Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[mahlertitan]

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.

can you show us the durations of that Bruckner fifth? Perhaps I can do a little detective work and figure out who is preforming for you.

[AnthonyAthletic]

Just surfing a little, there was a Bruckner 5th issued on the Retrospective label in 2004 around the £6 mark.

A live performance from the Concertgebouw, with the legend that was Edouard Van Beinum.

Time calls for a click to the inbox for a gamble 

[Drasko]

Just surfing a little, there was a Bruckner 5th issued on the Retrospective label in 2004 around the £6 mark.
A live performance from the Concertgebouw, with the legend that was Edouard Van Beinum.
Time calls for a click to the inbox for a gamble 

Yes, that is Van Beinum's Concertgebouw 5th, I got it maybe a year ago for around £1.5 directly from amazon.uk (and had to search around to figure out what is it). It's genuine release, only Retrospective misdated it as 1957 while the right date is March 1959.
http://www.abruckner.com/recordings/SymphonyNo5inBFlat232/

Doh, that doesn't bode well.

Ouch, wasn't thinking. Hate to be bringer of potentially-not-so-great news.
Here is one very nice comic book as an apology 
http://rapidshare.com/files/42119559/The_Town_That_Didn__t_Exist.cbr

[Lethevich]

Ouch, wasn't thinking. Hate to be bringer of potentially-not-so-great news.

No worries at all - it's part of the fun of blind buying Plus, I tend to sometimes like mediocre performances for silly reasons (recording balance, specific parts taken at specific tempi, etc). The Van Beinum 5th for almost nothing MORE than makes up for it - his 9th was... interesting.

[sound67]

Thomas

[Harry]

Impressive purchases on this thread today!   

My modest transaction today: 



Q

Que my friend, I am very much interested in this cd. Please let me know what your findings are.

[marvinbrown]

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

  WOW  Lethe looks like you got your work cut out for you.  Hopefully all these will arrive when you expect them to  ...

  marvin

[Lethevich]

That looks like a very nice disc - did you buy it full priced? My el-cheapo order had it out of stock

WOW  Lethe looks like you got your work cut out for you.  Hopefully all these will arrive when you expect them to  ...

Already had a few out of stock cancelations, as expected. Some I re-ordered most from other sellers for a few pence more, but the most painful was the Vaughan Williams, which is now out of my price range (at least, if I adhere to my strict "only absurdly reduced CDs" policy*). It's nice that quite a few have been dispatched already, so may start trickling in beginning tomorrow.

*This has actually enabled me to buy far more adventurous repertoire than I usually would, given that the reduction is 80% of the original price.

[Lethevich]

Here is one very nice comic book as an apology 
http://rapidshare.com/files/42119559/The_Town_That_Didn__t_Exist.cbr

It's downloaded, and it seems that I've encountered the author before, but not this book, so thanks I read the Nikopol Trilogy when I was a kid, I loved how mind-bending it was, although I found the second slightly aimless and the third even worse Maybe I didn't understand it, though.

[Peregrine]

One tip - there are tons of cheap Telarc ones, unsure why.

Yes, it pays to put Telarc in the advanced search, label section and you will finds lots of cheap CD's.

[Renfield]

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

Check this thread, so I don't "clog up" the present one with Karajan-ranting.

[Drasko]

It's downloaded, and it seems that I've encountered the author before, but not this book, so thanks I read the Nikopol Trilogy when I was a kid, I loved how mind-bending it was, although I found the second slightly aimless and the third even worse Maybe I didn't understand it, though.

This one has no Egyptian gods or surreal plots, it's from his earlier period and it's basically rather simple social story, more likely you'll find it plain boring than aimless or incomprehensible.

What I like about Bilal is his rich visual style (much more than plots). Had the opportunity to see his exhibition few years ago with paintings, drawings and original tableaus from Nikopol Trilogy (among other things) and it was hugely impressive, every tableaux is a painting for itself.

[George]

Check this thread, so I don't "clog up" the present one with Karajan-ranting.

Thanks. 

[Renfield]

Some more purchases, in what might be considered "Part B" of the end-of-year haul mentioned above (though more likely just an augmented version of my usual purchases-for-the-month).





(Yes, both! )











(I actually enjoy him as a pianist, and love the 4th Concerto very much, regardless. )






Phew... That's a lot of classical discs for one day!

(Though the Karajan anniversary issues, and the "on order" items I mentioned in my previous "listing" are still not in my hands...)

[Que]

Phew... That's a lot of classical discs for one day!

Goodness Renfield! 
It wasn't your birthday or anything? 

Que my friend, I am very much interested in this cd. Please let me know what your findings are.

Will do, Harry!

Q

[bhodges]

Some more purchases, in what might be considered "Part B" of the end-of-year haul mentioned above (though more likely just an augmented version of my usual purchases-for-the-month).





(Yes, both! )

Hope you enjoy these.  I've not heard the first one (but would like to) and the second is one of my favorite versions, for many reasons.

--Bruce

[karlhenning]

Oh, the horrors of Karajan-clog! 

[Renfield]

Goodness Renfield! 
It wasn't your birthday or anything? 

It actually is something like that: my name-day on December 13th, which in Greece is quite significant (i.e. I get presents ). Hence my dear mother's assent to financing my "part A" order, while "part B" came from my own budget.

[Don]

7 is today's lucky number:

Tadeusz Szeligowski Concertos/Naxos
Bach Reflections/David Schmidt (piano)/Profil
Schumann's Humoreske/Son. 1/Hewitt/Hyperion
Bach's Goldbergs - Nikolayeva/BBC Legends
Malipiero Piano Concertos - CPO
Shost. Sym. 4 - Rozhdestvensky/BBC Legends
Brahms Double Concerto/Clarinet Qnt./Chung/Capucon Qt/EMI

[sidoze]

Bach's Goldbergs - Nikolayeva/BBC Legends

Shost. Sym. 4 - Rozhdestvensky/BBC Legends

please post about these two Don. Especially interested in the Rozhdestvensky.