Disappointments?

[Richard Barrett]

And today most students use SIBELIUS to help write out their own manuscripts.

He isn't always much of a help though, in fact he can be a right unhelpful b@st@rd sometimes. Not to mention disappointing.

I tried to order this particular Sibelius recording as a lossless download from Chandos but my computer said no, actually it said it wouldn't transmit my credit card information because the site was unsafe. Where do people usually order such things from?

[Stanfordian]

Tried Kurt Sanderling? Stunning Saga, and the Night Ride and Sunrise is another but-for-all-time, too....one of the very few recordings of anything that curb my hunger for alternatives.
(Truly great Sibelian anyway, but if anything, he tends to be more more dramatic in the poems than in the symphonies, and the sound of that Jesus-Christus-kirche acoustic doesn't hurt..)

(Berlin Classics, but if you seek out the King Record or Denon Japanese remasters, then.... or even ...)

Hiya JLW,
During one of my Berlin trips a couple of years ago I was determined to check out the Jesus Christ Church the famous studio venue where so many recordings have taken place over several decades. Orchestras it seems stopped using the church for a time when planes from Tempelhof Airport had a flight path over but it is now back in favour as Tempelhof since 2008 is no longer operational. Anyway situated in the affluent Dahlem district I tracked down the church and surrounded by horse chestnut trees and a busy car park. I approach the church and I noticed the doors were being stewarded. As I got closer the chap whispered to me that there was a recording in progress. So it's still very much in regular use as a recording venue. Just imagine how much money that church as collected over the years in booking fees.

[EnemyoftheStoat]

He isn't always much of a help though, in fact he can be a right unhelpful b@st@rd sometimes. Not to mention disappointing.

Maybe every once in a while there should be a requirement to use pencil and paper.

[Richard Barrett]

Maybe every once in a while there should be a requirement to use pencil and paper.

Rest assured that round here almost everything is pencil and paper until the final fair copy!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Rest assured that round here almost everything is pencil and paper until the final fair copy!

[pastoralguy]

The Isserlis/Harding Dvorak Cello Concerto on Hyperion - it just does not gel for me at all . Felt that Isserlis should have asked Mackerras years before to accompany

I think we've discussed this before but I fully agree with you.

[Barbirollians]

I think we've discussed this before but I fully agree with you.

I go back to it thinking that I must have been too hard on it but I have always come away feeling it was a missed opportunity .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Rest assured that round here almost everything is pencil and paper until the final fair copy!

Much the best way.

[Richard Barrett]

Much the best way.

Still it's worth keeping an open mind towards all possibilities that might speed the passage from idea to notation, so I wouldn't go so far as to say there's a "best way."

Returning to disappointments, I did have one with a recording recently: Sigiswald Kuijken's (OVPP) St Matthew Passion, which I found oddly balanced and all in all somewhat colourless, in comparison with John Butt's recording with the Dunedin Consort which makes the case for OVPP as well as anything else I've ever heard. Nevertheless the former has been glowingly reviewed.