New releases

[MickyD]

This is on its way in February, really looking forward to it:

[Mandryka]

[silvestrione]

Are some of those new works? I think I only have the Trio, somewhere...

[Bryn]

Are some of those new works? I think I only have the Trio, somewhere...

Harrison Birtwistle
01 Trio for violin, cello and piano (2011) 15'40

02 Duet for Eight Strings (2018) 19'55

03 Pulse Sampler (1981 / 2018) for oboe and percussion 10'12

Oboe Quartet (2009-10) 18'54
04 I. quaver = c. 144 6'16
05 II. crotchet = c. 72 4'37
06 III. quaver = c. 66 1'55
07 IV. quaver = c. 96 6'06

[silvestrione]

Harrison Birtwistle
01 Trio for violin, cello and piano (2011) 15'40

02 Duet for Eight Strings (2018) 19'55

03 Pulse Sampler (1981 / 2018) for oboe and percussion 10'12

Oboe Quartet (2009-10) 18'54
04 I. quaver = c. 144 6'16
05 II. crotchet = c. 72 4'37
06 III. quaver = c. 66 1'55
07 IV. quaver = c. 96 6'06

Oh yes, thanks. A couple of them newish!

[RichardB]

Oh yes, thanks. A couple of them newish!

... and Pulse Sampler is a new version with a more extensive percussion instrumentation than the original pair of claves. So far I've only listened to the Oboe Quartet from this disc. I will return to it, but I've never been really keen on his pieces for smaller ensembles. The ten instruments of Tragoedia or more is when the music starts to get interesting for me.

[Bryn]

Oh yes, thanks. A couple of them newish!

I am currently surrounded by the Birtwistle Trio.

[RichardB]

It's like buses... a few weeks of not much of great importance going on with the Qobuz new releases, and today there's volume 11 of Antonini's Haydn Symphonies, Pelléas et Mélisande with François-Xavier Roth and (finally) Savall's Beethoven 6-9. I shouldn't have looked; I'll be up half the night now.

[akiralx]

I just listened to a hirez download of John Wilson's new Ravel disc (also on SACD) with the Sinfonia of London from Chandos - this is spectacular in performance and recording.

[Bryn]

I just listened to a hirez download of John Wilson's new Ravel disc (also on SACD) with the Sinfonia of London from Chandos - this is spectacular in performance and recording.

I will have to check it out via Qobuz, being rather wary of Wilson's approach to meter, in general. " . . . if it ain't got that swing." Pretty much essential in Ravel.

[Mandryka]

... and Pulse Sampler is a new version with a more extensive percussion instrumentation than the original pair of claves. So far I've only listened to the Oboe Quartet from this disc. I will return to it, but I've never been really keen on his pieces for smaller ensembles. The ten instruments of Tragoedia or more is when the music starts to get interesting for me.

Yes, I kind of feel the same, possibly, except I enjoy the songs.

[MickyD]

Looking forward to the Les Siècles/Roth release of 'Pelléas et Mélisande' - previewed on Record Review this morning.

[Mandryka]

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/art-of-fugue/hnum/10818865

(Weiss is very good I think, so I have high hopes.)

Sneak peak -- sounds middle of the road mainstream HIP to me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZpuzcMvQI&list=PLej1CPrsp2qpR41C9p4nU6z1toGaHQjwH&index=3&ab_channel=SATIRINOIanMalkin

[MickyD]

I heard an extract from this on France Musique yesterday - a collection of 14 CDs from Haselbock and his Wiener Akademie which looks like mostly earlier repertoire before Haselbock turned his attention to the 19th century...Schmelzer, Fux etc. I can't seem to find a full listing anywhere - can any of your clever sleuths help?

[Bryn]

I heard an extract from this on France Musique yesterday - a collection of 14 CDs from Haselbock and his Wiener Akademie which looks like mostly earlier repertoire before Haselbock turned his attention to the 19th century...Schmelzer, Fux etc. I can't seem to find a full listing anywhere - can any of your clever sleuths help?

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9306327--musica-imperialis