Past Purchases (CLOSED)

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The Matousek/Hogwood recordings are great--I got all but the fourth volume (having Suk/Neumann makes me feel it's probably a bit less essential). I think the concerto for violin, piano and orchestra is one of Martinu's very best works.

Coincidentally, I picked one of Hogwood's earlier Martinu recordings up today:



I rather like this; prefer this reading of the Sinfonietta 'La Jolla' to Mackerras' and think this is a more tense Toccata e due canzoni than Hogwood's Arte Nova remake.

I would like to own that older Hogwood recording, especially to get another interpretation of "Sinfonietta La Jolla," but quite honestly I love the version I own with the Prague Chamber Orchestra on Supraphon. Totally committed performances.

This is the one I'm talking about:



This, for me, is an essential Martinu recording and one I wouldn't want to be without.

Just bought for a great price:



This was Hogwood's first Martinu recording too! Maybe we can share notes when I have listened to this recording Edward? 

[Que]

Ordered them too, but the Krebs is a dud, I threw it away

And NOW, you tell me!

Anyway - why, performance/ instrument/ recording ?

Q

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Another Martinu on the way...

[karlhenning]

Another Martinu on the way...

Yes, I've got that one coming in, as well.

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Yes, I've got that one coming in, as well.

I've read it's really good, so we'll have to compare notes when we both have heard it.

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Yet another Martinu on the way...

[Lethevich]

Soon there won't be any more left to buy Do try the quartets sometime - aside from his last decade, they form a compendium of his mature styles. The Naxos disc of nos.3 and 6 could provide a good start.

Edit: Err, I see that this was discussed and resolved in the Martinů thread - disregard this post

[Sid]

Boulez - Sur Incises / Messagesquisse / Anthemes 2 (Ens. Intercontemporian/Boulez) DG

Mahler - Symphony No 8 (Solti) Decca

The Devil's Dream - songs for soprano & chamber ensemble by Dowland, Byrd, Purcell, etc. (Gibelli/Ghielmi/Pianca) Harmonia Mundi

[karlhenning]

Soon there won't be any more left to buy Do try the quartets sometime - aside from his last decade, they form a compendium of his mature styles. The Naxos disc of nos.3 and 6 could provide a good start.

Edit: Err, I see that this was discussed and resolved in the Martinů thread - disregard this post

I consider this an entirely welcome cross-post : )

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I've read it's really good,

It is!  The 2nd Quintet is one of his best chamber works in any form (and has some interesting cross-echoes of the 3rd and 4th Symphonies, written about the same time). The 1st Quintet isn't quite as good, but it's interesting and fun due to its quasi-folksy, rough-sounding style.

Anyway - enjoy 

[Sergeant Rock]

I consider this an entirely welcome cross-post : )

I do too. When I don't know the music (and Martinu's string quartets are virgin territory), every opinion is important to me.

Don and Todd had good things to say about both the Martinu and Panocha Quartet performances. Amazon UK has the Panocha box in stock for a good price: less than  £7 (€8) a disc. Ordered it along with the Thomson box of symphonies. At £9 for the box, it is a bargain I was not going to pass up 

Sarge

[jlaurson]

I do too. When I don't know the music (and Martinu's string quartets are virgin territory), every opinion is important to me.

Don and Todd had good things to say about both the Martinu and Panocha Quartet performances.

I find the String Quartets among Martinu's most consistent output, and at a very high level, indeed.
Got my hands on them in the Stamitz Quartet performances (when the Janacek-Martinu-Smetana set on Brilliant cost next to nothing) and have since added the Panocha, too. Neither is a let-down.

[Sergeant Rock]

I find the String Quartets among Martinu's most consistent output, and at a very high level, indeed.
Got my hands on them in the Stamitz Quartet performances (when the Janacek-Martinu-Smetana set on Brilliant cost next to nothing) and have since added the Panocha, too. Neither is a let-down.

I saw the Brilliant box when I went shopping. I wondered how the Stamitz compared to the Martinu and Panocha.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Jens' Mackerras tribute at WETA ends with this:

"But the one Mackerras-recording I cherish the most, the one I have been playing since I first heard that he lost his battle to cancer, is that of the Summer Tale by Josef Suk, glorious, sunny, and genial as Mackerras' career itself."

A work I don't own, a work I don't know, I ordered it from an Amazon seller. It arrived today:




Sarge

[Harry]

And NOW, you tell me!

Anyway - why, performance/ instrument/ recording ?

Q

To begin with the recording, overblown and diffuse, performance is a careless one, played as  mere trifle. The organ itself is a wonderful piece of art, but it doesn't come out on this recording.

[Coopmv]

Free shipping and a dozen goodies at jpc, on for example Glossa, proofed to have a fatal attraction!











Q

A few of these Glossa CD's will be in my next order ...

[Coopmv]

Some more for today :

Those JS Bach harpsichord works by Trevor Pinnock and the English Concert are my long-term favorites and have been in my Bach collection for 20 years ...

[Lethevich]

Re. the Stamitz Quartet in Martinů: I feel that the Martinů Quartet recordings on Naxos are in a similar style, but have more couplings and probably nicer sound (note: I haven't heard the Stamitz in a while). I do recall the Stamitz being very good, though, and all three cycles are excellent. The Panocha's are in their own league though, maybe not the most traditional sounding, but with the great clarity that I have come to expect from this group.

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Soon there won't be any more left to buy Do try the quartets sometime - aside from his last decade, they form a compendium of his mature styles. The Naxos disc of nos.3 and 6 could provide a good start.

Edit: Err, I see that this was discussed and resolved in the Martinů thread - disregard this post

The Martinu quartets are definitely on my to-buy list as we speak. You better hurry, because I'm going to buy them all. 

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