New releases

[jayne lee wilson]

VOL 2 (46,22,47) was intriguing...

[jayne lee wilson]

First out first bought, July 2014 - 39,49,1 & Gluck's Don Juan...
(Musically - very exciting, touch overdriven & those hairpin dynamics ...)

[MickyD]

Why do all period bands go off playing Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven and Brahms instead of searching out the music from earlier time that nobody has heard of and is worth hearing, like AAM and Concerto Köln (used to) do?

(I’ve got my coat)

I always found it such a shame that the AAM and Hogwood never recorded much French baroque music - their vintage disc of Rebel and Destouches ('Les Eléments') is quite superb. Even sadder that they never gave us any Rameau.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Why do all period bands go off playing Mozart, Hayden, Beethoven and Brahms instead of searching out the music from earlier time that nobody has heard of and is worth hearing, like AAM and Concerto Köln (used to) do?

Money (or lack thereof) - AAM and CK were supported by (then) powerful and affluent recording companies who could afford to make a financial loss on lesser/un-known repertoire. For a smaller company like Alpha to put up the money for a complete Kozeluch symphony cycle (selling at full-price) would damage (if not ruin) them financially - there just wouldn't be enough sales and they don't have reissues of Karajan's back catalogue to support the loss.

I'm sure period bands do play this repertoire, dovers - it's just that the money isn't available for them to record it.

[doversoul1]

Money (or lack thereof) - AAM and CK were supported by (then) powerful and affluent recording companies who could afford to make a financial loss on lesser/un-known repertoire. For a smaller company like Alpha to put up the money for a complete Kozeluch symphony cycle (selling at full-price) would damage (if not ruin) them financially - there just wouldn't be enough sales and they don't have reissues of Karajan's back catalogue to support the loss.

I'm sure period bands do play this repertoire, dovers - it's just that the money isn't available for them to record it.

I more than guessed that that was the case but I had to get it out my system

Still, as you say, there are many groups who do play and record this repertoire

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Ricercar/RIC368

Fux & Kerll: Requiems: Vox Luminis

The Guradian review.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/21/kerll-fux-requiems-vox-luminis-meunier

[DublinJimbo]

Thomas Fey is a deal more affectionate and humorous in this lovable work, finding greater warmth & expressive subtlety from the very start; the Mozartian woodwind variation in the finale really makes you smile, where the quicker Antonini plays it very plain and straight....

It was sad to learn about Thomas Fey's injury and the other troubles his fine series has run into. Hänssler now say they will complete it, but it won't be the same without its guiding light, who seems unlikely to make a full recovery. I've heard somewhere that Frieder Bernius might take over the project.

[Richard Barrett]

??? The reverse cover (shown in vinty's link - the purple square) doesn't mention this piece. You're right: it does look a good programme.

It seems the Mozart isn't on the CD... I found the listing here http://www.haydn2032.com/EN/solo_e_pensoso.html but wasn't paying sufficient attention to see that this was a concert programme rather than the CD.

[MickyD]

Hooray - at last The Academy of Ancient Music are giving us a release of lesser-known repertoire - one Dario Castello, a contemporary of Monteverdi.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Castello-Concertate-Academy-Ancient-Richard/dp/B01L84A69G/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1473337515&sr=1-1&keywords=Castello

[MickyD]

Yet another big box (200 CDs!) of Mozart on the way - this one claiming to be more complete than ever before:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01FW8XWSG/ref=pe_109191_149961191_pe_epc__1p_2_ti

I wonder how many will go for it?

[jayne lee wilson]

200 CDs?
I'd rather buy one instead....

[mikealdren]

Yet another big box (200 CDs!) of Mozart on the way - this one claiming to be more complete than ever before:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01FW8XWSG/ref=pe_109191_149961191_pe_epc__1p_2_ti

I wonder how many will go for it?

I wonder how many people who really love Mozart need a complete 200 CD edition, they probably have most of it already.

These monster editions are getting to the stage that someone will soon issue a complete 'Classical music' edition and we can buy it and stop collecting altogether!

[teamsaint]

anybody heard any of,or found a review of the Prague RSO Kabelac complete symphonies?

Or does anybody know where any of it can be heard ?

[AmpH]

Released earlier this month and apparently the first in a projected series. Louis Lortie is a long admired pianist chez moi, with a catalogue of fine recordings on Chandos stretching back to a beautiful set of Chopin Etudes and a much underrated set of Beethoven sonatas as well as an unsurpassed (imv) set of Ravel piano music. Initial listenings very encouraging with Lortie's characteristically nuanced playing bringing out many of the undercurrents in the music. Played from CD the recording clear and well defined, if perhaps a touch lighter / brighter than I am used to hearing from Chandos.

[Dave2002]

I wonder how many people who really love Mozart need a complete 200 CD edition, they probably have most of it already.

These monster editions are getting to the stage that someone will soon issue a complete 'Classical music' edition and we can buy it and stop collecting altogether!

I suppose reasonable value - about £1.50 per CD - and I don't have all the versions listed! Probably not, though!

[MickyD]

200 CDs?
I'd rather buy one instead....

I already have about three period versions of the Mozart piano concertos, Jayne, but my ears are always open! I guess this new cycle is proving special for you?