Originally posted by Bryn
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Works that might benefit from a new recording.
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A bit off topic, but mention of the McPhee had prompted me to spin a CD-R of a 2001 Radio 3 broadcast of a concert which included Lou Harrison's Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan (with the piano tuned to appropriate Javanese systems, not the equal or well temperaments to be found on YouTube). No particular need for a new recording of the work, as there is this:
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If we're allowing arrangements, I'd like to hear (or preferably see) a new recording of the Tovey/Lauckner performing edition of Weber's Euryanthe. This edition apparently retains nearly all Weber's music but partly superimposes a new libretto (by Lauckner) to replace the ghastly von Chezy libretto and remove the numerous absurdities of language and plot in the original. Tovey considered Euryanthe the greatest of Weber's works, musically, but it has been sadly shackled to a terrible text. It would be good to see if this version rendered the opera performable - it is I think the first "durchkomponiert" opera in the repertoire, decades before Wagner's.
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Thropplenoggin
Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostI think that set would take some beating Alison.
I would like to hear a different take on Dyson's Canterbury Pilgrims,excellent though the Hickox set is.
How about Benjamin Grosvenor in Alkan Op 39 ?
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I see Ollie Mustonen tried this in '06 but, ye gods, is it ropey!
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