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Post by Wartybliggens October 11, 2015 (4111 of 4131)
Robert, I see on Yevgeni Sudbin's site that he has a new album, but it's not listed on the BIS site. Is it something coming later for wider release? I'm pretty excited to hear him play Medtner solo pieces.

I'm also excited about the Poltera / Dvorák and Martinu album you mentioned. I deeply loved the Walton / Hindemith album. Will this new album feature the same orchestra and conductor?

Martinu wrote a ton of music and while I don't like all of it, some I like very much. I'm glad to see his concerto as a pairing.

Post by bissie October 11, 2015 (4112 of 4131)
diw said:

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What does a star mean?

Robert

Post by bissie October 11, 2015 (4113 of 4131)
Wartybliggens said:

Robert, I see on Yevgeni Sudbin's site that he has a new album, but it's not listed on the BIS site. Is it something coming later for wider release? I'm pretty excited to hear him play Medtner solo pieces.

I'm also excited about the Poltera / Dvorák and Martinu album you mentioned. I deeply loved the Walton / Hindemith album. Will this new album feature the same orchestra and conductor?

Martinu wrote a ton of music and while I don't like all of it, some I like very much. I'm glad to see his concerto as a pairing.

Actually, he has two ready new albums in the pipeline. The Medtner/Rach you are referring to, will be released in early December from us (but rather later from some physical distributors) oncl. a site you all know.

Whereas this is a fantastic SACD, I am afraid that I have to voice my flabbergastedness at what's coming in March - Sudbin's 10th Year Anniversary SACD with BIS, closing the circle (and starting another), with Scarlatti Sonatas II. I have already begun my PR work for this album, which I without hesitation would lump as one of BIS's 5 best albums ever, any category. It is piano playing of a calibre I sincerely doubt has ever been produced by anyone. Stupid words, I know, but I am so in seventh heaven about this that I literally fail to grasp how it is possible to play like this. It isn't technique (although how anyone can play these cascades of notes in pianissimo, like the proverbial pearls on a string defies my understanding), it isn't that he adds quite a few impossible embellishments to already extremely difficult-to-play passages, it is all this together with a musicality and a total control, both mental and manual, of this music. Sibelius famously wrote: "God opened His door, and they were playing my 5th Symphony". Well, this is something in that order, and I am not even religious.
OK, you think, Robert shooting off his mouth again (yawn). Fine, I'm going to prove it.
You write to me at robert at bis.se and I'll send you a couple of random tracks from the first edit, in mp3 but listenable, for free. Then you judge yourselves. Then you tell anyone and everyone.

Best - Robert

Post by bissie October 11, 2015 (4114 of 4131)
Wartybliggens said:

Robert, I see on Yevgeni Sudbin's site that he has a new album, but it's not listed on the BIS site. Is it something coming later for wider release? I'm pretty excited to hear him play Medtner solo pieces.

I'm also excited about the Poltera / Dvorák and Martinu album you mentioned. I deeply loved the Walton / Hindemith album. Will this new album feature the same orchestra and conductor?

Martinu wrote a ton of music and while I don't like all of it, some I like very much. I'm glad to see his concerto as a pairing.

Sorry, forgot about Poltéra.

It is the DSO, Berlin, under Thomas Dausgaard. Martinu I. Excellent.

Robert

Post by diw October 11, 2015 (4115 of 4131)
bissie said:

What does a star mean?

Robert

It means the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra is set to play
Nielsen: Helios, ouverture
Rautavaara: Towards the Horizon
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 7 (Sinfonia Antartica)
next month, And I thought you should record it for a Bis release.

Post by Polarius T October 12, 2015 (4116 of 4131)
bissie said:

You write to me at robert at bis.se and I'll send you a couple of random tracks from the first edit, in mp3 but listenable, for free. Then you judge yourselves.

Thanks but no thanks; I have his first Scarlatti CD, which is awesome, and this second one will be an automatic purchase for me. No prelistening required. I think he is at his very best playing this music, and that is indeed an aweful lot.

Thanks for the heads up and greetings from the West Coast.

Post by Wartybliggens October 12, 2015 (4117 of 4131)
Polarius T said:

Thanks but no thanks; I have his first Scarlatti CD, which is awesome, and this second one will be an automatic purchase for me. No prelistening required. I think he is at his very best playing this music, and that is indeed an aweful lot.

Thanks for the heads up and greetings from the West Coast.

Well I for one wrote to Robert and holy smokes!

Post by Arell October 13, 2015 (4118 of 4131)
The recent BIS SACD of Bach organ works by Masaaki Suzuki is Gramophone's Record of the Month.

Post by wehecht October 13, 2015 (4119 of 4131)
Arell said:

The recent BIS SACD of Bach organ works by Masaaki Suzuki is Gramophone's Record of the Month.

And well deserved, too. The playing and recording are simply gorgeous. Suzuki presents a perfect blend of virtuosity and deep spirituality. If there were only one organ recording to take to the proverbial desert island this would be it.

Post by hiredfox October 15, 2015 (4120 of 4131)
I've long been a mild critic of BIS for not sticking to their DSD guns but in fairness they have bought into the argument that faster sampling rates is a major key to PCM recorded realism and everything has gradually improved over the years. They more than most have brought the concert hall experience into our living rooms even in Stereo so any new disc from them is an event worth waiting for.

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