Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Bogey]

Between Copland and Barber, I have fewer than half-dozen recordings and I have over 7000 LP's/CD's.   I guess our tastes are quite different.   LOL

No worries, Stuart.  Ratio is not the point in Copland's case.  His music, for me, is so fresh, unique, powerful and memorable that a pinch goes a long way.  That is why he has remained in my all-time top five composers for years.

[Coopmv]

As you might have guessed Harry, I will be very interested to hear what you think of that set.

This is the set I have ...

[Coopmv]

No worries, Stuart.  Ratio is not the point in Copland's case.  His music, for me, is so fresh, unique, powerful and memorable that a pinch goes a long way.  That is why he has remained in my all-time top five composers for years.

Good morning, Bill.  I have problems relating to classical music that was composed much later than the 1900's.  Somehow, Sibelius and Carl Nielsen are the exceptions.

[Bogey]

 

Good morning, Bill.  I have problems relating to classical music that was composed much later than the 1900's.  Somehow, Sibelius and Carl Nielsen are the exceptions.

That is fine at this end....plenty of classical that I have not enjoyed to this point as well.

[Coopmv]

Just ordered this set from Amazon MarketPlace.  There is no better recording to get than this historical recording around Easter ...

This will be version number 10 for me.

[SonicMan46]

Well, a 'tiny' BRO order yesterday - at the urging of Gabriel in Gurn's 'Classical Thread' - a composer 'new' to me, i.e. Emanuel Forster was recommended, and surprisingly BRO had the 2-CD set suggested @ a great price; had to 'tack on' something else to meet the 'minimum', so found Nikolayeva on Regis in the Shosty P & F - been wanting to hear her for a while w/ all of the discussion in the forum; the price was right! 


Forster, Emanuel [1748-1823]: Fantasie and Sonata i... 2-CD, Qty: 1, Price: $13.97 (9710831-314-NCA)

Shostakovich, 24 Preludes & Fugues, Op.87. (Tatiana Nikolayeva)  3- CD, Qty: 1, Price: $11.97 (RRC 3005-REGIS)


 

[Coopmv]

Just ordered these CD's from MDT today ...

[Jay F]

Just ordered these CD's from MDT today ...

Stuart - You can't come out of your room until you listen to those Walcha Bach box sets you got this winter. (Kidding.)

[Coopmv]

Stuart - You can't come out of your room until you listen to those Walcha Bach box sets you got this winter. (Kidding.)

You know, I find it far easier to listen to 10 CD's of different works and performers than listening to one of these mega-sets.  I have listened to 4 out of the 14 CD's in that Harnoncourt's Beethoven set.  I already listened to all the Beethoven symphonies except the 9th.  Then there are the piano concertos and violin concertos and other works I have yet to touch.

[Dr. Dread]

[Que]

In all the excitement about the arrival of my JPC order, I forgot to post these - I purchased these bargains the day before yesterday.



I till now avoided the Bryndorf interpretations on Hänssler's excellent Bach organ series. Because of less positive reviews and they sounded not as appealing as the rest of the series, by Andrea Marcon, Kay Johannsen, Wolfgang Zerer and Martin Lücker. But... our Don (recently reincarnated as Bulldog) has a more positive perspective on Bryndorf, so I might as well have a go and maybe the prospect of the complete series will be at the horizon?

Oh, and the first picture is of vol. 2 of Alan Curtis' 3 volumes of Haydn sonatas on fortepiano (Stradivarius).

Q

[RussellG]

Under $20 spent in the used bins today...

[haydnguy]

Brian Ferneyhough: Fourth String Quartet; Kurze Schatten II; Trittico per g.s.; Terrain

Barraque: Complete Works (Oeuvres complètes) - Concerto for Six Instrumental Formations and Two Instruments; "Le temps restitué" for soprano, chorus and orchestra; ". . . au dela du hasard" for Four
Instrumental Formations and One Vocal Formation; Etude pour bande; Piano Sonata; Sequence, etc. [BOX SET]

Barraqué, Jean  (Sonata pour piano)

Prokofiev: The Complete Symphonies [BOX SET]  (attached)

[Coopmv]

Prokofiev: The Complete Symphonies [BOX SET]  (attached)

I like N. Jarvi, though it is not clear if I need another version of Prokofiev Complete Symphonies since I already have a version by Seiji Ozawa and the BPO.  Prokofiev was no JS Bach or Beethoven ...

