Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[kishnevi]

Last installment of an AmazonUK order arrived today.


Ordered this last night on a tip from MC Urkneal in the SDCB threads, from Abeille in its Amazon MP incarnation (FabulousCDs)--the Brilliant 100 CD "Complete Symphonies" Box


And still waiting for AmazonUS to ship this, which was ordered on the same day as the AmazonUK order, and at that time given a shipping status of 9 to 12 days (the listing now promises 9 to 14 days and the price has gone up).  By comparison, part of that AmazonUK order was given a shipping status of 6 to 12 days, shipped 4 days after the order was placed, and arrived (transatlantic mail and customs and all) last week.  There are several reasons I order from AmazonUK more than AmazonUS, and this is an example of one of them.

[Que]

And still waiting for AmazonUS to ship this, which was ordered on the same day as the AmazonUK order, and at that time given a shipping status of 9 to 12 days (the listing now promises 9 to 14 days and the price has gone up).  By comparison, part of that AmazonUK order was given a shipping status of 6 to 12 days, shipped 4 days after the order was placed, and arrived (transatlantic mail and customs and all) last week.  There are several reasons I order from AmazonUK more than AmazonUS, and this is an example of one of them.

I also got a delay-email fom Amazon US. 

That Tallis set is great BTW!

Q

[chasmaniac]

Purchases yesterday, actually:

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Forster, 3 String Quartets, op.21, Authentic Quartet, Hungaroton 32705
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[kishnevi]

I also got a delay-email fom Amazon US. 

I haven't even got that much from them!

Purchases yesterday, actually:

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An absolute out of the ballpark and into the next city hit.

And the Boccherini is pretty good too.

[chasmaniac]

An absolute out of the ballpark and into the next city hit.

I have her other Handel recital on HM and adore it. Craving to hear this'un!

[DavidRoss]

A substantial foray into Fauré...

  Hmmm...I like the little Fauré I know.  Maybe it's time to cast a wider net.  What are your favorites?

[kishnevi]

I have her other Handel recital on HM and adore it. Craving to hear this'un!

Then I'll make this easy for you.
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Not a bad performance in the lot.  If you don't want to go whole hog on the opera, Amazon lists a highlights CD.

[chasmaniac]

Then I'll make this easy for you.
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Not a bad performance in the lot.  If you don't want to go whole hog on the opera, Amazon lists a highlights CD.

Oh my oh my! There goes the hot water! Thanks!

[Karl Henning]

Yes, I like both these very well, though perhaps in somewhat different ways.

[Opus106]

Yes, I like both these very well, though perhaps in somewhat different ways.

How different?

[Karl Henning]

How different?

May simply be that the Tallis is a long-familiar idiom, and that I've sung some of the music myself. Strange to say, that though Frescobaldi is the later composer, his feels to me the more archaic idiom.  I am enjoying making the acquaintance of the music in this box . . . I suppose it is taking more absorption than the Tallis, Nav.

[PaulSC]

  Hmmm...I like the little Fauré I know.  Maybe it's time to cast a wider net.  What are your favorites?

Well, his Requiem is a masterpiece and probably his best-known work. (To be honest, I haven't heard it in years.)

I've enjoyed focusing on his solo keyboard music — the Nocturnes in particular — and especially his chamber music. I'm just getting to know the chamber music, and it has been a wonderful process of discovery. In several chamber-music formats, there is a pair of works, one early and one late (piano quintets, violin sonatas) and I personally favor the late works. These are sometimes described as "cryptic" and it's true that they involve a delicate balance between the passionate and the austere. But in the hands of a sympathetic performer, I find this mixture very appealing.

So I would recommend the second violin sonata, the second piano quintet, the cello sonatas (two of them, both late works), and his very last pieces, the piano trio op. 120 and the string quartet op. 121. There are two piano quartets as well, and in this case I prefer the earlier one, op. 15. In fact that's a good place to start if you're just beginning to explore the chamber music. I'm happy with all the recordings I listed as recent purchases, but there are alternatives worth considering.

Here are two GMG topics that were useful to me:
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,2292.0.html
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,16315.0.html

[Opus106]

Strange to say, that though Frescobaldi is the later composer, his feels to me the more archaic idiom.

That's interesting.

[KeithW]

Just landed from Presto Classical:

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and from last week's trip to the UK (had Amazon UK deliver to my hotel):

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and finally, downloaded from theclassicalshop.net

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This was one of their daily specials (50% off for 24 hours)

[canninator]

  Hmmm...I like the little Fauré I know.  Maybe it's time to cast a wider net.  What are your favorites?

You can download the superb historical recordings of Germaine Thyssens-Valentin in Faure's solo piano works legally and free here

http://www.i12.ch/musiqueouverte/index.php/accueil/toutafficher

The link is to the search page

[kishnevi]

Just landed from Presto Classical:

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That Buxtehude cover suggests a bunch of angels in a jail cell....
At any rate,  my postwoman just handed me a couple of packages. One is part of a double order with Presto that includes the Vivaldi CD Keith also got, and some other stuff.




Package 2 was part of an order with Arkiv

[KeithW]

You can download the superb historical recordings of Germaine Thyssens-Valentin in Faure's solo piano works legally and free here

http://www.i12.ch/musiqueouverte/index.php/accueil/toutafficher

The link is to the search page

And there are quite a number of recordings available from the CHARM project at Royal Holloway, University of London.  these guys have transferred something in the region of 5,000 FLAC format files of out-of-copyright 78rpm records.  Very strong on Schubert lieder.  The site also has a very impressive discography/catalogue.
http://www.charm.rhul.ac.uk/sound/sound_search.html

[KeithW]

That Buxtehude cover suggests a bunch of angels in a jail cell....

Indeed.  It is a montage of the Wilton Diptych http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/english-or-french-the-wilton-diptych but the bars/columns are a 21st century addition.

[Karl Henning]

Those bars are for the angels' protection, not for yours.

[Elgarian]

Then I'll make this easy for you.
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I was listening to that a few days ago for the 4th or 5th time I guess. And when Ariodante (Lorraine Hunt Lieberson) appears for the first time, the effect is extraordinary. I can't describe it, but it's as if some extended spiritual awareness has been injected into the performance from the moment she begins to sing.