Monthly Archive: October 2011
HANS WERNER HENZE: Royal Winter Music II, Etc. – Boris Blacher Ens. – NCA
A fine introduction to Henze’s music for an instrument the composer clearly favors.
Roger Davidson – On The Road Of Life – Soundbrush Records The Klezmatics – Live At Town Hall – Klezmatics
More than klezmer…this is global jazz!
“Going Solo: Unaccompanied Works for Violin and Viola” = Stephanie Sant' Ambrogio – MSR
Engaging music plus beautiful playing and recording add up to a feast for lovers of all things string.
FRANÇOIS COUPERIN: Nouveaux concerts – Bruce Haynes, hautboy/Arthur Hass, harpsichord/ Susie Napper, viola da gamba – Atma
Charming music charmingly and capably played.
Green Lantern, Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack (2011)
Green Lantern, Blu-ray + DVD Combo Pack (2011) Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong, Tim Robbins, Angela Bassett Director: Martin Campbell Studio: Warner Home Video [10/14/11] Video: 2.40:1 anamorphic/enhanced for 1080p HD color Audio: English DTS HD-MA 5.1; French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai Dolby Digital 5.1 Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Thai, […]
Modern Sounds presented by the LA Jazz Institute – Celebrating the West Coast Sound – Oct. 20-23, 2011
Honoring the West Coast jazz masters….
MARTINŮ: The Six Symphonies – Jiří Bělohlávek/ BBC Symphony Orchestra – Onyx
These mid-twentieth century masterworks deserve to be heard more.
Audio News for October 25, 2011
Steve Jobs Revealed AppleTV Plans; UK Going All/Digital Radio in 2015; JVC Joins Blu-ray Patent Pool; E-books and Books-On-Disc
Ted Rosenthal Trio – Out Of This World – Playscape Recordings
The Great American Songbook played with reverence and passion.
Glenn Gould plays BACH – with Toronto Sym./ Sir Ernest MacMillan – IDIS
Vintage Glenn Gould in the music of Bach, recorded in Canada just prior to and contemporary with his American “break-through” in the Goldberg Variations recording for CBS.
Counting Crows – August and Everything After – Live at Town Hall, Blu-ray (2011)
The excellent sound makes this a worthwhile disc to have.
Pierre Monteux in New York = BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 7, Piano Concerto No. 5 – Archipel
The veteran maestro raises the New York temperature in powerful Beethoven renditions from 1953 and 1959.
HERBERT HOWELLS: The Winchester Service and Other Late Works – Westchester Cath. Choir – Hyperion
A useful addendum to the more often recorded choral music of Howells.
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI: Lamentazioni – Enrico Gatti cond. – Glossa (2 CDs)
If you like the Handel of the Italian years, you should like Scarlatti’s Lametazioni.
LISZT Program – Khatia Buniatishvili, piano – Sony Classical CD + DVD
A young firebrand sees Faust, Gretchen, and Mephisto in Liszt’s persona, and salutes their audacious alchemy in this fascinating collection for Liszt’s bi-centennial.
TARIK O’REGAN: Accalm na Senorach: an Irish Colloquy -Paul Hillier, dir. – Harmonia mundi
The newest work from the pen of one of the hottest composers today.
African Cats, Blu-ray (2011)
A fascinating wildlife film focusing mainly on the lives of two lion prides and one group of cheetahs in Kenya.
MENDELSSOHN: Sym. No. 3, “Scottish”; Sym. No. 4 "Italian" – Heinz Holliger, cond. – MD&G
The “revised” version of the great Italian Symphony—but is it better?
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No. 1; Intermezzo 1 – Hardy Rittner, piano/ Werner Ehrhardt, cond. – MD&G
Brahms First Piano Concerto as he heard it?
DVORAK: Cello Concerto; Violin Concerto in A Minor – Enrico Mainardi, c./Ida Haendel, v. – Pristine Audio
A classic all-Dvorak reissue disc that reaches into an illustrious pair of traditions, with Haendel and Mainardi’s imparting a genuine sympathy as well as technical prowess to their respective concertos.
Audio News for October 21, 2011
7.1 Surround Sound Now in Video Streaming Services; Marantz Two-Channel Hi-Fi Series Grows; SiriusXM & Pandora News
Martin Chalifour and the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Walt Disney Concert Hall – Yarlung Records
Some excellent sound engineering and one of the country’s best music spaces!