Listening to in Dolby Atmos Streaming [Classical edition]

[mkt]

A gramophone editor's choice. "Produced with great care, this set from Pentatone gathers together our new Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Tilson Thomas’s work as a composer, a perfect tribute in his 80th year."
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/grace-the-music-of-michael-tilson-thomas

 

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A gramophone editor's choice. "Produced with great care, this set from Pentatone gathers together our new Lifetime Achievement Award winner Michael Tilson Thomas’s work as a composer, a perfect tribute in his 80th year."
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/review/grace-the-music-of-michael-tilson-thomas

I still haven't listened, though I'm looking forward to it. From this morning's Pentatone newsletter:

Michael Tilson Thomas received the highly esteemed Lifetime Achievement Award, acknowledging his decades of extraordinary contributions to classical music. In his acceptance speech, he spoke warmly of his career and the personal significance of his works. To mark this achievement, we’ve just released a deluxe box set featuring nearly 5 hours of his most intimate compositions: GRACE: The Music of Michael Tilson Thomas.​

 

[humprof]

So the latest post on (classically trained) jazz pianist Ethan Iverson's Substack is an interview with Gene Gaudette, the founder & label head of Urlicht AudioVisual, which is issuing Iverson's next album (Playfair Sonatas--with a cover by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast!). Gaudette has an enviable history in the industry, including at least a couple of brushes with surround. At BMG, he prepared the reissue of Virgil Fox's Heavy Organ at Carnegie Hall in Dolby Surround (originally released in quad on CD4 and R2R in 1973--calling Michael Dutton!); later he produced the release of Miranda Cuckson's recording of Luigi Nono's La Lontananza Nostalgica Utopica Futura, issued on Blu-Ray with a 5.1 mix (a New York Times "Best Recording of 2012").

Gaudette's shortlist of reference recordings includes several surround mixes, among them Trio Mediæval's An Old Hall Ladymass on 2L:

 

[mkt]

Another one from that shortlist streaming in atmos which I had not bumped into before.

 

[humprof]

Here's one for the Ives sesquicentennial:

 

[humprof]

This one was truly fabulous in 5.1:

 

[mkt]

Some text here
https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/atlas-of-deep-time
Mixing and immersive mastering: Nathaniel Reichman

 

[mkt]

The first streaming Beethoven quartets in atmos? Impossible to say

 

[mkt]

More quartet material. I am liking the sound of this one from 25 years ago

A review of the complete cycle http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2000/june00/dschq.htm

 

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I donno how I managed to miss this one when it appeared earlier this year: Gothenburg Symphony performing works by young, mainly Nordic composers, including a couple who typically show up on labels like 2L and Sono Luminus, namely: Maya S.K. Ratkje and Daniel Bjarnason--but also the Tokyo-born Danish transplant Miho Hazama, who leads (and writes for) her own forward-thinking jazz orchestra, m_unit, as well as directing the Danish Radio Big Band. This is a fabulous album with a very active mix by Lars Nilsson--maybe just a half-tick below the level of the work of a Morten Lindberg or a Daniel Shores.

https://www.gso.se/en/project-nordic-a-fragile-hope/

I also somehow missed the fact that it's available to download at IAA!
https://immersiveaudioalbum.com/pro...ny-orchestra-christian-karlsen-atmos-mkv-mp4/

 

[mkt]

"Deutsche Grammophon celebrates the rediscovery of an early Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart work by digitally releasing three world premiere recordings, each a different version of the 12-minute composition.

Referred to as “A Very Little Night Music”, the Serenade in C K 648 for two violins and bass is a previously unknown piece of music that was discovered by researchers of the International Mozarteum Foundation in the Carl Ferdinand Becker collection of the Municipal Music Library in Leipzig, Germany, while compiling the latest edition of the Köchel catalogue, the authoritative survey of Mozart’s oeuvre. Composed by Mozart when he was in his early teens, the piece dates back to the mid to late 1760s and consists of seven miniature movements for string trio. It was introduced to the public on 19 September 2024 by the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg which oversaw the research and authentification under the direction of Dr. Ulrich Leisinger."
https://www.deutschegrammophon.com/...sic-with-three-world-premiere-releases-274179
Two versions in atmos

 

[humprof]

Kleiber conducts Schubert. (I can't remember: was this one of the original Kleiber quads?)

 

[mkt]

Keep classical weird

https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SIGCD701#SIGCD701_1_1

 

[humprof]

Some text here
https://cantaloupemusic.com/albums/atlas-of-deep-time
Mixing and immersive mastering: Nathaniel Reichman

Joshua Barone's pick for the latest installment of the Times's "5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen To Right Now." I'm out of "gift" articles for the moment, so if you're not a subscriber and have already exceeded your monthly quota of free reads, you're out of luck.

Suffice to say Barone is impressed, calling it "an awe-inspiring experience through headphones [my emphasis] that mightily conjures the scale and tectonic force of Adams’s ambition." He also demurs that "Atlas is written for large orchestra and six scattered instrumental choirs, a theatrical and acoustic element that doesn’t translate on disc." I think that's a bit unfair. The engineer, Nathaniel Reichman, has said that this "wasn’t an easy one to record or mix"--but I think he did a heroic job. I don’t know that I can place each instrumental choir emanating discretely from a specific point in the room (or even that it would be possible to do that with a live recording in a symphony hall), but for my tastes, the balance is still "directional" enough to be satisfying but not so much so as to be distracting.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/arts/music/classical-music-albums-october.html

 

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Peter Margasak's choices for the October 2024 edition of "Best Contemporary Classical Music on Bandcamp" include at least one title with a streaming Atmos mix, namely: John Luther Adams's An Atlas of Deep Time.
https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-con...best-classical-music-on-bandcamp-october-2024