Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[rubio]

Did not comment before, but that's the right choice IMO.

Q

In addition to the Kubelik "Meistersinger", I guess .

[Que]

In addition to the Kubelik "Meistersinger", I guess .

I like Kempe better.

Q

[rubio]

I like Kempe better.

Q

That sounds very promising . In which way do you prefer it?

[Que]

That sounds very promising . In which way do you prefer it?

The Kubelik is excellent, but I think Kempe draws longer lines and sustains miraculous tension throughout. Kubelik is smaller scale, almost chamber music-like. Kempe brings out Wagner's sensuality more. Plus, important factor, I like Kempe's singers better.

Q

[rubio]

The Kubelik is excellent, but I think Kempe draws longer lines and sustains miraculous tension throughout. Kubelik is smaller scale, almost chamber music-like. Kempe brings out Wagner's sensuality more. Plus, important factor, I like Kempe's singers better.

Q

Thank you for your comment, Que!

[mn dave]

I had bits of this, but now I have the whole enchilada.



Now I can die and go to heaven and be given special treatment.  0:)

[George]

Nice move Dave! 

Though now you won't have to die to be in heaven.  0:)

[PerfectWagnerite]

I had bits of this, but now I have the whole enchilada.



Now I can die and go to heaven and be given special treatment.  0:)

FOr my money the most satisfying Beethoven cycle on the market. Congratulations. Oh and the PC are the cream of the crop also.

[Solitary Wanderer]

This:

[Sergeant Rock]

Waiting in the mail-box today :

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Is that the 1956 Berlin Meistersinger with Frantz, Frick and Grümmer?

Sarge

[rubio]

Is that the 1956 Berlin Meistersinger with Frantz, Frick and Grümmer?

Sarge

That's correct, Sarge.

Supraphon could be my favourite label .

[Joe_Campbell]

Just received this from Amazon--my first purchase from their site. Excellent delivery time, plus I got it on sale.

The CD is excellent, if one prefers Hamelin's style of playing (which I do). It also features some incredibly interesting jazz-tangents, in the likes of the Weissenberg Sonata in a State of Jazz. Of course, there's also Kapustin's sonata; very cool!

Highly recommended.

[M forever]

When was that recorded? The recordings of the tone poems with the CP and Neumann (from the late 70s, also on Supraphon) is one of my all-time favorite discs.

[Gurn Blanston]

When was that recorded? The recordings of the tone poems with the CP and Neumann (from the late 70s, also on Supraphon) is one of my all-time favorite discs.

Recorded in 1961, released on CD in 1998.  It is excellent, to my taste. Crisp, clear playing by the Czechs, well recorded, and lively tempos throughout. I particularly enjoyed "The Noon Witch".   



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Listening to:
French Overtures - Czech RSO / Hayman - Auber Overture to The Crown Diamonds

[Brian]

That's correct, Sarge.

Supraphon could be my favourite label .

Where'd you find this? ArkivMusic has it on back-order, Amazon has it for $24...

[Gurn Blanston]

Where'd you find this? ArkivMusic has it on back-order, Amazon has it for $24...

Goggle it. HBDirect has it for $11...



(Unless I had a cranio-rectal inversion and they had it back ordered too... )

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Listening to:
French Overtures - Czech RSO / Hayman - Auber Overture to The Bronze Horse

[Gurn Blanston]

http://www.hbdirect.com/album_detail.php?pid=235806

There you go!



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Listening to:
French Overtures - Czech RSO / Hayman - Auber Overture to The Bronze Horse

[M forever]

Oh, good. I had never heard of that online store. So I ordered one of those copies. I really like the music. As kitschy as it sounds, it transports me back to my childhood days. We got the East German TV channels (yes, they actually had *2* channels, even *in color*) and they had a lot of really great Czech children's movies on, some of which used these pieces, not surprisingly, or music similar to them ("inspired" by them). Czechia is very much fairy tale country anyway, still lots of dense forests, fields and meadows, old castles everywhere, and there are a lot of traditional fairy tales which are also part of the German cultural repertoire because these lands were settled by both Czechs and Germans for many centuries.

[Gurn Blanston]

Oh, good. I had never heard of that online store. So I ordered one of those copies. I really like the music. As kitschy as it sounds, it transports me back to my childhood days. We got the East German TV channels (yes, they actually had *2* channels, even *in color*) and they had a lot of really great Czech children's movies on, some of which used these pieces, not surprisingly, or music similar to them ("inspired" by them). Czechia is very much fairy tale country anyway, still lots of dense forests, fields and meadows, old castles everywhere, and there are a lot of traditional fairy tales which are also part of the German cultural repertoire because these lands were settled by both Czechs and Germans for many centuries.

Good, glad you were able to get it. I think you will be pleased. Lilas turned me on to that recording about 2 years ago and I have never felt the need to hunt around for more.

I would actually like to read the stories that these are based on. When I first heard them (BP / Kubelik), I had no idea really that they were anything but absolute music (ignorance is bliss sometimes). Since I discovered otherwise, I have always been curious about the origin. 





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Listening to:
Purcell Sonatas - Da Sonar - Purcell Sonata #03 in a   Z804

[M forever]

I would be surprised if there weren't English translations of those stories.