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Edvin said:
To get back to Daland´s first posting. I agree and it is a big question mark why so much second- or even third rate music appear on sacd. We still have no satisfactory R. Strauss, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Liszt - oh how I wished that the tone poems with Haitink were quad. Alas no. Can´t someone persuade him to do them again, Pentatone are you listening.
As for Penderecki from the 60:s. I would love a Dies Irae in surround, but also some Ligeti - and how about a remix of Gesang der Jünglinge! But the piece I really want on sacd is Per Nørgård´s third symphony. Robert von Bahr, art thou reading this?
Edvin,
For Ligeti you may wish to approach Tudor as they have a proven specialist in Nott under their wing.
More generally, I'm sure we can all remember periodic "wish lists" being discussed here. Personally, if one considers how little time this format has been going & that most support comes "minor" labels (although within about 5 years, I suspect they'll be the "majors" when it comes to new releases rather than reissues), we are actually doing pretty well with regard to established masters:
Bach - 2 new cantata cycles; the major orchestral works; most of the major choral works; the cello & violin solo works; Goldberg variations; Art of Fugue
Bartok - more Concerto's for Orchestra than I can shake a stick at; some of the quartets; Bluebeard's Castle; 2 piano concerto's
Beethoven - new symphony cycles from BIS, LSO Live & Tacet (I would love to have a period cycle too though); the concerto's; cycles of the piano sonatas & string quartets underway; cello sonatas
Berlioz - requiem; symphonie fantastique
Brahms - much of his chamber music; symphonies; some late piano music; violin & piano concerto no.2;
Britten - war requiem; serenade for horn, tenor & strings; cello suites; Frank Bridge variations
Bruckner - most symphonies
Chopin - some of the major solo pieces
Debussy - string quartet; la mer & nocturnes (o.k. so this is P. Jarvi but it's still out!); violin sonata & piano trio
Dvorak - symphony cycle from Pentatone started (and misc. others); the concertos; slavonic dances
Elgar - Gerontius; Enigma (on the way); symphony no.2
Faure - requiem; some chamber music
Franck - violin sonata; symphony (on the way); organ music
Greig - major cycle from BIS
Handel - Messiah; fireworks; water music; concerto grossi op.3; organ concertos; Saul;
Haydn - some symphonies, piano sonatas & quartets; Creation; Seasons
Holst - planets
Janacek - sinfonietta; Taras Bulba
Liszt - organ works; piano sonata; annees de pelerinage
Mahler - a brand new cycle (SFSO/MTT) and many others
Mendelssohn - octet; violin concerto; piano trios
Monteverdi - vespers etc
Mozart - Figaro; Tito; violin concertos; violin sonatas (on the way); Magic Flute; wind concertos;
Mussorgsky - pictures (arr. Ravel & Stokowski as well as piano)
Prokofiev - R&J suites; Alexander Nevsky; the odd symphony & concerto
Puccini - La boheme
Rachmaninov - piano concertos; orchestral works; 2nd sonata; vespers
Ravel - many orchestral works; some piano music; quartet
Saint-Seans - piano concertos; organ symphony
Schubert - symphonies (on the way); most major chamber works; some song recitals; some major piano works
Schumann - some chamber, piano & song; piano concerto
Shostakovich - at least 2 symphony cycles (on the way with Pentatone) & many individual releases; quartet cycle started; piano concertos
Strauss - many of the major tone poems [sadly no opera]; four last songs (on the way)
Sibelius - violin concerto; symphonies; orchestral songs
Stravinsky - most of the major ballets
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake; Nutcracker (on the way); symphonies (in at least 2 cycles); many orchestral favourites; piano concerto no.1; violin concerto; some chamber music
Vaughan-Williams - several symphonies, Tallis fantasia
Verdi - requiem
Vivaldi - four seasons & some other concerti; gloria
Wagner - a new Ring(!)
Ok, so I'm sure I missed out many delights and that the above list of native MCH discs has some duds (I sadly haven't had the money or time to sample all of these - yet!) but we're far from being in a desperate situation. There are also many notable omissions (e.g. Mozart - Don Giovanni, Wagner - T&I; this list could go on) but in the space of less than a decade (and allowing for some great quad reissues) we're not doing at all badly.
