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Munich Philharmonic Launches Its Own Record Label - The Munich Philharmonic and its music director - Valery Gergiev - will release its first two albums on its own new label on Sep. 30th. They will be Mahler's Symphony No. 2 and Bruckner's Symphony No. 4.
Wow, more Mahler and Bruckner.
Who knew?
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Just what we need! - Not!
I mean, I generally like Gergiev's recordings, but, even as much as I like the standard repertoire and Gergiev, I can't work up much enthusiasm for yet another Mahler Resurrection and Bruckner Romantic.
OTOH, if he started another Glazunov symphony cycle (or, better yet, started another Maximilian Steinberg symphony cycle - which would only take 2 discs!), I'd be whooping it up!
we have Naxos for that. That label is the king of non-standard repertoire, from minor 18th, 19th and early 20th century composers to contemporary music of all stripes (though some other small labels have begun to follow their path). I get no small satisfaction from seeing their catalog mushroom as the former so-called major labels, with their obsession with major stars, big-name orchestras and conductors and standard repertoire, merge out of existence or fold outright.
In the early days of internet discussion groups, I was still arguing in favor of the Naxos approach, but at the risk of sounding smug, I think this debate has been over for a while.
After all, who issued the EXISTING set of the Maximilian Steinberg Symphonies? Answer:
EDIT: Oops! Steinberg actually wrote FIVE symphonies (the last, "on Uzbek themes", as late as 1942). So the Jarvi/Goteborg set is by no means complete. Naxos - where are you? ;-)
SECOND EDIT: And of course, we have the majors (mostly) to thank for providing the platform for the latest babe musicians off the assembly line. Yuja, Lisa, J-Fi, JJ, Nicola, Akiko. . . on major labels all! ;-)
Edits: 07/22/16 07/22/16
Looks like Naxos has released Steinberg's Passion Week but not the symphonies (yet). They do have a Glazunov symphony set, in fact it looks like they have his complete orchestral works in their catalog.
The babes on the major labels tend to do a lot of standard repertoire, but I don't blame the babes for that, I blame the major labels. ;-)
I think it's coming out in August and there's a very good excerpt with the same performers (The Clarion Choir) on uTube. Strange that the Capella Romana recording (the premiere recording of the work) which I was raving about last year is going to be having competition so soon. It would be wonderful if the Naxos recording were available in some kind of hi-rez multi-channel platform, but I'd be satisfied with just hi-rez 2-channel.
Regarding the Glazunov Symphonies (and other Glazunov works), the Naxos recordings are pretty variable (I have some of them), and generally not up to the level of the Jarvi and Serebrier recordings (IMHO), not to mention individual recordings, such as the Sinaisky/BBC 24/96 download of the Fifth (which used to be available at The Classical Shop, although I can't find it there right now), or the Simonov lower-than-CD-rez recording of the Eighth.
And I didn't mean to suggest the Naxos issues are always the superior versions. But they've been successful at making generally high quality recordings of a lot of worthy and never- or seldom-recorded material. And they have proved there is a better approach than slavishly focusing on standard repertoire and major star performers.
And in Hi-Res.
I'll check out Naxos.
Especially Seattle!
Varese, Mason Bates and John Adams.
John Luther Adams, that is.
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"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
Chris, you recall when we met Jared Sacks in Oakland - I asked him why all of the Fischer releases were of standard repertoire, and some of us didn't really need another Beethoven or Brahms, or Mahler or Bruckner symphony recording, even if we enjoyed the few of the Fischer releases we heard. He acknowledged that, but stated that HE needed them - I guess the existence of such a catalog made a huge impact, relatively speaking, on his overall sales. It seems that the next recording of a standard piece is much more likely to sell than something more esoteric. Disappointing but true.
. . . although Jared does release the more esoteric stuff too - just not so much with the Fischer and the BFO! ;-)
...and I'll take a fresh Myaskovsky symphonies cycle please!
. . . made a transcription for piano four-hands of Steinberg's Symphony No. 3? (Per my post above, I haven't heard either the original or Myaskovsky's transcription.) But, amazingly enough, I'm listening right now, for the very first time, to Steinberg's 1933 Symphony No. 4 (conducted by Alexander Vedernikov), courtesy of uTube. It depicts a journey on the Turkestan-Siberian railroad, completed in 1930.
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