What is your current Record of the Week ?

[Bryn]

Still pondering..... shame the first is in dynamically-compressed mono (1981...)..... & first-go, I found the last movement challenged my patience...

According to the details at the back of the booklet, the Concerto was recorded 7 June 1982. While certainly not reasonably describable as stereo, the two channels of the Concerto are slightly different from each other. Such differences, however, are very minor indeed.

[Barbirollians]

The Richard Itter collection live Beecham set - the Balakirev Symphony No 1 live especially.

[Richard Barrett]

Definitely the complete 2eme livre de pièces de viole by Marin Marais, played by François Joubert-Caillet on the Ricercar label (which some years ago released the complete first book, played by Philippe Pierlot, which was good but not this good - in any case it doesn't seem to be available currently). Apart from the beautiful performance, the endless inventiveness of the music is a constantly renewed attraction, on the level of the keyboard music of Couperin or Rameau.

[vinteuil]

Definitely the complete 2eme livre de pièces de viole by Marin Marais, played by François Joubert-Caillet on the Ricercar label (which some years ago released the complete first book, played by Philippe Pierlot, which was good but not this good - in any case it doesn't seem to be available currently). Apart from the beautiful performance, the endless inventiveness of the music is a constantly renewed attraction, on the level of the keyboard music of Couperin or Rameau.

... many thanks for this, duly ordered.

But I have also ordered book one on ricercar, which seems to be with François Joubert-Caillet also -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B06ZXQWXRK

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[Richard Barrett]

... many thanks for this, duly ordered.

But I have also ordered book one on ricercar, which seems to be with François Joubert-Caillet also

Gosh you're right! That's another one for me to order. No wonder the Pierlot set hasn't been reissued.

[cloughie]

Working my way through the Bychkov Tchaikovsky box. A shade disappointed after the splendour of earlier releases in the series.

The Little Russian completely hangs fire :-(

Any further comments on this box Alison - I have just ordered it having read a review which said more or less they were an interesting contrast to the usual bombast - that could mean interestingly different or just a bit dull.

[jayne lee wilson]

Still is, just has to be, this one (from Listening thread)......
Record of the Week? Easily one of my records of the Year...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
The Cello Concertos

Roel Dieltiens, cello
[Marten Cornelissen, Northampton 1992. Bow: Henk Cornelissen, Aardenburg 1999]
Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century/Marc Destrubé, concertmaster
Qobuz Studio 24/88.2 Glossa New Release.

Just a few minutes in you know this is special. There's an ethereal quality, a tonal airiness and refinement of great beauty in a marvellously spacious acoustic, which yet never compromises rhythmic acuity or poise - as if the shade of Frans Bruggen is shaping the sound.
Deeply expressive slow movements, but all is precisely articulated with a light touch.

Outstanding musically, exceptionally fine recording.

[pastoralguy]

I suspect I'm going to be shot down BUT my 'Disc of the Week' from Friday is going to be the new cd of Stravinsky and Ravel from Beartice Rana!

[jayne lee wilson]

Beethoven Piano Concertos 1,2 & 4.
Brautigam (fortepiano)/Die Kölner Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens. BIS CD/SACD New Release 11/2019.

Not only extraordinarily fresh & insightful readings in wonderful sound, but at 87'56 quite the longest CD I've yet encountered, playing perfectly on a vintage '98 modded CD-transport which has occasionally shown a reluctance to complete such rare tasks...
Collector's item then... can't be too many other 2-CD sets of the works out there..

Plastic-Free packaging for the Whale and the Albatross.....

Hugely exciting, very significant cycle with strikingly distinctive fortepiano-against-instruments sonorities & overtones (small orchestra with foregrounded, thrillingly tangible winds/horns), a truly exceptional 4th (I kept going back to encore separate movements)..And 3 and 5 still to play... the isle of new sounds is full of wonders, this autumn...

Yet another Record of the Week which feels like a Record of the Year... 2019 has been terrific for New Releases..!

