New releases

[Cockney Sparrow]

The remastered War Requiem is a new release: this article about the original recording might be of interest.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4c81389a-7829-11ee-aee2-bfdd2258809b?shareToken=ab24490b2e5c9cb855bd565dd1 cd3360

IIRC they remastered the recording when the Britten Complete Decca(/Universal?) set was issued - in the llast 5 or so years..... But of course, we know that doesn't stop the re-issue and re-issue with tempting extra contents.

Personally, I'd like AI to be developed to the point where I can substitute a weak or disastrous cast member in an opera (etc) recording and substitute an artist from another set. However, they are unlikely to empower me to do it, but in a future century they might offer a tailored service to similar effect?

[Pulcinella]

Whichever, it looks interesting!

I'll be interested to hear what you, Bryn, HD, and others make of it.
It sounds different, in a way I can't put my finger on or express in words, but not in a way that appeals.
Another John Wilson that just doesn't do it for me, sadly.

[HighlandDougie]

I'll be interested to hear what you, Bryn, HD, and others make of it.
It sounds different, in a way I can't put my finger on or express in words, but not in a way that appeals.
Another John Wilson that just doesn't do it for me, sadly.

Interesting comment as, "sounding different ... but not in a way that appeals", would probably have been my reaction after a first listen but I listened again earlier, this time 2-channel with headphones and I'm now rather taken with it. I'm so used to listening to Roth/Les Siècles that the lack of initial appeal was probably due to the fact that it, well, wasn't Roth. So, definitely growing on me. Beautifully played and, as usual with the Chandos team in Walthamstow TH, beautifully recorded, especially in multi-channel surround mode. I'll listen again tomorrow. A keeper, I think.

[FRJames]

DG Avantgarde Series - 21CD Box

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9504728--the-avantgarde-series

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Avantgarde-Various-Artists/dp/B0C64B8P88/ref=sr_1_1?crid=ENW894A0YV4X&keywords=dg+avantgarde+series&qid=1689875957&s=music&sprefix=dg+avantgarde+series%2Cclassical%2C79&sr=1-1

Release date - 22/8/23. Some of the music in this set has been released previously, but most hasn't.

Looks like this box has gone OOP already.

[MickyD]

This looks fascinating...and I think I'd buy it for the name of the band alone!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Johann-Christoph-Pepusch-Chandos-Anthems/dp/B0CJDJT9XM/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?crid=1VID4NP0WUUWI&keywords=pepusch+chandos+anthems&qid=1699386577&sprefix=pepusch%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1

[Bryn]

Looks like this box has gone OOP already.

I doubt it has seen the light of day (as yet). The DG site has it as "Sold Out", A likely story.

[FRJames]

I doubt it has seen the light of day (as yet). The DG site has it as "Sold Out", A likely story.

I think that you are probably right - it did seem odd to think that a box as specialised as this would sell out completely in so short a time.

[Barbirollians]

Physical disc ordered (and allegedly about to be delivered) rather than download for the reason set out by Bryn, i.e. it's multi-channel.

Having rather neglected the 5-channel plus sub-woofer system in my sitting/TV room here in Scotland, I've upgraded the universal disc player and the AV multi-channel amp, spruced up the cables and and better positioned the speakers so have been re-experiencing the pleasures of multi-channel SACDs like the John Wilson Rachmaninov 3rd. I realise that there is an anti-JW camp on this Forum for whom he can do no good so it will no doubt be dissed in its turn. For me, though, I will look forward to listening later to this Daphnis and Chloë.

I am more than willing to be converted. I just have never found his great success as a conductor of film and theatre music translated to core repertoire so I don’t buy his records anymore much more likely to buy Oklahoma than his Ravel.

[Nick Armstrong]

I'll be interested to hear what you, Bryn, HD, and others make of it.
It sounds different, in a way I can't put my finger on or express in words, but not in a way that appeals.
Another John Wilson that just doesn't do it for me, sadly.

At first listen, that sums it up for me too.

It reminds me of my reaction to M-A Hamelin’s recording of the complete Albéniz Iberia … how could one possibly criticise such playing and yet… and yet… something I couldn’t put my finger on (maybe the way the music breathed, somehow, or didn’t quite) made me think: where’s the soul of the piece gone?

[RichardB]

it did seem odd to think that a box as specialised as this would sell out completely in so short a time.

I remember the days when every time DG released a record of contemporary music I'd have to rush to find a copy because it would be deleted from the catalogue after a matter of months.

[Mandryka]

https://static.qobuz.com/goodies/68/000161286.pdf

[FRJames]

Messiaen - Des Canyons Aux Etoiles
Osborne, Seattle Symphony Orch, Morlot
Seattle Symphony Media.

https://seattlesymphonypress.squarespace.com/pressreleases/2022/12/19/the-seattle-symphony-releases-powerful-live-performances-of-works-by-american-composers-george-walker-and-william-l-dawson-62ja7

Release date - 17 Nov 2023. This set is not currently shown with any sellers so the actual availability on the release date may be limited.

[teamsaint]

I doubt it has seen the light of day (as yet). The DG site has it as "Sold Out", A likely story.

There seem to be copies selling on Discogs.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/2797378882

must be a chance that DG will re-issue.
I wonder if traders hoovered up a lot of copies ?

[Bryn]

There seem to be copies selling on Discogs.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/2797378882

must be a chance that DG will re-issue.
I wonder if traders hoovered up a lot of copies ?

If you go to https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/e...de-series-2472 and scroll down, the individual albums are shown and clicking on them, in turn, gives links to sites offering streaming or downloads. Those I have looked at are both streamable and downloadable from QOBUZ. However, it is easier to find them via the DG site linked to above than by using the rather poor QOBUZ search facility. No programme notes pdf, however.

[Mandryka]

Rousset, art of fugue on harpsichord

https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/products/9541718--bach-die-kunst-der-fuge