Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

This one.

Thanks. I have this one.

[Renfield]

November order No. 1, a.k.a. "The 2007 End-Of-Year Haul, Part A", is here!

Contents:




























Also just (finally! ) ordered, and expected very soon:








And I'm hoping these two will also finally arrive this week, having ordered them a month or two ago from my excellent (but slow) local record store:







Finally for this end-of-year "mega" haul, I'm not unlikely to order this from Amazon.com, relatively shortly (but not just now):




Most likely my biggest collective classical music purchase to date! But I'd been planning it for a while, that one.

(With the Furtwängler/RAI and Knappertsbusch/Bayreuth Rings that I'd been hoping to also include in this one being the sole important ommissions, from my original plan. Along with Mengelberg's Beethoven, on Pearl. But then again, I might make an order specifically for these three, plus the compiled Keilberth Ring, when that's available. So all in all, victory. )

[Novi]

November order No. 1, a.k.a. "The 2007 End-Of-Year Haul, Part A", is here!

Wow, and what a haul! Is this only 'part A'?

A lot of good listening there too. Be sure to report back.

[Novi]

Alas, I didn't get that as part of the package I downloaded. I'll have to hunt it down on eMusic next month.

No worries. I really Vänskä's #6 as well, if it's the same recordings as the one in the Essential Sibelius box. Such icy precision .

[Harry]

November order No. 1, a.k.a. "The 2007 End-Of-Year Haul, Part A", is here!

Impressive my friend, many fine things there......

[Renfield]

Wow, and what a haul! Is this only 'part A'?

A lot of good listening there too. Be sure to report back.

Will do! "Part A" is the list up until the Karajan Master Recordings, which arrived today (hence part A). The complete list is the above, plus a few other items I'm hoping to pick up myself during a possibly upcoming visit to the UK, next month. If the latter is not the case, then the entire haul is what's listed above.

Also, thanks, Harry.

[marvinbrown]

November order No. 1, a.k.a. "The 2007 End-Of-Year Haul, Part A", is here!

Contents:




























Also just (finally! ) ordered, and expected very soon:








And I'm hoping these two will also finally arrive this week, having ordered them a month or two ago from my excellent (but slow) local record store:







Finally for this end-of-year "mega" haul, I'm not unlikely to order this from Amazon.com, relatively shortly (but not just now):




Most likely my biggest collective classical music purchase to date! But I'd been planning it for a while, that one.

(With the Furtwängler/RAI and Knappertsbusch/Bayreuth Rings that I'd been hoping to also include in this one being the sole important ommissions, from my original plan. Along with Mengelberg's Beethoven, on Pearl. But then again, I might make an order specifically for these three, plus the compiled Keilberth Ring, when that's available. So all in all, victory. )

  WOW  that will definitely exceed my end of year mega purchase Renfield.  Just a word of caution though, I used to own the Furtwangler/RAI Ring and while it is an achievement in conducting I found the sound not up to acceptable standards and the brass section is well.....to put it politely....far from perfect.  Last week I donated the Furtwangler/RAI to the local library.  I seriously recommend sampling it before buying to see if it agrees with you.

  marvin

 

[Renfield]

  WOW  that will definitely exceed my end of year mega purchase Renfield.  Just a word of caution though, I used to own the Furtwangler/RAI Ring and while it is an achievement in conducting I found the sound not up to acceptable standards and the brass section is well.....to put it politely....far from perfect.  Last week I donated the Furtwangler/RAI to the local library.  I seriously recommend sampling it before buying to see if it agrees with you.

  marvin

 

Oh, don't worry, my tolerance for old sound is somewhere along the lines of: "if I can hear anything at all, it's fine!" So you could say I'm more of a performance kind of person.

Even more so, I know that specific Ring isn't perfect; but it's the best I can do for hearing Furtwängler's take on the whole Ring, and that's really what I'm (eventually) getting it for. But my thanks for the feedback, regardless.

[longears]

Some nice choices there, Rennie.  (By the way, why did you choose that handle?  Is it you name, or was it for--or in spite of--the literary association?)

The Janssons/Oslo Tchaikovsky looks appealing.  I expect he would have a ripe, voluptuous approach to this music but without going over the top.  Please let us know how you respond to it after hearing.

[Peregrine]

November order No. 1, a.k.a. "The 2007 End-Of-Year Haul, Part A", is here!

