Brahms Horn Trio

[Stanfordian]

We'll get told off by Hornspieler, for 'meandering' off-topic, if we're not careful!

Why? Are you frightened of him?

[french frank]

There's off-topic 'interesting in itself' and off-topic 'completely irrelevant'. Recent deviations have veered towards the latter, as I see it.

[Bryn]

The van der Zwart/Faust/Meknukov CD arrived a few minutes ago. What a strangely anachronistic design for the CD itself. The recording dates from 2009, way after the general demise of the vinyl LP, yet the CD is produced in imitation of a black vinyl LP. I know the Musique d'abord label often carries recordings of analogue provenance, but surely ...

A fine, well filled, bargain CD. Very much recommended.

[Dave2002]

There's off-topic 'interesting in itself' and off-topic 'completely irrelevant'. Recent deviations have veered towards the latter, as I see it.

Plus some which have been needlessly rude and inconsiderate, even allowing for a somewhat grumpy start of the "wars". There are usually rules on boards, or at least an etiquette, which suggests that it's not usually a good idea to pour petrol on fires, even if there is an initial "spark". Keep calm, and get over it!

[jayne lee wilson]

The van der Zwart/Faust/Meknukov CD arrived a few minutes ago. What a strangely anachronistic design for the CD itself. The recording dates from 2009, way after the general demise of the vinyl LP, yet the CD is produced in imitation of a black vinyl LP. I know the Musique d'abord label often carries recordings of analogue provenance, but surely ...

A fine, well filled, bargain CD. Very much recommended.

Do the CD-Vinyls have actual grooves as well?
Some latter-day Melodiya remasters present like this - e.g. the Rozh Sibelius and Prokofiev Symphonies from 2010, complete with lovely large red Melodiya labels - and the mono Schoenberg Quartets on United Archives (2006) too, though in the latter case even the playing sides of the CDs were a smooth glossy black, uniquely in my experience....

But - the labelside grooves look completely uniform. Even if I had a useable turntable, don't think the cartridge would get much off them....
The Vinyl Revival has a lot to answer for....

[Bryn]

The Brahms disc pretty much fits your description Jayne. The 'groove' even has 'tracks', though only six of them, whereas there are 14 among the digital pits. From what I have now read, this is the standard presentation for the newer re-issues on this label. I recall there was a fashion for black CDs, especially game CDROMs, a decade or so ago.

[A second disc fro this series of re-issues arrived today (Faust in works by Janacek, Lutoslawski and Szymanowski). The format it the same as that of the Brahms disc, with six 'tracks' pressed into the non-playing side of the disc. Have now ordered the Britten Cello Suites form the same series.]

[BBMmk2]

Shame on me! I do not know this work! Thanks RFG! I rather like that combo, that you mentioned, in yopur oriogional post. Will investigate the recordings, al;ready mentioned and some point.

[richardfinegold]

Shame on me! I do not know this work! Thanks RFG! I rather like that combo, that you mentioned, in yopur oriogional post. Will investigate the recordings, al;ready mentioned and some point.

The Bloom/Serkin/Tree recording arrived the other day that was recommended by Nick. The pairing is one of the Brahms Sextets. This recording was one of the "Music From Marlboro" series, from a yearly summer Festival that was started by Serkin deep in the Vermont woods.
I used to have the Sextet recording paired on lp in a 2 lp set of Marlboro recordings, with the Schubert Trout Quintet and the Mozart Clarinet Quintet. It was perhaps the first Chamber Music recordings that I owned and it's wonderful to have it again after all these years; it sounds great on CD. The performers are the young Guarneri Qt members with Jaime Laredo and Leslie Parnas.
Serkin et al compare very favorably with TAP (Tuckwell etc.). The Serkin group is a tad more reflective, particularly in IV, where TAP treats IV more as a bravura showpiece. Serkins group no doubt studied and played together for a summer before making the recording and I would guess that TAP were assembled in the studio for a recording. They are both great
Recordings and you could be quite happy with either.

[BBMmk2]

The Bloom/Serkin/Tree recording arrived the other day that was recommended by Nick. The pairing is one of the Brahms Sextets. This recording was one of the "Music From Marlboro" series, from a yearly summer Festival that was started by Serkin deep in the Vermont woods.
I used to have the Sextet recording paired on lp in a 2 lp set of Marlboro recordings, with the Schubert Trout Quintet and the Mozart Clarinet Quintet. It was perhaps the first Chamber Music recordings that I owned and it's wonderful to have it again after all these years; it sounds great on CD. The performers are the young Guarneri Qt members with Jaime Laredo and Leslie Parnas.
Serkin et al compare very favorably with TAP (Tuckwell etc.). The Serkin group is a tad more reflective, particularly in IV, where TAP treats IV more as a bravura showpiece. Serkins group no doubt studied and played together for a summer before making the recording and I would guess that TAP were assembled in the studio for a recording. They are both great
Recordings and you could be quite happy with either.

I might even get both, RFG! :) Thank you!