Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[kishnevi]

Ordered from BRO (my first order there)


With thanks to Andre for letting me know this set existed, and to Fafner, without whom I wouldn't have found it on BRO's website.

[Fafner]

Ordered from BRO (my first order there)


With thanks to Andre for letting me know this set existed, and to Fafner, without whom I wouldn't have found it on BRO's website.

Be advised, it usually takes them at least a week before they get around to shipping anything.   

[kishnevi]

Be advised, it usually takes them at least a week before they get around to shipping anything.   

I can wait.  I've only got around 400 not-yet listened to CDs waiting their turn in The Pile.

[Fafner]

I can wait.  I've only got around 400 not-yet listened to CDs waiting their turn in The Pile.

My only complaint about the set is that they did not go totally French and put in the Schuricht Symphony cycle rather than the Cluytens.

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[mc ukrneal]

Thumbs up on the Haydn (you do know there are two more--or more precisely, one and a half more--twofers in that Haydn series?),  Byrd and Marais.

This is one of a handful of discs I warn people away from, especially the 82-84 portion (disc 1 from that set). Of course, most seem to disagree with me, but there you go.

[otare]

[The new erato]

Amazon.es. Both cheap, around 30 USD total + 8 USD shipping to Norway.

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[Sadko]

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I have this one, very good!

[The new erato]

It has been getting golden reviews everywhere, and I've always wondered how these masterpiecers sound played on the piano. 10 euros for the set (and VAT deduction in addition) sounds like a giveaway.....

Now I just have one problem; should it be shelved under Beethoven or Liszt; or do I need two sets in order to avoid confusion? Any suggestions?

[Fafner]

It has been getting golden reviews everywhere, and I've always wondered how these masterpiecers sound played on the piano. 10 euros for the set (and VAT deduction in addition) sounds like a giveaway.....

Now I just have one problem; should it be shelved under Beethoven or Liszt; or do I need two sets in order to avoid confusion? Any suggestions?

Where do you shelve your Busoni/Bach?

[The new erato]

Where do you shelve your Busoni/Bach?

I avoid buying it.

[mc ukrneal]

It has been getting golden reviews everywhere, and I've always wondered how these masterpiecers sound played on the piano. 10 euros for the set (and VAT deduction in addition) sounds like a giveaway.....

Now I just have one problem; should it be shelved under Beethoven or Liszt; or do I need two sets in order to avoid confusion? Any suggestions?

I would put it under Liszt myself. I do the same with other music like this for the most part. But I think it should be whatever is easiest for you.

Interestingly, with Bach/Busoni/et al, I put them under Bach so that they are all together in  one place (I title them to be next to each other as well). Otherwise I'd have to search around under Busoni, Reger, Saint-Saens, etc.

[Opus106]

Liszt. Placing it in the Beethoven shelf would be somewhat akin to putting Brahms' Op. 56a under "Haydn". L. is clearly the star, here.

Although I'd put Bach/Busoni next to other Bach discs.


EDIT: It looks like Muckerneel and I agree.

[otare]

Where do you shelve your Busoni/Bach?

Bachoni? eller Busach?

[mc ukrneal]

Liszt. Placing it in the Beethoven shelf would be somewhat akin to putting Brahms' Op. 56a under "Haydn". L. is clearly the star, here.

Although I'd put Bach/Busoni next to other Bach discs.


EDIT: It looks like Muckerneel and I agree.

This getting confusing. MN Dave thinks of me as mcukrneel and you think of me as muckerneel! I can barely remember my login on good days, let alone all these crazy alternatives!!

[The new erato]

I would put it under Liszt myself. I do the same with other music like this for the most part. But I think it should be whatever is easiest for you.

Interestingly, with Bach/Busoni/et al, I put them under Bach so that they are all together in  one place (I title them to be next to each other as well). Otherwise I'd have to search around under Busoni, Reger, Saint-Saens, etc.

I think you - and Opus 106 - got it. I tend to agree.

[Opus106]

This getting confusing. MN Dave thinks of me as mcukrneel and you think of me as muckerneel! I can barely remember my login on good days, let alone all these crazy alternatives!!

Just login permanently and be done with it.


P.S.: Muckerneel is phonetically more pleasing, don't you think? 0:)

[jlaurson]

It has been getting golden reviews everywhere, and I've always wondered how these masterpiecers sound played on the piano. 10 euros for the set (and VAT deduction in addition) sounds like a giveaway.....

Now I just have one problem; should it be shelved under Beethoven or Liszt; or do I need two sets in order to avoid confusion? Any suggestions?

Both Bach and Beethoven ought to have a 'transcription' section where such things go... but ultimately definitely the original composer, not the one who worked on the material. (Much like you don't file the Carpenter's or Cooke's Mahler 10th under "C", or Barshai's under "B".

That rule is deviated from when the CD includes transcriptions or arrangements by one composers of the work of several (i.e. "Liszt at the Opera"), in which case it goes to Liszt. Or if the transcription/arrangement goes well beyond making a work suitable for another set of instruments and constitutes a composition of its own, like Zender's "Winterreise" (a real on-the-fence candidate, but ultimately pushed over to on the Zender side, methinks) or Berio's "Rendering", which ought not be filed under Schubert.

This, at least, is what I've established for myself, aided by facing such decisions all the time working at Tower Records.

[TheGSMoeller]

Another Concord for the collection, this time from Hamelin.

[Karl Henning]

Be advised, it usually takes them at least a week before they get around to shipping anything.   

Really? I've generally found them to be prompt.