Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[mn dave]

My 161st Rach 3:

Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata #1, Piano Concerto #3 (Eteri Andjaparidze/Tbilisi Sym Orch/Djansug Kakhidze, DePaul University School of Music, 2CDs)

How many to go, Kwoon?

[Sergeant Rock]

This has been on my wish list for almost two years. I heard Paavo Järvi conduct Kullervo in Frankfurt and really liked his way with this work (quite different than his father's):




A replacement for a damaged disc: my favorite Sibelius Sixth:




Sarge

[karlhenning]

How many to go, Kwoon?

Post of the Month! 

[marvinbrown]

  Picked this up, it's my 3rd Shosty symphony cycle.  Finally had time to go to HMV at Oxford Street. At £17 tax included I just had to have it.

 

  marvin

[mn dave]

This just in.



...which completes the collection. 

[M forever]

Even more Rachmaninoff for M! 

[prémont]

My 161st Rach 3:
Rachmaninoff: Piano Sonata #1, Piano Concerto #3 (Eteri Andjaparidze/Tbilisi Sym Orch/Djansug Kakhidze, DePaul University School of Music, 2CDs)

Rachman-enough?

[Renfield]

Rachman-enough?

But - you're spelling it wrong!

[PerfectWagnerite]

[Henk]

Just purchased at a local store:







The whole package for E. 34,75

[rubio]

Only the 4th Festetics Haydn volume to go, but that seems very hard to find.

 

[Renfield]

A good choice, if ever there was one! (IMO)

[rubio]

A good choice, if ever there was one! (IMO)

I have seen some recommendations on this forum for sure. 

[orbital]

Arrived today:

vols 1 and 2
I am excited as to what to expect from Kempff, Chopin-wise





Finally 

[George]

Arrived today:

vols 1 and 2
I am excited as to what to expect from Kempff, Chopin-wise

I am very curious about what you think of these. I haven't heard them myself.

[ezodisy]

Even more Rachmaninoff for M! 

very dramatic, as always from Kondrashin

Arrived today:

vols 1 and 2
I am excited as to what to expect from Kempff, Chopin-wise

The one with the 3rd sonata? If so I found the Largo particularly moving -- very delicate and intimate. On the other hand Herman thought it was crap. lol!

[orbital]

I am very curious about what you think of these. I haven't heard them myself.

I am doing a full listening to Sofronitsky this weekend. I will report next week
Kempff, I am listening right now.

The one with the 3rd sonata? If so I found the Largo particularly moving -- very delicate and intimate. On the other hand Herman thought it was crap. lol!

Yes, it has the 2nd and the 3rd sonata plus various pieces.
I've listened to vol.1 so far. Here is what I think (of the 2nd sonata)
I can comfortably say that the first movement is the most perverse Chopin playing I've heard. It almost feels like he detests Chopin. I am not talking about the countless mistakes he does, but the way he plays just brushing over the music not accentuating anything  (what I've come to trust to be) of importance.
The scherzo starts the same way. Dull rhythmic opening with mistakes galore  It is really strange how he did not do any extra takes in the first two movements. As the music goes on it gets better but never reaching the seriousness the music implores. Then comes the funeral March which is delicious. Very dark in the main theme and lighter/more optimistic in the second one with just the right level of dynamics.

On the 1s CD there are the impromptus and the berceuse which i haven't listened to yet. His Barcarolle is more like a cruise ship sailing in the Dead Sea, but after that comes another surprise, the 3rd nocturne of the Op9 set to which his style suits perfectly, understated, just covertly melancholic. In the turbulent B section, his playing is very transparent. I like that track very much. It seems like he chose the perfect nocturne for himself to play.

On the 2nd CD there is the 3rd sonata, 3rd ballade, andante spianato&polonaise and  two fantasies (f minor and the Polonaise).

Was Herman talking about the whole set or just the 3rd sonata? I am curious, will listen to it right now.

[not edward]

Even more Rachmaninoff for M! 

Where did you get this one? I've been looking for it for a while but I've had trouble finding copies at a reasonable price.

[M forever]

Here:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000J0NYK4

That's the same offer I bought. Either the seller has several copies or the system forgot to delete the listing.

This seems to contain the same recording:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00005RYGY

but without "The Bells". It doesn't explicitly say the Ravel pieces are with MP/Kondrashin, too, but since it's cheap, I ordered a copy of this as well - Boléro and La Valse with Kondrashin would definitely be something I would like to hear.

[Que]

Only the 4th Festetics Haydn volume to go, but that seems very hard to find.

Rubio, fellow Festetics fan  ,  it seems we're in the same boat here! 

Q