:'( all this uninteresting british stuff - where are the new Mahler, Bruckner, Sibelius, Shostakovich etc. cycles ?????????????
Hehe. We need at least another four Beethoven cycles played on modern, future, period and faux-period instruments. Then there's always room for a few more Schumann cycles re-imagined respectively for piano seven-and-a-half-hands, kitchen utensils and swanee whistle. Tchaikovsky No.1 and Grieg played by a blind-folded chimpanzee accompanied by Gergiev or Pappano and a top-flight orchestra would get my vote as well...
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You can always contribute to our fundraiser to record the first integral of Mahler symphonies on bagpipe orchestra. Our arranger, Max Richter, had to transpose them all into the key of B-flat, but I don't think anyone will begrudge us that liberty when they hear the strains of the Todtenfeier ringing out across the Scottish countryside, or the tasteful drum machine that now accompanies the 'Resurrection' chorus...
Our next project after that comes from eccentric old maestro Hans Apfelküchen who, after exhaustive study of the Bruckner symphonies, has concluded that the composer actually meant for them to be played approximately five times as slowly as they generally are. The first release in this series will be a 7-CD set containing the Symphony No. 6 (we regret that due to length the first, second and fourth movements had to be split across CDs) and a small quantity of cannabis.
