New releases

[mathias broucek]

Calling all Martinovians!

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/dvorak-martinu-piano-concertos-ivo-kahanek-jakub-hrusa-bamberger-symphoniker/y5cb66itcukja

Wow! Terrific new recording, one of the best I've heard, of a key Martinu masterpiece!

I initially read this as "Calling all Mantovanians"....

[mathias broucek]

I think you will find that the festival you mention had Andrew Davis in charge of the 4th Symphony. It also, mistakenly, included what was thought to be an ossia part for Theremin in the final movement. This was later found not to have been intended for the instrument commonly known as a Theremin but a later instrument the Theremin Ether Organ. It was otherwise a very fine performance indeed. I have the all the broadcasts from the festival transferred from cassettes to CD-R.

We must be thinking of different festivals as "my" festival was def MTT. It was at the Barbican. It may have been the New World Symphony rather than the LSO now I think about it

[Bryn]

We must be thinking of different festivals as "my" festival was def MTT. It was at the Barbican. It may have been the New World Symphony rather than the LSO now I think about it

Not, then, in the festival including the songs you referred to in #2187. That festival would have been the 1996 Unanswered Question series: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...n-1325213.html

[Dave2002]

We must be thinking of different festivals as "my" festival was def MTT. It was at the Barbican. It may have been the New World Symphony rather than the LSO now I think about it

If you were at the performance I was at, it was fairly early in the 1990s - not as late as 1996. I'm pretty sure it was MTT.

[jayne lee wilson]

Just begun listening to this.....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/schumann-symphonies-nos-1-4-and-concertos-for-violin-cello-piano-hans-rosbaud-swr-sinfonieorchester-baden-baden-und-freiburg/z3bpimxyb0s6b

...and fascinating it is, Schumann of a high order........ excellent mono sound....very present & realistic...

New Releases are thick and fast on Qobuz this week, I'll never keep up...

[Richard Barrett]

New Releases are thick and fast on Qobuz this week, I'll never keep up...

I'm pretty much stuck on one of them - François Joubert-Caillet's complete recording of the second book of Marin Marais's Pièces de Viole, altogether 142 movements which come to just over six hours of music. For obvious reasons I associate this kind of repertoire with the sound and style of Jordi Savall, whose recording of selections from this same book was the first Marais I ever heard. I don't think it detracts at all from Savall's pioneering achievement to say that this recording builds on it to reach a whole new level of expression and instrumental beauty in Marais's work.

[jayne lee wilson]

Ive got Otto M Zykan's Cello Concertos lined up for later....completely unknown to me...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/zykan-cello-concertos-heinrich-schiff/wx533861afxsc

I look for dates of composition with things like this (1981/2005), but otherwise it's the innocent ear...
..and I do like that!

[teamsaint]

Ive got Otto M Zykan's Cello Concertos lined up for later....completely unknown to me...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/zykan-cello-concertos-heinrich-schiff/wx533861afxsc

I look for dates of composition with things like this (1981/2005), but otherwise it's the innocent ear...
..and I do like that!

Well , I have had a listen to the first concerto on Apple Music, and I’m really impressed.Absolutely bubbling with invention , energy, and lots of interesting combinations of sounds, over( or under) laid with spectacular and gorgeous sounding cello.
i think this is a great find, Jayne.
There is a violin concerto recorded by Pat Kop, also available on Apple Music, but not too much else out there AFAICS, although some bits and pieces on Youtube might be worth a listen.

Edit: there is a very , possibly inappropriately short break indeed between the two concertos on Aplle Music. I wonder if this is deliberate, or indeed the same on CD or other downloads ?

[jayne lee wilson]

Next up.....

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/bruckner-symphony-no-6-london-symphony-orchestra-and-sir-simon-rattle/vqcu1hk7a3vlc

...a new Arts Florissants Gesualdo album and "Vivaldi Jupiter" look enticing too....

[MrGongGong]

Shameless

https://silentrecords.bandcamp.com/album/from-here-to-tranquility-tonic-immobility-volume-11

I earned 0.02p from itunes in the last PRS distrubution

[pastoralguy]

Beatrice Rana's new cd of Ravel and Stravinsky on Warner Classics is absolutely superb!

[Bryn]

I do better than that in royalties each year for simply having recorded the 1972 PTO at the Orangery, Holland Park concert, and that's a CD-R release from the Experimental Music Catalogue. One year it even topped £1. There again, IIRC, the four musicians and I (or at least, the three surviving musicians and the estate of the fourth) share proceeds equally after the overheads are accounted for.



Oh! Definitely not a new release.

[Dave2002]

Looks as though a new box set of Wilhelm Backhaus recordings will come out in January. As yet there are insufficient details - number of CDs, contents of the box etc.

[cloughie]

Looks as though a new box set of Wilhelm Backhaus recordings will come out in January. As yet there are insufficient details - number of CDs, contents of the box etc.

Try the Presto site - all there - google Presto Backhaus!

[Dave2002]

Try the Presto site - all there - google Presto Backhaus!

Indeed - I was just too lazy to look there and post the link. Seems that you're slightly less so ...

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/8664396--wilhelm-backhaus-complete-decca-recordings

39 CDs - not sure if worthwhile. The "other" people may have a lower price for pre-release orders.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Complete-De...s=music&sr=1-1 £65.25 currently.