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[DublinJimbo]

my email to qobuz resulted in my account able to download what I wasn't able to.

Any explanation as to why there was a problem previously?

[Stunsworth]

That's great. Hope that you enjoy the Benjamin Grosvenor as much as I have been doing. The piano sound is, to use that horrible American cliche, awesome. And the playing is pretty awesome as well. His Chopin .. a thing of wonder

HD, thanks for the email.

[PJPJ]

Any explanation as to why there was a problem previously?

No, I really don't know what's going on.....

[DublinJimbo]

For those, like me, who have been hoping that the Collins Classics series of Peter Maxwell Davies orchestral works is issued on Naxos it looks like we need wait no longer:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product...al/8572348.htm

This is now available. I'm currently listening to it on the Naxos Music Library.

[PJPJ]

Latest Dutton releases @ £5.99 from hmv.com

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/directQuery.do?Ntt=duttonvocalion&sortKey=ProductReleaseDateAndTitleAndArtistNameSort&searchType=0&pagingOptionSelect=24&N=0&Ns=ProductReleaseDateAndTitleAndArtistNameSort&adultFlag=false&rid=135D48B3ED40&Ntk=Products&Nty=1

http://www.duttonvocalion.co.uk/#new_epoch2

[Alison]

Thanks PJPJ.

I wondered what had happened to Dougie Bostock.

[Barbirollians]

I adored her fresh & wonderfully thought out Brahms VC with Daniel Harding & the Mozart Chamber Orch. I've seen her play the LvB in concert & her violin is as beautiful as it sounds on her recordings. I think I need to get this CD asap. Another faultless review in today's Grauniad:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/feb/22/berg-beethoven-abbado-faust-review

Nice to have a living artist being praised on these MBs - there is rather an emphasis on dead ones

I agree that this is a record that lives up to the hype . The Beethoven is joyful and songlike and very refreshing but the Berg is quite magnificent- a dark. profound and immensely moving reading.

[Curalach]

The Faust/Abbado recording of the Berg and Beethoven Violin Concertos is my "disc of the year" so far

[PJPJ]

The Faust/Abbado recording of the Berg and Beethoven Violin Concertos is my "disc of the year" so far

It is wonderful, isn't it. I've struggled with the Berg on and off, but this recording overwhelmed me.

My other disc of the year is Ben Grosvenor's Decca recital.

[DublinJimbo]

The Faust/Abbado recording of the Berg and Beethoven Violin Concertos is my "disc of the year" so far

Oh yes, most definitely — and most especially for the Berg (good as the Beethoven is).

[Curalach]

and most especially for the Berg.

Indeed.

[AmpH]

I see that the 1966 / 67 cycle of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas by Josef Suk and Jan Panenka is due to be reissued on 23 April 2012 newly remastered by Supraphon. IMO one of the very best of all cycles of these Sonatas and surely a bargain at this price on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Complete-violin-Josef-Suk/dp/B0072A4EZ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1332867545&sr=8-1

[Bryn]

I see that the 1966 / 67 cycle of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas by Josef Suk and Jan Panenka is due to be reissued on 23 April 2012 newly remastered by Supraphon. IMO one of the very best of all cycles of these Sonatas and surely a bargain at this price on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Co...2867545&sr=8-1

Hmm. Same price at hmv.com. Duly ordered.

[DublinJimbo]

I see that the 1966 / 67 cycle of the Beethoven Violin Sonatas by Josef Suk and Jan Panenka is due to be reissued on 23 April 2012 newly remastered by Supraphon. IMO one of the very best of all cycles of these Sonatas and surely a bargain at this price on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Co...2867545&sr=8-1

That's an amazing bargain! So much for being ahead of the posse: I paid the equivalent of £17 for lossless downloads of this a few weeks ago.

It really is a magnificent set. Of recent recordings, Faust/Melnikov and Ibragimova/Tiberghien are very impressive (F/M ahead, in my opinion), but it will be the Suk that I'll return to more often.

[Chris Newman]

Indeed.

Curalach, you are a bad boy. For years I have been searching for a dream Berg Violin Concerto. Usually when a new recording comes out I listen in at Collectors' Corner hoping that I can rediscover the ideal performance I once heard with Georgy Pauk. Your praise of Isobelle Faust and Claudio Abbado tempted me to pull off the shelf the only Berg VC I have (and have never played): a BBCMM from 2002 with Leonidas Kavakos. He was wonderful but Andrew Davis could not get the BBCSO to show any passion. However thanks for making me play the CD.....with the Berg comes a glorious Verklarte Nacht again with the BBCSO but Donald Runnicles is brilliant. He proves why the work is one of the truly great string romantic works of great genius...Dvorak, Elgar, Suk. Thanks for making me listen to this version

So? Why are you a bad boy? Well, I like Faust and love Abbado so I have pushed the boat out with the river people.

Cheers, Chris.