Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Wanderer]

I'm purchasing this so far excellent BIS edition as it becomes available (this is the fourth installment). No duplicated repertoire in this volume! 



Böhm's Ring alone is worth the relatively meagre investment.



Luisi and the Staatskapelle Dresden in R. Strauss (recorded on SACD). My expectations are rather high.



Austbö playing Brahms. It hopped into the cart for no apparent reason.

[Kwoon]

With this purchase, I doubled the number of CDs I've
bought so far this year, to 12!  And with the Mahler CDs, I
now have Boulez's whole cycle of the Mahler symphonies
-- it's my 10th set.  And the Rach 3 by Kapell is my
154th version.

Mahler: Symphony #8 (Staatskapelle Berlin/Boulez, DG
2CDs)

Mahler: Symphony #5 (Wiener Phil/Boulez, DG)

Sibelius & Schoenberg: violin concertos (Hahn/Swedish
Radio Sym/Salonen, DG)

"Kapell reDiscovered - The Australian Broadcasts":
Rachmaninoff's 3rd concerto (with Victoria Sym
Orch/Heinze), Bach's Wuite in A minor, Mussorgsky's
Pictures at an Exhibition, Mozart's sonata K. 570,
Debussy's Suite Bergamasque, Chopin's Barcarolle &
Scherzo #1, Prokofiev's Sonata #7 (RCA Red Seal, 2CDs)

[Renfield]

And the Rach 3 by Kapell is my
154th version.

Very impressive. Then I need remember to ask you for your favourite dozen or so.

[DavidRoss]

Nice to see you back, Kwoon!  I, too, have collected the Boulez Mahler recordings and this is my favorite cycle of these works.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Böhm's Ring alone is worth the relatively meagre investment.

Why no Rienzi?

[Sergeant Rock]

Why no Rienzi?

Is Rienzi ever performed at Bayreuth? I don't think so. Wagner, in effect, disowned it. If someone has evidence to the contrary, I'd like to hear it...and hear a Bayreuth performance.

Sarge

[M forever]

Apparently not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayreuth_canon

[marvinbrown]

Is Rienzi ever performed at Bayreuth? I don't think so. Wagner, in effect, disowned it. If someone has evidence to the contrary, I'd like to hear it...and hear a Bayreuth performance.

Sarge

  The only thing I can say about that Sarge is that Wagner did in fact disown Rienzi or at least tried to distance himself from it.  He resented its popularity as he was working on his new "ARTWORK".  Incidentally I do not believe that there is a COMPLETE CD recording of Rienzi on record, certainly no DVD staged recording exists- unfortunately!

  marvin

[PSmith08]

  The only thing I can say about that Sarge is that Wagner did in fact disown Rienzi or at least tried to distance himself from it.  He resented its popularity as he was working on his new "ARTWORK".  Incidentally I do not believe that there is a COMPLETE CD recording of Rienzi on record, certainly no DVD staged recording exists- unfortunately!

  marvin

Your belief on the existence of a complete Rienzi is, to be circuitous and oblique, not entirely correct. To wit: this gem. I have it, and I am fairly sure that Wagner made the right decision, except for the overture.

Böhm's Ring alone is worth the relatively meagre investment.

Indeed, but Varviso's Meistersinger and Levine's Parsifal are my big draws to that set.

[marvinbrown]

Your belief on the existence of a complete Rienzi is, to be circuitous and oblique, not entirely correct. To wit: this gem. I have it, and I am fairly sure that Wagner made the right decision, except for the overture.

  I stand corrected then.

  marvin

[M forever]

There are probably more.

[PSmith08]

I didn't know if any of those had cuts. I don't think the Downes one does, but I'll take your word for it on the other ones.

There are probably more.

[M forever]

I didn't know if any of those had cuts. I don't think the Downes one does, but I'll take your word for it on the other ones.

Don't take my word for it. I hardly know the opera, and what I have heard so far doesn't make it very likely that I will ever want to get to know it better. I just looked these up and they all say "complete", but who knows if they really are?

[Solitary Wanderer]

I have the Hollreiser version on EMI Classic's and it is not complete. 3 disc's and approx 3 1/2 hours music.

Highlights 

[PSmith08]

I have the Hollreiser version on EMI Classic's and it is not complete. 3 disc's and approx 3 1/2 hours music.

Highlights 

Isn't a set of Rienzi highlights a contradiction in terms?

[Subotnick]

While listening to pop music over the weekend I did some internet shopping! 



And now for something completely different! 



TTFN.
Me.

[Harry]

This cd, period instruments, should be fun!

[marvinbrown]

  M forever I have that recording of Rienzi and I remember reading somewhere that it had cuts in it.

  marvin

[The new erato]

This cd, period instruments, should be fun!

What label? I have been looking for a recording of these works, and looking by the performers, this may be it!

[Harry]

What label? I have been looking for a recording of these works, and looking by the performers, this may be it!

On the label Timpani

http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/3924473/rk/classic/rsk/home