Two more Kalivoda symphonies from cpo

[Alan Howe]

Friends can sample the new cpo CD here:
http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/cpo/detail/-/art/Jan-Vaclav-Kalivoda-Symphonien-Nr-2-4/hnum/5706550

[edurban]

Hurwitz really blasted the performances on the new cpo recording.

http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=12963 

Anybody here heard them in full?

David

[khorovod]

Funnily enough two of the Amazon reviews (on the British Amazon website) of the first CPO, Kalliwoda cd refer to the performances in the same sort of terms as Hurwitz does to this new one. A third one raves about the orchestra. I suppose they are not proffessional reviews when all is said and done though. The new cd isn't listed at all though on the British or American Amazon, unless I'm missing something.

[eschiss1]

Funnily enough two of the Amazon reviews (on the British Amazon website) of the first CPO, Kalliwoda cd refer to the performances in the same sort of terms as Hurwitz does to this new one. A third one raves about the orchestra. I suppose they are not proffessional reviews when all is said and done though. The new cd isn't listed at all though on the British or American Amazon, unless I'm missing something.

Well, Hurwitz is "professional" in the sense that this is his profession- true. All other implications should be treated carefully.
It's on amazon.ca , to my surprise, but not British, French or US, true. Nor yet MDT it seems... (ah, Spering isn't conducting this one, I skipped over that detail. Willens/Köln-Akademie.)
Eric

[eschiss1]

btw the full score to overture 17 op242 (the one on the new recording) is now on IMSLP - see http://imslp.org/wiki/Overture_No.17,_Op.242_(Kalliwoda,_Johann_Wenzel).
Eric

[Alan Howe]

It's period-instruments, so it's hardly surprising that Hurwitz doesn't like it. In my view it's a perfectly good CD - and well worth buying. I thoroughly enjoyed it - while wondering what the symphonies would sound like done by say, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra or the BPO as conducted by Abbado or Rattle. One can dream...

[eschiss1]

It's period-instruments, so it's hardly surprising that Hurwitz doesn't like it. In my view it's a perfectly good CD - and well worth buying. I thoroughly enjoyed it - while wondering what the symphonies would sound like done by say, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra or the BPO as conducted by Abbado or Rattle. One can dream...

Chamber orchestra might have been against the composer's intentions in the overture, at least- if too chamber (What period are the period instruments from? )
Eric

[Alan Howe]

The MCO can be a pretty beefy band of its type - so no problem with Kalivoda...