Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[PaulSC]

Looks like you run something of an organ music kick, Karl! Do you know the François Couperin organ masses? They have something in common with the Frescobaldi Fiori that you mentioned in another thread...

[karlhenning]

Looks like you run something of an organ music kick, Karl! . . . .

Yes . . . not sure just why, except it may well be the obvious that, while I was a steady chorister for 10+ years, I took live organ music for granted, where now, I've got to bring it in.  Who knew it should have got so in amongst me?

[karlhenning]

And, curious that you should mention Couperin . . . .

[Mirror Image]

Bought two new releases and some older recordings:

[Mirror Image]

Just bought this rare, OOP recording for $2

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Anyway, it is the following:

Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo, El Sombrero de tres picos
Marilyn Horne
Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez
New York Philharmonic
Sony

[Geo Dude]

I found this through the Beethoven thread.

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[Conor71]

Recieved 2 Discs today (By coincidence I notice Greg has started a thread about the Victoria Requiem ):

[jlaurson]

Actually purchased, since I promised to contribute to Preston's Royalty ("Gin & Tonic") checks.


J.S. Bach, The (core) Organ Works
(Sir) Simon Preston
DG - 14 CDs

Not that I paid the silly price for it that used copies go for on Amazon.com...
Amazon.de has used copies (mine was/is absolutely like new) for 14 Euros.  Looks like the budget re-issue has had its market push-down effect.  Which I suppose makes my contribution to his imbibement rather indirect... but at that price I didn't (and could allow myself not to) care if it wasn't going to be the best set in my collection. And I really did want to have his Toccata & Fugue & BWV582. Not Bach the former, yes yes, but played on the smallish Klais-built Kreizberg Church Concert Organ (Bonn)

[The new erato]

Some small supplements for my collection:

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[karlhenning]

Landed yesterday while I was out:

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[TheGSMoeller]

Recieved 2 Discs today (By coincidence I notice Greg has started a thread about the Victoria Requiem ):

I did, I was a little embarrassed to create it but I was determined to get more info. I had bought the Victoria Requiem the same time I purchased the Morales Requiem, and found many similarities in the pieces. I'm naive when it comes to early sacred music, but that is my new musical journey, and it's a wonderful journey so far.
And the Victoria disc is beautiful.

Here's the thread in case anyone is wondering...
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19230.msg558164.html#msg558164

[karlhenning]

And the Victoria disc is beautiful.

Obligatory, Greg:

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Thread Duty — landed Monday, IIRC:

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[TheGSMoeller]

Obligatory, Greg:!

thanks, Karl.

Also, you know how I feel about Nigel North's Dowland discs  . I would hire Mr. North to sit and perform in my living room all day if I could afford it, great purchase!

[North Star]

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[Brian]

Had an ArkivMusic gift card, so I indulged in their clearance sale. My first CD purchase since June!

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A Sarge Elgar favorite; Charles Munch's Boston Debussy; Tuckwell's Mozart.

[Antoine Marchand]

I have had a NML subscription for several months, but I felt I have never taken fully advantage of this service. But since now this will change with this baby:

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[jlaurson]

I have had a NML suscription for several month, but I felt I have never taken fully advantage of this service. But since now this will change with this baby:

I'm beginning to really love the NML. Not having digitzed my music library (would take too long and is too damn cumbersome, even with awesome [though takes-getting-used-to] classical music player/ripper/tagger/library software like MusiCHI), and traveling tons, I can actually do reviewing and listening pretty much anywhere where WLAN access. If necessary through my phone... like when I'm in the fields at an abbey, comparing the just-heard Muffat with various versions in the NML.

Just what the hell is X-Fi? Sounds like the opposite of Hi-Fi, to be honest.

Restore the details and vibrancy your music and movies lost during compression. X-Fi technology intelligently enhances the highs and lows so you'll hear it all--crisp cymbal crashes, wailing guitar solos, screeching tires and booming explosions

Sounds like a classical music nightmare: First compress the shit out of a file, then "enhance" it to new-found glory? Yikes. From merely reading that, it strikes me as something akin to the equalizer pre-setting or 'surround' settings on boom-boxes. Aside, no need, nowadays, to compress anymore when you're not moving more than 100 ft. away from your computer... just FLAC all the music.

[Holden]

I have had a NML subscription for several months, but I felt I have never taken fully advantage of this service. But since now this will change with this baby:

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I have classicsonline and there are some items I can't fully stream (e.g. the Michelangeli blue and brown box sets) because of supposed copyright issues and I can't get more than 30 seconds of the EMI offerings. Does NML remedy this situation?

[Antoine Marchand]

I'm beginning to really love the NML. Not having digitzed my music library (would take too long and is too damn cumbersome, even with awesome [though takes-getting-used-to] classical music player/ripper/tagger/library software like MusiCHI), and traveling tons, I can actually do reviewing and listening pretty much anywhere where WLAN access. If necessary through my phone... like when I'm in the fields at an abbey, comparing the just-heard Muffat with various versions in the NML.

Just what the hell is X-Fi? Sounds like the opposite of Hi-Fi, to be honest.

Sounds like a classical music nightmare: First compress the shit out of a file, then "enhance" it to new-found glory? Yikes. From merely reading that, it strikes me as something akin to the equalizer pre-setting or 'surround' settings on boom-boxes. Aside, no need, nowadays, to compress anymore when you're not moving more than 100 ft. away from your computer... just FLAC all the music.

Well, actually I also use almost every new device available: Ipod (120 GB), Iphone 4 (to listen to NML via 3G on the street) and this afternoon I have been listening to this Creative device and it sounds fine through my principal system. Although it should be considered that I have a Toshiba laptop with an excellent sound card (but I don't know if this has any importance here) and a Naxos subscription with CD quality, so I think this collaborates too.

[Brian]

I have classicsonline and there are some items I can't fully stream (e.g. the Michelangeli blue and brown box sets) because of supposed copyright issues and I can't get more than 30 seconds of the EMI offerings. Does NML remedy this situation?

This just got half-answered in the NML thread.