Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[George]

Mravinsky, Shostakovich Symphonies 6, 12

For $6.

[Steve]

Three Operas Today:

[Harry]

This one

[Valentino]

I didn't know that Alfvén had made music to Bjørnsjerne Bjørnson's "Synnøve Solbakken". How very educating this forum is!

[Maciek]

And 1953 was quite the year in (then) the Soviet Union, eh, Maciek? 

You know your Taneyev editions pretty well, don't you, Karl?

And yes, it was quite a year. Here's an anecdote exhibiting Gregorz Fitelberg's courage (from one of the books by Henryk Czyz, one of my favorite conductors):

Ficio [Fitelberg's affectionate nickname] came into the studio and started a speech:

"Gentlemen! A great man has passed away. One of those thanks to whom humanity has etc. He was my great friend. I am extremely proud of the fact that he once chose me to perform for the first time his First Symphony! Could a greater honor have ever been bestowed upon me?" He went on and on about the greatness of Prokofiev's achievements to finally say: "Gentlemen! A minute of silence to honor the memory of a Great Artist and Man!"

Everyone got up. When they sat down again Ficio raised his baton to start the rehearsal. Just before giving the signal to start he says in an offhand manner to the concertmaster "I hear Stalin is dead too?" And bang! They began to play.

Now you need this 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Taneyev-Concerto-Moscow-Russian-Philharmonic/dp/B000J3FBOS

Drasko, you , you!

0:)

[Harry]

This one too!

[rubio]

My postman must have been in good mood today  :

         

[sound67]

Thomas

[Lilas Pastia]

Very nice haul ! I have some of these works, but there's a certain mystique to the Lyrita catalogue. Whatever they issued seemed to outclass the competition.

I suppose those Boult LPO Elgar symphonies are different from the 1970s EMI ??

[Heather Harrison]

I saw this one in a store and grabbed it:



This is a performance of Lully's last complete opera.  As usual, Minkowski delivers a great performance, and many excellent singers are also involved.  I love French Baroque opera and I buy recordings and DVDs whenever I see them.  This one certainly didn't disappoint.

Heather

[71 dB]

I saw this one in a store and grabbed it:



This is a performance of Lully's last complete opera.  As usual, Minkowski delivers a great performance, and many excellent singers are also involved.  I love French Baroque opera and I buy recordings and DVDs whenever I see them.  This one certainly didn't disappoint.

Heather

Very interesting CD! I am curious about Lully's operas and I like Minkowski. 

[Heather Harrison]

This is only the second of Lully's operas that I have encountered (the first is Persee - the only one so far available on DVD, as far as I know).  Aside from this, I have run into excerpts from his operas on recital CDs of French Baroque music.  After hearing these two, I would certainly love to find more.  His style (and the French style in general, as in Rameau's operas) retains the smooth musical flow that Monteverdi's operas exhibit and which was lost from Italian Baroque opera as it became a series of rapid-fire recitativo secco interspersed with virtuoso da capo arias.  (As a side note, Lully was an Italian transplanted to France, but he founded the distinct French style of opera.)  The French recitative is more melodic and it blends smoothly with the airs and dances.  Acis et Galatee also includes some nice middle-Baroque-style polyphonic sections; the long passacaille at the end is especially lovely.

Heather

[sound67]

I suppose those Boult LPO Elgar symphonies are different from the 1970s EMI ??

Yes. They were recorded in the late 60s.

Thomas

[Harry]

This one.

[Maciek]

I see you're slowly amassing a nice Tansman collection, Harry! Good for you! I need to do that too (though I do have a few discs already - but nothing on Naxos).

Maciek

[Harry]

I see you're slowly amassing a nice Tansman collection, Harry! Good for you! I need to do that too (though I do have a few discs already - but nothing on Naxos).

Maciek

It is a first on Naxos Maciek, and I hope they will invest some more time in the rest of his Orchestral works.

[Maciek]

It is a first on Naxos Maciek

I was absolutely certain I saw you post some more a while back! Memory is not serving me well today. Ah, never mind.

[Harry]

I was absolutely certain I saw you post some more a while back! Memory is not serving me well today. Ah, never mind.

Yes that was correct Maciek, your memory is serving you well, I merely stated that it was a first recording from Naxos, not the first recording I bought from Tansman.

[George]

The waiting is the hardest part... - Tom Petty

[Sergeant Rock]

Continuing to acquire Lloyd. Today from Amazon UK:




From JPC:






Sarge