Paris Archive
Audio News for October 27, 2015
Technicolor to Reintroduce RCA Brand to Millennials; Consumer Perception of Microsoft’s CE products on the Upswing; Classical News; New Plex Media Player
STRAVINSKY: Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring); Petrouchka – four-hand-versions – Silver-Garburg Piano Duo – Berlin Classics – 2 vinyls
A terrific double-vinyl with two Stravinsky piano-four-hands classics.
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (2015)
A concert performance of Umbrellas of Cherbourg with Michel Legrand conducting.
Legendary Artist Michael Ponti, piano = Concertos of RUBINSTEIN, ALKAN, & THALBERG – Doron
The gifted Michael Ponti appears in three historical performances of rare and highly charged Romantic fireworks.
MARAIS: Alcione–Suites des Airs à Jouer, 1706 – Le Concert des Nations/ Jordi Savall – Alia Vox
Another fine upgrade for SACD of an earlier Jordi Savall recording.
Audio News for April 24, 2015
PBS Subwoofer Mounts Any Way; Four-Screen Display for TVs; DTS Withdraws DTS:X from 3.0 Broadcast TV Standard Consideration; SMS Audio Teams Up with Marvel & Reebok; Five Classical Music Controversies
Le Silence de la Mer, Blu-ray (1949/2015)
A moving first film from Jean-Pierre Melville, honored by the French Resistance.
STRAVINSKY: Concerto for Piano and Winds; Capriccio; Movements; Pétrouchka – Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, p./ São Paulo Sym. Orch. /Yan Pascal Tortelier – Chandos
Superb performance and recording of these fiery Stravinsky works.
PARIS – Music for Trumpet by SATIE, RAVEL, PIAZZOLLA and others – Alison Balsom, trumpet – Guy Barker and Orch. & others – Warner Classics
British trumpeter impresses with arrangements of her French favorites.
BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Preludes & Fugues, 1-12, BWV 846-857 – Mordecai Shehori, p. – Cembal d’amour
Mordecai Shehori finds a new and vocally inspired Bach in the WTC as edited and amended by Chopin, a true fusion of kindred spirits.
SAINT-SAENS: Danse Macabre; Cypres et Lauriers; Symphony No. 3 in C Minor, “Organ” – Vincent Warnier, organ/ Orch. National de Lyon/ Leonard Slatkin – Naxos Pure Audio Blu-ray
Inaugurating the former organ of the Palais du Trocadero, Vincent Warnier and Leonard Slatkin proffer vivid Saint-Saens for our delectation.
The Transcendentalist = SCRIABIN: 5 Preludes; Reverie; Guirlandes; Poeme languide; CAGE: Dream; In a Landscape; FELDMAN: Palais de Mari; WOLLSCHLEGER: Music Without Metaphor – Ivan Ilic, p. – Heresy
Pianist Ivan Ilic explores the notion of “transcendentalism” through a distinctly non-Lisztian perspective, avoiding the colossal bravura for intuitive poetics.
Kenny Clarke 1948-50 – Classics Records
Kenny Clarke changed the style of jazz drumming.
The Language Of The Unknown – (The Wayne Shorter Quartet), Blu-ray (2014)
Both a concert and a documentary on the great jazz performer/composer known for his quasi-mystical approach to music.
DEVIENNE: Flute Concertos, Vol. I = Flute Concerto No. 1 in D Major; Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major; Flute Concerto No. 3 in G Major; Flute Concerto No. 4 in G Major – Patrick Gallois, flute/ Swedish Ch. Orch. – Naxos
Flute virtuoso Patrick Gallois convinces us that Devienne’s first four concertos warrant our continued interest.
Audio News for October 28, 2014
Deezer and TidalHi-Fi Streaming Coming to U.S.; Classical News; Classical Mystery Tour Band
“Siddharta”, Blu-ray (2011)
An interesting, if somewhat confusing traversal of the making of the Buddha.
Myriam Solovieff, violin = BACH: Chaconne from Solo Partita No. 2 in D Minor; MOZART: Violin Sonata in E Minor; BRAHMS: Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor – Myriam Solovieff, v./ Julius Katchen, p. – MeloClassic
Myriam Solovieff strikes us an artist we would like to know better, here paired with pianist Julius Katchen.
![“Organ Polychrome” = [TrackList follows] – Jan Kraybill, pipe organ – Reference Recordings](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/OrganPolychrome.jpg)
“Organ Polychrome” = [TrackList follows] – Jan Kraybill, pipe organ – Reference Recordings
A colorful and sonically-impressive 71 minutes with French organ works.
* BERLIOZ: Symphonie fantastique; Waverly Overture – London Sym./ Valery Gergiev – LSO Live (Pure Audio Blu-ray + SACD)
************* MULTICHANNEL DISC OF THE MONTH ************
A stunning interpretation of the fantastique, and a reference-quality recording.
![SIROTA: Celestial Wind [TrackList follows] – Victoria Sirota, organ/ Norman Fischer, cello/ Robert Sirota, piano – Albany](https://www.audaud.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sirotaCelestialWind.jpg)
SIROTA: Celestial Wind [TrackList follows] – Victoria Sirota, organ/ Norman Fischer, cello/ Robert Sirota, piano – Albany
Contemporary organ music well-performed and recorded.
Alexander Brailowsky = MUSSORGSKY: Pictures at an Exhibition; BORODIN: Scherzo in A-flat Major; DEBUSSY: Reflets dans l’eau; CHOPIN: Piano Sonata No. 2 “Funeral March” – Alexander Brailowsky, p. – MeloClassic
In a recital from Paris, 1949, Alexander Brailowsky testifies to his poetic virtuosity, though within certain limits.
Stereotypes Audio
Cembal d’amour
Pure Pleasure / Speakers Corner
Cedille
