Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Opus106]

Beautiful, detailed sound, and immaculate performances, but then you sort of can expect that from the Suzuki establishment.  Not particularly inspired but really up there with the rest of HIP world in all aspects. 

Thanks. Much appreciated.

[rubio]

The postman was on my side today :

   

[marvinbrown]

and the Böhm Tristan (which I've heard before but have never owned).


Sarge

  If that's the one with Nilsson in Bayreuth recorded in 1966 be prepared to be overwhelmed- yet again  !  That performace is "hot".... so hot it sizzles  ! 


  marvin

[71 dB]

The line between medidative and comatose is a pretty thin one I guess.

Perhaps but Elgar's genius in orchestration and multidimensionality keeps me interested even during the most meditative moments.

[Joe_Campbell]

read:boring

[FideLeo]

Thanks. Much appreciated.

Welcome.  Also I have just noted that it's a live recording (much in the manner of his former collaborator, Frans Brueggen). 

[Que]

The postman was on my side today :

   

Very good choices, really excellent IMO.

Q

[rubio]

Very good choices, really excellent IMO.

Q

Yeah, I think you recommended two of them . I look forward to hear them.

[Que]

Yeah, I think you recommended two of them . I look forward to hear them.

I would have recommended the third as well (Mengelberg's Mahler IV) - urgently - if only you'd asked...

Q

[karlhenning]

Hurrah! My Berg Box arrived!

[jwinter]

The 1939 Toscanini cycle, remastered.  2 discs in, excellent so far -- I much prefer this to the 1950s RCA set.  I had some of these in their Naxos incarnation, they seem to have cleaned up the sound somewhat, though I haven't done a side by side comparison



While searching for the image, I noticed the Gardiner Schubert is going for about $50 online -- yikes!  I picked it up on a whim out of the used bin, $4.99...

[rickardg]

Some impulse purchases that have one thing in common: they were all very cheap just like me...

Alban Berg
Complete Chamber Music
Schoenberg Quartet

Franz Berwald
Symphonies 1-4
Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra/Thomas Dausgaard

George Frideric Händel
Sacred Cantatas
Emma Kirkby
London Baroque

Francesco Geminiani
Concerti Grossi VII-XII (after Corelli Op. 5)
Academy of Ancient Music/Andrew Manze

[M forever]

While searching for the image, I noticed the Gardiner Schubert is going for about $50 online -- yikes!  I picked it up on a whim out of the used bin, $4.99...

Good thing you didn't spend more on it - it isn't worth it. It is pretty flat and flaccid and the sound is kind of washed out, too. Not really interesting. Gardiner's recording with the WP is much better musically (if a little on the dogged and mechnical side) and orchestrally and also much better recorded.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

  If that's the one with Nilsson in Bayreuth recorded in 1966 be prepared to be overwhelmed- yet again  !  That performace is "hot".... so hot it sizzles  !

Yes, it does indeed!

[rubio]

I would have recommended the third as well (Mengelberg's Mahler IV) - urgently - if only you'd asked...

Q

I've heard this recording earlier and I like it a lot (e.g. the singing of Jo Vincent). It was not so easy to track down a reasonably priced copy, though (but with a little patience...). I would not mind finding his 11-disc set on Nm classics with Concertgebouw live recordings for an OK price. Any other Mengelberg CD's to recommend?

[Henk]

Just ordered:

[Renfield]

Any other Mengelberg CD's to recommend?

Hands down.

[PSmith08]

I've heard this recording earlier and I like it a lot (e.g. the singing of Jo Vincent). It was not so easy to track down a reasonably priced copy, though (but with a little patience...). I would not mind finding his 11-disc set on Nm classics with Concertgebouw live recordings for an OK price. Any other Mengelberg CD's to recommend?

If you can find the Tahra Guila Bustabo disc, it has a 1943 Beethoven VC on it that is very nice. I've only recently discovered it, but it's Mengelberg with a soloist who was very good: in other words, it's hard to go wrong with it.

[Que]

I've heard this recording earlier and I like it a lot (e.g. the singing of Jo Vincent). It was not so easy to track down a reasonably priced copy, though (but with a little patience...). I would not mind finding his 11-disc set on Nm classics with Concertgebouw live recordings for an OK price. Any other Mengelberg CD's to recommend?

The Tchaikovsky symphonies 4-6, the most interesting interpretations from the old days IMO.
The 5th is on the Andante set, so see if you like it. Opus Kura has transferred them (and lots more by Mengelberg).

His Beethoven and Brahms are an acquired taste, I think.

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

From amazon.de today:






Sarge