Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Antoine Marchand]

Ordered from MDT:



I have listened to almost all those discs by Rannou, but now the OOP syndrome has made to order all of them. I hope this time I will be lucky enough because I have ordered the violin sonatas two times before, but without to get them.

Parle is a reasoned bet.   

[Coopmv]

Just placed an order on the following CD's, ALMOST all classical and romantic works ...

[Opus106]

Just placed an order on the following CD's, all classical and romantic works ...

Ahem.


Let us know how you like it. I quite like this work. And love the "band".

[Coopmv]

Ahem.


Let us know how you like it. I quite like this work. And love the "band".

I have many recordings by Biondi and the Europa Galante and actually attended their concert in NY a number of years ago.  The main attraction of this work for me is actually Dorothea Röschmann, who is a very accomplished German Soprano and yet I do not have a single recording by her ...

[Scarpia]

Don't know if this counts as a "purchase" yet, on backorder at Borders.com

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Borders sent me a 33% order coupon     and I got a $40 discount, which put it significantly below the best Amazon price for a new copy.   Not sure if I am contributing to Borders recovery or death with this.  Not counting my chickens yet.

[PaulSC]

Don't know if this counts as a "purchase" yet, on backorder at Borders.com

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Borders sent me a 33% order coupon     and I got a $40 discount, which put it significantly below the best Amazon price for a new copy.   Not sure if I am contributing to Borders recovery or death with this.  Not counting my chickens yet.

Pardon my ignorance about the Hogwood Mozart set, but I'm curious why Schröder is also mentioned by name on the cover. Concertmaster, or some other role?

[Sadko]

Ordered from MDT:



I have listened to almost all those discs by Rannou, but now the OOP syndrome has made to order all of them. I hope this time I will be lucky enough because I have ordered the violin sonatas two times before, but without to get them.

Parle is a reasoned bet. 

Interesting to see there is more of Rannou, I liked her Forqueray disc a lot.

[Lethevich]

Pardon my ignorance about the Hogwood Mozart set, but I'm curious why Schröder is also mentioned by name on the cover. Concertmaster, or some other role?

Yes. It is an unusual editorial choice, but, then, that set is a rather old issue.

[Gurn Blanston]

Pardon my ignorance about the Hogwood Mozart set, but I'm curious why Schröder is also mentioned by name on the cover. Concertmaster, or some other role?

I'm going to give a tentative answer right now, Paul, because I haven't read the liner notes book in 9 years, and then recheck this evening.

IIRC, Schröder is actually conducting, Hogwood was coordinating more or less, like Musical Director. If I am wrong I'll be the first to commit seppuku but I'm pretty sure that's correct.

[Scarpia]

I'm going to give a tentative answer right now, Paul, because I haven't read the liner notes book in 9 years, and then recheck this evening.

IIRC, Schröder is actually conducting, Hogwood was coordinating more or less, like Musical Director. If I am wrong I'll be the first to commit seppuku but I'm pretty sure that's correct.

On the Decca site Schoder is listed as "concertmaster" and Hogwood as "director."  I suspect they are following the classical custom of playing without a "conductor" and having the first violin give cues, as needed.  Someone is playing harpsichord, I assume, is it Hogwood?

[Gurn Blanston]

On the Decca site Schoder is listed as "concertmaster" and Hogwood as "director."  I suspect they are following the classical custom of playing without a "conductor" and having the first violin give cues, as needed.  Someone is playing harpsichord, I assume, is it Hogwood?

Yes, definitely Hogwood. This was my first disk(s) by them (everyone has to start somewhere) and I recall being surprised somehow that he was playing harpsichord rather than beating a stick at the podium. Live and learn.

[Coopmv]

Yes. It is an unusual editorial choice, but, then, that set is a rather old issue.

I still prefer the Hogwood set over the Telarc set by Mackerras.  I also have the later Mozart Symphonies by Mackerras on Linn.  While the SQ of the Linn recordings is better due to the SACD recording, I still give Hogwood set an edge in terms of performance ...

[PaulSC]

Thanks everyone for helping to solve the Hogwood/Schröder/Mozart mystery for me.

[Scarpia]

Yes, definitely Hogwood. This was my first disk(s) by them (everyone has to start somewhere) and I recall being surprised somehow that he was playing harpsichord rather than beating a stick at the podium. Live and learn.

Same seat occupied by Papa Haydn when his symphonies premiered in London, no?

[Opus106]

Same seat occupied by Papa Haydn when his symphonies premiered in London, no?

Wasn't he a violinist?

[Scarpia]

Wasn't he a violinist?

From Wikipedia:

The visit (1791–1792), along with a repeat visit (1794–1795), was a huge success. Audiences flocked to Haydn's concerts; Haydn augmented his fame and made large profits, thus becoming financially secure.[36] Charles Burney reviewed the first concert thus: "Haydn himself presided at the piano-forte; and the sight of that renowned composer so electrified the audience, as to excite an attention and a pleasure superior to any that had ever been caused by instrumental music in England."

I remember it because one of the London Symphonies has a little piano cadenza of sorts that Haydn played himself at the premier of the work.

[Gurn Blanston]

Same seat occupied by Papa Haydn when his symphonies premiered in London, no?

Quite so. Mozart led from the keyboard himself many times, particularly at operas (and obviously concertos). But the liner notes here say that Schröder is leading, so it has to be from the first violin chair.

[Gurn Blanston]

Wasn't he a violinist?

As he said of himself, he played every instrument well, but was a virtuoso on none. He did all his composing at the keyboard though.

[Opus106]

From Wikipedia:

The visit (1791–1792), along with a repeat visit (1794–1795), was a huge success. Audiences flocked to Haydn's concerts; Haydn augmented his fame and made large profits, thus becoming financially secure.[36] Charles Burney reviewed the first concert thus: "Haydn himself presided at the piano-forte; and the sight of that renowned composer so electrified the audience, as to excite an attention and a pleasure superior to any that had ever been caused by instrumental music in England."

I remember it because one of the London Symphonies has a little piano cadenza of sorts that Haydn played himself at the premier of the work.

I was just reading the article. Thanks.

[Opus106]

As he said of himself, he played every instrument well, but was a virtuoso on none. He did all his composing at the keyboard though.

It's very unlikely that a composer as versatile as Haydn would not have been taught at least one keyboard instrument, and for someone who pioneered the form of the symphony, the best 'drawing board' would have been a keyboard. I just assumed he played the first violin. I guess he donned that cap only at Esterhaza?