Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Daverz]

Indeedy! That is a great one - both the symphony and the recording. It was my only 6 until I got the whole set with Rowicki.

Incidentally, I recently got the Ancerl Dvorak 6 to fill out my Ancerl collection:



Also his Shostakovich Symphonies 1 & 5.

I also pounced on a rec here of Danczowski's Szymanowski Violin Concertos since it was cheap on Amazon, and I love these concertos.


And the gluttony continued with a JPC order, mostly CPO issues:

[kishnevi]

Landed today:
From Naxos: Boccherini Cello Concertos Vol II (Hugh/Scottish Chamber Orch.-Halstead cond.) and Vol III (Wallfisch/Northern Chamber Orch.-Ward cond.)

Now Volume I doesn't have to feel lonely anymore

From Arte Nova:  Beethoven: Symphonies 7 and 8; Piano Concertos 3 and 4; Piano Concerto 5 and Choral Fantasy with Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage--Zurich Tonhalle Orch.--Zinman cond. Bronfman piano
 
I already had 6 CDs from the ZZZ (Zinman Zurich Zyklus), so I decided to get the six remaining ones.  The other three (Overtures, Symphonies 3 and 4; PCs 1 and 2) are in varying stages of being on their way to me.

And finally, the Levine conducted Barber of Seville  on one of EMI's superbudgety formats
(Sills, Gedda, Milnes).   I had two recordings of this opera already.  One was made before I was born (the Callas recording);  the other was done about the time I graduated from kindergarten (Leinsdorf conducting a cast that included Robert Merrill).  This one is of course not terribly new, but more recent than the others--recorded about the time I was graduating from high school.

[Sergeant Rock]

A whole slew of Ms in the mail today: Mahler, Meier & Maazel; Martinu & Martinu; Mercury.

I now have Kubelik's first and last Má Vlasts--and thinking about buying one of the middle ones. I love overkill 

 




Sarge

[The new erato]

Now Volume I doesn't have to feel lonely anymore

Always an important consideration! 

[Lethevich]

Two excellent discs - the Saygun came as a very pleasant surprise to me: very refreshing, perky music.

[Harry]

Two excellent discs - the Saygun came as a very pleasant surprise to me: very refreshing, perky music.

Gosh, I have been telling this a long time ago, but would someone listen?.....O no, every time the wheel has to be discovered again....

[Daverz]

Gosh, I have been telling this a long time ago, but would someone listen?.....O no, every time the wheel has to be discovered again....

JPC has it and a few other Saygun items at a discount.

[not edward]

Picked up a couple of second-hand recordings at bargain price:



Luke is to blame for the first of these, and probably a contributing factor in the second.

[MishaK]

I now have Kubelik's first and last Má Vlasts--and thinking about buying one of the middle ones. I love overkill 

The first and last ones are the ones to have, as far as I'm concerned. The middle ones are not as convincing and muddily recorded. The late 50s Vienna version in particular I found very disappointing.

I ended up buying this the other day:



Found a very good price on amazon marketplace. There are only two bits of overlap with my existing collection: Kubelik 1 and Solti 8. And all the rest are recordings I've been meaning to get but have been putting off.

[flyingdutchman]

I now have Kubelik's first and last Má Vlasts--and thinking about buying one of the middle ones. I love overkill 

Sarge

Get the Orfeo Kubelik Ma Vlast.  It beats them all.

[Sergeant Rock]

The first and last ones are the ones to have, as far as I'm concerned.  0:) 0:) 0:)

Get the Orfeo Kubelik Ma Vlast.  It beats them all. 

Why do I feel like there is a battle waging for my soul...well, maybe not my soul, but my bank account 

While deciding what do about further Kubelik purchases, I've invested in the 1954 Talich:




Also in today's mail:





Sarge

[DavidRoss]

Why do I feel like there is a battle waging for my soul...

Here we are, locked in our private temples, savoring the richest fruits of our civilization via CD, while the world outside crashes and burns and decays so rapidly we cannot believe it is happening.  Reminds me of Thomas Pynchon's great early short story, Entropy.

Our souls may be safe, but our world...?

No purchases today.  I'm too goddamned broke!  (Though I'm going to a live performance tomorrow...twisted priorities?)

[flyingdutchman]

Oh, I am not talking about Talich or anyone else, just Kubelik.  The Talich is one I have bought repeatedly.

[Antoine Marchand]

Gosh, I have been telling this a long time ago, but would someone listen?.....O no, every time the wheel has to be discovered again....

So it must be because the happiness is not the find itself, but the personal travel towards the discovery. 

[Mirror Image]

Purchased today:

[Scarpia]

Here we are, locked in our private temples, savoring the richest fruits of our civilization via CD, while the world outside crashes and burns and decays so rapidly we cannot believe it is happening.  Reminds me of Thomas Pynchon's great early short story, Entropy.

Our souls may be safe, but our world...?

I'm not sure the trend is negative.  The "golden era" of classical music corresponded to the time when Nazi's, Bolsheviks, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, the Gang of Four, Chairman Mao, variously ruled major chunks of the world and, for instance, black people in the US couldn't vote if they lived south of Pennsylvania.  I'm not so enthusiastic to go back in time. 

Plus, porno is a lot cheaper now!   

[DavidRoss]

I'm not sure the trend is negative.  The "golden era" of classical music corresponded to the time when Nazi's, Bolsheviks, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, the Gang of Four, Chairman Mao, variously ruled major chunks of the world and, for instance, black people in the US couldn't vote if they lived south of Pennsylvania.  I'm not so enthusiastic to go back in time. 

Plus, porno is a lot cheaper now!   

Not my "golden era"--if there were such a time. 

[Brian]

I caved in to ArkivMusic's Naxos CD sale and rounded up the following discs for a total of $75. I had only purchased one CD since mid-March, and I hope this is my last purchase before moving to London in September.

   

   

   



I think this is a good purchase because:
- I have never heard Shostakovich's Eighth (though I have Barshai)
- I have only heard Roussel while listening to samples to decide whether or not to buy this box
- I have only heard Mozart's trios while listening to samples to decide whether or not to buy the CDs
- I have only heard 3 or 4 of the Shostakovich P&Fs (though I have Nikolayeva [mono])
- I have never heard anything by Scarlatti

[Coopmv]

I hope this is my last purchase before moving to London in September.

Really?  as an exchange student?

[Brian]

Really?  as an exchange student?

As a master's degree candidate at Queen Mary, the University of London