Listening to the new Comcertgebouworkest recording of Berlioz’s Requiem, suitably dramatic in Atmos! Via Apple Music Berlioz: Requiem, Op. 5 by Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano, Chorus of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia & Javier Camarena Some good background on the recording and work: Berlioz's Requiem - Concertgebouworkest [/url]
Just finished an inaugral listen to Disc 3 of this set: Debussy - Complete Works for Piano Vol. 3 - Jean-Efflam Bavouzet Again, lots of bits, so here's the back of the original release: Weirdly, I've been encountering a lot of Debussy in indie video games over the last few years. Sayonara Wild Hearts, a self-described "Pop Album Video Game" makes use of synth arrangements of a few numbers from this disc - Nocturne, Reverie and the ubiquitous Clair de lune from Suite bergamesque - alongside some cracking dream-pop of its own. Highly recommended. The wonderfully anarchic Untitled Goose Game, a great favourite of my daughter, uses the Preludes. The sound team recorded them played at different levels of intensity, broke them down into stems, then stitched them together into a genuinely impressive reactive soundtrack which ebbs and flows depending on your actions. Anyway, I think this is a good phenomenon, and hardly a new one - it's amazing how much Bach I found already knew from old 8-bit video games! But it would be nice if I could listen to the Preludes without imagining people being harrassed by a horrible goose.
I don’t have any of these recordings but I have been aware of this project from an audiophile perspective. It reminds of the minimal miking recordings which were done by Kavi Alexander of Water Lily Acoustics.
This box just arrived and I will be getting into listening at leisure as time allows over the week-end. I am very happy to secure this collection! The Liszt alone is worth the acquisition cost-the rest is icing. He was known for very colorful emotive performance and perhaps idiosyncratic ones as well. But ever interesting. I have his “Sadko” on ancient MK Lp.
I bought a copy of that a few years ago from the used bin at Hastings. The record looked good, but sounded like it was used as a Frisbee on a beach somewhere.
IMHO, Walter's Pastoral may be among the best if not the best. I have this box and have revisited the Pastoral more than I ever have the other 30 Beethoven Symphonies cycles ...
David Hurwitz on Furtwängler's Decca recordings (Furtwängler fans might want to skip this, it's not exactly a recommendation, on the contrary ):
That's too bad. Mine is in good shape. I bought a few things at Hastings in New Braunfels when we visited friends there in 2007 & 2008.
Qobuz is releasing a few tracks at a time. I enjoyed 3 Etudes and Scherzo No.3 this morning. Amazing playing, as always.
New release Friday; first listen on Qobuz. This is subtitled 'Demons and Miracles from Winchester around 1000'
I had mostly good luck with used classical records that I bought at Hastings. Sometimes though a physical inspection doesn't tell the whole story
Listening to "Sigismondo D'India - Duetti Profani" on Tactus. Featuring Matelda Viola, Paola Ronchetti (sopranos) NSFW album cover...