New releases

[Bryn]

I think that I want to be told that I am mad even to be thinking about it (I don't even hugely like Wagner) but this forthcoming release seems to have a particularly siren-like appeal:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/blog/latest-news/der-ring-des-nibelungen-solti-limited-edition-decca/?utm_source=Decca_Ring_Cycle&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter-24-07-2012

The price is ludicrous, although German Amazon, with the current exchange rate, is a bit cheaper.

So what's the party line on re-mastered Solti?

How could I resist, compared to the £14.96 I paid for the standard CD issues (via Oxfam and minus the booklets/libretti)?

[HighlandDougie]

Ah, the bucket of cold water over the head - thanks, Bryn, just what the doctor ordered. £15 seems like a good deal - multiplied by 10 (and a bit) the price does seem lunatic.

[amateur51]

Ah, the bucket of cold water over the head - thanks, Bryn, just what the doctor ordered. £15 seems like a good deal - multiplied by 10 (and a bit) the price does seem lunatic.

I'm hoping that the inclusion of John Culshaw's book 'Ring Resounding' will result in a mass release of cheap second-hand copies on to the market

Not holding ma bweff tho

[jayne lee wilson]

Pressures of time and the Trials of Life have limited my postings beyond the Proms themselves, but after the Saariaho last week, recalling earlier more pleasurable encounters but finding little of her on my shelves, I roamed the web reading her notes on Chester Novello and listening to many excerpts.... stumbled across the 2/2012 release (a chronological retrospective) of a 4-disc Ondine Box of her Orchestral Works... and been thrilling to them all week!

CAN'T recommend it highly enough... even lovely at bedtime and getting-up time, on the bedside Tivoli system...
ALL truly compelling, especially taken with Lichtbogen, Solar and Graal Theatre...

(ONDINE 1113-2Q) ...Presto have Ondine on offer just now...

[HighlandDougie]

CAN'T recommend it highly enough...

(ONDINE 1113-2Q) ...Presto have Ondine on offer just now...

With that endorsement, how could one resist. Duly ordered at cheap(ish - £15 plus p&p) price from Amazon Marketplace

[DublinJimbo]

CAN'T recommend it highly enough

(ONDINE 1113-2Q) ...Presto have Ondine on offer just now...

Thanks for the recommendation. Presto also offer lossless FLAC downloads, but there's no mention of whether or not a digital booklet is included. Anyone know one way or the other?

[Stephen Smith]

Just looked on "THE Classical Shop" - no booklet with Ondine.

I've given plenty of feedback to them its pointless running a 50% discount offer on downloads, for unfamiliar performers or repertoire where the booklet is not provided. ANswer is that its up to the company - Ondine to provide them, the site operator wants them to.

I'm keeping a list of potential downloads I considered no further on this basis. I'll stop now, I could go on about it .......

[DublinJimbo]

I've given plenty of feedback to them its pointless running a 50% discount offer on downloads, for unfamiliar performers or repertoire where the booklet is not provided. ANswer is that its up to the company - Ondine to provide them, the site operator wants them to.

I sent off an email to Presto and got an almost immediate reply confirming what you say — Ondine didn't provide a booklet to them. Strangely, though, the booklet is part of the download with Qobuz. I'll get it there.

[BBMmk2]

One of my favourite tuba players, Joe Cook(principal tuba Black Dyke Band), has recorded a solo cd with afaoresaid bad. Looks really tempting!

[mathias broucek]

Any ideas on what this Ormandy box might contain and whether it's worth buying? I was very pleased with the Stoki box from this series

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Eugene-Ormandy-conducts-Century-Classics/dp/B008BOWG68/ref=sr_1_4?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1343414725&sr=1-4

[PJPJ]

Eugene Ormandy dirigiert Klassiker des 20. Jahrhunderts: 12 CDs mit legendären Einspielungen von Orchesterwerken von Debussy, Ravel, Mussorgsky, Orff, Rachmaninoff, Schostakowitsch, Strawinsky und anderen mit Eugene Ormandy und dem Philadelphia Orchestra.

Eugene Ormandy, der im Jahr 1921 in die USA emigriert war, leitete das Philadelphia Orchestra von 1938 bis 1980 und führte das Orchester zu Weltrang. Im Laufe seiner Karriere dirigierte er diverse Uraufführungen von Werken von Komponisten wie Béla Bartok und Samuel Barber. Seine Leistungen wurden mit fünf Grammys ausgezeichnet und sein Name auf dem Walk of Fame in Hollywood verewigt.

