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[Pat B]

Will someone please listen to the sample clips for Carmignola's Bach concertos and tell me if I'm deluded for thinking that he makes them all sound a whole lot like Vivaldi?

Those samples remind me of Il Giardino Armonico's Handel, which some people say sounds like Vivaldi. For the VCs on PI I have Mackintosh-Wallfisch. Samples of a bunch of others have not convinced me to start collecting alternate versions. (On MI have Grumiaux but have always found it too lush.) This one sounds different enough that I might indulge.

Any recommendations on the Ukraine series?

[Moonfish]

Decca: Wiener Philharmoniker - The Orchestral Edition

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France
http://www.amazon.fr/Wiener-Philharmoniker-Orchestral-%C3%89dition-Coffret/dp/B00M8PBQT4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413793960&sr=8-1&keywords=B00M8PBQT4

Italy
http://www.amazon.it/gp/product/B00M8PBQT4/ref=s9_simh_gw_p15_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=A11IL2PNWYJU7H&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=11QDKYBK59A6CK6WEG9Z&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=451015207&pf_rd_i=426865031

"Product Description
A luxurious and authoritative 64CD orchestral and concerto set, celebrating one of the world's great orchestras and their 64-year relationship with Decca Classics.

OVERVIEW
Few labels can claim to be so associated with a city as inextricably as Decca is with Vienna.   No history of classical recordings would be complete without a chapter documenting how both Decca and the WP worked to perfect the art of recording in the city's great concert halls, most notably in the famous Sofiensaal.

THE SET
Includes three complete symphonic cycles: BEETHOVEN – Monteux, Kleiber, Schmidt-Isserstedt, Solti, Abbado / BRAHMS – Mehta, Schuricht, Böhm, Kertesz / BRUCKNER – Mehta, Abbado, Solti, Stein, Maazel, Böhm (this is WP's only complete Bruckner cycle, recorded 1965-1974)
FEATURING: Abbado, Bernstein, Boskovsky, Boult, Bohm, Chailly, Dohnányi, Dorati, Haitink, Karajan, Kertesz, Kondrashin, Khachaturian, Kleiber, Knappertsbusch, Krauss, Krips, Kubelik, Maazel, Mehta, Monteux , Münchinger, Reiner, Schmidt-Isserstedt, Schuricht, Stein, Solti, Szell, Walter,
Gulda, Backhaus, Curzon, Ashkenazy, Schiff

CONTENTS
CD 1 HAYDN:Symphonies Nos.94, 101 & 104
Wiener Philharmoniker / Pierre Monteux / Herbert von Karajan*
CD 2 HAYDN: Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo*
Die Schöpfung (Part 1)
CD 3 HAYDN: Tracks 1-7: Die Schöpfung Part II 
Erna Spoorenberg soprano (Eva) / Elly Ameling soprano (Gabriel) / Werner Krenn tenor (Uriel) / Tom Krause, baritone (Raphael) / Robin Fairhurst, bass (Adam) / Peter Planyavsky, organ* / Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Münchinger
 
CD 4 MOZART: Piano Concerto No.15 in B flat major, K450
Symphony No.36 in C major, K425 "Linz"
Leonard Bernstein, pianist and conductor / Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 5 MOZART: Piano Concerto No.23 & No.27
Clifford Curzon, piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / George Szell
CD 6 MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622
Flute and Harp Concerto in C major, K299
Symphony No.40 in G minor, K550*
Alfred Prinz, clarinet / Werner Tripp, flute / Hubert Jellinek, harp / Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Münchinger / Herbert von Karajan*
CD 7 MOZART Requiem, K626
Arleen Auger, soprano / Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano / Vinson Cole, tenor / René Pape, bass / Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti

CD 8 BEETHOVEN:Symphonies Nos.1 & 6 "Pastoral"
Wiener Philharmoniker / Pierre Monteux
CD 9 BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos.2 & 4
Wiener Philharmoniker / Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
CD 10 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.3 "Eroica"
Leonora Overture Nos.2 & 3, Fidelio Overture, op.72*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Erich Kleiber / Clemens Krauss*
CD 11 BEETHOVEN: Symphonies Nos.5 & 7
Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti
CD 12 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.8 in F major, op.93
BRUCKNER: Symphony No.1 in C minor
Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado
CD 13 BEETHOVEN: Symphony No.9
Joan Sutherland, soprano / Marilyn Horne, contralto / James King, tenor / Martti Talvela, bass / Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker / Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
CD 14 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.1
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor, op.15*
Friedrich Gulda, piano / Wilhelm Backhaus,* piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm
CD 15 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.2
BRAHMS: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major, op.83*
Vladimir Ashkenazy, piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Zubin Mehta / Bernard Haitink*
CD 16 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.3 & No.4
Friedrich Gulda, piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Horst Stein
CD 17 BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, op.73 "Emperor"
TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, op.23*
Clifford Curzon, piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Hans Knappertsbusch /
Sir Georg Solti*
CD 18 BEETHOVEN: String Quartet in F minor, op.95 (Arr. Mahler)
BRAHMS: Tracks 5-8: Piano Quartet in G minor, op.25 (Orch. Arnold Schoenberg*)
Wiener Philharmoniker / Christoph von Dohnányi
CD 19 BEETHOVEN: Complete incidental music to Egmont, op.84
SCHUBERT: Symphony No.8 in B minor, D759 "Unfinished"*
Pilar Lorengar, soprano / Klaus-Jürgen Wussow, narrator / Wiener Philharmoniker / George Szell / Josef Krips*

