That Agrippina recording really is phenomenal. They are on fire in the overture. I was lucky enough to see Joyce DiDonato perform it at The Met earlier this year, shortly before everything shut down. I will have to go through the rest of your recommendations soon!
@AlexMadorsky
3 жыл бұрын
Great list! Here’s hoping for the KOALAs (Keep on Australian Listening Awards), only of Australian Eloquence discs.
@americanmultigenic
3 жыл бұрын
It was in the public library in Blyth, Northumberland, circa 1969-70 when I spotted and borrowed an LP of Raymond Lewenthal playing Alkan, where, on the cover, he looked like Count Dracula (strangely appropriate for his seemingly "supernatural" technical skills evinced). I fell in love with the music, and haven't stopped loving it. I'll definitely buy the new readings of the Symphony & Concerto. I seem to recall, from pulling his works from the university library, that Alkan has a really large output. Has anyone attempted an Alkan "complete works"? I don't recall hearing of one, but you would know, if so, David.
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
Actually his output was not large at all--somewhat similar to Chopin.
@ralphbruce1174
3 жыл бұрын
Louis Lortie is such a great pianist. Thank you.
@Craig_Wheeler
3 жыл бұрын
Oh my!! This was a fun video! I went out and got them all, except for the Lortie/Saint-Saëns disc; I had already purchased that French Piano Concertos box on Brilliant Classics and need to listen to those first. I did end up getting the newest 2-disc set from Paul Wee, playing works by Sigismond Thalberg. Those ought to contain a few barn-burners. Thanks, as always! 👍🎶
@barryguerrero7652
3 жыл бұрын
OMG, that harpsichord thing (work) was really something! That was fun. I really enjoy modern settings for harpsichord. And indeed, that is a gorgeous sounding Dvorak f-minor trio.
@ThePamphili
3 жыл бұрын
David, thank you for doing these awards! That was brilliant.
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@warlock7760
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this great review of the best recording of the year it has been very enriching. Being an admirer of Dvorak myself I was wondering if you would ever consider doing a video about his chamber music output any time in the future since it has such magnificent pieces of music and is not getting the attention it so rightfully deserves? Keep on listening and take care! :)
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
I have done a video already on the quartets and the bagatelles, and of course plan to do more.
@wallacestevens8315
3 жыл бұрын
The Jory Vinikour CD is superb and I'm looking forward to buying Reicha, Shapero and the Dvorak Piano Trios. Any more recommendations for current or new music would be very welcome.
@kimjy7118
3 жыл бұрын
This is a great video! Really enjoyed watching it. I haven't really focusing on new releases, but Faure Quartett's new recording of Faure piano quartets and songs became my new favorite. Beautiful perfomance. Also, I really really enjoyed Frieder Bernius's Lobgesang that I found out from your recommendation. So I was looking for more stuffs about him and found out he had another Mendelssohn recording released this year! Die Walpurgisnacht, one of my favorite Mendelssohn pieces. I really enjoyed this one too. So fresh and new.
@ammcello
3 жыл бұрын
Seriously about the SS... “the 5th is NOT trashy. It is just beautiful. And incredibly imaginative”. Keep spreading those words. Also, let’s bring the 3rd back into the concert hall (when we can actually go into the concert hall... )
@ThankYouKiwi
3 жыл бұрын
So glad you talked about that great Agrippina recording.
@maudia27
3 жыл бұрын
And here we have my "The However Award" suggestion. Long live to KOLA. Saint Saens will be the first. Opera is not my beach (It´s not my cup of tea - in Brazilian Portuguese) Thanks a lot.
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
The KOLA Album of the Year is not any of those ten...it's a surprise.
@erho8607
3 жыл бұрын
@@DavesClassicalGuide Which one?
@pelodelperro
3 жыл бұрын
Great list! The Dvorák was released in 2018 though. You've really been keeping it to yourself...
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Dates are not relevant anymore. I go from when I notice it, not when they make it!
@pelodelperro
3 жыл бұрын
@@DavesClassicalGuide Fair enough!
