New releases

[Mandryka]

Laurence Crane, Natural World

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/natural-world

This is the longest piece by Laurence Crane I’ve heard - three movements, totalling almost an hour. For electronics and voice and keyboards, with field recordings. It features one familiar Crane trope - songs made up of conventionally inappropriate lists, like in Tour de France Statistics. But after the long and for me slightly boring first movement I thought that there are some fresh and original ideas here, most strikingly the way he harnesses field recordings of the sea to produce a disturbing, threatening vibe. This is not just pretty music, it aspires to be more interesting than that. And in fact, it really seems to be quite thought provoking, though I’m not sure what thoughts it actually provokes. Ineffable is the word for it. It would be an excellent concert.


Juliet Fraser in fine fettle.

[Bryn]

Laurence Crane, Natural World

https://anothertimbre.bandcamp.com/album/natural-world

This is the longest piece by Laurence Crane I’ve heard - three movements, totalling almost an hour. For electronics and voice and keyboards, with field recordings. It features one familiar Crane trope - songs made up of conventionally inappropriate lists, like in Tour de France Statistics. But after the long and for me slightly boring first movement I thought that there are some fresh and original ideas here, most strikingly the way he harnesses field recordings of the sea to produce a disturbing, threatening vibe. This is not just pretty music, it aspires to be more interesting than that. And in fact, it really seems to be quite thought provoking, though I’m not sure what thoughts it actually provokes. Ineffable is the word for it. It would be an excellent concert.


Juliet Fraser in fine fettle.

Another Timbre CDs (rather than downloads) tend to be a little cheaper if ordered direct from http://www.anothertimbre.com/another...catalogue.html Cheaper still if you manage to find one at a gig where Simon Reynell has them for sale.

[MickyD]

A new L'Heure Espagnole and Boléro coming from Les Siècles and Xavier Roth mid-month.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maurice-Ravel-Lheure-Espagnole-Bolero/dp/B0BXB8RKFL/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=3VPBGL3PVVV1P&keywords=ravel+roth+espagnole&qid=1686068177&sprefix=ravel+roth%2Caps%2C317&sr=8-1

[MickyD]

I heard a couple of extracts from this new disc this morning on France Musique. Yet another contemporary of Haydn whose name has escaped me up until now. Nice performances.

[vinteuil]

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... effectively 'volume 10' of the re-started Levin/AAM series of the Mozart keyboard concertos -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0C1M12V5P

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[PJPJ]

Gunnar de Frumerie:
Clarinet Concerto; Concertino for Piano & String Orchestra; Musica Per Nove; Suite Im Alten Stil with
Thorsten Johanns (clarinet), Oliver Triendl (piano), Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ivan Repušić.

A delightful collection of works.......

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[FRJames]

DG Avantgarde Series - 21CD Box

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9504728--the-avantgarde-series

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avantgarde-Various-Artists/dp/B0C64B8P88/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ENW894A0YV4X&keywords=dg+avantgarde+series&qid=1689875957&s=music&sprefix=dg+avantgarde+series%2Cclassical%2C79&sr=1-1

Release date - 22/8/23. Some of the music in this set has been released previously, but most hasn't.

[french frank]

DG Avantgarde Series - 21CD Box

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9504728--the-avantgarde-series

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avantgarde-Various-Artists/dp/B0C64B8P88/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ENW894A0YV4X&keywords=dg+avantgarde+series&qid=1689875957&s=music&sprefix=dg+avantgarde+series%2Cclassical%2C79&sr=1-1

Release date - 22/8/23. Some of the music in this set has been released previously, but most hasn't.

Hello FRJ - welcome to the forum!

[Bryn]

DG Avantgarde Series - 21CD Box

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9504728--the-avantgarde-series

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avantgarde-Various-Artists/dp/B0C64B8P88/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ENW894A0YV4X&keywords=dg+avantgard e+series&qid=1689875957&s=music&sprefix=dg+avantga rde+series%2Cclassical%2C79&sr=1-1

Release date - 22/8/23. Some of the music in this set has been released previously, but most hasn't.

Interesting but I note that a great deal of CD space is needlessly wasted in order to stick to the original LP compilations. As noted, much of the content has previously appeared on CD (often in more generously filled individual CDs). I will look out for it on QOBUZ for streaming or download (I wonder whether Hi-Res options will be available). There again, £4.48 per CD, pro rata, from Amazon, is not too bad a price. I do hope they have been remastered

[FRJames]

Ferenc Fricsay - Complete DG Recordings (86xCD+DVD)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9502676--ferenc-fricsay-complete-recordings-on-deutsche-grammophon

A re-issue rather than a new release (7/7/23) but in a single box format rather than the original two box issue. Presto seems to have the best deal at present.

[gradus]

I didn't hear whose recording of the Schumann Spring symphony was played on RR this morning but I've never heard a less appealing performance, utterly lacking in charm and lightness of touch, inflexible phrasing, hard-driven and only sounding as it should (imv) when the wind soloists had their moments in the last movement.

[Petrushka]

According to the R R playlist it appears to have been the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra conducted by David Zinman.

[FRJames]

An interesting collection of post-war modernist music (amongst some more popular material) from the Columbia/Sony catalogue in the most recent (8/6) batch of Presto CDs:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/articles/5328--presto-cd-new-presto-cd-titles-from-sony-classical

[Petrushka]

An interesting collection of post-war modernist music (amongst some more popular material) from the Columbia/Sony catalogue in the most recent (8/6) batch of Presto CDs:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/articles/5328--presto-cd-new-presto-cd-titles-from-sony-classical

Thanks. I've ordered the Berio and Carter CDs.

[LHC]

I saw this reviewed in the latest edition of HiFi News and thought it might be of interest to others.



Its a 4 CD set that includes the 1944 and 1956 recordings of ‘Fancy Free’, Bernstein's symphonic suite of the themes from On the Waterfront, the original cast recordings of each of his musicals; and jazz interpretations of some of the most enduring songs from the musicals performed by - amongst others - Bill Evans, Frank Sinatra, Dave Brubeck and Oscar Peterson

[Bryn]

DG Avantgarde Series - 21CD Box

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9504728--the-avantgarde-series

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avantgarde-Various-Artists/dp/B0C64B8P88/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ENW894A0YV4X&keywords=dg+avantgarde+series&qid=1689875957&s=music&sprefix=dg+avantgarde+series%2Cclassical%2C79&sr=1-1

Release date - 22/8/23. Some of the music in this set has been released previously, but most hasn't.

It looks like this might now be up o Spostisfy: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5f...55Zv6spkLtBhE1