[Bryn]

Beethoven Piano Concertos 1,2 & 4.
Brautigam (fortepiano)/Die Kölner Akademie/Michael Alexander Willens. BIS CD/SACD New Release 11/2019.

Not only extraordinarily fresh & insightful readings in wonderful sound, but at 87'56 quite the longest CD I've yet encountered, playing perfectly on a vintage '98 modded CD-transport which has occasionally shown a reluctance to complete such rare tasks...
Collector's item then... can't be too many other 2-CD sets of the works out there..

Plastic-Free packaging for the Whale and the Albatross.....

Hugely exciting, very significant cycle with strikingly distinctive fortepiano-against-instruments sonorities & overtones (small orchestra with foregrounded, thrillingly tangible winds/horns), a truly exceptional 4th (I kept going back to encore separate movements)..And 3 and 5 still to play... the isle of new sounds is full of wonders, this autumn...

Yet another Record of the Week which feels like a Record of the Year... 2019 has been terrific for New Releases..!

Strangely, there is no sign of this release on the eClassical site, as yet. In terms of streaming, while all movements play well enough on the QOBUZ desktop player, the opening movement of the G major brings up a corrupt cache message on the stand-alone QOBUZ player app. As a matter of interest, where did you source your hybrid SACD? Presto CLassical appears to have the most attractive base price but p&p have to be considered. Oh, and they appear to have used the standard edition of the G major this time, rather than Barry Cooper's of the revisions Beethoven made of the 1st and 3rd movements (any he made for the 2nd movement are lost).

[I note that Brautigam adopts a very slightly faster tempo for the Adagio un poco mosso of the 5th than he did for his Steinway recording with Parrott. Still somewhat slower than Tan and Norrington, and considerably slower than van Barthold's 4'24" withthe same conductor ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9nF_n625_Q ).]

[jayne lee wilson]

I bought the physical discs here....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07XW6QXM9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Not cheap but I couldn't wait! (I use Prime for many things so it does end up making sense...)...
No problems with replay/messages via the Qobuz Studio/Audirvana+ stream on the G Major...
It is odd about eclassical not having it yet... I checked a few times myself...

5th and 3rd... for later... I'm crazy for the big sky over my head while the daylight lasts....

[Bryn]

I bought the physical discs here....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07XW6QXM9/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Not cheap but I couldn't wait! (I use Prime for many things so it does end up making sense...)...
No problems with replay/messages via the Qobuz Studio/Audirvana+ stream on the G Major...
It is odd about eclassical not having it yet... I checked a few times myself...

5th and 3rd... for later... I'm crazy for the big sky over my head while the daylight lasts....

Perhaps it's just the HiFi (CD rate) app that has the problem. It reports a corrupt cache when trying to play the first movement of the 4th.

I have now ordered from Presto Classical, adding "Reinhold Friedrich - The Trumpet Collection" to take the cost well into the free p&p range. I am now hafl-expecting a notification of a discount offer from eClassical.

[jayne lee wilson]

Probably!
I thought the piano/strings sonorities at the end of the andante/lead into finale of the 4th, were just remarkable...really caught my breath over and again...
And with such fortepianistic delicacy, plenty of Orpheus and the Furies-style poetic evocative contrast there if you like it that way...

Even for a label famous for it, the sonic presence, definition, spaciousness and immediacy on the CD are amazing...

[Nick Armstrong]

Andrew Tyson’s recording Landscapes, a great sequence of Scarlatti, Schubert, Mompou and Albéniz https://www.prestomusic.com/classica...61--landscapes

Scintillating and fascinating. Makes me wish he’d record Iberia complete.

[Edgy 2]

Can’t stop listening to a wonderful recording of British cello and piano music this week,and it’s only Tuesday

Ethel Smyth,Cello Sonata
Elizabeth Maconchy,Divertimento
Elisabeth Lutyens,Nine Bagatelles
Rebecca Clarke,Rhapsody

Lionel Handy (cello)
Jennifer Hughes (piano)