New releases

[Jonathan]

Found out today that the next volume of the Beethoven symphony transcriptions by Scharwenka (vol.5) is due out on the SOMM label towards the end of June

[HighlandDougie]

Back in HK for a week - and browsing in Percival Records a great way to escape the rain. A proper record shop which Roger et al might recognise. Anyway, today's finds included a remastered (and SACD-ified) version of Jascha Horenstein's Unicorn recording of Mahler 1 with the LSO. No idea what it'll sound like - and no idea whether it'll be available in the UK - but worth a punt. Already regretting not buying the Tower Records Japan SACD of Sir JB's Schubert 9th but that will justify a further visit later in the week.

[pastoralguy]

I was in London recently and popped into the HMV shop. To say I was bitterly disappointed would be an understatement. It was a very faint shadow of its former self and was little better than the ‘mini-me’ HMV shop we have in Edinburgh. I remember going to the London shop many years ago and being absolutely bowled over by the sheer size and breadth of stock.

Ah well.

[Petrushka]

I was in London recently and popped into the HMV shop. To say I was bitterly disappointed would be an understatement. It was a very faint shadow of its former self and was little better than the ‘mini-me’ HMV shop we have in Edinburgh. I remember going to the London shop many years ago and being absolutely bowled over by the sheer size and breadth of stock.

Ah well.

I think that the only place in London that's still got a good stock of classical CDs is Foyles in Charing Cross Road. They also have a reasonably good selection of second hand CDs as well.

[pastoralguy]

I think that the only place in London that's still got a good stock of classical CDs is Foyles in Charing Cross Road. They also have a reasonably good selection of second hand CDs as well.

I’ll check them out next time I’m in London. I was there a month ago and my first port of call was Notting Hill Gate exchange. Alas, I was only in town for 30 hours so I was disappointed to find that their classical basement didn’t open until 13.00. I still managed to pick up some interesting discs from their selection upstairs but it was frustrating all the same. I’ll know next time.

[MickyD]

Yet another unknown (to me) French baroque composer from the seemingly inexhaustible Brilliant Classics stable

https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/b/beauvarlet-charpentier-1er-livre-de-pi%C3%A8ces-de-clavecin/

[Jonathan]

Some weeks ago, I mentioned (on the Now Spinning thread) that I was really enjoying Florian Noack's Lyapunov set and was sad that he'd not recorded any more. Today, I had a helpful email from Amazon saying he's recorded the Transcendental Etudes. Another one added to the wishlist!

[Pulcinella]

Lined up for streaming later, released today:

Stravinsky

Symphony in three movements
Symphonies of wind instruments (1920 version)
Symphony in C

Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Dima Slobodeniouk (conductor)

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9623121--igor-stravinsky-symphonies-vol-1

[Pulcinella]

Looking forward to streaming this, released today (but not yet on Deezer):

Shostakovich
Symphonies 4, 5 & 6
Oslo Philharmonic, Klaus Mäkelä

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9639777--shostakovich-symphonies-4-5-6

[Pulcinella]

Looking forward to this new release, scheduled for 4 October 2024:

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9661048--stravinsky-chamber-works

There an article about Dumbarton Oaks (discussion between Barbara Hannigan and AndrewFarach-Cotton) in October's Gramophone that makes interesting reading.

PS. Are my ears deceiving me? At 2 bars after figure 84 in the third movement of Dumbarton Oaks (all that's currently available to stream, presumably as a taster), it sounds to me like the flute plays a D flat in the downward scale rather than the D natural in the score. I'll have to dig out the composer's own version to compare.

[akiralx]

Just noted that Bychkov and his CzPO have recorded the last three Dvorak symphonies for Pentatone - one review I read and some sample listening I did suggested that like his recording of Ma Vlast they are very well played and recorded but a tad staid, e.g. in the Finale of the Seventh and the Allegretto of the Eighth.