Purchases Today

[Harry]

One more CD that is missing from my collection. But I am seriously considering not purchasing any more, regardless of how essential…

Never lie to yourself Paul, not even jokingly.
Essential is essential, I have learned that from my years of collecting.

Back to Haydn SQ, opus 20.

[Mirror Image]

One more CD that is missing from my collection. But I am seriously considering not purchasing any more, regardless of how essential...

Said the man suffering from CDCDCD. You'll love this recording, Paul, no matter when you buy it.

[Wanderer]

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[Octave]

Pounds the table!!! Incredible recording right there. I don't care if it's early Martinu, it's a fine recording that I'm sure you'll enjoy, Octave.

I gotta chime in here. Nipponari and Magic Nights have become two of my favorite orchestral song cycles - I reach for them in a similar mood to when I'm reaching for Ravel's Sheherazade.

Thanks guys, this has been a longstanding GMG-implanted desire; I know you have been championing this one for a while, John, maybe even as a favorite among Martinus?  The aforementioned R-K mood-comparison is enticing.
Eventually I'd like to get a lot more systematic about seeking out 'orchestral songs' pieces.  I was thinking this again while listening to that glittering Sibelius disc w/Soile Isokoski ('Luonnatar' etc, on Ondine).

Thread duty.  I do believe that Name Of The Rozh (or Foster, for that matter) is super fine in Enescu, but pace a forum recommendation from Luke, I decided to go for cheap breadth and get the Arte Nova discs first.

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Enescu: CELLO SONATAS [Zank/Sulzen] (Arte Nova)

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Enescu: SYMPH 2 + ROMANIAN RHAPSODY 2 [Mandeal/Bucharest] (Arte Nova)

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Enescu: SYMPH 3 + CONCERT OVERTURE [Mandeal/Bucharest] (Arte Nova)


Enescu: POEME ROMAIN + VOX MARIS + VOIX DE LA NATURE [Mandeal/Bucharest] (Arte Nova)

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Enescu: ROMANIAN RHAPSODY 1 + SUITES 2/3 [Mandeal/Bucharest] (Arte Nova)

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Enescu: SYMPH 1 + SUITE 1 [Mandeal/Bucharest] (Arte Nova)

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Patrick Hadley & Philip Sainton: by Mattias Bamert w/Philharmonia (Chandos, 2cd)
h/t...vandermolen?

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Bruckner #9 #9 #9 #9 [plus a little Handel] [Rafael "Stanley" Kubelik] (Orfeo)
ht/ Sarge

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Ian Bostridge: 'FIVE IN ONE' [five albums reissued on the cheap] (Warner/EMI, 5cd)
h/t MI and Jens....even if maybe only two of these are strongly recommended (and I was really wanting the Britten/Rattle disc badly), the total here was $10...it just seemed like the way to go.


Haydn: EDITION (Brilliant, 150cd)
Alt. ASINs: B001FY7BFC and B001I4YWGA

h/t Gurn et al, tra-la-la it's madness whoopee

[North Star]

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Ian Bostridge: 'FIVE IN ONE' [five albums reissued on the cheap] (Warner/EMI, 5cd)
h/t MI and Jens....even if maybe only two of these are strongly recommended (and I was really wanting the Britten/Rattle disc badly), the total here was $10...it just seemed like the way to go.

And I'm just now listening to the Britten disc, on Nocturne now. One of my favourite discs of music, for sure.

[Mirror Image]

Thanks guys, this has been a longstanding GMG-implanted desire; I know you have been championing this one for a while, John, maybe even as a favorite among Martinus?

It's certainly one of my favorite Martinu recordings. That's for sure. Gorgeous from start to finish.

[Brian]

Thanks guys, this has been a longstanding GMG-implanted desire; I know you have been championing this one for a while, John, maybe even as a favorite among Martinus?  The aforementioned R-K mood-comparison is enticing.

R-K? Rimsky-Korsakov? Hope you didn't get that idea, I was comparing it to Ravel's Sheherazade. But anyway, I have not listened to the Czech Rhapsody yet, but the two song cycles are, yes, among my very favorite Martinu works, right up there with, probably, the concerto for two violins, the second concerto for one violin, and the symphonies 2-4.

