Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Kullervo]

And in addition to the Bach sets posted above, the rest of my Christmas booty:




(I must have been very good this year!)

I hope you like the 3rd! That was my introduction to Nørgård. Were you interested in the Sibelius connection too?

[karlhenning]

It's really nice. Possibly it will be one of my favourites albums in my collection.

Excellent, Henk.  Bogey, too, knows the charms of the Sextet!

[longears]

No kidding!  That's a big heap o' Nørgård...please post impressions.  I have heard a good bit of his chamber music and choral pieces but none of these pieces yet.  I'd also be interested in that performance of the Ligeti Violin Concerto, since I don't know that violinist.

Gladly, Bruce.

I hope you like the 3rd! That was my introduction to Nørgård. Were you interested in the Sibelius connection too?

I've heard the 3rd and do like it, but haven't heard this recording.  Segerstam's the bee's knees in most Nordic music I've heard, and both Scott M. and Chris F. praise this recording so I expect it to prove well worthwhile.  And indeed I was intrigued by Nørgård's correspondence with Sibelius and belated recognition of how ahead of his time Janne was.

[Bogey]

Just noticed this one....thank you Karl for the "total recall".  Excellent piece by Copland.  Please post your total review over at the corral. 

[Bogey]

(I must have been very good this year!)

We're gonna show it again, cause we have editing equipment.-Kenny Mayne

[Brian]

We're gonna show it again, cause we have editing equipment.-Kenny Mayne

The same Kenny Mayne who was on Dancing with the Stars? For one episode? 

[longears]

The same Kenny Mayne who was on Dancing with the Stars? For one episode? 

Yep!

(I had to look him up--turns out he was a junior college All-American QB, even though he apparently has two left feet.  Perhaps an inability to roll out to his left kept him from a glorious pro career?)

[Bogey]

Yep!

(I had to look him up--turns out he was a junior college All-American QB, even though he apparently has two left feet.  Perhaps an inability to roll out to his left kept him from a glorious pro career?)

He's who Will Farrell wish he could be. 

[Gustav]

[PerfectWagnerite]

Let me know what you think. I have the entire cycle and I find the performances uniformly rather bland. Very well-played but no real standouts. Don't get me wrong they are very good performances but doesn't grab your attention like Wand or Jochum. It's funny because about 15 years ago I heard these performances in my school music library and remember them being knockouts.

[rockerreds]

Beethoven/Brahams Violin Concertos-Heifetz/Munch/Reiner (RCA Red Seal)
Debussy 12 Etudes-Uchida (Philips)

[hautbois]

Let me know what you think. I have the entire cycle and I find the performances uniformly rather bland. Very well-played but no real standouts. Don't get me wrong they are very good performances but doesn't grab your attention like Wand or Jochum. It's funny because about 15 years ago I heard these performances in my school music library and remember them being knockouts.

Perhaps it was the music itself that knocked you away and not the performance itself. 

Howard

[The new erato]

Perhaps it was the music itself that knocked you away and not the performance itself. 

Howard

Nothing like the first listen. Your description sounds both plausible and familiar.

[PerfectWagnerite]

4 cds for about $17 including shipping from archivmusic weekend special

[Lilas Pastia]

These 4-somes form Naïve are very tempting. I'm contemplating the Harp combo  0:).

[PerfectWagnerite]

These 4-somes form Naïve are very tempting. I'm contemplating the Harp combo  0:).

WHich harp combo is that?
What other Naïve 4-somes are out there?

[Que]

The last of Paul Komen's LvB that I didn't get yet - greatly enjoying these.
I was quite glad to read that Komen actually will complete this LvB sonatas cycle for Globe. 

Q

[Maciek]

I know that Second Violin Concerto, op. 21, the 'Military'

(...)
[ahem ]

a very attractive piece.

Actually, those two CPO discs are at the very, very, very top of my jpc wishlist - I've heard them both on the radio (the little red circle on the covers is the Polish Radio logo, I'm sure you were dying to find out... ), and they seemed quite excellent. I guess it really is time I pulled the trigger...

[Harry]

Actually, those two CPO discs are at the very, very, very top of my jpc wishlist - I've heard them both on the radio (the little red circle on the covers is the Polish Radio logo, I'm sure you were dying to find out... ), and they seemed quite excellent. I guess it really is time I pulled the trigger...

And what is even better, they are budget price!

[Sergeant Rock]

I am surprised, I would have thought you already had all of the above. In any case, these sets all have a lot of interesting stuff in them. You chose wisely.

Only recently have I started to collect complete Mahler sets. In the LP days and the first two decades of the CD era, I'd pick and choose individual performances based on reviews and listening in music shops (Germany was wonderful: almost every shop had listening stations, some with comfy chairs!). Complete sets (whether each symphony bought singly or in a box) were expensive so I avoided them. That's not the case today and I'm taking advantage of the good prices to fill in the blanks in my collection. I started with Bertini and then acquired Maazel and Tennstedt.

In the case of Sinopoli's Mahler, the first two releases, the Fifth and Second, did not impress me much and I simply avoided the rest of his cycle. But what I've read here and elsewhere about certain performances (the Sixth, Seventh, Ninth) intrigued me and I decided to indulge myself this Christmas.

I wonder how this sounds. I often complain that the recordings released by EMI do not reflect the sound of the MP under Celibidache very well. It would be nice if you could post a sample

Sure. Here's a link to the Scherzo: it's an mp3 but it should give you an idea:

http://rapidshare.de/files/38164406/bruckner5-scherzo.mp3.html

Have you ever heard the MP under Celibidache live?

Yeah, I have. In the mid-80s I was stationed in Bad Tölz (17 months) and Munich (two years). I heard Celi several times: Bruckner 3, Beethoven, Mozart, Schumann, Mussorgsky. My first live Celi was in 1980 at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart: Haydn 104 and Bruckner 3. I saw him in Mannheim, too, in 1982. Beethoven, Strauss, and Brahms 4.

Sarge