CD 20 SCHUBERT: Rosamunde, Fürstin von Zypern, D797
WEBER: Preciosa — Ouvertüre, op.78ª, J279   
SCHUMANN: Genoveva — Ouvertüre, op.81ª   
CHERUBINI: Anacréon — Ouvertüreª     
Rohangiz Yachmi, contralto* / Wiener Staatsopernchorº /
Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Münchinger


CD 21 SCHUBERT: Symphony No.9 in C major, "Great", D944
MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No.4 in A major, op.90 "Italian"*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti

CD 22 MENDELSSOHN: Symphony No.3 in A minor, op.56 "Scottish"*
Athalie, op.74 & Die erste Walpurgisnacht, op.60
Margarita Lilowa, mezzo-soprano / Horst Laubenthal, tenor / Tom Krause, baritone / Alfred Sramek, bass / Wiener Singverein / Wiener Philharmoniker /
Christoph von Dohnányi

CD 23 SCHUMANN:
Overture, Scherzo and Finale, op.52
Symphony No.1 in B flat major, op.38 "Spring"
Symphony No.2 in C major, op.61*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti

CD 24 BRAHMS: Symphony No.1 in C minor, op.68
Tragic Overture, op.81º     
WAGNER: Parsifal — Prelude* (Act One)   
Wiener Philharmoniker / Zubin Mehta
CD 25 BRAHMS: Symphony No.2 in D major, op.73*
Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major, op.83
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Carl Schuricht
CD 26 BRAHMS: Symphony No.3 in F major, op.90
STRAUSS: Vier letzte Lieder, AV150*
WEBER: Overtures – Preciosa / Oberon / Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn
Lisa Della Casa, soprano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm
CD 27 BRAHMS: Symphony No.4 in E minor, op.98
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn, op.56a*
SCHUBERT: Symphony No.5 in B flat major, D845º
Wiener Philharmoniker / István Kertész
*Following Kertész's death on 16 April 1973 this was completed without a conductor on 14 May 1973
CD 28 BRAHMS: Hungarian Dances
DVORAK: Slavonic Dances
STRAUSS: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, op.28* & Tod und Verklärung, op.24ª
Wiener Philharmoniker / Fritz Reiner

CD 29 SMETANA: Má vlast
Wiener Philharmoniker / Rafael Kubelík

CD 30 DVORAK: Symphony No.9 in E minor, op.95 "From the New World"
Wiener Philharmoniker / István Kertész / Kirill Kondrashin [5]-[8]

CD 31 BRUCKNER: Symphony No.2 in C minor (1872 Haas edition)
WEBER: Euryanthe — Ouvertüre, J291* & Aufforderung zum Tanz, Op.65, J260*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Horst Stein
CD 32-33 BRUCKNER: Symphony No.3 & No.4 "Romantic"
Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm

CD 34 BRUCKNER: Symphony No.5 in B flat major
Wiener Philharmoniker / Lorin Maazel
CD 35 BRUCKNER: Symphony No.6 in A major
WEBER: Der Beherrscher der Geister — Ouvertüre, op.27, J122*
Abu Hassan — Ouvertüre, J106*     
Wiener Philharmoniker / Horst Stein
CD 36-37 BRUCKNER: Symphony No.7 & No.8 
Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti
CD 38 BRUCKNER: Symphony No.9 in D minor
LISZT: Les Préludes, Symphonic Poem No.3, S.97* 
Wiener Philharmoniker / Zubin Mehta

CD 39 SCHMIDT: Symphony No.4 in C major
Philadelphia Symphony, op.28*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Zubin Mehta

CD 40 SIBELIUS: Symphony No.4 in A minor, op.63
Symphony No.7 in C major, op.105* & Tapiola, op.112   
Wiener Philharmoniker / Lorin Maazel

CD 41 TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.4 in F minor, op.36
Suite No.3 in G major, op.55*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Lorin Maazel
     
