Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Gurn Blanston]

Lovely disk, bet you'll like it! 

Curious to know how you like this. I like Gade, the few pieces I have of him. Heavily influenced by Mendelssohn, but still his own man.

[MN Dave]

Lovely disk, bet you'll like it! 

I hope so; I hear it's the good stuff.

Curious to know how you like this. I like Gade, the few pieces I have of him. Heavily influenced by Mendelssohn, but still his own man.

I will let you know, Gurn.

[Daverz]

Oliveira has lovely tone in this Barber VC.  It's a shame he hasn't recorded more.

[MN Dave]

Oliveira has lovely tone in this Barber VC.  It's a shame he hasn't recorded more.

I was sampling this earlier and it's just full of great music, orchestral and chamber. I can't wait to dig in later.

[bhodges]

Oliveira has lovely tone in this Barber VC.  It's a shame he hasn't recorded more.

I totally agree.  That was one of the first CDs I ever bought, and I still think Oliveira's version of one of the best of the Barber around. 

Somehow I missed him in the Shostakovich First Violin Concerto (below) released in 2004.  Maybe you or someone else has heard it and can comment?

--Bruce

[M forever]

Oh right, you were just talking about how much others have no clue about music, just as usual. How foolish of me to forget something of such monumental importance.

Not "others" in general. Just you. And I wasn't even talking about that. I was talking about the stylistic spectrum of traditional orchestral styles on the axis Berlin-Dresden-Prague-Vienna in response to Mr Pastia's very perceptive comments about the connections between German and Czech culture. Apparently you didn't get that. Which confirms my impression of you in general.

Thanks to M forever I learned I don't have a clue about music. Fortunately I'm able to enjoy music without all the understanding and knowledge...  I apologize all people on this forum I talked bullshit about Elgar's excellence so long.

You never talked bullshit about "Elgar's excellence". If you like to listen to his music, fine, a lot of other people do, too, including myself, although I have to say my enjoyment of Elgar's music recently has been somewhat diminished because when I listen to it, I unfortunately have to think of you and all the crap you have posted right next to his picture. I don't think nobody here ever minded you praising his music and letting us know how much you enjoy it. I am sure everybody is very happy for you about that. It's just all the other crap about "multidemensional fields" and how all other composers are overrated hacks that annoyed me and pretty much everyone else here.

[Brian]

Just received a package myself: Gielen's Brahms cycle, Norrington's later Beethoven cycle, and a few historical treats.

Oh dear, it sounds as if I have cost you money. 

[Brian]

Now what you need to get next, since you like to listen to and review recordings of Tchaikovsky symphonies without ever having heard Mravinsky's epochal recordings on DG, is this:



This "Originals" release sounds slightly better than the original CD release. What few people know is that when DG taped this in London and Vienna, they also recorded the Leningrad Philharmonic in a suite from Khatchaturian's "Gayaneh" and Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini", both conducted by Rozhdestvensky. Rather than splitting the 5th symphony across 2 discs, they could have released a nice 3 disc set with these as fillers.

I saw the older release of that at the store, but did not want to spend the required $40 - I think the "Originals" release can be had for much cheaper. Wish that DG would sell the Rozh recordings that you mention as well; his performance of "Gayaneh's Adagio" from that session was used (abridged) in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and is the most touching account of that beautiful piece that I have yet heard. Alas, still unavailable except in the cut version on the movie soundtrack.

[Drasko]

Wish that DG would sell the Rozh recordings that you mention as well; his performance of "Gayaneh's Adagio" from that session was used (abridged) in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and is the most touching account of that beautiful piece that I have yet heard. Alas, still unavailable except in the cut version on the movie soundtrack.

