Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[scarpia]

[jwinter]

Eugene Ormandy's 10-CD Original Jacket set, $9.99, 256 kbps MP3 from Amazon.  Lots of great music for that price!

http://tinyurl.com/5qnwtv

[not edward]

Found a pristine copy of an old Decca release: Pascal Roge and friends in Poulenc chamber music and piano including the sonata for two pianos, the violin sonata and the horn Elegie. Great stuff!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I'm also tempted by the Chopin/Liszt and Beethoven II volumes of the Richter: The Authorized Recordings. Would those be a good Richter introduction?

I would say yes to the Richter Chopin/Liszt set. Excellent Liszt sonata plus some very nice Chopin preludes.

Haven't heard Beethoven II myself but generally Richter's Beethoven is top notch.

[rockerreds]

Eugene Ormandy's 10-CD Original Jacket set, $9.99, 256 kbps MP3 from Amazon.  Lots of great music for that price!

http://tinyurl.com/5qnwtv

You should check out the review in the Philadelphia Inquirer 7/27/08.

[rubio]

Is that 1943 on the date Rubio?

It's 1940. I think there also has been a 1943 recording of the 1st on the market (Tahra).

And today.

 

[Wanderer]

[Drasko]

 

Where you have found that one?

[George]

Where you have found that one?

If Drasko can't find it, you know it must be rare. 

[rubio]

Where you have found that one?

I picked it up at Amazon marketplace for $25. I think most of these items tend to pop up at Amazon marketplace or ebay for an acceptable price from time to time. Patience is the virtue, I guess.

[The new erato]

Where you have found that one?

In the september prereleases there's a big (and cheap) EMI Cortot box that seems to cover a lot of his Schumann. Somebody may have decided to dump while the Pearls still were valuable.

[Que]

In the september prereleases there's a big (and cheap) EMI Cortot box that seems to cover a lot of his Schumann. Somebody may have decided to dump while the Pearls still were valuable.

I have the transfers on Biddulph, those are excellent. Also the Cortot issues in the Great Pianists series cover quite a portion of his Schumann, in excellent transfers as well.

Do you have more info on that new EMI issue? Will it be in the Great Rec. of the Century series?

Q

[rubio]

Do you have more info on that new EMI issue? Will it be in the Great Rec. of the Century series?

Q

It does not seem to be much Schumann in the new EMI box.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/NR_September08/2173042.htm

[The new erato]

It does not seem to be much Schumann in the new EMI box.

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/NR_September08/2173042.htm

I'm sorry, you're right.  I must have misremembered.

I think I mixed it up with this:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/NR_September08/8111327.htm

which is also in the September prerelease and contains a couple of major Schumann works.

[Renfield]

I am pushing it, I know, but yet another "final amazon order before I leave Greece" :




The 8th, 5th and 9th I already have from other sources. But the 4th, 3/4ths of the 6th, and the 7th, as well as the promise of alternative remasterings (possibly better, possibly not) of the ones I do have, clinched the deal.

[M forever]

Greece? I thought you lived somewhere in East Asia.

[jwinter]

You should check out the review in the Philadelphia Inquirer 7/27/08.

Thanks for that, an interesting review.  I'll agree that the selection is variable, but it was still a worthwhile purchase for me, as there were only 3 recordings out of the whole lot that I already had, and several that I'd considered previously.  I'll admit to enjoying other folks' Bach transcriptions (particularly Stokowski), so I was highly curious about those.  Also, his Scheherezade, which I've had for years, is sensational, worth the cost by itself if you haven't heard it.

Here's a link to the review if anyone's interested:

http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/25896429.html

[Bogey]

I'll agree that the selection is variable, ....

I'm considering the box set outright.  I am beginning to enjoy "variable" sets more and more, especially now that I download discs onto my mp3 for my morning jaunts. 

[The new erato]

I pushed the button on cpos new Lully Psyche (really cheap on cduniverse) and the single disc of van Gilse symphonies that Harry has been touting yesterday. 

[Renfield]

Greece? I thought you lived somewhere in East Asia.

And why would that be a likelihood (or a successful joke)?

I am genuinely curious.