[haydnguy]

 

I like N. Jarvi, though it is not clear if I need another version of Prokofiev Complete Symphonies since I already have a version by Seiji Ozawa and the BPO.  Prokofiev was no JS Bach or Beethoven ...

Hi Coopmv, actually the discussion about him yesterday (or the day before), made me realize that I didn't have any of his symphonies. I looked at the one that you have and what others discussed and ultimately chose this one. We'll see. 

[Coopmv]

Hi Coopmv, actually the discussion about him yesterday (or the day before), made me realize that I didn't have any of his symphonies. I looked at the one that you have and what others discussed and ultimately chose this one. We'll see. 

It is always a tough call when it comes to getting what one hopes to be the "definitive" recording for some of the composers one does not follow this much.  Prokofiev is one of those composers for me.  I really do not know if the Ozawa's version is considered one of the best or not ...

[jlaurson]

 

It is always a tough call when it comes to getting what one hopes to be the "definitive" recording for some of the composers one does not follow this much.  Prokofiev is one of those composers for me.  I really do not know if the Ozawa's version is considered one of the best or not ...

From Best Recordings of 2008 #6

#6 (Reissue) – Prokofiev, Complete Symphonies – Chandos CHAN 10500(4)

Prokofiev's seven Symphonies can be tough nuts to crack – at least numbers 2 to 6. That must be the reason why there are relatively few complete cycles of them available; eight, by my count: Walter Weller was the third with the LPO and LSO (1974-78, Decca), behind the iron curtain Zdenèk Kosler recorded them with the Czech Philharmonic (1976-82, Supraphon). In 1985 Chandos issued Neeme Järvi's set with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra which became an instant hit. A little later Rostropovich followed (French National Orchestra, 1985-87, Erato), then came Ozawa (Berlin Philharmonic, 89-92, DG), then Theodore Kuchar (Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra, 1994/95, Naxos), and finally Valery Gergiev with the only live recordings of the bunch (LSO, 2004, Philips). Rozhdestvensky (Melodiya), Martinon (Vox), and Kitajenko (Melodiya) seem to have fallen by the wayside. Kitajenko has put down a new cycle (Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne, Phoenix Edition) which, if it is as good as his Shostakovich cycle (Capriccio), will be a hot item.

The recent Gergiev cycle was much hailed of course; as a whole, I found it curiously unsatisfactory. Something didn't seem right, even if the grittier approach, compared to Ozawa, certainly benefited Symphonies Three or Six, which are very fine with the brooding, sloppy Russian maestro. The sound is good, but not great and dry, the playing very good, but not outstanding. Almost all the symphonies have great moments, but none an unbroken arch. The Seventh lacks pensive beauty. So far I preferred Kuchar's Naxos cycle (I've not heard Rostropovich's or Kosler's) if it had to be a complete cycle at all. But now Chandos has reissued its Järvi cycle in a slim, inexpensive box and the performances simply knock your socks off. The recorded sound is great, the Scottish National Orchestra plays like a world class band, and the symphonies don't just have bite (or that pensive beauty as in the case of the marvelous, charming, sweeping Järvi Seventh), they are coherent and unified structures. Like Gergiev, Järvi includes the 1930 original version of the Fourth Symphony (concise, restrained) as well as the 1947 revised version (epic, sprawling-impressive), and both get first rate performances. Making due without resorting to exaggeration, Järvi gives the spiky works a beauty I'd never heard or even expected. At the same time, he doesn't let a brutal work like the Third fall victim to harmlessness. There's still blood on the floor when Järvi is finished with it, just not as much (and fewer crushed bones) than when Muti (Philips) goes through it. All in all, this is not only a set to complete your Prokofiev collection, it's also the one to start it (if you haven't yet).

[Valentino]

In a Hurry up before it's OOP-frenzy:

[The new erato]

In a Hurry up before it's OOP-frenzy:

Doesn't that just mean Brilliant will soon be giving it away?

[Wanderer]