...forthcoming from cpo:
https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/anton-urspruch-klavierkonzert/hnum/7971898 (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/anton-urspruch-klavierkonzert/hnum/7971898)
A 2 CD set which, I believe, contains an overture and a suite as well as the PC and symphony. Am I right, Alan?
It's certainly a 2-CD set, but I don't know what else it contains.
As my mother would say: "I'm sure it's very nice, if you like that sort of thing, dear". I do like this sort of thing, but not quite so much of it in one helping as both these works serve up. Still, it'll be a must-buy, of course.
I DO like this sort of thing, and I adore this particular thing. Ordered this immediately. Although even for CPO the time it took them to get the symphony to publication must be a record. I've had the radio recording for well over ten years.
I'm with Ilja. Ordered it straight away...
I'm quite happy to be in a minority of one. I shall order it too, I shall enjoy the music, but I'd enjoy both pieces more if Urspruch hadn't been quite so self-indulgent.
Sometime next year of course we shall have another recording of the Urspruch PC, on Hyperion, to compare with this one. Some will doubtless complain about duplication of rare repertoire, but I personally think it is healthy to have more than one interpretation available of a work and I shall almost certainly buy this double CD and the Hyperion when it comes out. As noted elsewhere on this forum the Hyperion disc will couple the Urspruch with the Bronsart PC.
..and I'll be buying the forthcoming Hyperion CD too, for the reasons Gareth gives.
... and I'll be buying it for the Bronsart! ;)
Me too! Bronsart's concerto is a real corker!
Oh, quite so. Me too.
cpo's new release page and specific page for the Urspruch (https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/anton-urspruch-klavierkonzert/hnum/7971898) now mentions this recording as due out... last week (in Germany).
Received the 2Cd-set last Saturday. Brought me a pleasant evening, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms all went along.....
Good recording. The Pianoconcerto was recorded, March 16-19, 2009 and the Symphony December 12-16, 2006!
It's interesting that he was a pupil of Raff. I can hear nothing of his teacher in his music.
It's good to have the CDs. The Symphony comes across so much better than in the copy we have had up till now with its cramped sound. It positively glows! Think of the work - first performed in Wiesbaden in 1881 - as lying somewhere between Brahms 2 (composed 1877) and Dvorak 6 (composed 1880, first performed in Prague in March 1881), with the predominant influence being Brahms.
Personally, I'm smitten!
a peripheral note: today I was on the jpc-cpo website..as you may have seen , they have a hit Chart ranking cd sales: well,the Urspruch is resolutely n.1!
Also, I am personally delighted to see that, even the cd is not that new, the Fuchs 1&2 is still at n.3. I adore Fuchs's music and the 2nd in in my top 5 unsung symphonies.
True. Brahms seems to be a stronger influence.
Now available over Naxos Music Library. Looking forward to hearing. :)
Here's an appreciative review:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Apr/Urspruch_PC_5551942.htm (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Apr/Urspruch_PC_5551942.htm)