Post by Beagle April 10, 2012 (1 of 36)
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Bruckner... whatever.
But Rott? Hans Rott is a real surprise. He was the fellow-student whom Mahler admired (and copied). Hans died young, talented, and insane. This single quartet bulges at the seams with exuberant music (i.e. if he'd lived longer he would have edited and it would be shorter).
What fascinates me is the musical roman à clef which Rott writes into this quartet: The throbbing incipit of Mozart's Dissonanz-Quartett is the departure point, Late Beethoven is echoed several times, and Smetana's 'falling-E' of unfortunate fate returns and returns. There is a code here worthy of Umberto Eco....
--All well-played and beautifully recorded.
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Post by Hitters April 10, 2012 (2 of 36)
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Beagle said:
Bruckner... whatever.
But Rott? Hans Rott is a real surprise. He was the fellow-student whom Mahler admired (and copied). Hans died young, talented, and insane. This single quartet bulges at the seams with exuberant music (i.e. if he'd lived longer he would have edited and it would be shorter).
What fascinates me is the musical roman à clef which Rott writes into this quartet: The throbbing incipit of Mozart's Dissonanz-Quartett is the departure point, Late Beethoven is echoed several times, and Smetana's 'falling-E' of unfortunate fate returns and returns. There is a code here worthy of Umberto Eco....
--All well-played and beautifully recorded.
His only Symphony is actually proto-Mahler. There is an outstanding recording conducted by Segerstam (on BIS, of course).
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Post by Fugue April 10, 2012 (3 of 36)
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Stereo or multichannel?
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Love him or hate him, but don't 'whatever' Bruckner....
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Post by tream July 25, 2012 (5 of 36)
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Just ordered this based on a highly favorable review in Fanfare by a reviewer I trust based performance, sound and quality of music(both pieces, although the reviewer stated that this early Bruckner is Bruckner before he became BRUCKNER - predates the symphonies-reminded him of Mozart, Haydn, and Mendelssohn).
It would terrific if we could get an SACD of Bruckner's Quintet, which apparently was composed about the time of the 5th Symphony.
With respect to Rott's symphony - John Marks, in Stereophile, recently wrote an interesting article about ten unusual symphonic works that we should hear. For me the most intriguing was the Rott Symphony, and yes, he recommended the Segerstam performance on Bis....RBCD, I am afraid.
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Post by krisjan July 25, 2012 (6 of 36)
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I read somewhere (don't remember where) that the SACD releases on the Quintone label do not have a stereo SACD layer (just multichannel and RBCD stereo). Can someone determine if this disc has an SACD stereo layer?
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Post by Naun July 25, 2012 (7 of 36)
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Be warned that current production copies of Quintone titles appear NOT to be SACDs, even though they retain the same catalogue numbers and barcodes as SACDs previously issued by this company. See thread /showthread/83769//y?page=first.
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Post by tream July 25, 2012 (8 of 36)
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Naun said:
Be warned that current production copies of Quintone titles appear NOT to be SACDs, even though they retain the same catalogue numbers and barcodes as SACDs previously issued by this company. See thread /showthread/83769//y?page=first.
Ouch...Amazon.com claims this to be an SACD. Guess I will find out in a couple of days.
Tom
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tream said:
It would terrific if we could get an SACD of Bruckner's Quintet, which apparently was composed about the time of the 5th Symphony.
On its way in September or thereabouts, from Linn.
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Post by tream July 25, 2012 (10 of 36)
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nucaleena said:
On its way in September or thereabouts, from Linn.
Thanks, Paul - where did you learn this? Curious about the artists involved.
Tom
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