New releases

[PJPJ]

Not a new release, but, I hope, a new mastering. If anyone gets this soon, please let on whether a few more stereo masters have been discovered? In the original set, some recordings from 1957 were in mono, which seems strange.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product...l/SBT61471.htm

on this page:

http://www.testament.co.uk/default.aspx?PageID=74

[hafod]

Not a new release, but, I hope, a new mastering. If anyone gets this soon, please let on whether a few more stereo masters have been discovered? In the original set, some recordings from 1957 were in mono, which seems strange.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product...l/SBT61471.htm

on this page:


http://www.testament.co.uk/default.aspx?PageID=74

Interestingly, according to Amazon UK there is a 6cd Rabin EMI ICON due for release in November. I have no idea of the contents and it is quite possible that Amazon has got it wrong (there are precedents!) and confused it with the Testament issue. The ICON price at AmazonUK is £22.99 but at Amazon DE it is an astonishing 14.99 Euros.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Rabi...d=AZFAVK42ANC5

Further information is awaited with interest.

[PJPJ]

Well, there's a curious thing.

Many thanks for the info.

[gurnemanz]

I couldn't resist ordering this intriguing new Telemann disc which got a rave five star review in Sunday's Indie. Details here but ordered for only £8.99 at HMV.

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Channel/CCSSA31911

[PJPJ]

Again, not new releases, but new reissues of orphans by Classic Recordings Quarterly

http://crq.org.uk/crqeditions.php

Boult conducting two Tchaikovsky symphonies caught my eye.

[Brassbandmaestro]

Boult conducting Tchaikovsky? Hmmm...

Iam intrigued bythat York Bowen Symphony cd by BBCSO/Sir Andrew Davies.

[PJPJ]

Boult's recordings of Russian works are very rewarding, I find. Tchaikovsky 3, Rachmaninov 2 and 3, the former in its cut version (which doesn't offend me), and now Tch 5 and 6 which I have yet to hear. I am sure there are better BaL choices, but I enjoy Boult in almost all he did.

Bowen - I think it a terrific release, minor masterpieces played beautifully by Davis and the orchestra. The samples on Chandos's website are a little too short to get a worthwhile impression.

[Suffolkcoastal]

PJPJ

I dowloaded from Itunes a performance of Weinberg's 6th Symphony earlier this year in an American performance conducted by Leo Botstein. A somewhat uneven work but at the same time still worth getting to know.

I'm looking to purchase the new Arnold and Rorem discs from Naxos, and order the new William Schuman disc from Albany (I have off air recordings of the premiere of On Freedom's Ground from 1985 and of an early performance of A Free Song from the 1940's) but it will be fascinating to hear these new recordings. Will also have to purchase the last volume in the Sibelius edition and the Weinberg 17th Symphony.

[Mahlerei]

Fans of Chailly's Mahler will be pleased to hear that Accentus are releasing DVD/Blu-rays of M2 and M8 filmed at last year's Mahlerfest in Leipzig.

[Il Grande Inquisitor]

There's a Chailly/ Gewandhaus Beethoven cycle out on Decca next month.