Nereffid's Guide Awards 2011

NereffidNereffid
edited February 2012 in Classical
Finally, finally: The best-reviewed classical albums of 2011

I'll get working on some sort of condensed post for Music Is Good.

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  • MrVMrV
    Wonderful! Thanks for putting this together
  • greggreg
    Thanks for this Nereffid. I am really only now beginning to listen to classical muisc, but this will help me
  • kezkez
    That's great!

    That Bach Easter oratorio album has been on my list to get, but hadn't got around to it yet. Good to have my memory jogged about that one.
  • brittlebloodbrittleblood
    chinese recorder concerto!

    i smell a scandal.
  • DoofyDoofy
    edited February 2012
    Tweeted

    ETA, I got that Stile Antico in Amazon end-of-year sale, really tremendous. Can't wait till next Christmas!
  • DoofyDoofy
    edited February 2012
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  • denverdenver
    Good idea, Doofy. Shared on Facebook.
  • brittlebloodbrittleblood
    @nereffid:

    i'm up for a truly engaging performance of firebird and/or rites of spring. knowing i have a the twin evils of sublime and discord embedded in me craw, what would you recommend?

    clink!
  • NereffidNereffid
    Well, I'm happy with my pairing of the two works from Antal Dorati and the Detroit Symphony (Decca) but I don't think you can get them on a single disc any more. They're part of a cheap 5-disc "Ultimate Russian Classics" (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=225386&album_group=5), which looks like a good set if you're interested in the other music.

    Stravinsky's own recordings from the 1960s are a good bet too, and if you want to go bananas on the composer you can get a 22-disc set that it should be easy to find for less than $35 (http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=175079&album_group=5). There's also a 7-disc set of the ballets but someone on Amazon was complaining about the remastering.

    I know you're a BIS fan, so you might want to check out Andrew Litton's recent recording of the Rite and Petrushka, which got some very high praise from some quarters - though not from everyone, and it was well out of the running in this year's Nereffid's Guide Awards. Actually that's a difficulty with recommending a performance of either Firebird or Rite - there's plenty recordings of each that would make you happy, and asking 50 people for a recommendation will probably give at least 30 different answers.
  • brittlebloodbrittleblood
    huh? - how 'bout this for sync: visiting the "friends of the library" bookstore in the library basement i was fumbling through the music/sheet music section tryiong to find some pulp on violin for the youngest (i've given up on finding anything for viola). fumbling, fumbling, fumbling and what should i find??? kalmus orchestra scores no. 78 igor stravinsky "le sacre du printemps" - not sure if this falls into their "miniature opera scores" series as its 140 pages.

    75 cents.

    but no violin sheet music. gobs for piano.

    there is a version of the rite of spring i picked up back in the day on emu. fireworks. alas, pc died a death at the hands (or feet) of a brutish delivery service. the back-up drive is going to be visited in the weeks ahead and i'll see if it was in the proper back-up category.

    by the way, did this make the 2010 nereffid awards??? angele dubeau + la pieta - arvo part: portrait (7 works of part)
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