Nowowiejski The Baltic Legend

[Alan Howe]

This magnificent-sounding opera is now available here:
http://premiereopera.net/?s=nowowiejski&post_type=product
The whole work can be heard on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6QvHUNDgs

[Martin Eastick]

Thanks Alan - my copy duly ordered!!

[eschiss1]

You wait forever for one disc of Nowowiejski's orchestral music (or opera) and 4 come at once. (Not complaining, at all.)

[Alan Howe]

My copy arrived today. The sound's very good indeed - although there are fairly regular 'blips' which might become annoying on repeated listening. Still, a thoroughly worthwhile investment: although written in 1924, the opera is typical of the composer's earlier rich, late-romantic idiom rather his later, more astringent writing (e.g. Symphonies 2 & 3). And how else is one going to hear the work (apart from on YT, that is)?

[Gareth Vaughan]

Can you explain what you mean by "blips" please, Alan? Are they stage noise, dropouts or just inexplicable clicks - or something else entirely!

[Alan Howe]

More like dropouts, Gareth.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Thanks, Alan. I'm afraid I would find that quite annoying and totally unacceptable on a commercial recording.

[Alan Howe]

...which it isn't, of course. It's essentially a pirate.

[Gareth Vaughan]

Oh, I didn't realise that. Sorry.

[Alan Howe]

With Premiereopera productions you pays yer money and you takes yer choice...