Gunther Schuller's "Gurrelieder"

[Larry Kart]

Just checked out some of this on Spotify, and my gosh! My go-to "Gurrelieder" before was Chailly, but what I heard of this one was stunning. Anyone know it?

[HutchFan]

I had no idea that Schuller had recorded it. (I'm most familiar with the Craft/Philharmonia version.)

I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the heads-up.

Edited May 23, 2015 by HutchFan

[JSngry]

This one, I presume?

http://www.gmrecordings.com/gm2078.htm

[Larry Kart]

This one, I presume?

http://www.gmrecordings.com/gm2078.htm

Yes. I'm waiting to pull the trigger until I get two CDs I ordered from GM about two weeks ago -- Gunther's Rite of Spring and his Berg Chamber Concerto, and a Pierrot Lunaire (conducted by someone else) and Gunther's Stravinsky Octet.The Rite and the the Berg I've heard very good things about (the Berg has Rudolf Kolisch on violin, Russell Sherman on piano); the Pierrot I've sample don Spotify and Phyllis Bryn-Julson seems to have a unique fix on the sprechstimme that (for once) sounds just right to me, while the Octet is kind of an obsession of mine.