]

Howard Skempton - Man & Bat, Piano Concerto, The Moon is Flashing, Eternity's Sunrise
Williams, Gilchrist, Horton, Ensemble 360
First Hand, 2019.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8678479--skempton-man-and-bat-piano-concerto-the-moon-is-flashing

[Bryn]

Howard Skempton - Man & Bat, Piano Concerto, The Moon is Flashing, Eternity's Sunrise
Williams, Gilchrist, Horton, Ensemble 360
First Hand, 2019.

https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...on-is-flashing

Thanks for posting that. I would advise that it may be ordered directly from First Hand Records for somewhat less (£10.99 + £1.75 first class p&p):

https://firsthandrecords.com/products-page/album/skempton-man-and-bat-%e2%80%a2-piano-concerto-%e2%80%a2-the-moon-is-flashing-%e2%80%a2-eternitys-sunrise/

[5against4]

i'm just going to put this here:


A 10-disc set coming very soon that i cannot wait to receive!
It's expensive from the Roland Kayn website (€110) but is available for £80 from both Norman Records and Boomkat.

[Bryn]

Re. #2065, those not familiar with Kayn's work might like to download his Tektra from http://www.mediafire.com/file/3smd4q..._Kayn.rar/file

It's not the easiest of downloads. It took me four attempts, and the work lasts getting on for 5 hours. The mp3s in the RAR are at 192kbps.

[5against4]

The mp3s in the RAR are at 192kbps.

Yikes, that's some nasty low-res compression! That Tektra box set is lovely, definitely one of the favourite things in my collection. It's now out of print, so it's a shame there doesn't seem to be an option for those who want it to buy lossless anywhere.

i'd also recommend Simultan - you can get a very nice 24-bit FLAC vinyl rip from here: https://archive.org/details/agp164.

[Richard Barrett]

Roland Kayn's original complex feedback systems were based on techniques developed by Jaap Vink, whose work you can hear on this record. (Several tracks from it can be found on Youtube also.)

[kea]

Re. #2065, those not familiar with Kayn's work might like to download his Tektra from http://www.mediafire.com/file/3smd4q..._Kayn.rar/file

It's not the easiest of downloads. It took me four attempts, and the work lasts getting on for 5 hours. The mp3s in the RAR are at 192kbps.

I have a 16/44.1 lossless version (although transcoded by me from WAV to Apple Lossless) which should be somewhat easier to download, for the next week: https://we.tl/t-iOtXZEwl4b

Glad to see more Kayn coming out—I am generally a fan.

[Bryn]

I have a 16/44.1 lossless version (although transcoded by me from WAV to Apple Lossless) which should be somewhat easier to download, for the next week: https://we.tl/t-iOtXZEwl4b

Glad to see more Kayn coming out—I am generally a fan.

Many thanks for posting this.

[Richard Barrett]

I first came across Roland Kayn in the context of the "iconic" DG Avant-Garde series, which featured Cybernetics III and also an album by the Gruppo Nuova Consonanza of which he was a member for some time. On one of my first visits to the Netherlands at the end of the 1970s I remember going to a record shop in Rotterdam and seeing a display of several of the 3LP boxes of his work which must have been quite new at the time, which made my jaw drop but there was no way I could have afforded even one of them at that time. Subsequently I acquired all of them, apart from Tektra which I eventually found as a CD reissue. As 5against4 will know, much of the hardware used by Kayn to realise his early pieces is still in full working order at the Institute of Sonology. (I was first alerted to the forthcoming release of Scanning when my desk there had been temporarily commandeered for the stack of master tapes which had to be digitised before being sent off to Jim O'Rourke for mastering. We could have done it ourselves of course, but I guess that would have meant lower sales )

Back on topic I'm now listening to Eliane Radigue's orchestral piece Occam Ocean 2. Aficionados will need no encouragement to hear this as soon as possible. It's just as beautiful as I was expecting it to be.

[Bryn]

Thanks for posting that. I would advise that it may be ordered directly from First Hand Records for somewhat less (£10.99 + £1.75 first class p&p):

https://firsthandrecords.com/product...nitys-sunrise/

Having ordered direct from First Hand Records 2 days ago, the CD has just been delivered. I would be listening to it now, but for finding "politics live" on BBC TWO more pressing in current circumstances. Just worth mentioning, for those who have not read the details, the version of Piano Concerto is that for piano quintet, not that given by John Tilbury and the BBCSSO conducted by Ilan Volkov and broadcast on Radio 3.

[vinteuil]

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London Haydn Quartet, op 71 and 74

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TKNFKNS

... tho' Presto cheapest at the moment, I think.


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[Bryn]

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London Haydn Quartet, op 71 and 74

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TKNFKNS

... tho' Presto cheapest at the moment, I think.


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The CDs are £12.25 (including p&p) direct from Hyperion, CD rate FLACs from them are £8.99. Higher resolution downloads also available from them for sensible prices.

[Richard Barrett]

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London Haydn Quartet, op 71 and 74

Gosh, I'm so behind, I haven't heard op.64 yet.