New releases

[MickyD]

An exciting looking new disc from Jos Van Immerseel and Anima Eterna, doing Ravel's Ma mère l'oye and Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ma-mere-oye-Pictures-Exhibition/dp/B00HSOXL6G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1396259977&sr=1-1&keywords=ravel+immerseel

[PJPJ]

Something to look forward to, and it's SACD, and it's Vol 1

[Roehre]

Something to look forward to, and it's SACD, and it's Vol 1

Please note: Most (methinks: all) orchestral music of Larsson's in available on BIS, his 3 symphonies (i.e. including the restored first) on 2 BIS CDs.

[PJPJ]

Please note: Most (methinks: all) orchestral music of Larsson's in available on BIS, his 3 symphonies (i.e. including the restored first) on 2 BIS CDs.

And also these delightful works - highly recommended:

Larsson - Concertinos

[HighlandDougie]

An exciting looking new disc from Jos Van Immerseel and Anima Eterna, doing Ravel's Ma mère l'oye and Mussorgsky's Pictures from an Exhibition.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ma-mere-oye-...avel+immerseel

This has been available in France since early March. My only (minor) gripe is that it's rather short measure (49'27") - and Mother Goose is the Suite rather than the complete ballet. As usual with this combination of a sensitive and intelligent musician/conductor (it's all about the music, not the maestro) and his highly skilled players, the results return clarity to the music, which provides some moments of revelation. If one's ideal in this music is, say, Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or Maazel in Berlin, it might prove to be a bit of a shock but that surely is part of the intention, i.e. to have one listen to the music with fresh ears.

[MickyD]

This has been available in France since early March. My only (minor) gripe is that it's rather short measure (49'27") - and Mother Goose is the Suite rather than the complete ballet. As usual with this combination of a sensitive and intelligent musician/conductor (it's all about the music, not the maestro) and his highly skilled players, the results return clarity to the music, which provides some moments of revelation. If one's ideal in this music is, say, Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra or Maazel in Berlin, it might prove to be a bit of a shock but that surely is part of the intention, i.e. to have one listen to the music with fresh ears.

Ah, you have already sampled it, Dougie. I think I will go for it, having enjoyed Immerseel's other Ravel disc immensely - but I agree, under 50 minutes is stingy to say the least. We could have had "Night on the Bare Mountain" as a filler, for example.

[HighlandDougie]

Already available as a Download (and very good it sounds too), the following is on the point of release:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walton-Symphony-Concerto-Gardner-Chandos/dp/B00J9SEX6Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1398240629&sr=1-1&keywords=walton+symphony+no+1

Ed Gardner seeks to be on something of a roll - along with his recent Mendelssohn and Bartok (plus Lutoslawski etc etc), this Walton is - so far - very good (I haven't listened to the VC yet). Maybe he might take up Vaughan-Williams - and Tippett - in due course.

[Thropplenoggin]

Already available as a Download (and very good it sounds too), the following is on the point of release:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walton-Symphony-Concerto-Gardner-Chandos/dp/B00J9SEX6Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1398240629&sr=1-1&keywords=walton+symphony+no+1

Ed Gardner seeks to be on something of a roll - along with his recent Mendelssohn and Bartok (plus Lutoslawski etc etc), this Walton is - so far - very good (I haven't listened to the VC yet). Maybe he might take up Vaughan-Williams - and Tippett - in due course.

The same can't be said for the album cover: Gardner giving it his best moody 'black jeans-black loafers, white-shirt, open-collar, rolled-up sleeves' look. Who knew Walton was so 'smart-casual'.

O for Hyperion's more reflective, less egocentric paintings...

[Don Petter]

... rolled-up sleeves ...

O for Hyperion's more reflective, less egocentric paintings...

And not properly rolled up at that. Don't know what his mother would say.

Not a cover that would entice me to buy.

[Sir Velo]

Not a cover that would entice me to buy.

One would think that the composer was an irrelevance to judge from that. Far rather see this:

[Don Petter]

Note that the BBC Radio 3 logo lies easily with the cult of the individual over the works themselves.

[Bryn]

Already available as a Download (and very good it sounds too), the following is on the point of release:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Walton-Symphony-Concerto-Gardner-Chandos/dp/B00J9SEX6Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1398240629&sr=1-1&keywords=walton+symphony+no+1

Ed Gardner seeks to be on something of a roll - along with his recent Mendelssohn and Bartok (plus Lutoslawski etc etc), this Walton is - so far - very good (I haven't listened to the VC yet). Maybe he might take up Vaughan-Williams - and Tippett - in due course.

Not in full SACD definition, of course, but both recordings were featured during Afternoon on 3 this week (Monday and Tuesday). I think I might just be happy with 320kbps aac. If really taken with the performances, the SACD may well find its way here too.

[cloughie]

And not properly rolled up at that. Don't know what his mother would say.

Not a cover that would entice me to buy.

No but then you don't play the cover!

[HighlandDougie]

No but then you don't play the cover!

Cloughie - thanks - the voice of common sense. I'd always thought that people bought (classical) CDs on the basis of the work and the performance, rather than the cover. Clearly I'm wrong. One benefit of buying downloads is that you don't really need to look at the cover, although it's there if you really want to sit and gaze at it, rather than listen to the music. Nor is there anything particularly new about "the cult of the individual" in relation to classical LP covers - my collection of early 1950s LPs has examples of photographs of, variously, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer and - perhaps unsurprisingly - HvK plastered over the front of a fair number of them.

[Bryn]

Note that the BBC Radio 3 logo lies easily with the cult of the individual over the works themselves.

Ah yes, the downtrodden Radio 3 logo.