Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[The new erato]

Various stuff from Hyperion's Please buy me sale:

[The new erato]

And a prestoclassical order:



A new recording of a favorite violin concerto of mine, Milhaud's 2nd.



Tredici's Final Alice, a work I've waited a long time to hear.



I'm looking forward to these seldom heard concertoes (Montsalvatge, Surinach) from the great lady who recently died.

[Sergeant Rock]

Tredici's Final Alice, a work I've waited a long time to hear.

Great, it's available at amazon.de now. I have the LP but have been waiting for the CD for, oh...25 years.

Sarge

[Brian]

Well, I just spent my entire classical budget for the semester on an MDT shipment.    The haul...

Some new releases:

   

Some box sets:

   

This will be my introduction to Sinding, all of Beethoven's quartets except Op. 59 No. 1, Grieg's violin sonatas (Kogan), Barber's concerto (Kogan), and all of Faure's chamber music except the piano quintets, plus some composers in the Kogan box like Denisov and Khrennikov.  

I've already listened to the Tchaikovsky and Bernstein releases a couple times on Naxos Music Library; I think the LPO album has the best "Winter Daydreams" symphony I've ever heard, and as I've said elsewhere, I think the Mass is probably one of the two or three (or one...) best records Naxos has ever made.

[Opus106]

This will be my introduction to... all of Beethoven's quartets except Op. 59 No. 1

WHA...!

[71 dB]

[Bogey]

[Novi]

Hello everybody. I haven't posted in a while, but received these in the past few weeks:

I was extremely chuffed to have found a copy of this: 0:)



I'm late to the fortepiano party, but I'm completely sold after a couple of live performances (Chopin's F minor concerto on a Pleyel; Andreas Staier recital on an Erard):
     

American music is largely unknown territory (I really only have the Bernstein DG box); this seemed like a good one to start with:



This set because I'd seen it recommended here and I'd had my first viol consort concert experience a couple of months ago. I liked the 'lusty wench' vibe of the music; these ones are less 'lusty wench' but I'm enjoying them nonetheless:



I thought it was about time I tried Celi's Bruckner. Don't know if I'll like them or not... I haven't been in the mood for Bruckner lately, so this one's still unwrapped:




I can't find a picture, but also Lenny's Mahler on DVD.

And lastly and most importantly, internet! So now I'm back online again.

[Bogey]

American music is largely unknown territory (I really only have the Bernstein DG box); this seemed like a good one to start with:



And lastly and most importantly, internet! So now I'm back online again.

Great to have you back!  And that is a wonderful disc.

[Que]

I'm late to the fortepiano party, but I'm completely sold after a couple of live performances (Chopin's F minor concerto on a Pleyel; Andreas Staier recital on an Erard):
     

Staier, live, oh wow! Excellent choices for your fortepiano party BTW!


Purchased this Graupner disc by Geneviève Soly yesterday - from the bargain bin and a nice chance to hear if there is some more interesting German harpsichord music out there! Haven't heard Soly as well.



Q

[SonicMan46]

Sony has boxed Salonen's Nielsen recordings (the symphonies, Violin Concerto, smaller works). It arrived today from Amazon (€26 for six CDs). CDs in paper sleeves with original booklet cover artwork.

 

Sarge - that 'new' box w/ Salonen looks great (only have the Violin Concerto disc) - after your post, I put on the first two of my Blomstedt recordings w/ the San Frans; now I find these quite outstanding - just wondering if you and/or others may have some comparative comments on the interpretations; if a 'different' approach, I'd certainly consider adding another Nielsen box to my collection - thanks.  Dave 

[Coopmv]

It's a nice collection. Carolyn Sampson is a lovely and very expressive singer. I still haven't quite got used to the idea of Handel lyrics sung in German, though - there's always a culture shock when the CD starts playing.

For a master like Handel, you can always see his magic touch regardless of what the lyrics is sung in.  I have a few of his choral works sung in German - Brockes Passion and Messiah as arranged by Mozart.  I would like to compare Carolyn Sampson to Christina Hogman performing the same works on BIS ...

[Coopmv]

Sony has boxed Salonen's Nielsen recordings (the symphonies, Violin Concerto, smaller works). It arrived today from Amazon (€26 for six CDs). CDs in paper sleeves with original booklet cover artwork.







Sarge

I have everyone of these original CD's on Sony.  Fortunately, they were not difficult to track down back in the early 90's.

