Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[TheGSMoeller]

Took me a while to pull the trigger on this set. I have the 45-47 disc from Weil and Co. and it's one of my most listen to recordings of 45, I find the hasty tempi to be precisely to my liking. Have yet to hear the rest of this bunch, this now puts me over 100 discs of just Haydn symphonies alone, definitely the leading category in my collection.

[jwinter]

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Took me a while to pull the trigger on this set. I have the 45-47 disc from Weil and Co. and it's one of my most likened to recordings of 45, I find the hasty tempi to be precisely to my liking. Have yet to hear the rest of this bunch, this now puts me over 100 discs of just Haydn symphonies alone, definitely the leading category in my collection.
 
Ooooh, that's tempting, I didn't know that box existed.  This is why my credit card hates this forum... 

[Brian]

Took me a while to pull the trigger on this set. I have the 45-47 disc from Weil and Co. and it's one of my most likened to recordings of 45, I find the hasty tempi to be precisely to my liking. Have yet to hear the rest of this bunch, this now puts me over 100 discs of just Haydn symphonies alone, definitely the leading category in my collection.

Love that box. I just listened to 43 on the drive to work this morning! My copy arrived just before an 8 hour road trip in June, and I marathoned through the whole thing in two sittings. Such fun and so consistent.

[Karl Henning]

Love that box. I just listened to 43 on the drive to work this morning! My copy arrived just before an 8 hour road trip in June, and I marathoned through the whole thing in two sittings. Such fun and so consistent.

(* pounds the table *)

[TheGSMoeller]

Love that box. I just listened to 43 on the drive to work this morning! My copy arrived just before an 8 hour road trip in June, and I marathoned through the whole thing in two sittings. Such fun and so consistent.

Good to hear, Brian. Then being a fan of their 45-47 disc I should have no reservations with the rest.

(* pounds the table *)

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[Zizekian]

I picked these up today:

[Papy Oli]

Ordered on Amazon Italy tonight - €21 + carriage

[TheGSMoeller]

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Slowly diving into Kuchar's set, have some issues with the sound quality, at times it's broad with wonderful clarity from percussion and winds, other times it sounds as if it was recorded in my high school gymnasium. I purchased their No. 4, Op. 112 disc and have really enjoyed it, same issues as above but the performance itself is electrifying. I've been listening to this disc (No. 3 and No. 7) on Spotify for a while and have been impressed, the 3rd is at times monstrous with once again a strong presence from the percussion which heightens the drama. And then the 7th, performed here with it's unattractive "happy" ending (just a sarcastic opinion) but I think I may have found the one version that went the "happy" route that I can endorse. Kuchar successfully seques from the original ending to the revised with such a minor pause that it flows better than other recordings, it doesn't seem to stress or separate the two. Still, will never stray from the original (long live Tennstedt's) but this is one that I will return to, which I guess is why I'm buying a hard copy of it.

[Coopmv]

There's also one with three of the "middle" symphonies,  coupled with the violin concertos performed by Wallfisch,  but Kuijken is present only on the symphonies.

The painting, IIRC, is Rembrandt's Jeremiah.

I assume you were referring to the following twofer, am I correct?  I certainly do not have this one ...

[Lilas Pastia]

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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Well, why prefer a German conductor with a French orchestra to a French-Belgian conductor with a German orchestra  ?

The difference between these two orchestras is as big as the difference between the two conductors. Buy both ! The Schuricht cycle is easy to get on the cheap anyways. Recommended even if I find it variable - as any cycle is.

[Lilas Pastia]

Anyway, bargains purchased yesterday:

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Q

This is one  'concept'' record that really works beautifully. A real gem.

[Fafner]

Well, why prefer a German conductor with a French orchestra to a French-Belgian conductor with a German orchestra  ?

The difference between these two orchestras is as big as the difference between the two conductors. Buy both ! The Schuricht cycle is easy to get on the cheap anyways. Recommended even if I find it variable - as any cycle is.

I don't find Cluytens/Berlin so dramatically different from Karajan/Berlin from the same period.   The French orchestras sounded very different in those days, to my ears.   

And the Schuricht is certainly available, but not cheap, in my experience.

[kishnevi]

I assume you were referring to the following twofer, am I correct?  I certainly do not have this one ...

That's the one.  If memory serves me well, I enjoyed the concertos more than the symphonies.

[eyeresist]

There's also one with three of the "middle" symphonies,  coupled with the violin concertos performed by Wallfisch,  but Kuijken is present only on the symphonies.

Yeah, that one is much less of a must-have. Even the symphonies are really not very memorable compared to his other two Virgin 2-CD sets.

