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Ron Dough
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« on: 19:39:03, 16-01-2008 »
MDT's Pre-order list for February is out, with plenty - too much? - for everybody. The Karajan Rheingold appears on DVD, Mackerras and the SCO in Mozart symphonies on SACD for Linn, the Argo Colin Davis Gerhard 4 from Lyrita, the DG Janáček Brouček, just for starters.....



http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/search/New%20Releases/NR_February08/February08/
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« Reply #1 on: 21:20:42, 20-01-2008 »
Re. the Mozart late symphonies, it has to be HMV, surely?
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« Reply #2 on: 00:02:31, 21-01-2008 »
  Thanks, Bryn.       Order placed!       Smiley Smiley Smiley
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« Reply #3 on: 07:32:20, 21-01-2008 »
Thank heavens they don't deliver to my address, or my plastic would be feeling very un-fantastic Wink

Strongly tempted by the Bernstein/Weill Kaddish, and the Hilliards doing "Se La Face Ay Pale" (which has badly needed a new recording, the EMCL recording has become a hard-to-find-rarity).
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« Reply #4 on: 09:07:00, 21-01-2008 »
Yet another rewrite of the narration to Bernstein's Kaddish? His daughter did one for the Slatkin recording on Chandos a couple of years back. Even by Lenny's standards it's a quirky piece, and though certainly not devoid of incidental glories, I've yet to be convinced that it lives up to the promise of his first symphony (Jeremiah), which I guess makes him unusual in the roster of Americam symphonists, where three seems usually to be the magic number (Harris, Schuman and Copland for starters).
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« Reply #5 on: 11:50:40, 21-01-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 07:32:20, 21-01-2008
Thank heavens they don't deliver to my address, or my plastic would be feeling very un-fantastic Wink

Strongly tempted by the Bernstein/Weill Kaddish, and the Hilliards doing "Se La Face Ay Pale" (which has badly needed a new recording, the EMCL recording has become a hard-to-find-rarity).
Although if like me you have a problem with the Hilliards you might like to try the Diabolus in Musica recording instead.
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« Reply #6 on: 12:15:25, 21-01-2008 »
I'm open to the Diabolus In Music recording too - I see it is also listed (on Amazon) as a pre-order item.  Have you managed to hear it, and is it nice?  I have a horrible recording by some Spanish choir (so horrible that it's in a distant cupboard, and I can't remember who was responsible) but they've added all kinds of loony instruments, all played extremely badly.  (Following the theory that "medieval music must have been very primitive, so we will play it out-of-tune").  Is the D-I-M recording a crumhorn-free zone?  If so I'll happily take your recommendation, since only 6.99 is at stake anyhow.   I suppose I am imagining it ought to be performed entirely a-capella with a warm and sonorous choral timbre, not too clinical,  and not in that mincing "Oxbridge Choral Scholar" style either Smiley  (aka "eow clep your hends two-gether, awl yeee peeple").  I know the ballade is there in the cantus firmus, I don't need it highlighted by a bloody trombone Smiley
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« Reply #7 on: 12:29:05, 21-01-2008 »
Quote from: Reiner Torheit on 12:15:25, 21-01-2008
Is the D-I-M recording a crumhorn-free zone?  If so I'll happily take your recommendation

It is in fact an instrument-free and mince-free zone, is interpolated with appropriate plainchant (which I always like, since it allows one at least to imagine what the impact of the polyphonic sections would have been in context) and is sung by an 8-piece all-male ensemble with what I would certainly call a warm timbre. I would say it fulfils your stated requirements pretty well, and certainly more than the Hiliards would.
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« Reply #8 on: 13:06:06, 21-01-2008 »
Excellent!  Now, before we have an OVPP argument about it, I shall place my pre-order for it Smiley
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« Reply #9 on: 15:49:04, 21-01-2008 »
Or you might like to get it here, since it's already available in Europe.

It's actually been available for 4-5 years, which is why Richard has it already (as do I), but the packaging you're looking at is Alpha's budget-price catalogue-CD reissue for 2008.
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