[SonicMan46]

I have everyone of these original CD's on Sony.  Fortunately, they were not difficult to track down back in the early 90's.

Well, Stuart, concerning my question on comparing the Salonen & Blomstedt performances, the latter of which I own - first, what do you think of Salonen in these Nielsen symphonies; and second, any comparative listening that you would like to share w/ us?  Dave 

[Coopmv]

Well, Stuart, concerning my question on comparing the Salonen & Blomstedt performances, the latter of which I own - first, what do you think of Salonen in these Nielsen symphonies; and second, any comparative listening that you would like to share w/ us?  Dave 

Dave,  I actually have the Nielsen Symphonies by both Blomstedt and Salonen, though I have not listened to those CD's in a number of years.  I am still trying to work off my queue of new CD's.

[George]

Hello everybody. I haven't posted in a while, but received these in the past few weeks:

I was extremely chuffed to have found a copy of this: 0:)

Congrats! I got mine earlier this year.

I thought it was about time I tried Celi's Bruckner. Don't know if I'll like them or not... I haven't been in the mood for Bruckner lately, so this one's still unwrapped:

I got mine recently and haven't dug into mine yet either. I have heard the whole thing, though and it's incredible!

[Elgarian]

For a master like Handel, you can always see his magic touch regardless of what the lyrics is sung in

Yes of course; but German - as a spoken language - has such a very different, more severe poetic/rhythmic/musical structure when compared with Italian or English that the overall effect of the music is significantly different to 'Handel as we usually hear him'. The sound of the words gives a harder, rougher edge to the music, which always comes (for me) as a kind of shock.

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge - that 'new' box w/ Salonen looks great (only have the Violin Concerto disc) - after your post, I put on the first two of my Blomstedt recordings w/ the San Frans; now I find these quite outstanding - just wondering if you and/or others may have some comparative comments on the interpretations; if a 'different' approach, I'd certainly consider adding another Nielsen box to my collection - thanks.  Dave  

Can't make a definitive comparison yet, Dave. I've only heard Salonen's Fourth. It's the one recording from Salonen's cyle that I owned prior to acquiring this box. I bought it in the  80s on the strength of Robert Layton's negative review in Gramophone. He was a critic whose taste in performing style was the opposite of mine. When he dissed a recording, I knew I would love it    Compared to Blomstedt, at least in this symphony, Salonen's tempos and rhythm are more malleable, more in the moment (interventionist). He tends to emphasize things while Blomstedt (if I can use that hoary cliché) lets the music speak for itself. Although I like parts of Blomstedt's cycle (1 and 6 especially) I really dislike his Third (he seems on autopilot, just beating time), and his Fourth doesn't convince me either. What I'm pretty confident in saying at ths point is that Salonen and Blomstedt give very different interpretations.

I have everyone of these original CD's on Sony.  Fortunately, they were not difficult to track down back in the early 90's.

After I bought Salonen's Fourth I didn't pick up the rest of his cycle--I'm not sure why. I loved what he did with that symphony and expected a similar approach in the others. The VC with Cho-Liang Lin is near definitive if the majority of critics are to be believed and yet I kept passing that by too. Curious. Maybe I instinctively knew a really cheap box would appear someday   Patience is sometimes rewarded.

Sarge

[Novi]

Great to have you back!  And that is a wonderful disc.

Hi there Bogey - good to see you too. I find that I've been amassing multiple recordings rather than exploring new repertoire so thought a trip across the Atlantic would be just the thing. The signs are good after the first listen.

Staier, live, oh wow! Excellent choices for your fortepiano party BTW!

Q

Que, Staier's K459 may well be my favourite now. This is my go-to piece for sheer joy, and Staier's is so energetic and vigorous. Actually, and this is a woeful misuse of the music, I programmed it in my i-pod to give me a boost in the middle of a half-marathon a few weeks ago, and boy, did it do the job.

Congrats! I got mine earlier this year.

George, the only other complete set I have is Pogorelich's, and I find Moravec's complements his quite nicely.

[Coopmv]

Yes of course; but German - as a spoken language - has such a very different, more severe poetic/rhythmic/musical structure when compared with Italian or English that the overall effect of the music is significantly different to 'Handel as we usually hear him'. The sound of the words gives a harder, rougher edge to the music, which always comes (for me) as a kind of shock.

Think Johann Sebastian Bach, a German contemporary of Handel and they were in fact born in the same year.

I would love to discover more of Handel's vocal works that are sung in German.