Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[springrite]

There were actually a feww that I forgot to mention, including two CDs of "The Best of Jose Carreras" from EMI.

Also deserving a mention here are a few music books, including the Charles Ives biography, John Cage biography, and Charles Rosen's The Romantic Generation.

The few DVDs I bought have nothing to do with music, though. They include Bill Cosby's standup (HIMSELF).

[Mark]

I've had an illicit copy of this for a while, so I thought it was time I paid for it:



And while I was browsing other recordings of this work, I decided to buy Herreweghe's version, even though I've already downloaded it. Let's just say it impressed me enough on the first listen:

[Brian]

Ries: Piano Concertos (Hinterhuber, Grodd, NZ Symphony, NAXOS)

Be sure to catch the new release (I think from Aug or Sept...) in the Ries series - it's even more impressive to my mind...

[Daverz]

I have this on Lp already.  Luckily someone was selling it for $12.  I think it's the best recording of the 3rd.



I always wanted this 1968 recording, which is supposed to be even more intense than the 1963.

[PerfectWagnerite]

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I always wanted this 1968 recording, which is supposed to be even more intense than the 1963.

I think you are splitting hairs. Lenny owns this piece, I mean absolutely OWNS it !

[gmstudio]

Picked these up on the way home from work today:





This one was my excuse for stopping:

[Brian]

Ooh, I've had my eyes on that one for a long time. 

[Daverz]

I think you are splitting hairs. Lenny owns this piece, I mean absolutely OWNS it !

No, I'm just trying to collect all the hairs.  I have all 3 of Lenny's commercial Sf recordings now.

[Que]

   
       Mozart: Symphony No. 40                            Beethoven: piano concerto n° 4
       Brahms : Symphony No. 2                       Wilhelm Backhaus/ RSO Berlin - 9.X.1950
    Berlin Philharmonic - 25.IX.1950              violin concerto, Christian Ferras/ BPO - 18.XI.1951

Q

[marvinbrown]

I've had an ellicit copy of this for a while, so I thought it was time I paid for it:



And while I was browsing other recordings of this work, I decided to buy Herreweghe's version, even though I've already downloaded it. Let's just say it impressed me enough on the first listen:

  Mark how many of these do you have? 

  Well I am no better, I shouldn't talk, I just bought this :

 

  and I already have 2 versions on CD and one on DVD.  I'm hopeless......

  marvin

[George]

I've had an ellicit copy of this for a while, so I thought it was time I paid for it:

How does paying for your elicit copy remedy anything? 

[marvinbrown]

Oh I forgot to mention I also bought this as well:

 

  marvin

[bhodges]

Grisey: Les Espaces Acoustiques (Asbury/Asko/WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln) - This really made quite a lasting impression, hearing it over the weekend.  It is like nothing else I've ever heard.  The friend who played it said, "It gets more interesting the more you hear it," and I expect I'll feel the same.  

What slightly amazes me is that there is actually another recording of the piece, conducted by Pierre-André Valade with Ensemble Court-Circuit (also below), and I expect I'll want to hear it, too.

--Bruce

[Daverz]

   

Assuming I can find it, how is the sound and transfer?  Always interested in "pre-heart attack" Walter in good sound.

[FideLeo]

Not so. Elgar was making history when he recorded these performances and they are INFORMED by composer.

That would make it composer's own performance, rather than historically informed performance, no? 

[Danny]

[Mark]

  Mark how many of these do you have? 

I own 14 recordings of Brahms' A German Requiem. It's my favourite choral work after Rachmaninov's ... y'know.

How does paying for your illicit copy remedy anything? 

Very funny, wise guy. I mean I bought a legit copy. Which, of course, means there's now a dodgy copy up for grabs ...

[Brian]

via online download:




(only the D. 537)

[Que]

Just ordered.



Q

[Renfield]

Purchases (yester)day:







(Thanks are in order for the indirect recommendation on that one, if I would remember which thread it was mentioned in. )



(I do remember it was George who pushed me over the edge, for this one. Thanks George! )

And this one:



Time to find out what the fuss is about, regarding Neumann's Mahler.

Also, the Tintner Bruckner cycle (to complement my Karajan, DG Jochum, Wand, Asahina and Skrowaczewski, as well as the partial Celi and the Walter Columbia recordings, plus a whole lot of "singles"), and the Gielen Mahler cycle should both be here by the 14th, if the people in the record store (not the Melodiya one) have their dates right.


So that leaves just the Kubelik, to round up all the Mahler cycles that I want in my collection at the moment.

Should I bother with the Solti? I already have the LSO 1st and 2nd, and the CSO 8th...

Bruckner's done, though, cycle-wise - for now!


P.S. Oh, one other thing, since I've already turned my post into an (out)post of "Recordings You Are Considering" : is this any good?



Gramophone seems to like it, but past a certain number of Brahms cycles, and even though I collect them obsessively, I'd appreciate knowning if a potential new one is a dud.