There's also a version for 8 hands (2 pianos) on the Melba Pantheon label.
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Yes - and albums were LPs back then!Originally posted by Beef Oven! View PostI know!
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It seems this is a compilation of the earlier Decca 6 CD box and the two operas, Figaro & Rosenkavalier - is there anything new here?Originally posted by Petrushka View PostSurprised the Erich Kleiber box hasn't had a mention on here.
That price really needs to drop, though.
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24/96 WAVs. SONY CLASSICAL 2016 New Release. (Qobuz).
In the notes, Kopatchinskaja and Currentzis write poetic loveletters, each to the other, they were both intensely devoted to this recording, at one with the bar-by-bar recreation of this fantastical score - a score which has been hackneyed for too long, over-recorded, overkilled, with too many similarly passive, reverential, literal readings. Bar-by-bar extremes of phrase, tempo, dynamics? You Bet! But there's no showing off here, not even exaggeration really (though the smug bourgeois critics who will hate it need the epater). In place of the notes there is the music - more intensely Russian, more intensely faithful to every shade of sound and mood than any other performance could be. I can't think of any other performers who would dare to do this, to express this essential intensity so completely. Kopatchinskaja sings through her 1834 Pressenda like a husky Gypsy at a village wedding.
That is why they coupled it with Les Noces (which astounds in its own marriage of virtuosity, polish, and raucous drunken villageoise lovemaking, yet so touchingly tender too) - to reflect this marriage of two artistic minds in an act of essentially Russian devotional attendance. Acts of artistic worship with no need for servility to any god.
(and technically - this is as good a hi-res download as I've heard, miraculously textured, tangible and threedimensional...)
Kopatchinskaja on the Tchaikovsky: "After the premiere the newspapers reported that it had "the wretched jollity of a Russian carnival, with savage faces and raw curses". Indeed, rivers of vodka flow in the finale..."
Currentzis to PK:"I ask you for this sound, the "bitter" sound of gut strings, not the fake polished one but the true humble one..."
(I ONLY bought this because of who was performing it - on trust without trying a note of it. Very special artists.)
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I love the Les Noces here, the best I've heard for years. Not quite as sure about the Tchaik, it's one of those 'maverick' performances that will probably divide people, though I must say I listened through twice, and am about to listen again...Reminds me a bit if that Zimerman Chopin concerto disc a few years ago, where every phrase is re-thought.Comment
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... due out 26 February on hyperion - the next discs in the Haydn quartet survey by the London Haydn Quartet : a twofer with op 50, 1-6.
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I've written about this on another thread. Jayne's super-positive reaction encouraged me to listen to the Tchaikovsky again, but I still find it more irritating than interesting. But yes, Les Noces is a triumph (an upcoming performance here in Dublin as part of a two-day Stravinsky celebration will find it hard to live up to Currentzis and his band).Originally posted by Pianoman View PostComment
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This looks like a must have box on the face of it. Could do with a full list of contents first though and not even Presto has that yet.
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Only slightly. Still, it's fun to try and work out what's on the discs by opus numbers and tempo indications.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
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... yes, I thought it was a good little test - especially combining the different info provided on the French and German sitesOriginally posted by Petrushka View PostOnly slightly. Still, it's fun to try and work out what's on the discs by opus numbers and tempo indications.
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostOnly slightly. Still, it's fun to try and work out what's on the discs by opus numbers and tempo indications.
Yes - but I still have no idea what is on "Disque 7"!Originally posted by vinteuil View Post... yes, I thought it was a good little test - especially combining the different info provided on the French and German sites[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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Oh! Of course! It's the famous recordings of Russian peasant/military songs by the Don Choir, isn't it? (The ones that so impressed Karajan that he later used the choir in his recording of the 1812 Overture?)[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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