It should be this, difficult to figure out who does what exactly:

http://www.amazon.com/Chefs-duvre-musique-Russe-Alexander-Borodin/dp/B00004VE6X

edit: it is

[M forever]

It is indeed. I have that French disc. The Francesca da Rimini was also available once on a DG Galleria disc coupled with Rowicki conducting DSCH5 (with the Warsaw Philharmonic) - extremely hard to find for a reasonable price. I looked for it for 2 years or so until I found it for around $20. Still, it would be great if these recordings were available more readily as they have great historical significance. These are among the very few recordings of the LP from that era in decent sound. Although the sound of the Gayaneh suite on the French disc is noticeably more "muffled" than the well known Mravinsky items - a transfer problem? Whatever it is, another good reason to retransfer and re-release these recordings.

[Brian]

It is indeed. I have that French disc. The Francesca da Rimini was also available once on a DG Galleria disc coupled with Rowicki conducting DSCH5 (with the Warsaw Philharmonic) - extremely hard to find for a reasonable price. I looked for it for 2 years or so until I found it for around $20. Still, it would be great if these recordings were available more readily as they have great historical significance. These are among the very few recordings of the LP from that era in decent sound. Although the sound of the Gayaneh suite on the French disc is noticeably more "muffled" than the well known Mravinsky items - a transfer problem? Whatever it is, another good reason to retransfer and re-release these recordings.

Or, even better for my wallet, license them to Brilliant et. al.

[PerfectWagnerite]

I saw the older release of that at the store, but did not want to spend the required $40 - I think the "Originals" release can be had for much cheaper. Wish that DG would sell the Rozh recordings that you mention as well; his performance of "Gayaneh's Adagio" from that session was used (abridged) in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey and is the most touching account of that beautiful piece that I have yet heard. Alas, still unavailable except in the cut version on the movie soundtrack.

You talking about this:



versus this?



Both cost about $19 from Amazon sellers. Trust me that is about $20 well spent if there ever was one. I wouldn't say Mravinsky is "better" than anybody else in these works they certainly seem more "convincing". It is difficult to describe but the Leningrad Philharmonic really has to be heard to believed.

[12tone.]

Cool!  How does that one stack up?  The only other one I'm familiar with is Pinnock's.  Compared with that, how does Savall play out?

[Renfield]

Oh dear, it sounds as if I have cost you money. 

Money well spent.

[Brian]

Money well spent.

I certainly hope so! 

[Que]

Just ordered.



Q

[71 dB]

It's just all the other crap about "multidemensional fields" and how all other composers are overrated hacks that annoyed me and pretty much everyone else here.

Sorry, but I have to give name to my experiencies in order to talk about them. Is it my fault other people are apparently blind to dimensional structures in art and can't understand what I am talking about?

[The new erato]

Sorry, but I have to give name to my experiencies in order to talk about them. Is it my fault other people are apparently blind to dimensional structures in art and can't understand what I am talking about?

If you can't communicate your experience in a way understood by a single other person, it's your problem and not the worlds.

[71 dB]

If you can't communicate your experience in a way understood by a single other person, it's your problem and not the worlds.

Yes, it's definitely my problem. I have suffered from it all my life...

[Sergeant Rock]

M's description of Davis's Schubert cycle convinced me to buy...not that I needed much incentive: I love Schubert, I admire Davis (for his Sibelius, Elgar, Mozart, Berlioz, Tippet, Beethoven and his skill as a conductor of concertos--his obvious empathy with and connection to his soloists)...and it's the Dresden afterall:




More from Dresden:




I bought an LP of the Wagner Symphony when I was young and ignorant, and in the early throes of Wagner idolatry. The Symphony really disappointed me because it didn't sound like Wagner but like Beethoven (I wasn't yet a fan of Classical era music). Well, forty years later and I've rediscovered this minor gem. The slow movement is especially impressive....and there are brief flashes of the Wagner we all know and love    More surprising is the "Hungarian" sounding theme that reminds me of Liszt.




CPO offers this 7-CD box of Son of Wagner's music at a budget price. I thought I'd take a chance:




Sarge