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  • Mandryka
    Full Member
    • Feb 2021
    • 1531

    Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
    Released today, and lined up for streaming later:

    JSB: Goldberg variations
    Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

    Bach: Goldberg Variations. Deutsche Grammophon: 4864553. Buy CD or download online. Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)


    https://www.theguardian.com/music/20...erg-variations
    In the booklet he says "In the Goldberg Variations, the one thing that rivals Bach’s complete intellectual mastery of his craft is his inspired, creative playfulness." And he does seem to put the emphasis on playfulness.

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    • Petrushka
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 12234

      Originally posted by FRJames View Post
      Britten - War Requiem (Decca) - SACD & Vinyl issues.

      Hybrid SACD Edition presenting 24-bit audio. Lavishly illustrated and documented soft cover book, housed in a deluxe rigid slipcase, presenting:     An introduction and technical note on the new transfers and HD remastering by Decca Classics Label Director & Reissue Producer Dominic Fyfe, including reminiscences fr


      Presumably these are 60th anniversary issues even though they aren't labelled as such (vinyl is at bottom of page)
      This looks to be a very desirable issue even if it seems to be ridiculously overpriced. I'll probably take the plunge anyway.
      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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      • Pulcinella
        Host
        • Feb 2014
        • 10892

        Originally posted by Mandryka View Post

        In the booklet he says "In the Goldberg Variations, the one thing that rivals Bach’s complete intellectual mastery of his craft is his inspired, creative playfulness." And he does seem to put the emphasis on playfulness.
        I certainly enjoyed it as a 'one-off', but found it not one I'd return to often, despite his evident technical skills.

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        • Bryn
          Banned
          • Mar 2007
          • 24688

          Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

          I certainly enjoyed it as a 'one-off', but found it not one I'd return to often, despite his evident technical skills.
          But was it as properly soporific as its origins would suggest it should be?

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          • Pulcinella
            Host
            • Feb 2014
            • 10892

            Originally posted by Bryn View Post

            But was it as properly soporific as its origins would suggest it should be?
            Indeed not, at the speeds he zipped through some of the variations.
            And in his interview in the Guardian article he debunks the theory and says:

            This story contains a truth of the mythological kind, if not the historical. For what music could possibly be better suited to warding off the solitary despair of insomnia (or, by extension, that of human existence itself) than the Goldberg Variations, with their constant interplay of reassuring regularity and exhilarating novelty? Far from lulling anyone to sleep, this is a work very much capable of bringing the suffering insomniac to accept his wakefulness – even cherish it.

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            • Bryn
              Banned
              • Mar 2007
              • 24688

              Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post

              Indeed not, at the speeds he zipped through some of the variations.
              And in his interview in the Guardian article he debunks the theory and says:


              An exercise in self-justification on his part?

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              • Dave2002
                Full Member
                • Dec 2010
                • 18009

                Originally posted by Mandryka View Post
                Steven Osborne Debussy Etudes.

                I heard him play them in a concert and it was terrible - so I’ll be interested to hear this if it’s streaming anywhere.


                https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...-pour-le-piano
                I have also heard him play these in concerts. I didn't think he was terrible at all - perhaps a case of chacun à son goût, though he may play better or worse from day to day. He didn't have the forcefulness of say Uchida or Livia Rev in some of the pieces - but does that really matter?

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                • Mandryka
                  Full Member
                  • Feb 2021
                  • 1531

                  Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
                  I have also heard him play these in concerts. I didn't think he was terrible at all - perhaps a case of chacun à son goût, though he may play better or worse from day to day. He didn't have the forcefulness of say Uchida or Livia Rev in some of the pieces - but does that really matter?
                  Were you at Wigmore Hall? I ask because I just think it was a bad day for him -- it was streaming for a while and someone else I know listened on youtube and agreed with me. But obviously, it could have been just a bad day for me!

                  Anyway, it's neither here nor there really, the recording will be released very soon, and that's that.

                  The Debussy etudes are very different from other Debussy material I think. And for me, the pianists who make them work, make them "come off the page", are few and far between. Anthony De Bonaventura, Anatoly Vedernikov, Nina Tichman, Michel Ferber, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet's first recording, the Japanese one, sometimes Michel Beroff on Denon and Michael Korstick -- I blow a bit hot and cold about those two
                  Last edited by Mandryka; 06-10-23, 16:25.

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                  • MickyD
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 4748

                    Here's another intégrale of a contemporary of Rameau from the indefatigable Pieter-Jan Belder. I like what I've heard so far...at under 15 quid for four discs, for me it must be had!

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                    • Pulcinella
                      Host
                      • Feb 2014
                      • 10892

                      Ravel and Falla

                      Ravel: Piano Concertos & De Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain. Erato: 5419766071. Buy CD or download online. Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Orchestre National de France, Louis Langrée


                      Idiosyncratic and rather bombastic: not for the library but worth a listen. (Imho, of course.)

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                      • FRJames
                        Guest
                        • Jul 2023
                        • 49

                        Shostakovich - Symphony 8, Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon Ov
                        Bournemouth Symphony Orch, Silvestri
                        ICA Classics

                        Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 & Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture. ica classics: ICAC5176. Buy CD or download online. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri


                        Out on 10 Nov 2023.

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                        • silvestrione
                          Full Member
                          • Jan 2011
                          • 1700

                          Originally posted by FRJames View Post
                          Shostakovich - Symphony 8, Kabalevsky - Colas Breugnon Ov
                          Bournemouth Symphony Orch, Silvestri
                          ICA Classics

                          Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 & Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture. ica classics: ICAC5176. Buy CD or download online. Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri


                          Out on 10 Nov 2023.
                          This is exciting indeed. I don't remember hearing this in Bournemouth, though he did Sym 10 more than once. (The Presto site wrongly claims Shostakovich 5 is Silvestri's only other recording of those symphonies, but there is an obscure version of Sym 10, not the only version of this coupling of composer/conductor on Youtube).

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                          • Sir Velo
                            Full Member
                            • Oct 2012
                            • 3225

                            New release of Beethoven quartets from the Chiaroscuro promises to be interesting

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                            • RichardB
                              Banned
                              • Nov 2021
                              • 2170

                              Originally posted by Sir Velo View Post
                              New release of Beethoven quartets from the Chiaroscuro promises to be interesting
                              It certainly does. I shall be downloading that for listening on a long flight tomorrow.

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                              • Bryn
                                Banned
                                • Mar 2007
                                • 24688

                                Originally posted by RichardB View Post
                                It certainly does. I shall be downloading that for listening on a long flight tomorrow.
                                https://www.eclassical.com/beethoven-string-quartets-op-74-op-130-1.html

                                Replacement final movement. No Grosse
                                Fuge

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