@tommynielsen7163
3 жыл бұрын
Apart from the immediate entertainment of doing such a round-up, the interesting part of the exercise is to see how well these performances will hold up in the future; how will Aggripina fare against Jacobs’ version? Will we henceforth go to Tingaud in Franck as opposed to say Fournet and the Czech Phil?. How will Vogt and Tetzlaff compare to Suk Trio in the long run? We all remember discs of the past that we considered a revelation only later to wonder what the fuss was all about. Perhaps our ears change as we get older.
@olegroslak852
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Dave. This is much appreciated. I immediately ordered the Lortie and Tingaud disks after watching. Although, I have to say, it's a little disappointing to see that the Bach Cantata Schelp ran out of gas after less than a handful of episodes. :)
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
It has not run out of gas. I said from the start it was going to be an occasional series, like all of them. I can't commit to doing one each and every week and I wanted to do Messiah and Best of the Year this weekend. I should hope that is enough. We'll get back to Bach soon enough. I'm not rushing.
@olegroslak852
3 жыл бұрын
@@DavesClassicalGuide Just kidding, of course. It is a "schlep," after all.
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
@@olegroslak852 Indeed it is.
@davidhickey1182
3 жыл бұрын
JMHO - Though I do acknowledge that both Wee and Hamelin play the Symphony beautifully, I am still looking for a recorded performance of that beautiful first movement that is taken at the more urgent speed of Lewenthal's mid-1960s LP that was my imprint (which also may affect my preference). I don't think Lewenthal was ever appreciated enough for his advocacy and the quality of his playing at his time.
@rbmelk7083
3 жыл бұрын
Is the Tingaud performance your favorite of D’Indy’s Second? I love this piece but have not heard a performance with which I am completely happy. Also, how would characterize this type of symphony, i.e., Franckian but in four movements? Would you consider a video on this topic? I’m thinking, in addition to the D’Indy, Magnard’s symphony cycle (especially the Fourth), Gaubert’s symphony in F, Ropartz’s cycle (except the Third, which is in three movements), Le Flem’s cycle, Vierne’s symphony, and (what I humbly think is the pinnacle) the Biarent d minor symphony, to name a few.
@elenawinellcomposer
3 жыл бұрын
Hi David, your take on contemporary music seems to be sort of all over the place - I can't really pin it down.You've reviewed Messiaen (early Messiaen) and Rautavaara but have also said Schoenberg (even early Schoenberg) "never gets more attractive to listen to", that Kurtág was "of the post-war avant-garde bleep bloop miserable nonsense" and that Thomas Adès' Asyla was "unnecessary" (I consider Adès to be unnecessary because he's too musically conservative but I got a different impression from your take). I'm curious to know your feelings about... say late Messiaen (post-1960) or Ligeti (any period frankly), or Sessions, Grisey, Saariaho, Unsuk Chin, Norgard, Takemitsu, Ustvolskaya, Soper? Are you more in the camp of Tower, Higdon, Gandolfi, Harbison, Glass, and the like? Just curious. Thanks!
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
Keep on viewing and you'll find out. I'm glad you can't pin me down. It means I'm doing my job. And let's now forget, I have also reviewed Crumb, Cage, Feldman Rochberg, Druckman, etc.
@adrianosbrandao
3 жыл бұрын
Ditto on the Saint-Saëns. His concertos are marvelous. The 4th is particularly masterful. It's, like the 3rd Symphony, structured like the Liszt 1st Piano Concerto - but with catchier tunes, maybe? That said - oh, the Nyman concerto. Quite horrific. 99% passagework linking nothing to nowhere, IMHO.
@matthewv789
3 жыл бұрын
Speaking of packaging, any opinion on jewel cases vs digipaks for single cd releases?
@DavesClassicalGuide
3 жыл бұрын
I hate them both? It really depends on how it's done, rather than what they are per se.
@vOCesUGa1
3 жыл бұрын
@@DavesClassicalGuide You think everything should be packaged like ECM.
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