Contents:

You've bought this twice, you fool!...

[Renfield]

Some nice choices there, Rennie.  (By the way, why did you choose that handle?  Is it you name, or was it for--or in spite of--the literary association?)

The Janssons/Oslo Tchaikovsky looks appealing.  I expect he would have a ripe, voluptuous approach to this music but without going over the top.  Please let us know how you respond to it after hearing.

I gladly will, being very curious to see the extent to which his conducting actually works, in Tchaikovsky's symphonies (reviews aside).


And Renfield I've very much chosen for its literary association indeed! After all, to quote the good Doctor Seward's research notes, from the decent Wikipedia article at hand:

"Sanguine temperament, great physical strength, morbidly excitable, periods of gloom, ending in some fixed idea which I cannot make out. I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the disturbing influence end in a mentally-accomplished finish, a possibly dangerous man, probably dangerous if unselfish. In selfish men, caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves. What I think of on this point is, when self is the fixed point the centripetal force is balanced with the centrifugal. When duty, a cause, etc., is the fixed point, the latter force is paramount, and only accident of a series of accidents can balance it."

And it's also my pen name of choice, for all that's worth: both due to the above association, and the fact that my last name sounds clunky enough, in English, though it means "friend of truth" in its original language (Greek). So you could say I swap "friend of truth" for something altogether more "Romantic-era", as fully befits my idiom!

[Renfield]

You've bought this twice, you fool!...

This is what the second instance was supposed to link to:



And I also forgot to link this:

[Peregrine]

This is what the second instance was supposed to link to:

An exceedingly good choice!

[George]

Also just (finally! ) ordered, and expected very soon:

These look nice! What are the contents of these? Are these unreleased recordings?

[Lethevich]

Alrighty - my grand experiment has begun. I haven't done an order for a while so I bought quite a few of those overstock discs. Now to see which ones actually arrive

£0.01 - Simon Haram - Alone... (Black Box) Who knows who this guy is, bad cover art, but the price says "yes"
£0.24 - Bruckner - Symphony No.5 (Retrospective) Probably a pirate label. The page didn't even say who was performing. It was 24p. Enough said...
£0.90 - Haydn - Symphony No.47; 48; 49 (Antonio Janigro, Symphony Orchestra of Radio Zagreh, Everyman -- cover pic says Vanguard) A total shot in the dark, should be fun
£0.90 - Russian String Quartets (Catalyst/RCA)
£1.08 - Bruckner - Symphony No.3 (Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Dresden Philharmonic, Genuin) A label I hadn't heard of - seems to be a small indie
£1.16 - Symphony No.4; Nutcracker Suite (Beecham, EMI GROC)
£1.30 - Gibbons - Keyboard music (Hogwood, Explore)
£1.34 - Vaughan Williams - On Wenlock Edge (Linn, SACD) So cheap it's amusing
£1.36 - Schubert - The Great Masses (Sawallisch, Phillips 2CD)
£1.36 - John Woolrich - Toward the Black Sky (Black Box) Shot in the dark
£1.45 - Vasks - Message (Catalyst/RCA)
£1.58 - Palestrina/De Silva - Choral Music (Pucciante, Opera Polifonica)
£1.72 - Ned Rorem - Santa Fe Songs; Auden Songs (Black Box) I had been avoiding this guy as the bad personality demonstrated by his writings put me off. But it's cheap, and on Black Box, so has good resale value
£1.72 - Various Scottish Renaissance composers - Miracles of St. Kentigern (Gaudeamus/ASV)
£1.74 - Tavener - Schuon Lieder (Black Box)
£1.74 - Bach - Goldberg Variations (Leonhardt, Vanguard)
£1.76 - Bernhard Lewkovitch - Apollo's Art (Da Capo) Looked him up - seems interesting
£1.80 - Ole Schmidt - Concertos (Da Capo, SACD)
£1.85 - Debussy; Grieg - String Quartets (Simax)
£1.85 - Bartók - String Quartet No.1-6 (Simax 2CD)
£1.85 - Ludvig Irgens Jensen - Japanischer Früling (Simax) Shot in the dark
£1.85 - Harald Sæverud - Music for violin (Simax) Ditto
£1.85 - Chausson; Debussy; Franck; Poulenc - Cello Sonatas (Simax)
£1.85 - Halfdan Kjerulf - Frülingslied (Simax) Ditto
£1.85 - Tavener - Adeste Fideles (Hyperion)
£1.85 - Fartein Valen - Complete songs (Simax) Heard good things about this guy
£1.85 - Brustad - Violin works (Simax) Ditto
£1.86 - Bach; Stravinsky - Violin works (ECM)
£1.86 - Tubin; Sibelius - Symphony No. 5; 2 (Järvi, Cincinnati SO, Telarc)
£1.86 - Cage - The Seasons (ECM)
£1.86 - Hartmann - Symphony No. 1; 6 (Botstein, LPO, Telarc)
£1.86 - Joe Maneri - Blessed (ECM) Ditto
£1.97 - Haydn - Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross (Quatour Ysaÿe, their own label)
£1.97 - Villa Medici (Winter & Winter)
£1.97 - Rautavaara - Works for mixed chorus (Ondine)
£2.08 - Bruckner - Symphony No.8 (Maazel, BP, Seraphim)
£2.10 - Bach - Clavier-Ubung III (Jacob, Zig Zag)
£2.12 - David Paul Jones - Something There (Linn) Ditto
£2.20 - Schoenberg - Friede auf Erden (Nott, Ensemble InterContemporain, Naïve)
£2.25 - Erkki-Sven Tüür - Orchestral Works (Apex) This wasn't particularly good value, I just needed some Tüür
£2.32 - Bartók; Beethoven; Debussy; Haydn - Orchestral Works (Ansermet, BBC Legends 2CD)
£2.33 - Mendelssohn - Symphony No.3; 4 (Norrington, Stuttgart RSO, Hänssler)
£2.51 - Byrd - Masses for 3, 4 & 5 Voices (Harmonia Mundi) Not great value, but I wanted it
£2.63 - Orfeo Ed Euridice (DVD, Glyndebourne Festival Opera NVC/Warner)
£2.82 - R. Strauss; Wagner - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme; bleeding chunks (Sawallisch, Testament)
£2.84 - Bruckner - Symphony No. 4; 6; 7 (Hollreiser, Bamberg SO, Concerto Royale, 3CD) I have no clue about the providence of these recordings, or whether they are even by who they say they are. The CDs were the equivelent of £1 each, so such concerns are irrelevent and anti-fun

