Sudbin records Medtner

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Last Friday, Julie and I attended NC Symphony with guest artist pianist Yevgeny Sudbin who played Nikolai Medtner's Piano Concerto No. 2. It was an amazing performance, the performer and composition, orchestra and conductor had a great "moment."

At the public concert there were more mics set up than the usual 4 used for recording the live broadcasts for radio. NC Symphony is a department of State of NC, so the concerts are broadcast for free on last monday of the month, 8pm (streaming) on WUNC. The extra mics were for recording the gig for Swedish record company BIS as reference for an upcoming recording session to follow the next week.

Today I received an interesting email from the Symphony containing a link to notes taken during the recording sessions by the orchestra manager, documenting the events happening during the recording. I found it to be an interesting read, maybe you will too:
http://www.ncsymphony.org/whatsnew/index.cfm?id=43

I noted the mention of Spendor speakers used for monitoring the session.

BIS Records publishes my favorite Beethoven symphony cycle. Sound quality is great. This year the NC Symphony is recording 2 disks. This Medtner Piano Concerto to be released with a Rachmaninoff concerto also played by Sudbin back in January 08. Another CD will contain a hodgepodge of more modern compositions, including the recording premier of American composer Christopher Rouse's "Friandises" - an incredible composition we heard last spring. No recording exists of it now, I was blown away and can't wait to hear it again.

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The new NC Symphony record with the Chistopher Rouse composition I mentioned above is released today 

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGRlP63mzPNC8Be97oF-Le-Je8jgD96JI5P00
http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1419746.html

It is on BIS records, same label as the awesome Beethoven cycle I am always talking about. Fantastic sonics, and hybrid SACD.

Buy it here:
http://www.ncsymphony.org/store/index.cfm?cid=1&pid=196&link=el&trid=33&nl=12

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This record just received Gramophone Editor's Choice!! woohoo!  I have been listening to it a lot, nice recording.  It has Rouse's Friandises, but not the Medtner, which is coming on a separate CD.

Gramophone review...

It also contains the piece played by Branford Marsalis Quartet and orchestra, called "Lions," that I wrote about back in November 2007.

Buy it

Listen

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It's on sale now at ArkiveMusic.com $17, dual layer SACD.