And then the 7th, performed here with it's unattractive "happy" ending (just a sarcastic opinion) but I think I may have found the one version that went the "happy" route that I can endorse. Kuchar successfully seques from the original ending to the revised with such a minor pause that it flows better than other recordings, it doesn't seem to stress or separate the two.

Have you heard Malko?

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EDIT: Answered in the Prokofiev thread.
EDIT: Not the usual Prokofiev thread, but the "Prokofiev's symphonies" thread in the recordings forum.

[kishnevi]

Item No. 1 was seen on the "Worst CD Covers" thread, and intrigued me.  I can alway cover the image with a pretty picture of my own.  Item No. 2 has been pending in my cart waiting for Amazon's price fluctuations to go downward instead of upward.  Tonight I saw it has gone done (to $20 and change), so tacked it on to take advantage of the free shipping.
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[Que]

Item No. 1 was seen on the "Worst CD Covers" thread, and intrigued me.  I can alway cover the image with a pretty picture of my own.  Item No. 2 has been pending in my cart waiting for Amazon's price fluctuations to go downward instead of upward.  Tonight I saw it has gone done (to $20 and change), so tacked it on to take advantage of the free shipping.
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I only know Mitroplous in Mahler from his recording of the 6th with the WDRSO/KRSO, but looks like a great deal.

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Thumbs up for that one! Pretty "definite" interpretations for me - just the way I like it, it's all about the harpsichords.
Stripping these works down from the later Classical conceptualization of a "concerto", proves to be stroke of genius.

Q

[jlaurson]

I only know Mitroplous in Mahler from his recording of the 6th with the WDRSO/KRSO, but looks like a great deal.

Thumbs up for that one! Pretty "definite" interpretations for me - just the way I like it, it's all about the harpsichords.
Stripping these works down from the later Classical conceptualization of a "concerto", proves to be stroke of genius.

Q

It's just great that the set is available again, after having been hard to come by.

That said, it doesn't include the best of Mitrop., or else the ones you're already most likely to have:

The Sixth is the WDR -- a great performance in rather bad sound for its 1959 age. But the New York performance I recently acquired, finally, is better.

The Third is the butchered Philharmonic Society Third from 1956, in English, and so ruthlessly cut that even I, who I usually don't mind cuts, have to shake my head. Only a curiosity.

Here, the Cologne performance is better.

The Eighth is the fairly famous Salzburg live performance also available on Orfeo. Nothing wrong with that (apart from not-very-good, recessed sound), in fact one of the 8ths to have, if one doesn't already.

For those who had these 'standard' Mitrop. releases, that leaves the First and Ninth and the Adagio from the 10th (all Philharmonic SO, Carnegie Hall performances). Even then, still worth it, I think.

G. Mahler
Symphyony No.6
Mitropuolos / NYP 1955
Archipel

German link - UK link

Terrific... amazing in some ways... occ. shoddy playing becomes unimportant... and in better sound than the WDR recording.

G. Mahler
Symphyony No.3
Mitropuolos / RSO Köln / Lucretia West 1958?
Archipel

German link - UK link

[nico1616]

Fnac is again slimming down its classical cd collection 
But a great opportunity for some bargain purchases 

First listen to the Haydn disc from the Schuppanzigh Quartet.
I had never heard of them before but this sounds exceptionally good!

[kishnevi]

G. Mahler
Symphyony No.3
Mitropuolos / RSO Köln / Lucretia West 1958?
Archipel

German link - UK link

Thank.  I have absolutely nothing by Mitroplous, so I jumped on this one.  Now, if you excuse me, I need to put those other two on my wish list.

[jlaurson]

Big cat-dropping today at my door. Lots of new things and some self-acquired discs, like these, which I'm listening to now.

R. Schumann Symphonies 1 & 2 L.Bernstein / NYPhil Sony (HRHPoW Edition) German link - UK link	Bill Evans Trio at Shelly's Manne Hole, Hollywood, California Riverside German link - UK link
J.S. Bach Die Kunst der Fuge Lifschitz Orfeo German link - UK link	C. Debussy La Mer, Prelude, Images Gatti / ONdeFrance Sony German link - UK link

Took me forever to get my hands on Lennies NYP Schumann (after deciding almost ten years ago that I wanted it) without having to get a ruddy box with *everything*. Half way there now, at least. Now if anyone who HAS gotten one of those boxes, but had the HRHPoW Edition before, would be willing to send me their copy of Symphonies 3 & 4, I'm sure I'd find something nice from my shelves to say thank-you with.

Bill Evans -- probably just my childish self, but: What a horrible name for an album! Great album, though.