Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Daverz]

Nojima Plays Liszt, 24/88 download from HDTracks.

[The new erato]

Actively disliking 'La valse'?? Get thee to the Unpopular Opinions thread so I can properly chastise you!

Vastly overblown and grotesque (I know that was the effect Ravel was striving for) without the wonderful finesse and sublety that is his finest quality.

[Karl Henning]

Actively disliking 'La valse'?? Get thee to the Unpopular Opinions thread so I can properly chastise you!

Horsewhip the miscreant!

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Horsewhip the miscreant!

+1

[Mirror Image]

Actively disliking 'La valse'?? Get thee to the Unpopular Opinions thread so I can properly chastise you!

I'm not particularly fond it either.

[Sadko]

I'm not particularly fond it either.

Admit it, you just want the whipping

[Mirror Image]

Admit it, you just want the whipping

[Fafner]

I'm not particularly fond it either.

It floats...!  It floats! Throw him into the pond.

[Mirror Image]

Vastly overblown and grotesque (I know that was the effect Ravel was striving for) without the wonderful finesse and sublety that is his finest quality.

It has always been one of Ravel's works which I have tried to actively like but only failing with each listen. I've heard probably 15 different performances of it. None of them changed or altered my view of the work. Give me Daphnis, Ma mere l'oye, or the PCs any day.

[The new erato]

It has always been one of Ravel's works which I have tried to actively like but only failing with each listen. I've heard probably 15 different performances of it. None of them changed or altered my view of the work. Give me Daphnis, Ma mere l'oye, or the PCs any day.

I do agree, but before we get too friendly, remember I'm no fan of Delius. OTOH I love nearly every note that Bartok wrote.

[Conor71]

Picked up this one:

[marvinbrown]

  I promised myself no more Wagner purchases.  I have enough Wagner.  But when I saw this boxset at the collapsed HMV store on Picadilly Circus for £60 I decided to enquire further about the price and was told that there was a further 25% discount......... for £45  this was too good to pass up! True I already have Barenboim's Ring but the reason for buying this set is that I needed modern recordings of the earlier operas, those I currently have are quite old. Also I needed a Der Meistersinger recording from Bayreuth and for £45 I said what the hell.........after all I am a Wagner NUT!!

  [asin]B005MIQG6M[/asin]

  Anyone living in London and inrterested in this set head immediately to HMV (or what's left of it!!) and snap this set up!

  marvin

[Mirror Image]

I do agree, but before we get too friendly, remember I'm no fan of Delius. OTOH I love nearly every note that Bartok wrote.

It doesn't matter to me whether you like Delius or not, erato. What does that have to do with anything? We have other composers in common.

[Leo K.]

I'm excited to finally get Gergiev's account of Borodin's Prince Igor!

[North Star]

Okay, I might as well end this now.  Here's hoping that Warner doesn't delete all available EMI editions in the next few months.  Cue resignation!
I might very well have wasted some time with all these ASINs, because this was a B.R.O. order.

[asin]B0031B7EQ8[/asin]
[asin]B001F4YGU0[/asin]

**Pounds the table**
The Orkis/Schubert and Janacek are tempting...

[TheGSMoeller]

Some more Bruckner discs for my collection, including Harnoncourt's 5th that I find amazing (listened on Spotify)....

     



A few more Strauss, including a very recent SACD Don Quixote with Jan Vogler on Cello and Luisi conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden. And piano music featuring Frank Braley...

[Octave]

The Orkis/Schubert and Janacek are tempting...

I am committed to getting the Lubimov recording of the IMPROMPTUS, but the Orkis seems to include some drafts that don't get recorded often (?), so I cannot pass that up.  The Janacek I probably should have asked about first, it was an impulse buy; but I am on the Leos Wagon bigtime, lately.... 

[kishnevi]

Found my mailbox very stuffed when I got home tonight.

Decca's Ravel Complete Edition from Amazon UK
Jonas Kauffman's new CD of Wagner from Arkivmusic
Vivaldi Concertos for Bassoon III from the Naive series, off Amazon MP
and the final parcel from my Beethoven symphony splurge also landed:  Barenboim/Staatskapelle Berlin (the Warner Fedora cycle).

So now  I have 23 Beethoven symphony cycles.

24 if you count Sherbakov's recording of the Liszt transcriptions.

BTW,  I don't actually dislike La Valse.  But I do find it rather boring.
The same with Bolero.

Yet I seem to love everything else Ravel wrote....
(subject to change once I've gone through that Decca box, since there are a number of Ravel works I don't remember ever hearing)

[Octave]

I accidentally omitted a couple items from my last order/list; quite by coincidence (and a reason why I realized the omission), Gordon Shumway just praised a couple discs of this Mozart collection in their earlier incarnations, over in the Listening thread.  A relief to hear that there are some good recordings therein!  I followed the tip of a friend, but there's always a little anxiety about investments, even cheap ones. 

[asin]B00AC4D5DI[/asin]
DHM MOZART EDITION

[asin]B00023BHE8[/asin]
Helmut Lachenmann: DAS MÄDCHEN ('Tokyo-Fassung', Cambreling/ECM)

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

To help Erato a little in his quest, remember my dear friend I am not that rich as you are.