Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[SonicMan46]

Well, a couple of pages back, there was a series of posts on Haydn's Wind Divertimenti and attention was drawn to an inexpensive 4-CD offering w/ Dieter Klocker on the clarinet (a fav of mine!), so just could not resist putting in an order - used MDT, so added a few others to ease up on the shipping 'across the pond' - 

 

 

[George]

I wonder if either are taking apprenticeships?

I hope so. We need people to carry on their tradition when they are gone.

[The new erato]

 

I've been eyeing this disc ever since reading this:

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/11/heros-life.html

Please report back.

[Coopmv]

I hope so. We need people to carry on their tradition when they are gone.

I wonder how they manage to maintain good hearing?

[George]

I wonder how they manage to maintain good hearing?

I don't know what you mean. Can you explain?

[Coopmv]

I don't know what you mean. Can you explain?

Mastering engineers cannot exactly be hard of hearing.  Hearing loss often comes with age and MOT is not exactly a young fellow ...

[Coopmv]

Just ordered the following CD's from MDT.  The plunging Dollar has started to have an effect on me ...   



I actually have all the individual CD's making up this set but most are 20 years old.

 

 

Yeah, Bach Organ Works by Lionel Rogg ...


 

[George]

Mastering engineers cannot exactly be hard of hearing.  Hearing loss often comes with age and MOT is not exactly a young fellow ...

Absolutely, all the more reason to have a protege or two, to carry on one's legacy. 

[Coopmv]

Absolutely, all the more reason to have a protege or two, to carry on one's legacy. 

In the meantime, they will have some living hearing aids ...   

[SonicMan46]

I've been eyeing this disc ever since reading this:

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2008/11/heros-life.html

Please report back.

Hi Erato - will do!    The Imogene Holst CD was just recently added to my 'to buy' listed based on a superlative review in the most recent issue of Fanfare (reprinted on the ArkivMusic HERE website) - just expect to enjoy the disc from the comments!  Dave 

[DavidRoss]

Mastering engineers cannot exactly be hard of hearing.  Hearing loss often comes with age and MOT is not exactly a young fellow ...

Of course even the best re-mastering engineer can't do much with crap that's badly recorded in the first place.  Here's a pic of one of the best, Tony Faulkner, from a John Atkinson interview with him about the recording process in Stereophile magazine:



Incidentally, John Atkinson is not only the editor of Stereophile, a musician himself, and one of the most thorough equipment testers in the business (investigating the relationship between quantifiable "objective" measurement data and subjective sound quality reported by listeners), but he's also a recording engineer, perhaps best known in this forum for recording Robert Silverman's traversal of the Beethoven piano sonatas.

No purchases today.  I'm running out of money. 

[Lilas Pastia]

- Sym 3 and 6 by Huber. IIRC Harry recommended his music warmly. OTH' I've read downrigth dismissive revues. I'll make up my own mind
phonies
- Mozart: Posthorn Serenade and a set of Kontadanzes. The Czech Phil Chamber Orchestra. Listened to in the car. Unfortunately this is HUP, not HIP. The conductor seems to like the idea of ending each phrase of the intiial Allegro with a prissy diminuendo. In such rythmically incisive music, the momentum is all but destroyed. Other than that, it's a nice reading.

Kernis: Coloured Field and Still Movement with Hymn.(Argo), in its original version for English Horn and orchestra (I already have Truls Mork's cello version).

- Peterson-Berger: Symphony 4 etc (CPO). This team's Symphny no. 3 is already a favourite. I have high hopes for this one!

- Schubert (played on an 1824 Conrad Graf fortepiano): Sonata D. 840 ("Reliquie") and 3 Impromptus D. 946. With Ludwig Semerjian (his Mozart was very distinctive).

- Matthijs Vermeulen: Symphonies 2, 6 and 7 - Rozhdestvensky, Den Hague RedidentieOrkest. I already know symphony no. 2 (excellent). Hopefully the other symphonies will appear in due time.

- Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique: Czech Philharmonic, Zdenek Kosler.A different take, for sure. Kosler is something of an obscure cult conductor. I enjoy his Dvorak Tone Poems snd symphony 7 immensely,

- Bach: violin and harsichord sonatas, vol II  on Anakekta. With James Ehned.

[jlaurson]

Forgot to mention these a few days back:


Mendelssohn, Beethoven-Mahler, Octet (orchestral version), SQ4t op.95, Mahler orchestration
Mehta, Dohnanyi / IsraelPO Strings, WPh
Decca Eloquence


Mendelssohn, SQ4t op.12 & SQ5t op.18
Matangi Quartet
Challenge Classics


Mozart, Complete Sonatas for Keyboard & Violin, Volumes 7 & 8
Gary Cooper & Rached Podger
Challenge Classics
Fragments (completed by Stadler), Variations, Early stuff ("London Sonatas")
Essentially Harpsichord Sonatas with violin obbligato.
2 SACDs


"Vibraciones del Alma, works by Yste, Rabaud, Romero, McCabe, Widor, Weber
Maximiliano Martin & Scott Mitchell
Linn
SACD
(Nothing to do with giving Mahler's wife the shakes but, as you altavoces españoles well know, touching your soul.)


Bach Piano Transcriptions  - 7, by Max Reger
Markus Becker
hyperion
I had a slow start in grasping this series' importance and desirability, but I've arrived.


Zemlinsky (Berg), Lyric Symphony (Three Pieces from the Lyric Suite)
Houston Symphony, Hans Graf / Trekel, Rwyla Robinson
Naxos


Handel, Alcina Aria & Suites
Christine Schaefer, Berliner Barock Soloists, Kussmaul
Avi Music


Reger (Bach-Busoni), Piano Concerto (PC after BWV 1052)
Michael Korstick / Munich RSO / Schirmer
cpo


Schumann, Symphonies 3 & 4
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster
PentaTone
SACD


Purcell, Ten Sonatas in Four Parts
Retrospect Trio
Linn
SACD


Schumann, Piano Sonata No.3, Novelets 1 & 2, Symphonic Studies
Andrea Kauten
Sony
SACD


Weber, Clarinet Concertos, Clarinet Quintet
Fabio di Casola / Russian Chamber Philharmonic St. Petersburg / Juri Gilbo
Sony
SACD

[Que]

Q

[The new erato]

Forgot to mention these a few days back:

The poor kitty doing all this work and you simply just giving a d..n?

I'm completely revolted. SPCA anyone?

[The new erato]

BTW; that Reger piano concerto is high on my list of possible aquisitions, so comments would be appreciated as soon as you are finished comforting your abused cat.

I have two cats and they are put to lighter work than your single one.

[jlaurson]

BTW; that Reger piano concerto is high on my list of possible aquisitions, so comments would be appreciated as soon as you are finished comforting your abused cat.

I have two cats and they are put to lighter work than your single one.

The poor kitty doing all this work and you simply just giving a d..n?

I'm completely revolted. SPCA anyone?

1.) What's "d..n". Oh, damn. Yes. But it's not true. I don't just give a damn. Sometimes I talk to her in an encouraging voice. And yesterday she ate a spider, which elicited high praise from me.
2.) She's not even my cat, at all. Sort of a secret Santa-Cat. Well, she's the neighbor's cat, actually... but she like attention and she does not like to share it with the other cat they have. And she gets more classical music exposure, here.
3.) Comments on the performance of the Reger or the work?
4.) Your feigned outrage scheme won't work. We all know you just want to procure her services for yourself.  

[The new erato]

3.) Comments on the performance of the Reger or the work?

I know the works reputation (long and tedious). But given that this is a work one wants to hear; is this recording recommendable?

[Coopmv]

Q

Bob Van Asperen is a tremendous harpsichord virtuoso.  I expect to pick up his WTC to complement those by Christiane Jaccottet ...   

[SonicMan46]

Rem
 

Q - will be curious about your thoughts on these performances - the only Froberger that I own currently is w/ Remy (inserted above) - a 2-CD set from the Strasbourg Manuscript; I'm assuming that w/ the volume numbers on the Bob van Asperen disc shown that he 'covers' what is in my set?  Dave