[kyjo]

Awesome haul, Octave! Love the Enescu and Hadley/Sainton recordings, though for the Enescu orchestral works I rather prefer Rozhdestvensky on Chandos.

[madaboutmahler]

Loved my Bruckner 7 listen a few days ago, so snapped up this Chailly recording for 1p plus postage!
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[North Star]

Loved my Bruckner 7 listen a few days ago, so snapped up this Chailly recording for 1p plus postage!

Excellent recording, Daniel! I have it in that superb Chailly box. 

[kishnevi]

Presto:


The Vivaldi has been in my shopping cart ever since reading Annie's enthusiastic arguments in favor of it 

And now, it's time for me to take a nap and change from Black Friday consumer to Black Friday retailer.

[Que]

The Vivaldi has been in my shopping cart ever since reading Annie's enthusiastic arguments in favor of it 

Uuhhhmm, I guess that is a way to remember it.

Anyway, that probably constitutes the best possible recommendation - it is a great set!

Q

[Octave]

R-K? Rimsky-Korsakov? Hope you didn't get that idea, I was comparing it to Ravel's Sheherazade.

Yeah, pretty much right after I stepped away from my computer it occurred to me and  ::facepalm::   
Orientalism breeds a tendency to lumping!  But here I go further and am confusing species.


Duty calls:

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J.S. Bach: CELLO SUITES [Paolo Beschi] (Winter & Winter, 2cd)
h/t HIPster and Sammy

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J.S. Bach: FRENCH/ENGLISH SUITES + TOCCATAS [Blandine Rannou] (ZigZag Territoires, 5cd)
I liked her Goldbergs quite a bit, so these appealed.

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Jacqueline Du Pre: THE COMPLETE EMI RECORDINGS ['THE GREAT RECORDINGS'] (EMI, 5cd)
h/t Gordo iirc

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Beethoven: THE LAST SONATAS [Paul Komen] (Globe)
Graf fortepiano 1830.

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Stravinsky: LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS [Bernstein, 1958] (Sony)

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Frank Martin, Honegger, Schoeck: CELLO CONCERTOS [Christian Poltera] (Bis)

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Miaskovsky: CELLO CONCERTO + SONATAS [Kyrill Rodin] (Arte Nova)
h/t vandermolen?  I'm only getting it for the bare-assed yoga.

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Philip Glass: BROOKLYN RIDER PLAYS [String Quartets 1-5] (Orange Mountain, 2cd)

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Langgaard: STRING QUARTETS VOL. 1 [Nightingale Quartet] (Da Capo)
I thought the symphonies and MUSIC OF THE SPHERES were really impressive, esp. the latter.  Hoping for another angle on the man's sensibility here.

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Schubert: SYMPHONIES [Immerseel w/Anima Eterna Brugge] (Zig Zag Territoires, 4cd)

[Que]

You sure know what to pick, Octave.

Full endorsements for Beschi's Bach, Komen's LvB and Immerseel's Schubert - will curious what you will make of those recordings!

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Loved my Bruckner 7 listen a few days ago, so snapped up this Chailly recording for 1p plus postage!
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My favorite Bruckner 7    I have the original:




Sarge

[The new erato]

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Langgaard: STRING QUARTETS VOL. 1 [Nightingale Quartet] (Da Capo)
I thought the symphonies and MUSIC OF THE SPHERES were really impressive, esp. the latter.  Hoping for another angle on the man's sensibility here.

Vol 1 is superb, and vol 2 is about to be released any day.  You'd better start saving up.

[Fafner]

I was visiting Prague in the last three days and I stopped at Bontonland Mega Store, the largest and possibly the last relevant brick-and-mortar music store in the Czech Republic.
Their prices are generally higher than Amazon's, but it is probably the best place to buy Supraphon recordings.

This is my loot:

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[Karl Henning]

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(* major table-pounding *)

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Frank Martin, Honegger, Schoeck: CELLO CONCERTOS [Christian Poltera] (Bis)

Fantastic recording right there, Octave. I didn't think much of the Schoeck work, but the Martin and Honegger are outstanding.

[Fafner]

(* major table-pounding *)

Indeed.
Ančerl's Má Vlast is, in my opinion, the best recording of the work, period.

And I forgot about this one:

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The last in the series that I was still missing.