Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[AnthonyAthletic]

Tony, you might want to check the content of a certain DVD, if Berwald's your thing.

Desparately trying to dig them out, looking high and low for them at the moment    I know they are stashed in my 'special' case, but I can't find this 'special' case at the moment 

Gotta be somewhere.......

[Mark]

Tony, that's A LOT of music to just 'lose'. Don't make me come up there ...

[Mark]

Someone didn't like their early music, so I got lucky at Oxfam today:

[BachQ]

Someone didn't like their early music, so I got lucky at Oxfam today:

Mark, could you make those images a bit fuzzier?

[71 dB]

Mark, could you make those images a bit fuzzier?

Mark did not make them fuzzy, Naxos did. 

[Mark]

Tiny images were all I could find. I just scaled up what I had.

[The new erato]

Mark did not make them fuzzy, Naxos did. 

You mean the covers are like that

[Mark]

You mean the covers are like that

Well, they are on Naxos' own site, which is where I hotlinked these images from (I think) ...

[Peregrine]

Haydn string quartets Op.76 1-3/Panocha quartet/Supraphon

[George]

Haydn string quartets Op.76 1-3/Panocha quartet/Supraphon

[George]

[Que]

Interesting! 

Also interesting, I know these - superb transfers, I'm curious what you'll make of them.

Legendary!

Q

[Peregrine]

Cool, I must try some of their Haydn...

[Harry]

Some tittbits

[Harry]

 

[George]

Interesting! 

Also interesting, I know these - superb transfers, I'm curious what you'll make of them.

I sure will let you know. 

[George]

Cool, I must try some of their Haydn...

My very first music course (Intro to Music) had a 3 CD set with the finale to Op. 33, #2. I loved the work and performance and recently found out it was Tatrai. 

[Sergeant Rock]

zauberflote's description of the finale of the Fifth intrigued me enough to want to hear it. Since the box set was actually cheaper than the OOP single disc, I opted for the box:




Sarge

[Mark]

zauberflote's description of the finale of the Fifth intrigued me enough to want to hear it. Since the box set was actually cheaper than the OOP single disc, I opted for the box:




Sarge

I'll expect your report on this soonest, Sarge. This is a very tempting box indeed.

[Lilas Pastia]

Not new purchases (they date back a few months), but they were shipped to my brother in NC. He's in town now, so sitting on top of the pile and threatening to topple if I breathe within 5 feet are:

Haydn symphonies 42-44, 73-75 and 82-84, Roy Goodman
Parsifal, Bayreuth 1954 (Knappertsbusch)
Tchaikovsky symphonies 2, 4, 6, Vladimir Delman and the Torino orchestra
A 1950-1952 recital by Martha Mödl (opera arias fromn German, French, Italian and Russian operas, all sung in German)
Boccherini: String Quintets vol I and II on Brilliant Classics
Shostakovich chamber music  box on Brilliant: piano trio 2, piano quintet, sonatas for violin, viola, cello and piano sonata 2
Violin concertos from the classical era (Myslivecek, Viotti, Schubert, Spohr)

And finally, the crown jewel of the lot, a mammoth (26 discs) anthology of arias and complete opera performances from 1949-1956 by Maria Callas, lavishly produced and coming with a double sized booklet of 124 pages on glossy paper, complete with dozens of photos and a meticulous appreciation of every single item on the disc. These comprise no fewer than 5 performances of Lucia (the whole opera from the EMI recording and 4 half hour extracts from live performances), 5 Normas (same thing), half a dozen Aidas and Violettas, etc. The emphasis is on live performances, but quite a few of the familiar EMI releases are included. Altogether, a superb compendium of La Divina's best years. Presented in a sturdy 12" high box. I'm happy to have sizable extracts (typically 25-45 minutes) from famous performances. I would never have bought, say, 4 different live Aidas from 1950-1952, or 3 different Medeas, but I can have a good idea all the same. Considering some of this material is in abominably wretched sound, and the rest is very dated at best, this makes a very reasonable package. Needless to say, it was a classic BRO case of now you see it, now you don't. I was lucky to get it...

As usual with Berkshire, they deliver damaged goods: lots of missing prongs that cause the disc to obey the laws of gravity when opening the jewel case, self-destructing double jewel case (litterally falls in pieces when opened), dog-eared carton gatefold sleeves, etc. Only the Callas box escaped damage