Thread: What To Record?

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Post by Vaan October 26, 2015 (11 of 23)
There are a lot of composers who deserve to be played and recorded more. It makes me sad to read the list from Pentatone as it is the usual composers who dominate.

We badly need new recordings of Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Alberto Ginastera, Peter Mennin, Carlos Chávez...

Gösta Nystroem, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Uuno Klami, Einar Englund, Vagn Holmboe, Niels Viggo Bentzon...

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Herbert Howells, Mark-Anthony Turnage...

Regards, Thomas

Post by wehecht October 26, 2015 (12 of 23)
Vaan said:

There are a lot of composers who deserve to be played and recorded more. It makes me sad to read the list from Pentatone as it is the usual composers who dominate.

We badly need new recordings of Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Alberto Ginastera, Peter Mennin, Carlos Chávez...

Gösta Nystroem, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Uuno Klami, Einar Englund, Vagn Holmboe, Niels Viggo Bentzon...

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Herbert Howells, Mark-Anthony Turnage...

Regards, Thomas

Add Nicolas Flagello and Edmund Rubbra to the list and I'm with you all the way.

Post by diw October 26, 2015 (13 of 23)
Vaan said:

There are a lot of composers who deserve to be played and recorded more. It makes me sad to read the list from Pentatone as it is the usual composers who dominate.

We badly need new recordings of Roy Harris, William Schuman, Walter Piston, Alberto Ginastera, Peter Mennin, Carlos Chávez...

Gösta Nystroem, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, Uuno Klami, Einar Englund, Vagn Holmboe, Niels Viggo Bentzon...

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Malcolm Arnold, Herbert Howells, Mark-Anthony Turnage...

Regards, Thomas

Interesting that I've heard of and listened to the US and British composers you mention (and enjoy RVW in particular), but never heard of any of the Scandinavian ones.

Surely you could have come up with some obscure Eastern European composers to round out your list:)

Post by Andrew-Kenneth October 26, 2015 (14 of 23)
I don't really mind the current abundance of Mahler on SACD (more discs to choose from)

Oramo's 1st ;Inbal's CPO 1st & Sieghart 6th are amongst my Mahler SACD favourite recordings. I don't care if certain collectors would dismiss these recordings as superfluous. They are my favourites.

I've started collecting Wagner on SACD this september and I am enjoying Janowski's "Meistersinger" right now. (which happens to be the only "Meistersinger" on SACD)

With italian opera there's even less choice. Fans of Rossini, Puccini or Verdi can collect old mono classic recordings on SACD and the very rare modern opera recording.

At least the ten mature Wagner opera's are all available on SACD in modern sound.

Post by Lute October 26, 2015 (15 of 23)
Andrew-Kenneth said:

I've started collecting Wagner on SACD this september and I am enjoying Janowski's "Meistersinger" right now. (which happens to be the only "Meistersinger" on SACD)

With italian opera there's even less choice. Fans of Rossini, Puccini or Verdi can collect old mono classic recordings on SACD and the very rare modern opera recording.

At least the ten mature Wagner opera's are all available on SACD in modern sound.

I also like Janowski's Wagner SACDs. Listening to Tristan quite a bit these days.
And Bychkov's Lohengrin is excellent, too. http://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=5790

Post by stvnharr October 26, 2015 (16 of 23)
diw said:

Interesting that I've heard of and listened to the US and British composers you mention (and enjoy RVW in particular), but never heard of any of the Scandinavian ones.

Look up the labels Alba and Dacapo, for starters.

Post by hiredfox October 27, 2015 (17 of 23)
diw said:

Interesting that I've heard of and listened to the US and British composers you mention (and enjoy RVW in particular), but never heard of any of the Scandinavian ones.

Surely you could have come up with some obscure Eastern European composers to round out your list:)

Kirill Karabits dad was a composer of no repute what-so-ever but we hear a few of his pieces at The Lighthouse these days. Strangely enough when we make requests to the programmes arranger there is never room for our choices because of full schedules for years ahead whereas the maestro's foibles seem to be accommodated with ease - and - who exactly is paying their bills?

On the wider point of course you'd expect a bit of old fashioned chauvinistic nationalism from Scandinavian record labels, bless their cotton socks...

It's the price we pay for keeping SACD alive.

Post by Vaan October 27, 2015 (18 of 23)
diw, if you haven't heard of any of the composers from the north it only means that you are ignorant. But the next time I make a list I will be sure to check with you first.

Thomas

Post by Iain October 27, 2015 (19 of 23)
Ubertrout said:

I don't know if I agree with Iain's list - while there have been many good recordings from these labels, I don't think that they necessarily distinguish themselves from other labels by repertory selection.

There are a number of reasons to listen to a record (broadly defined). They include:

* Recording Quality (stereo or multichannel), especially compared to competitors
* Unique Repertory
* Unique interpretation
* Quality of performance
* Sheer enjoyability

...

It wasn't my intent to imply a quality label by simple repertory alone. Rather the criteria I use is everything you have listed, plus recording methodology, competence of recording engineers and venue.

I suppose that would be assumed under recording quality criteria, but I would list those criteria separately. It's called being consistent.

Post by diw October 27, 2015 (20 of 23)
Vaan said:

diw, if you haven't heard of any of the composers from the north it only means that you are ignorant. But the next time I make a list I will be sure to check with you first.

Thomas

True enough.
Thanks!

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