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Post by Beagle July 30, 2006 (12 of 22)
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Daland said:
Not a single recording of Les Preludes. No Hammerklavier sonata or Diabelli variations...
Amen!
--And if you will all forgive my tiresome fixation on chamber music, I would like to draw attention to a notable gap in the Prazak Quartet's sacd repertoire. Kanka & Co. are czech but have produced, among the dozen sacds listed here, only one Dvorak disc and the Czech Degenerates disc (highly recommended).
But WHERE are the magical quartets of Janácek and Smetana? I refer to the spooky Kreutzer and the erotic Intimate Letters and My Life, each of which tells an incredible tale with enthralling music.
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Post by mandel July 30, 2006 (13 of 22)
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Edvin said:
As for Penderecki from the 60:s. I would love a Dies Irae in surround, but also some Ligeti - and how about a remix of Gesang der Jünglinge! But the piece I really want on sacd is Per Nørgård´s third symphony. Robert von Bahr, art thou reading this?
I can't actually find a recording of the Dies Irae (Auschwitz Oratorio) in the UK at all, never mind on SACD! Any that did exist seemed to have gone out of print long ago. Same with Van der Vate's Chernobyl, can't find that either.
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Post by seth July 30, 2006 (14 of 22)
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Polly Nomial said:
Ok, so I'm sure I missed out many delights and that the above list of native MCH discs has some duds (I sadly haven't had the money or time to sample all of these - yet!) but we're far from being in a desperate situation. There are also many notable omissions (e.g. Mozart - Don Giovanni, Wagner - T&I; this list could go on) but in the space of less than a decade (and allowing for some great quad reissues) we're not doing at all badly.
Opera in general remains pretty thin (I'm shocked that "Aida" and "Carmen" have yet to even be released on SACD).
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Post by fafnir July 30, 2006 (15 of 22)
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bissie said:
It means that we already have, but not released. It is the big version, for tenor and alto and the twist will be sensational, when released. Until then, my lips are sealed...
Robert
Robert,
I am drooling. I cannot sleep. My hair is turning gray, and my teeth are falling out. It's not illness, it's anticipation of this recording. Will it be out this year?
Brian
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Post by seth July 30, 2006 (16 of 22)
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bissie said:
It means that we already have, but not released. It is the big version, for tenor and alto and the twist will be sensational, when released. Until then, my lips are sealed...
Robert
Period instruments?
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Post by bissie July 30, 2006 (17 of 22)
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fafnir said:
Robert,
I am drooling. I cannot sleep. My hair is turning gray, and my teeth are falling out. It's not illness, it's anticipation of this recording. Will it be out this year?
Brian
No, but next. In the meantime, do visit www.bis.se. We are specialists in curing premature paradontite and insomnia.
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Post by bissie July 30, 2006 (18 of 22)
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seth said:
Period instruments?
Yes, that is, this period's :-)
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Post by bissie July 31, 2006 (19 of 22)
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Edvin said:
As for Penderecki from the 60:s. I would love a Dies Irae in surround, but also some Ligeti - and how about a remix of Gesang der Jünglinge! But the piece I really want on sacd is Per Nørgård´s third symphony. Robert von Bahr, art thou reading this?
Kind Sire,
yes, I am. Thou canst be certaine that some off thine ideas are falling into fertile Soile. But please, Sire, do not require me to divulge which one(s). Not even Your favourite Torturer can drag that out off me.
Your obedient servant
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Post by terence July 31, 2006 (20 of 22)
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Polly Nomial said:
There are also many notable omissions (e.g. Mozart - Don Giovanni, Wagner - T&I....
hi polly nomial, as you probably know (but in case you don't) the standard RBCD release of the domingo/pappano EMI tristan has a bonus DVD-A with the recording in a 5.1 surround mix. a translation of what is being sung can also be accessed on-screen as you listen.
DVD-A/universal player needed of course....
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