[Drasko]

£1.08 - Bruckner - Symphony No.3 (Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Dresden Philharmonic, Genuin) A label I hadn't heard of - seems to be a small indie

Had that one in my shopping basket for weeks but in the end friend of mine (The Pink One) got it first and just reported back that it is OK, though bit on the ponderous side.

[Lethevich]

Had that one in my shopping basket for weeks but in the end friend of mine (The Pink One) got it first and just reported back that it is OK, though bit on the ponderous side.

Doh, that doesn't bode well. Although the chances that it will eventually go OOP and people will pay stupid amounts to buy it from me are reasonably high. Bruckner fans love obscure recordings

[Que]

Impressive purchases on this thread today!   

My modest transaction today: 



Q

[AnthonyAthletic]

£0.24 - Bruckner - Symphony No.5 (Retrospective) Probably a pirate label. The page didn't even say who was performing. It was 24p. Enough said...

LOL

I could be wrong but isn't/wasn't Retrospective a sub produce of Deutsche Gramophon?  I am certain without looking that my Issac Stern Barber violin concerto is on the DG Retrospective label.

Maybe this Bruckner 5 will turn out to be Karajan or Jochum 5th, you never know    Be great if it turns out to be the Furtwangler 5th!!

You find all those on Amazon UK....must have a look 

[Lethevich]

LOL

I could be wrong but isn't/wasn't Retrospective a sub produce of Deutsche Gramophon?  I am certain without looking that my Issac Stern Barber violin concerto is on the DG Retrospective label.

Maybe this Bruckner 5 will turn out to be Karajan or Jochum 5th, you never know    Be great if it turns out to be the Furtwangler 5th!!

You find all those on Amazon UK....must have a look 

I will also be interested as to WTF that disc turns out to be

I found the best way was to look up any premium-priced label (Hyperion, ECM, etc) and scan by them all until you find one that is priced between £1-3. Even the secondhand prices generally aren't that low, so they will tend to be those low-priced new ones. It's time-consuming, though. One tip - there are tons of cheap Telarc ones, unsure why.