Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[prémont]

These days I found some available copies of Bach's solo keyboards works performed by Lars Ulrik Mortensen (kontrapunkt) which is rather unusual; so I didn't miss the opportunity:

Cogratulations. You will not regret it. 

[Antoine Marchand]

Cogratulations. You will not regret it. 

Well, if I have been looking for his solo Bach recordings, it has been principally because of your recommendation of his artistry in Bach. It's curious because I have a lot of discs with Mortensen: Buxtehude, Vivaldi, Biber, Leclair, Schmelzer and so, but I didn't have any Bach by him....

[Mirror Image]

I'm always interested in hearing conductors who are also composers so I acquired these three Salonen recordings:

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Also, his music is very colorful and has remarkable textures. This is right up my alley.

[The new erato]

[Sergeant Rock]

In today's mail: Berio and Bruckner. Berio's Rendering is his realization of Schubert's 10th Symphony. The last thing I need is another Bruckner Fourth but Eschenbach has become one of my favorite conductors working today. Hurwitz says:

"One of the most gratifying aspects of this interpretation lies in the fact that the conductor knows that haste at the climaxes is positively fatal in this music, and for that reason his habit of broadening the tempo at climaxes rather than speeding up pays handsome reward in emphasizing that special Brucknerian grandeur..."

"The opening of the symphony also doesn't sound quite like anyone else's performance. It's quite slow, and when the fortissimo crashes in, Eschenbach refuses to pick up the tempo."

Sounds just the way I like my Bruckner.





Sarge

[Scarpia]

Bruckner by l'Orchestre de Paris.  Sounds intriguing!

[DavidW]

Someone stop me!

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I just can't stop buying cds.

[karlhenning]

Haydn! Oh, if Gurn could only see his handiwork now. He'd hang his Haydn in shame! ; )

[Florestan]

Someone stop me!

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I just can't stop buying cds.

OMG! 

Now you tell me how it is.   

[DavidW]

Yeah will do.  I guess you could say that I have Haydn-itis.

[Florestan]

Yeah will do.  I guess you could say that I have Haydn-itis.

Nobody has died from that. Yet.

[Scarpia]

Someone stop me!

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I just can't stop buying cds.

Oh dear, I have that one and haven't even listened at all yet.   

[DavidW]

Oh dear, I have that one and haven't even listened at all yet.   

Well that makes me feel better about my to listen to pile of cds!

[Florestan]

Oh dear, I have that one and haven't even listened at all yet.   

Spoken like a true collector. 

[karlhenning]

Nobody has died from that. Yet.

Well, and who wants to be the first? That's the question I ask . . . .

[DavidW]

Just curious: what other sets of the Haydn keyboard sonatas do you own?

Schornsheim, the set from the Haydn Edition, and Brendel's highly incomplete set. (I also have a *cough* not perfectly legal copy of Brautigham).

[Antoine Marchand]

Yeah will do.  I guess you could say that I have Haydn-itis.

Nobody has died from that. Yet.

Just excepting Haydn himself: the exception that proves the rule, I suppose. 

[DavidW]

Well, and who wants to be the first? That's the question I ask . . . .

Well he probably doesn't want to be first but Gurn because (a) he's heard all recorded works of Haydn, (b) he's an old coot and (c) someday finding some legendary long lost HIP Haydn recording will probably give him a stroke!  Oh no I found these Hogwood cds... the symphony cycle is complete now I can die happy!!

[karlhenning]

Just excepting Haydn himself: the exception that proves the rule, I suppose. 

Was that the cause of death, really? . . .

[DavidW]

Just excepting Haydn himself: the exception that proves the rule, I suppose. 

If I have to write just one more oratorio or one more string quartet I'm going to die! <he does>