New releases

[akiralx]

I only found out about it through John F Berky's abruckner.com newsletter....

Good luck with your files.... at the price as you say & with other media a way off, looks like a return to 24/96 downloads for me, even if for one night only.....I'll try after midnight.........

I see Chandos have released Juan Mena conducting Bruckner 6 with the BBCPO, I downloaded and enjoyed it, very good recording. Quite spacious in i and ii. Oddly it says it was recorded in 2012…

[jayne lee wilson]

I see Chandos have released Juan Mena conducting Bruckner 6 with the BBCPO, I downloaded and enjoyed it, very good recording. Quite spacious in i and ii. Oddly it says it was recorded in 2012…

Weird that, isn't it?
Recorded in MediaCity just a month before the Proms performance which I recall being very impressed by. There's probably a review in the Proms archive here somewhere...
....http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-amp-MacMillan

I'll try to catch up with it after the new 3rd, but the Proms are good this week, so....

[akiralx]

Weird that, isn't it?
Recorded in MediaCity just a month before the Proms performance which I recall being very impressed by. There's probably a review in the Proms archive here somewhere...
....http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-amp-MacMillan

I'll try to catch up with it after the new 3rd, but the Proms are good this week, so....

I just got the new Bruckner 3 SACD by mail today in Australia - it is a very slim card digipak. Also the Kirill Petrenko Mahler 7 in a 'luxury' digipak like a hardback book.

[Mandryka]

This is wonderful, in a field which is crowded with wonderful recordings. It has an outstanding 2 and 5, and an interesting 6. Certainly one of the most stimulating Bach recordings of the year, that I’ve heard.

In the booklet she makes an obvious point which had never occurred to me before, that the suite is a French form, and the viol was a popular French instrument and that the cello is a popular Italian instrument - so a sort of mystery why Bach chose to stipulate cello. Maybe it was a sort of goûts réunis.

What the viol brings, apart from some nice sounds, timbres, is a sense of intimacy, as if she’s confiding secrets. She plays with seriousness and calm, an anti-virtuoso expressive approach which suites me fine. Among cellists her approach makes me think of Hidemi Suzuki’s second recording, which is also a favourite chez moi.

As far as I know only Pandolfo has recorded this music with viol before, which I also liked very much last time I heard it.

[Richard Barrett]

a sort of mystery why Bach chose to stipulate cello.

... if indeed he wrote these pieces at all!

[Bryn]

... if indeed he wrote these pieces at all!

We've been here before, a few times.

[Mandryka]

... if indeed he wrote these pieces at all!

Well as far as we know he didn't write them down.

[silvestrione]

Well as far as we know he didn't write them down.

Eh? No manuscript in his hand survives, you mean, presumably.

[Mandryka]

Eh? No manuscript in his hand survives, you mean, presumably.

Probably. What do you think of the Anna Magdalena phrasing?

[Mandryka]

(At first glance a different approach from his earlier (wonderful!) CD of music questionably attributed to Dowland. There appears to be something magical happening - my ears have pricked up several times.)

[jayne lee wilson]

Some fascinating Glossa New Releases just out of O18thC/Bruggen live in Beethoven (Piano Concertos 2&4, Stanley Hoogland), Schumann (1841 4th - the listing says "revised" which is wrong), Schubert (9)....plain white fronts, stream/download only, no notes, just dates & venues....

Also, no kidding, an orchestration of Mozart K361 with Reinhard Goebel.....! ("after Serenade in B-flat major, K 361, “Gran Partita”
Original version for orchestra by Franz Gleißner (1800)".....

And the CDs of Hrusa's Bruckner 4x3......
What a weekend's listening in prospect, in a truly stunning Autumn for The Shock of The New... ....

All probably only of interest to me and the Cat (passively at least, though she did rush out of the room during the Bruckner 4 (i) (1874) last night - she seems to prefer the revisions), but seek them out on Qobuz if you still care or dare.......

[kea]

The Hrůša Bruckner 4x3 was definitely intriguing, although mostly served to reconfirm my strong preference for the 1874 Bruckner 4 over the revisions. Interpretations also seemed a bit soft focus though I guess I would say that as a Norrington partisan.

[jayne lee wilson]

The Hrůša Bruckner 4x3 was definitely intriguing, although mostly served to reconfirm my strong preference for the 1874 Bruckner 4 over the revisions. Interpretations also seemed a bit soft focus though I guess I would say that as a Norrington partisan.

It is amazing once you get to know it, isn't it?
See my further comments on the Hrusa set here (#35/36).....

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?16639-Bruckner-and-His-Editors&p=861544#post861544

I had similar impressions at first, but its austro-german warmth has really grown on me, there's a very attractive lightness and lyricism between climactic moments...and this 1874 Recording is of a new Korstvedt Editon, with further refinements of tempi and instrumentation.
Watch out for that faulty stream though!

[pastoralguy]

Really looking forward to the new Chopin disc from the wonderful Beatrice Rana which I hope will arrive tomorrow.

[Braunschlag]

Me too