CD 1: Debussy: La Mer, Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Mussorgski: Bilder einer Ausstellung
CD 2: Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole, de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
CD 3: Holst: Die Planeten, Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
CD 4: Rachmaninoff: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3, Rhapsodie nach einem Thema von Paganini
CD 5: Prokofjew: Sinfonie Nr. 1, Violinkonzert Nr. 2, Skjabin: Le Poème de l'Extase, Rimsky-Korsakov: Cappricio Espagnol
CD 6: Schostakowitsch: Sinfonie Nr. 5, Cellokonzert Nr. 1, Kabalewski: Die Komödianten
CD 7: Le Sacre du Printemps, Petruschka Balletsuite, Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite
CD 8: Bartok: Konzert für Orchester, Kodály: Hary Janos Suite, Enescu: Rumänische Rhapsodie Nr. 1
CD 9: Berg: Lulu Suite, Webern: Im Sommerwind, Hindemith Sinfonie "Mathis der Maler"
CD 10: Orff: Carmina Burana, Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
CD 11: Ives: Sinfonie Nr. 2, Three Places in New England, Sibelius: Kuolema, Alfvén: Schwedische Rhapsodie
CD 12: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Barber: Adagio for Strings

Not sure how CD 10 works out......

PS Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Trinklied von Jammer der Erde;Der Trunkene im Frühling) only

additional info from http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/deta...c/hnum/2873398

[cloughie]

Eugene Ormandy dirigiert Klassiker des 20. Jahrhunderts: 12 CDs mit legendären Einspielungen von Orchesterwerken von Debussy, Ravel, Mussorgsky, Orff, Rachmaninoff, Schostakowitsch, Strawinsky und anderen mit Eugene Ormandy und dem Philadelphia Orchestra.

Eugene Ormandy, der im Jahr 1921 in die USA emigriert war, leitete das Philadelphia Orchestra von 1938 bis 1980 und führte das Orchester zu Weltrang. Im Laufe seiner Karriere dirigierte er diverse Uraufführungen von Werken von Komponisten wie Béla Bartok und Samuel Barber. Seine Leistungen wurden mit fünf Grammys ausgezeichnet und sein Name auf dem Walk of Fame in Hollywood verewigt.

CD 1: Debussy: La Mer, Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, Mussorgski: Bilder einer Ausstellung
CD 2: Ravel: Rhapsodie Espagnole, de Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
CD 3: Holst: Die Planeten, Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
CD 4: Rachmaninoff: Klavierkonzert Nr. 3, Rhapsodie nach einem Thema von Paganini
CD 5: Prokofjew: Sinfonie Nr. 1, Violinkonzert Nr. 2, Skjabin: Le Poème de l'Extase, Rimsky-Korsakov: Cappricio Espagnol
CD 6: Schostakowitsch: Sinfonie Nr. 5, Cellokonzert Nr. 1, Kabalewski: Die Komödianten
CD 7: Le Sacre du Printemps, Petruschka Balletsuite, Strauss: Rosenkavalier Suite
CD 8: Bartok: Konzert für Orchester, Kodály: Hary Janos Suite, Enescu: Rumänische Rhapsodie Nr. 1
CD 9: Berg: Lulu Suite, Webern: Im Sommerwind, Hindemith Sinfonie "Mathis der Maler"
CD 10: Orff: Carmina Burana, Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
CD 11: Ives: Sinfonie Nr. 2, Three Places in New England, Sibelius: Kuolema, Alfvén: Schwedische Rhapsodie
CD 12: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Copland: Appalachian Spring, Barber: Adagio for Strings

Not sure how CD 10 works out......

PS Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Trinklied von Jammer der Erde;Der Trunkene im Frühling) only

additional info from http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/deta...c/hnum/2873398

Looks an interesting box but which recordings are they - now Sony effectively merges the CBS,later Sony and RCA catalogues identification is a problem.

[mathias broucek]

additional info from http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/deta...c/hnum/2873398

Thanks PJ

Slightly dissapointed with the contents. Was hoping for Rach symphonies, Sibelius and his famous Mahler 2 (currently £40 for a second hand copy on Marketplace) or perhaps Mahler 10

[Dave2002]

Not sure about that. Some good things in there though. I have/had some of those on LP, but I've already managed to get some of my favourites on CD. Who is the soloist in the Rachmaninov piano concerto? Ormandy recorded that with several great pianists.

[Thomas Roth]

Why no William Schuman, Roy Harris, Vincent Persichetti ...?