Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Antoine Marchand]

I have classicsonline and there are some items I can't fully stream (e.g. the Michelangeli blue and brown box sets) because of supposed copyright issues and I can't get more than 30 seconds of the EMI offerings. Does NML remedy this situation?

I have never had any problem of this kind. Every disc offered by NML is complete.

A quick search at NML shows 48 discs by Michelangeli. 

[Mirror Image]

Bravo! Bravo! Excellent choices. I approve these purchases.

[Bogey]

Obligatory, Greg:

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Summerly and OC could sing "Oh! Susanna" and I would buy it, Karl.  Love what I have from them.

[Que]

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Trying to make some headway in piecing this Graupner harpsichord series together, before the stuff runs OOP. (Though it seems there is still plenty around.) Besides... I'm in the mood for some new Graupner!

This also reminds me to do same same with the Froberger keyboard series on Aeolus, which tend to go OOP much quicker. But Aeolus is sooo damn expensive!

Q

[The new erato]

Summerly and OC could sing "Oh! Susanna" and I would buy it, Karl.  Love what I have from them.

They nearly did. At least they sang Lassus' mass "Susanne un jour" based on a chanson about the naked Susanna (probably one of the masters tricks he tried to make atonement for in his later days) on one of my favorite Lassus discs. Now where is that complete edition?

[The new erato]

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Trying to make some headway in piecing this Graupner harpsichord series together, before the stuff runs OOP. (Though it seems there is still plenty around.) Besides... I'm in the mood for some new Graupner!

This also reminds me to do same same with the Froberger keyboard series on Aeolus, which tend to go OOP much quicker. But Aeolus is sooo damn expensive!

Q

At nearly 17 $ a piece, Analekta doesn't seem exactly cheap either?

[karlhenning]

Summerly and OC could sing "Oh! Susanna" and I would buy it, Karl.  Love what I have from them.

I just may write a Missa O Susanna one of these days, Bill . . . .

[Que]

At nearly 17 $ a piece, Analekta doesn't seem exactly cheap either?

True, this disc via UK Amazon was £ 9,77/ €11.13 incl p&p.

And Aeolus' retail price is €19!

Q

[kishnevi]

Made another trip to the PrestoClassical well. Triple focus was Julia Fischer, Mozart, and blue Sony Masterworks boxes (although I didn't plan on the color coordination, just worked out that way)
(have Volume I of the Schubert already)




There were a couple of other things I was considering but moved off the shopping cart.  I don't plan on declaring bankruptcy before next year 

[Mirror Image]

Martinu Symphonies
Belohlavek / BBCSO

Was in the hall for some of these.

GBP19.90 @ MDT

Let me know how these are. Hurwitz's review claims the audio was a bit dry.

[Brian]

Let me know how these are. Hurwitz's review claims the audio was a bit dry.

It's the Barbican. Hardly anything sounds good in the Barbican. Still, the rest of Hurwitz's review convinced me that I might want to hear the set, and soon. (Also, I prefer dry sound to Chandos-esque.)

[Mirror Image]

It's the Barbican. Hardly anything sounds good in the Barbican. Still, the rest of Hurwitz's review convinced me that I might want to hear the set, and soon. (Also, I prefer dry sound to Chandos-esque.)

I'm somewhere in the middle when it comes to recordings. I like reverb, but not excessively so. I like space in a recording, because, if you think about it, this is really how you're hearing the music when you're hearing it live. You think if an orchestra played in a cathedral, which has been done many, many times, that there wouldn't be reverb? Of course there would be and all the reverb does in recordings is give the orchestra more body, which I like.

Yes, I agree with you about the Barbican. I try to avoid LSO Live recordings for this reason, although I own a good many of them.

[Conor71]

A couple of arrivals today :





Listened to the Debussy already - very good!. I am very much looking forward to hearing Vanska's Sibelius and will hopefully start on this set tonight! 

[jwinter]

Thanks a lot, Karl        

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[Lethevich]

It's the Barbican. Hardly anything sounds good in the Barbican. Still, the rest of Hurwitz's review convinced me that I might want to hear the set, and soon. (Also, I prefer dry sound to Chandos-esque.)

When the standard has already been set by Supraphon recordings, I am much more tolerant of less than opulent recorded sound - until recently that label was able to produce servicable, consistent, but not beautiful recording jobs.

[karlhenning]

My pleasure, jwinter! : )

[karlhenning]

Thread Duty: Landed yesterday . . .

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$4.52 all in, from (and I am not making this up) Holy Cow Records

[Renfield]

The poor Barbican, you've all gone and hurt its feelings.

I've never gotten the hate for the Barbican's acoustics. Yes, they're dry; but not uninformatively so, if you see what I mean.

[Brian]

The poor Barbican, you've all gone and hurt its feelings.

I've never gotten the hate for the Barbican's acoustics. Yes, they're dry; but not uninformatively so, if you see what I mean.

I saw Anne-Sophie Mutter there and her solo violin sounded sloshy.

@MI: "I try to avoid LSO Live recordings for this reason, although I own a good many of them."
that's funny. I have the Beethoven and Sibelius cycles and they sound fine to me, albeit lacking in that last degree of presence.

[Brahmsian]

The poor Barbican, you've all gone and hurt its feelings.

They are BBQin Barbican