CD 42 TCHAIKOVSKY: Swan Lake, op.20 — Suite
The Nutcracker, op.71a — Suite
The Sleeping Beauty, op.66 — Suite  Dornröschen
Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 43 ADAM: Gieselle - Acte un
Giselle - Acte deux
J STRAUSS II: Die Fledermaus — ballet music*   
VERDI: Otello — ballet musicº     
Josef Sivo, violin solo / Emanuel Brabec, cello solo / Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 44 VIENNA HOLIDAY
Wiener Philharmoniker / Hans Knappertsbusch
CD 45 NEW YEAR CONCERT 1951 
Hilde Gueden, soprano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Clemens Krauss / Josef Krips*
CD 46 OVERTURES OF OLD VIENNA
Wiener Philharmoniker / Willi Boskovsky

CD 47 JOHANN STRAUSS II 
Champagner-Polka; Wiener Blut; Neue Pizzicato-Polka;
Liebeslieder, op.114
JOSEF STRAUSS: Heiterer Muth — Polka française, op.281 
JOHANN STRAUSS II: Explosionen Polka, op.43 / Wiener Bonbons, op.307  / Persischer Marsch, op.289 / Waldmeister — Ouvertüre
Bonus tracks
Anton Karas zither / Wiener Philharmoniker / Willi Boskovsky

CD 48 NEW YEAR CONCERT 1979
Wiener Philharmoniker / Willi Boskovsky

CD 49 VERDI: Requiem
Joan Sutherland, soprano / Marilyn Horne, contralto / Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Martti Talvela, bass / Wiener Staatsopernchor / Wiener Philharmoniker /
Sir Georg Solti

CD 50 WAGNER: Overtures
Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde* / Wiener Sängerknabenº / Members of the Wiener Philharmonikerª / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti
CD 51 WAGNER:Wesendonk-Lieder
Lohengrin — Einsam in trüben Tagen   
Parsifal — Ich sah das Kind an seiner Mutter Brust
Die Walküre — Du bist der Lenz   
MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder & Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Kirsten Flagstad, soprano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Adrian Boult (Mahler) /
Hans Knappertsbusch (Wagner)

CD 52 MAHLER: Symphony No.2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Ileana Cotrubas, soprano / Christa Ludwig, contralto / Wiener Staatsopernchor /  Wiener Philharmoniker / Zubin Mehta
CD 53 MAHLER: Das Lied von der Erde & Rückert-Lieder
Kathleen Ferrier, contralto / Julius Patzak, tenor / Wiener Philharmoniker /
Bruno Walter
CD 54 MAHLER: The Song of the Earth
James King, tenor / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone / Wiener Philharmoniker /
Leonard Bernstein

CD 55 HOLST: The Planets
R STRAUSS: Also sprach Zarathustra, op.30
Damen des Wiener Staatsopernchors* / Wiener Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan

CD 56 R STRAUSS: Don Quixote, op.35* & Aus Italien, op.16 Symphonic Fantasy
Pierre Fournier, cello / Ernst Morawec, viola / Wiener Philharmoniker / Clemens Krauss
CD 57 R STRAUSS: Sinfonia domestica, op.53 & Le Bourgeois gentilhomme — Suite, op.60*
Wiener Philharmoniker / Clemens Krauss
CD 58 R STRAUSS: Ein Heldenleben, op.40 & Vier letzte Lieder, AV150
Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti

CD 59 DVORAK: Piano Concerto in G minor, Op.33, B63º
BARTÓK: Two Portraits, Op.5, Sz37* & The Miraculous Mandarin, Sz73 (complete ballet)
Erich Binder, violin* / András Schiff, piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Chor der Wiener Staatsoper / Christoph von Dohnányi

CD 60 SCHOENBERG: 6 Orchester-Lieder, op.8
BERG: Symphonic Pieces from the opera Lulu (Lulu Suite)*
R STRAUSS: Salome, op.54 
Anja Silja, soprano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Christoph von Dohnányi

CD 61 JANÁCEK: Sinfonietta & Taras Bulba - Rhapsody after Gogol
Orchestral Suite* (from The Cunning Little Vixen, arr. Václav Talich)
Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Charles Mackerras
CD 62 JANÁCEK: Msa glagolskaja (Glagolitic Mass)*
ZEMLINKSKY:Psalm 83   
KORNGOLD: Passover Psalm, op.30º   
Eva Urbanová, soprano*º / Marta Benacková, mezzo-soprano* / Vladimir Bogachov, tenor*, Richard Novák, bass* / Thomas Trotter, organ* / Slovak Philharmonic Choir / Wiener Philharmoniker / Riccardo Chailly

