Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Que]

Josquin Desprez - A Sei Voci - Bernard Fabre-Garrus - naive (6cd box)
Yes, I'm a complete sucker. And I love exploring this sort of music in greater depth... and I had very little Desprez in my collection. So thanks to all the recommendations of it from you: this set just arrived 10 minutes ago in the mail. Last disc of 2008.
I couldn't find it on Amazon.com at all -- on Amazon.de it's a tad expensive -- but from France (23 Euro) and from the UK (25 Pound Sterlin) it's a steal. I, for one, could not resist.

Well, good choice. Hope you enjoy those as much as I did. 
And I do a lot of business with Amazon.fr instead of Amazon.de - my neighbours to the East charge an exorbitant amount for shipping. And Amazon.co.uk is attractive again, now the British Pound has devalued dramatically against the euro and is close to parity...

Q

[rickardg]

Purchases before christmas (there was an HM sale at my local brick-and-mortar shop):

Bach, "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag" BWV 63, "Magnificat" BWV 243a/Herreweghe/Collegium Vocale Gent
Berlioz, L'Enfance du Christ/Herreweghe/Collegium Vocale Gent/Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Corelli, Concerti Grossi "Christmas Concerto"/Banchini/Ensemble 415
Bach, Christmas Oratorio/Jacobs/AAMB/RIAS Kammerchor

[George]

Whoa! Am I hallucinating or is that Beethoven cycle only about US $25 on MDT? What's the catch? It's available over here for three times that.

I know. MDT seems to good to be true, but they are a top notch seller, I assure you. I've ordered from them at least a couple of dozen times and haven't had a single problem. No delays on deliveries, no damaged CDs, just great stuff at incredible prices! They have tons of Naxos Historical too. 

[George]

Hmm...where's my Ultimate Super Secret Decoder Ring®.....

Inside specially marked boxes of

[Dundonnell]

Josquin Desprez - A Sei Voci - Bernard Fabre-Garrus - naive (6cd box)
Yes, I'm a complete sucker. And I love exploring this sort of music in greater depth... and I had very little Desprez in my collection. So thanks to all the recommendations of it from you: this set just arrived 10 minutes ago in the mail. Last disc of 2008.
I couldn't find it on Amazon.com at all -- on Amazon.de it's a tad expensive -- but from France (23 Euro) and from the UK (25 Pound Sterlin) it's a steal. I, for one, could not resist.



KBE (hon) Bernard Haitink CH (hon) - Mahler 6th - CSO reSOUND (SACD) 

I loved Haitink's Bruckner 7th with the CSO and on that label... I have the DSCH 4th (but need to listen to it properly) and I quite cherish the Mahler 3rd.... so I just had to ask for BH's Mahler. Generally, Haitink's Mahler-style would not make him an obvious choice for my preferences with the 6th, but then I thought Gergiev would, and he didn't, at all. Aside, Haitink takes the Scherzo second which perks my ears. Does this indicate a fire&brimstone 6th? Not necessarily: Barbirolli is one such interpretation and he recorded the Scherzo third -- but I have high hopes all the same.

Sorry to be so ultra-pedantic.........but the KBE comes after the name-so, Bernard Haitink, CH, KBE.

[Dundonnell]

I know. MDT seems to good to be true, but they are a top notch seller, I assure you. I've ordered from them at least a couple of dozen times and haven't had a single problem. No delays on deliveries, no damaged CDs, just great stuff at incredible prices! They have tons of Naxos Historical too. 

I have been buying almost all of my cds-at the rate of about 5 or 6 per month- from MDT for five or six years now and can add my testimonial to how efficient a seller the firm indeed is

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

Sorry to be so ultra-pedantic.........but the KBE comes after the name-so, Bernard Haitink, CH, KBE.

Sir Colin Dundonnell, PBE (Pedant of the British Empire). 

[jlaurson]

Sorry to be so ultra-pedantic.........but the KBE comes after the name-so, Bernard Haitink, CH, KBE.

Noted and fixed. But wouldn't KBE come before CH, Mister Pedant? 

[Dundonnell]

Noted and fixed. But wouldn't KBE come before CH, Mister Pedant? 

No, it wouldn't

PLEASE don't get me started on the incredibly arcane subject of the Order of Precedence of British Honours Suffice to say that the Companionship of Honour(CH) ranks above an 'ordinary' Knight of one of the Orders(eg the Order of the British Empire). So-CH ranks above KBE.

However, if the Knight was a Knight Grand Cross(GBE) that would come before the CH. Thus Lee Kuan Yew(the former Prime Minister of Singapore) is GCMG(Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St.Michael and St. George), CH.

There are people in Britain whose JOB it is to make sense of all this and make sure it is all sorted out on official state occasions.

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

No, it wouldn't

PLEASE don't get me started on the incredibly arcane subject of the Order of Precedence of British Honours Suffice to say that the Companionship of Honour(CH) ranks above an 'ordinary' Knight of one of the Orders(eg the Order of the British Empire). So-CH ranks above KBE.

However, if the Knight was a Knight Grand Cross(GBE) that would come before the CH. Thus Lee Kuan Yew(the former Prime Minister of Singapore) is GCMG(Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St.Michael and St. George), CH.

There are people in Britain whose JOB it is to make sense of all this and make sure it is all sorted out on official state occasions.

As Alan Partridge would say - 'Lovely stuff'... ! 

[Dundonnell]

Sir Colin Dundonnell, PBE (Pedant of the British Empire). 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant

Interesting short article I note that the pejorative connotation to the word is a later development after Shakespeare used it simply to mean 'teacher' but that it is also a sign of some obsessive disorders

Takes himself off to be institutionalised

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant

Interesting short article I note that the pejorative connotation to the word is a later development after Shakespeare used it simply to mean 'teacher' but that it is also a sign of some obsessive disorders

Takes himself off to be institutionalised

Yes, good idea. There is only so much a Wikipedia article can do for you, Colin. 

[Brian]

Thanks for the MDT info, everyone...

They have tons of Naxos Historical too. 

...that settles it! I'm ordering!

[Kullervo]

A little late, but I got my Christmas bonus!

[not edward]

Lindberg's Mano a mano (a bit like a concerto for solo guitar, from my memory of hearing it live); Takemitsu's In the Woods, the last guitar piece by a composer who I think wrote particularly well for the instrument; and the first of Henze's two Royal Winter Music sonatas (I only know the second, but it's one of my favourite works of his).

Should be a fun listen.

[Bu]

Just not enough Monteverdi being posted these days.  Your thoughts when you have chance Bu, as Parrott is hit or miss with me.

Will do, Bogey.

Today:

[karlhenning]

It's the book I'm reading, of course, but on seeing The Origin of Fire, I was expecting the composer to be Sibelius.

[Bu]

It's the book I'm reading, of course, but on seeing The Origin of Fire, I was expecting the composer to be Sibelius.

Almost bought some Sibelius today, but bypassed because I've spent too much the last few weeks.

[Bogey]

Will do, Bogey.

Today:

Thanks!  I have 4 recordings of The Anonymous 4 , but not this one.  I will go out a limb and guess you are now hearing angelic voices that would even sound beautiful in a tin can.

[Bu]

Thanks!  I have 4 recordings of The Anonymous 4 , but not this one.  I will go out a limb and guess you are now hearing angelic voices that would even sound beautiful in a tin can.

Haha.........actually, I live in a shoe!   

Right now, though, am listening to the heavenly passionate and plaintive sounds of Verdi's Requiem.  The sneaker I habitate in is shining very bright indeed!   0:)