Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived today: Kleiber, Kleiber, Kleiber and Levine:






Sarge

[Antoine Marchand]

This Schubert looks mouth-watering. 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Some thingies from Brilliant.

         

[Opus106]

Sarge didn't have THE Kleiber, until today!

I see Brilliant's going along the wacky cover pictures way!


Thread duty:

Beethoven - "misc." piano pieces - Wilhelm Kempff

Fauré, Franck - Violin Sonatas - Grumiaux, Crossley/Sebok

[Gurn Blanston]

Some thingies from Brilliant.

Dadgummit, Harry, I just got Vol 4  2 weeks ago!    And they haven't sent my empty digipak yet...

[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge didn't have THE Kleiber, until today!

Had it, didn't like it, gave it away. But watching the film about Kleiber Mensch linked to rekindled my interest in the conductor. Thought I'd give his Brahms another chance as well as filling in the holes of my Kleiber collection (his Rosenkavalier on CD has been ordered too).

Sarge

[Opus106]

Had it, didn't like it, gave it away. But watching the film about Kleiber Mensch linked to rekindled my interest in the conductor. Thought I'd give his Brahms another chance as well as filling in the holes of my Kleiber collection (his Rosenkavalier on CD has been ordered too).

Sarge

Ah, all's well in the Universe again.

[Orpheus]

Two old classics...





Orpheus 

[Que]

Q

[Scarpia]

Ah, all's well in the Universe again.

I can't say all's well with the Universe when the best Brahms 4 ever recorded (much better than the Kleiber) is out of print.

[Antoine Marchand]

Great acquisition, Q! Before them I never found a performance totally to my taste. 

[Orpheus]

I can't say all's well with the Universe when the best Brahms 4 ever recorded (much better than the Kleiber) is out of print.

Where did you buy it? 

[Scarpia]

Where did you buy it? 

Don't recall.  I've had it for 10 years at least.

[Que]

Great acquisition, Q! Before them I never found a performance totally to my taste. 

Just followed your example. By the sound of it I have something to look forward to. 

Q

[AnthonyAthletic]

Anyone else into this 'Ongoingly Wonderful Cycle'?

[asin]B004KDO2GG[/asin]

Arrived today 

[Solitary Wanderer]

First exposure to this.

Prep for SFO's MTT performance this June.

[Drasko]

(his Rosenkavalier on CD has been ordered too).

Sarge

Which recording? Do tell how's the sound when you get it. I had (and dumped) one from the 90s MET with mostly Vienna cast but the sound was terrible, murky in house recording, on Memories.

[Scarpia]

Which recording? Do tell how's the sound when you get it. I had (and dumped) one from the 90s MET with mostly Vienna cast but the sound was terrible, murky in house recording, on Memories.

Knowing the Sarge, it must have been this one:

[Sergeant Rock]

Which recording? Do tell how's the sound when you get it.

Knowing the Sarge, it must have been this one:

I think that's the same performance but the one I ordered is produced by Orfeo:




Sarge

[MishaK]

I think that's the same performance but the one I ordered is produced by Orfeo:




Sarge

The fact that they dared put it on SACD suggests that the sound quality ought to be leagues better than the usual Opera d'Oro stuff. Let us know how this sounds.

PS: as I observed in the Wagner thread (which you haven't visited in a while, apparently), I was a little disappointed in your recommendation of the evil couple in Bychkov's Lohengrin vs. Barenboim. For starters, Struckmann as Telramund is the same on both recordings, and Bychkov's Ortrud is massively undercharacterized. I still love the recording, mostly for Botha and Bychkov. But a good Telramund-Ortrud match still seems elusive.