CD 63 KHACHATURIAN: Spartacus — excerpts & Gayaneh — excerpts
J STRAUSS II: Kadettenball  Graduation Ball* (arr. Antal Dorati)
Wiener Philharmoniker / Aram Khachaturian / Willi Boskovsky*

CD 64 KODÁLY: Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song
Variations on a theme of Paganini, op.26   
ELGAR: Variations on an Original Theme, op.36 "Enigma"
Wiener Philharmoniker / Sir Georg Solti

BONUS CD KHACHATURIAN:  Symphony No. 2
LEIMER: Piano Concerto no.4*
Kurt Leimer, piano / Wiener Philharmoniker / Aram Khachaturian / Robert Wagner*"

[North Star]

Hmm
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[Mandryka]

http://www.musicandarts.com/1114_New_Class.html

Does anyone know anything about these recordings? Anyone heard them?

[Mandryka]

More goodies!



Pierre Hantaï

Chorale Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV691
Fantaisie en la mineur BWV944
Suite anglaise n°2 en la mineur BWV807
Chorale Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten BWV690
Chorale Jesus, meine Zuversicht BWV728
Concerto italien en fa majeur BWV971
Chorale Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV706
Suite anglaise n°6 en ré mineur BWV811

I heard Hantaï play all the English suites earlier this year, superbly. I'm a bit surprised that he only released two of them. This will be worth having I'm sure.

[torut]

I'm very excited about this new Morton Feldman CD, recorded mainly by John Tilbury for Another Timbre label, coming out next month.


http://www.anothertimbre.com/feldmanpiano.html

The youtube extract of Two Pianos is strikingly serene and beautiful. Thank you for the info. I much prefer Feldman's piano works to his compositions for other instruments.

[The new erato]

This:

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Though the price isn't great yet:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MG8V7MY/ref=pe_940330_125734920_em_1p_0_im

[Mookalafalas]

This:

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Though the price isn't great yet:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00MG8V7MY/ref=pe_940330_125734920_em_1p_0_im

It's already in the $120 range at some places. Moonfish already ordered a box for a bit less than that, I think.  My shop has it for just over $100.

[The new erato]

But is it worth getting musically?

[Mookalafalas]

But is it worth getting musically?

Oh, that's a different question altogether. Maybe you should ask in the "thinking about buying thread"? 

[Moonfish]

But is it worth getting musically?

It depends on how many glasses of Cabernet you have while listening...     

[Ken B]

Posted before but now just days away ... I got mine preordered from Amazon UK at half what they are asking for now, so the price must drop fairly soon.

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[Moonfish]

Posted before but now just days away ... I got mine preordered from Amazon UK at half what they are asking for now, so the price must drop fairly soon.

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[Mookalafalas]

So, Moonfish, you gonna get this:
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while waiting for this?
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  I mean, if he's good with the New York Symphony orchestra, he must be amazing with the Weiner Philharmoniker, right? 

[Moonfish]

So, Moonfish, you gonna get this:
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while waiting for this?
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  I mean, if he's good with the New York Symphony orchestra, he must be amazing with the Weiner Philharmoniker, right? 

I am JUST thinking about the DG one! I claim innocence. 

[Mookalafalas]

I am JUST thinking about the DG one! I claim innocence. 

Sorry, I don't mean to tempt you 0:) 0:)

It was just that I was looking at how if you got the DG Berstein and this:
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From Amazon.it, the price is just mouthwateringly tempting Funny how the shipping fees melt away to almost nothing...

[Moonfish]

Sorry, I don't mean to tempt you 0:) 0:)

It was just that I was looking at how if you got the DG Berstein and this:
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From Amazon.it, the price is just mouthwateringly tempting Funny how the shipping fees melt away to almost nothing...

Hmm, I was thinking about how Amazon IT has great prices on the Ansermet boxes and how you probably would like those quite a bit!   


http://www.amazon.it/French-Music-Ernest-Ansermet/dp/B00DT2322E
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http://www.amazon.it/Russian-Music-Ernest-Ansermet/dp/B00J498SOI/ref=pd_sim_m_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0AHJB1QQSXXEGMDTCV4Q
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http://www.amazon.it/Great-European-Traditi-Elly-Ameling/dp/B00NO9LG4I

[Mookalafalas]

Hmm, I was thinking about how Amazon IT has great prices on the Ansermet boxes and how you probably would like those quite a bit!   

Oh, well played, my friend, well played. Those do look very interesting...

[Moonfish]

Oh, well played, my friend, well played. Those do look very interesting...

Yes, look into Ansermet's eyes and you know the truth....   

[Brian]

I do want the DG Bernstein box, but Deutsche Grammophon respects itself, so they are charging a fair (over $100) price, unlike Sony. So I just have to scrimp'n'save for a few more months.