Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Drasko]

Bro order just landed:

[FideLeo]

(also owned in the original 4 double/triple jewel boxed versions but I will need to take these on a trip)



all for about £23.

[Mark]

Yet another Rachmaninov All-night Vigil (my 16th or 17th?). This one is performed by the MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig under Howard Arman. It was originally released in 2002 on Berlin Classics - the copy I got today appears to be an original issue. Soloists are Klaudia Zeiner (alt) and Mikhail Agafonov (ten).

Initial impressions? A leisurely interpretation, rather 'soft focus' in its recording, with some excellent (if not very sharply drawn) ensemble singing. This particular recording also includes far more liturgical readings between sections of Rachmaninov's original score, placing the work in an appropriately reverential context.

On the whole, not a top choice, but rather nice. Closest to Matthew Best and the Corydon Singers, or the David Hill led ensemble on Nimbus (choir's name escapes me for the moment).

[Sergeant Rock]

Today: nine CDs for €48 ...I love JPC 

Hurwitz says, "Theodore Kuchar leads what is without question the most exciting complete Nielsen symphony cycle available" ...for the Brilliant price of 7.99 I thought it worth seeing if he's right:




One of my favorite Resuurections. I've had the LPs for 35 years. Time to retire them:




I already have Golovanov's Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. The Scriabin performances are from the late 40s to early 50s. This guy should be as famous as Toscanini or Furtwängler. He's unique, and incomparable:




Somebody here recommended Ernst Boehe. Can't recall who now. This is completely new music to me by a composer I know nothing about but his dates (1880-1938) fit neatly into my favorite musical period and the clips I heard at JPC intrigued me:







Sarge

[karlhenning]

Somebody here recommended Ernst Boehe. Can't recall who now.

Well, I must forbear to speculate, Sarge  0:)

[Sergeant Rock]

Well, I must forbear to speculate, Sarge  0:)

Surely not you Karl. Doesn't seem your sort of music. And I don't think it was Harry although he would be the  logical guess since he owns CPO

Sarge

[Drasko]

I already have Golovanov's Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff. The Scriabin performances are from the late 40s to early 50s. This guy should be as famous as Toscanini or Furtwängler. He's unique, and incomparable:

Do you want his Wagner?

[Harry]

Surely not you Karl. Doesn't seem your sort of music. And I don't think it was Harry although he would be the  logical guess since he owns CPO

Sarge

O dear yes, sorry to disappoint you, but I bought these beauties some months ago.
Well rather receiving them since I own CPO.

[Sergeant Rock]

O dear yes, sorry to disappoint you, but I bought these beauties some months ago.
Well rather receiving them since I  own CPO.

So it was you, Harry! Good...now I know who to thank if I like the music...and who to blame if I don't 

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

Do you want his Wagner?

Yes. Where do we meet to make the exchange? How much dough should I bring?

Sarge

[karlhenning]

So it was you, Harry! Good...now I know who to thank if I like the music...and who to blame if I don't 

Sarge

Sarge! This is Mr Don't Think, Buy, after all  

[rubio]

Some purchases in Oslo today:

   

[Maciek]

Rubio, I believe you're slowly catching up on Harry.

[rubio]

Rubio, I believe you're slowly catching up on Harry.

Well, that's a serious reminder to slow down a bit   . However, there are some orders that will continue to dump into my mail box in July. Then I must try to listen to this stuff.

[Harry]

Rubio, I believe you're slowly catching up on Harry.

Well, really!

[Harry]

Some purchases in Oslo today:

 

You will not be sorry about this set my friend, its quite gorgeous.

[bhodges]

You will not be sorry about this set my friend, its quite gorgeous.

I agree completely.  Muti's Scriabin cycle sets a very high bar.  Next January he is doing Le Poème de l'extase with the New York Philharmonic, and I am salivating already.

--Bruce

[M forever]

I have it and like it, too. Although I find the NYP/Sinopoli and RNO/Pletnev (which I wrote about one page or so ago) discs of the 3rd and "Extase" still a few clicks better.

[sidoze]

going for one last order, probably last one this year.

Enescu's Bach S&Ps - Continental remastering





Brahms sym 4                          Bruckner sym 8


Finally released on CD, this set is considered among the most brutal put down                                                                                   


Ashkenazy's '57 (or '59?) East German Beethoven recordings (Waldstein & op.111), first time on CD AFAIK







and a Chopin recital by Takako Takahashi who won 5th prize at the '90 Chopin comp.

[MishaK]

I agree completely.  Muti's Scriabin cycle sets a very high bar.  Next January he is doing Le Poème de l'extase with the New York Philharmonic, and I am salivating already.

He's doing it with the CSO in September in Chicago as well (+ Tchaikovsky 6th and Hindemith Nobilissima visione).