I'm concerned that the labels are looking to phase out Downloads as well as CDs. They might not do it officially but just with these pricing/making it difficult subterfuges. Download sales have been dropping rapidly.
I have a few purchased downloads but not all came with the notes. I have nothing against digital music files but If I'm paying sometimes more than a CD for these, and they don't have everything that comes with the CD, to me there is no point.
The Presto music website has a list of contents-go to the Melodiya label section-future releases. I don ‘t know how to link it( I am card carrying Luddite, pretty much).
CD 4 from the Boccherini Edition. Cello Concerto #12 in E Flat G 474 Cello Concerto #8 in D G 478 Cello Concerto #6 in A G 475 Cello Concerto #10 in D G 483 Enrico Bronzi, Cello and Conductor - Accademia I Filarmonici Di Verona
I'm glad I bought the first edition of the box. The booklet contains Ligeti's notes explaining in detail how the pieces were constructed.
https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/search?date_range=All+New+%26+Future+Releases&search_query=melodiya&size=10&view=large&sort=relevance
Yeah, that's why I called it a subterfuge. I just see no interest by the labels in expanding the Downloads market and in fact quite the opposite. Probably a wise idea to get any you are interested in now if there is no corresponding physical media.
Trying out some Spotify: SCHUBERT · Impromptus · Paul Badura-Skoda, fortepiano ASTRÉE AUVIDIS (P) 1983 / NAÏVE What lovely sound and playing! I like this even more than András Schiff's recent fortepiano recordings on ECM.
I enjoyed this mellow 2-CD set this morning. Recorded 5/25-27/87 at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Producer: Steven Epstein. Engineer: Bud Graham. Issued 1992. Art by M.C. Escher.
Listening to "Divine Theatre - Sacred Motets by Giaches de Wert" performed by Stile Antico on Harmonia Mundi.
I found it on their website, thank you. Looks like there is some overlap with the Brilliant Classics box but much that doesn't. I would have loved to hear her recordings of Shostakovich's Op. 34 and Op. 87, I hope these are in Melodiya's archives and if so see a release. IMHO I can't see myself paying $90 for this box, $50 would be more in my comfort zone given the poor sound quality (several of the WTC have out of tune pianos) and overlap with what I have. From streaming the pieces that I don't have I'm reaffirming my opinion that her reputation as an eccentric was more to do with her personality than her playing. Her pianism sounds no more unusual than many others from that generation. Last night listening was to two pieces from Lalo- Cello Concerto and Symphonie Espagnole (AP SACD).
Terry Riley: 'Sun Rings' — Kronos Quartet has just been released and is revealing itself slowly from corona to core. Commissioned by NASA for the Kronos Quartet and featuring pre-recorded sounds from the plasma around planets, Terry Riley’s Sun Rings is about as close an experience to being in space as it is possible to be. The ten-movement ‘spacescape’, as Riley refers to it, is a multimedia work for quartet and chorus, opening with recorded audio of the static heard from radio emissions in space. These are all triggered by members of the quartet’s hand movements over sensors.