Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[George]

Plain good sense.

Thanks! 

[karlhenning]

Thanks! 

And, owlice, nice LvB opus number in your post-count, there!

[Scarpia]

Back to the topic:  Mullova's Sibelius/Tchaikovsky VCs and Mutter's Korngold/Tchaikovsky VCs--both prompted by recent threads on CMG (as if I needed any more recordings of any of these works!).

Getting the Mullova/Ozawa Sibelius despite a positive review by "Santa Fe Listener" who you claim is always wrong.  Risky territory here.    

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Those of you who find that silly or stupid or unbelieveable or whatever, blathering about how I shouldn't be this way is like telling me I shouldn't have blue eyes.

Owlice, honestly, from what I can see GMG is free from posters putting pressure on anyone else to "like" a composer (okay, save for Eric ).

But lately I feel I'm under the gun because I like a composer (Wagner). Try being in that position on a normally friendly GMG.

[karlhenning]

But lately I feel I'm under the gun because I like a composer (Wagner).

I don't seem to like him so well as you may, but I support you entirely in your Wagnerlust my friend 

[Opus106]

Owlice, honestly, from what I can see GMG is free from posters putting pressure on anyone else to "like" a composer

Nah. It's all subliminal. 

[DavidRoss]

Of course, madame. They are like shoes. 

Oh, you can be wicked, Paul!     

Getting the Mullova/Ozawa Sibelius despite a positive review by "Santa Fe Listener" who you claim is always wrong.  Risky territory here.    

Even stopped clocks are right sometimes!  Besides, Ozawa, Mullova, & the BSO are so unlikely to make a recording of this to my taste that it just might be a good contrarian bet!

Owlice, honestly, from what I can see GMG is free from posters putting pressure on anyone else to "like" a composer (okay, save for Eric ).

And except for certain posters' predilections re. Mendelssohn, Elgar, and Wagner (Eric among the latter, too!).  Say, "I like it and think it's good" -- no problem.  Say "It's better than anything else and that's a fac', Jack, and if you don't agree you're just stupid" and you might ruffle one or two feathers enough to provoke expression of an alternative point of view.

Cheers, y'all.  I'm taking my boy out for lunch now instead of buying my 45th recording of Pomp and Circumstance (or the equivalent!  .

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I don't seem to like him so well as you may, but I support you entirely in your Wagnerlust my friend 

Thanks. I've liked him all these years and seemingly nothing adverse has come of it.

[karlhenning]

I know you are in no way allied to the composer's misdemeanors  

[Dancing Divertimentian]

And except for certain posters' predilections re. Mendelssohn, Elgar, and Wagner (Eric among the latter, too!).

Sure, but I don't exactly fear for my life around those posters.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I know you are in no way allied to the composer's misdemeanors 

0:)

[Coopmv]

My feeling is if I want something and I have the money, no internal debate need take place.

Agree.  Like no one should question why I have 20+ versions of Brandenburg Concertos and Beethoven 9th.  It is my business ...

[Renfield]

Even stopped clocks are right sometimes!  Besides, Ozawa, Mullova, & the BSO are so unlikely to make a recording of this to my taste that it just might be a good contrarian bet!

That Gettier touch brought a smile to my face!

Also, let me put in a good word for Mullova and Ozawa in the Tchaikovsky. Their Sibelius I find somewhat (?) lacking in gravitas, but the Tchaikovsky has a plush Romantic quality about it that I haven't found elsewhere. It's worth hearing IMO.

[DavidRoss]

...let me put in a good word for Mullova and Ozawa in the Tchaikovsky. Their Sibelius I find somewhat (?) lacking in gravitas, but the Tchaikovsky has a plush Romantic quality about it that I haven't found elsewhere. It's worth hearing IMO.

I've not heard the Tchaikovsky yet, but I did listen to the Sibelius yesterday and was disappointed.  I wouldn't know "gravitas" from gravy, but to me it lacked fire and didn't hang together and ended as mush. On that count, at least, the contrarian dependability of "SFL" is unblemished--though maybe it was the Tchaikovsky that he liked so much in this recording.   And maybe I missed something on first hearing that I'll love in the future.

Next up: time to hear the "new" Abbado/BP LvB symphonies recorded in Rome in 2001, another recent purchase that just arrived.

[Renfield]

Next up: time to hear the "new" Abbado/BP LvB symphonies recorded in Rome in 2001, another recent purchase that just arrived.

Colour me interested in this one.

I have the previously-issued cycle, which I like but do not adore. Yet since money has been spent already, I am loath to repeat the exercise on the same conductor/orchestra in the same repertory for anything less than a major improvement...

[DavidRoss]

Colour me interested in this one.

I have the previously-issued cycle, which I like but do not adore. Yet since money has been spent already, I am loath to repeat the exercise on the same conductor/orchestra in the same repertory for anything less than a major improvement...

By all accounts a major improvement it is.  That's what prompted me to pull the trigger--that and my general admiration for Abbado and the BP and desire for a first-rate big band Beethoven cycle benefiting from recent scholarship and contemporary recording technology and with the qualities I expect Abbado will bring to it (light, liveliness, clarity, transparency, suppleness, balance).  Think I'll start (as is my wont lately) with the Pastoral.   

[SonicMan46]

Well, last night put in a small order 'across the pond' at MDT:

Haydn - Piano Concertos w/ Brautigam on the fortepiano; recommended in the 'Haydn Haus' thread!

Alfven - Symphonies et al w/ Jarvi; 5-CD box offering from Brilliant; recommended also in this forum.

Dowland - Lute Music w/ Lindberg; another Brilliant bargain; have most of O'Dette's CDs but wanted to hear these performances, too.

Korngold - String Quartets; 2-CD Brilliant set; I've been buying his non-film music now for several years; just to add to my collection! 

 

 

[karlhenning]

Next up: time to hear the "new" Abbado/BP LvB symphonies recorded in Rome in 2001, another recent purchase that just arrived.

I do consider that a temptation! But one upon which I will not be able to act this year.

(And that's all right, too.)

[Brian]

By all accounts a major improvement it is.  That's what prompted me to pull the trigger--that and my general admiration for Abbado and the BP and desire for a first-rate big band Beethoven cycle benefiting from recent scholarship and contemporary recording technology and with the qualities I expect Abbado will bring to it (light, liveliness, clarity, transparency, suppleness, balance).  Think I'll start (as is my wont lately) with the Pastoral.   

Wasn't the Rome cycle released on DVD as well?

[DavidRoss]

Wasn't the Rome cycle released on DVD as well?

Yep.  I just don't give a damn about watching, since I listen with my eyes closed anyway and the TV sound isn't nearly as good as the main system in the "music room."