Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[71 dB]

Too bad I don't like opera.

So you haven't experienced opera? Can you tell for certainty you don't like Rameau's baroque operas? I don't think you can.

[Brian]

That is a good deal. Too bad I don't like opera.

Heh, I am currently listening to opera for just the second time all year. Hansel and Gretel. It was kind of "meh" until the childrens' evening prayer came along and ... wow. Pure Wagnerian gorgeousness for the next eighteen minutes. Ahhhhh. But the witch is about to show up, so I'm guessing the gorgeousness isn't lasting much longer.

[Elgarian]

Right from the start, it was never a case of 'liking' Der Ring. After an initial exposure over two or three weeks to an 'excerpts' record, the Ring simply swept me away into a soundworld the like of which I'd never experienced before. It was never a matter of 'liking it' - it was a matter of being drawn in by an irresistible force. But my goodness, back then I read and reread John Culshaw's book, and so longed for a Solti set, but it was hopelessly out of reach financially. So today's bargain purchase (see above) has a marked personal significance, coming at the end of a very, very long road for me, even though I'm not so completely enraptured by Wagner as once I was.

[I never did regard it as 'opera' back then in those days of discovery; still don't, really. It still seems a thing apart.]

[Franco]

So you haven't experienced opera? Can you tell for certainty you don't like Rameau's baroque operas? I don't think you can.

[Mirror Image]

So you haven't experienced opera? Can you tell for certainty you don't like Rameau's baroque operas? I don't think you can.

Yes, I have listened to plenty of opera. I've never seen an opera live. The only operas I've liked were Delius' "A Village Romeo & Juliet" and his last opera "Fennimore & Gerda." I'm just not a really big fan of singing unless it's done in a melodic way like I've heard from Mahler, Debussy, Martinu, Ravel, Vaughan Williams, among others.

[Brian]

BEETHOVEN | Five
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras

OH CRAP I'm just getting into the finale and the family decided that now is the time to go out for pizza. NOOOOOooooooooooo

[kishnevi]

BEETHOVEN | Five
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras

OH CRAP I'm just getting into the finale and the family decided that now is the time to go out for pizza. NOOOOOooooooooooo

That rattled you so much you even put this in the wrong thread

[Brian]

That rattled you so much you even put this in the wrong thread

Wow, it did!

[Brian]

My first-ever purchase from Hyperion's "Buy Me" sale.

[Daverz]

Wow, it did!

Beethoven 5 is all wrong for pizza.  Try the Triple Concerto.

[karlhenning]

Ray! Brian! It's landed!

[listener]

why I support (in more than one way) my local b&m's   -   these total about €14  ($Cdn 30.) -pre-owned
LULLY  Psyché
THALBERG Donizetti Fantasias
Frank Zappa and Tommy Fortman

[The new erato]

I'm just not a really big fan of singing unless it's done in a melodic way like I've heard from Mahler, Debussy, Martinu, Ravel, Vaughan Williams, among others.

Well nearly all of these wrote operas which I feel is an essential part of their work and a natural continuation of he soundworld you say you like. And no  operatic "screaming" at the top of their lungs either like in late romatic, dramatic works if that's what you are afraid of. Liking Delius opera you should have no problems with the operas of Debussy, Martinu, Ravel, or Vaughan Williams.

[Sergeant Rock]

This arrived today and ....Arggghhh!!!! I ordered the wrong recording. I wanted Solti's LSO peformances from the 60s. Oh well. It's still Solti.




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Well nearly all of these wrote operas which I feel is an essential part of their work and a natural continuation of he soundworld you say you like. And no  operatic "screaming" at the top of their lungs either like in late romatic, dramatic works if that's what you are afraid of. Liking Delius opera you should have no problems with the operas of Debussy, Martinu, Ravel, or Vaughan Williams.

Thank you, erato! Opera is still very much unexplored territory for me. I will probably get some of RVW's operas first. I'm thinking "Sir John in Love" first, have you heard this one?

[jlaurson]

That is a good deal. Too bad I don't like opera.

Opera is not to be liked. It's to be endured. Learned. Eventually obsessed about. 

[karlhenning]

Opera is not to be liked. It's to be endured.

Oh, that is sooo Bayreuth.

[The new erato]

Thank you, erato! Opera is still very much unexplored territory for me. I will probably get some of RVW's operas first. I'm thinking "Sir John in Love" first, have you heard this one?

The only one of his I know well is Riders to the Sea which I think suits my description fine.

[jhar26]

[DavidRoss]

From jpc.de, at a price much too good to pass up, even with the high shipping cost!