Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[DavidW]

PentaTone has reissued some of the old Philips Quadraphonic recordings on SACD, the Masur Beethoven is in that catagory.  You can recognize these by a logo with a Q on the cover.  I have a few of them and mostly I find the quad sound a bit distracting compared with the stereo (I have the Beaux Arts Brahms on Pentatone and Philips CD and I don't find the Pentatone an enhanced experience).

Ha!  I did not know that... quadraphonic makes a come back!

[DavidW]

Just noticed, the Masur/Gewandhaus on Philips DUO is not the same cycle as the one (also originally Philips) on Pentatone.  The Pentatone one is from '72 or so, the one on Philips must be more recent, judging by the lineup of singers in the 9th.

Yes the philips one I have, and I think Karl has is early 80s, well that settles that different cycles after all!

[Coopmv]

PentaTone=Philips like a phoenix from the ashes.  You could be dealing with an sacd remaster.  If it is early 80s I believe that is what Karl and I have.

Does your 9th have Sylvia NcNair singing soprano?  I have that lone Philips CD by Masur and the Gewandhaus Orchestra ...

[DavidW]

No mine has Anna Tomowa-Sintow... and you know what I am in idiot!   The one I have is the 70s cycle, I don't have the one Karl does.

[Coopmv]

No mine has Anna Tomowa-Sintow... and you know what I am in idiot!   The one I have is the 70s cycle, I don't have the one Karl does.

I think Masur might have recorded the Beethoven cycle 3 times.  I also have a 9th by him and the Gewandhaus on Berlin Classics ...

[Mirror Image]

ummmm... you sure?    

Well maybe not attacked, but I sure felt like the smallest man in the room.

[kishnevi]

Ironically, on my walkabout at lunchtime today, I stepped into Borders, and I did find the Zinman . . . five clunky jewel cases, and the set priced at $32. I don't think I paid quite that much for the Masur. In any case, glad that I chanced upon the Masur set that fateful day, I love it!

You might want to stroll back into Borders tomorrow.  They sent out a fifty percent coupon in email today. 
After a good deal of searching around for something 1)that I like and 2)was actually in stock,  I just used it.
Jochum.  Bruckner Complete.  EMI Box Set.    My luck that will come in the mail the same day as the Furtwangler Ring I ordered from Arkiv, and I'll have 20+ CDs to listen to all clumped together.
If anyone else wants to use it, the promotion code for online orders is BYE7070P, and you apparently no longer need to be a member of their Rewards program to use the coupons.

And Barnes and Noble has a ten percent off coupon this weekend, so I'm going off to explore there in a bit.  I went to their b&m and used the instore coupon on the Brahms Violin Sonatas--Mutter and Orkis.   Of course, I couldn't just walk out of there with only one CD, so I also got:
Handel Coronation Anthems, The Sixteen and Harry Christophers
Rachmaninov Music for Two Pianos, Ashkenazy and Previn--a Decca double that also has Ashkenazy performing the Etudes Tableaux and the Corelli Variations (I think I have that performance already, as part of a box set of the Concertos/Paganini Rhapsody)
and, in place of the Walcha set I didn't order,  a double disc of "Famous Organ Works" from Walcha's stereo cycle.
Speakng of the Walcha, Karl:  Did they send the box you posted today or the box they had imaged on the website?

I happen to like the Zinman, btw, just to complete this commodious vicus of recirculation.

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Just bought:

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Didn't own any Weill's music on CD, so I figured this was a good place to start and got it cheap:

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[bbrip]

Just won an ebay aution for this beautiful and rare set of the Mahler symphonies with Eliahu Inbal at less than 50 Euros 

[karlhenning]

I dunno, you'd have to have faith that Boulez is at heart a decent chap, to imagine that he genuinely regrets the nasty things he's said of others.

[kishnevi]

Went to Sawgrass Mills to get a shirt, found FYE has a relatively big store there, with actually about six feet of classical CDs even if you don't count the Andre Rieu and Bocelli collections, and a small decent assortment of opera/classical DVDs.  So instead of the shirt I got these

And late last night, after signing off here, I ordered three CDs from Barnes and Noble (all three cheaper than at Amazon)

The Jarvis will mean I have the complete cycle.
I listened to the Shostakovich when I got home, and liked it.
But today the mailman delivered

So tonight I put on Siegfried.  Just finished it as I type this.  All the goodness I hoped for.
If I stick to my budget, I won't make any more purchases this month.  But if I stuck to my budget, I wouldn't have gotten half the stuff I got this month in the first place....


ETA: Edited to put in the correct images, but one doesn't seem to have the right info:
Ton Koopman/Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra:  Bach: Musikalisches Opfer

[Sid]

I dunno, you'd have to have faith that Boulez is at heart a decent chap, to imagine that he genuinely regrets the nasty things he's said of others.

That's true, we all says things in the fire of our youth, many people become more balanced (or at least mellow) when they get older. In any case, I think that both Boulez & Rieu have done good things for music in their respective realms. Criticism of Rieu really comes down to superficial judgements. This makes me remember how some people judged the great c20th British conductor Sir Malcolm Sargent because he liked to "dress up to the nines" when giving concerts. He was very elegant, often appearing in a white suit coat with a carnation in his lapel. This was seen as a sign of superficiality but, to be honest, hearing the man's now classic accounts of things like Handel, Brahms and even some rarer repertoire like Myaskovsky - who was rarely recorded outside of Eastern Europe at the time - Sargent comes off as just as a consumate musician as any others of his generation, eg. Barbirolli, Boult, Beecham (three B's!). I don't give a rat's arse as to how they dressed as long as they delivered the goods. And they all did that, that's the main thing...

Thread duty:

Just got these second hand yesterday -

Albert LORTZING - Highlights from comic opera "Zar und Zimmerman"/Eurodisc LP

J. S. BACH - Partitas 1 & 2; Sonatas 1 & 2/Yehudi Menuhin, violin/2 tapes

J. S. BACH - Well Tempered Clavier I & II/Wanda Landowska, harpsichord/1 tape

DEBUSSY, RAVEL - String Quartets/Melos Quartet/IMD tape

[marvinbrown]

 

  Picked this up, I have the Callas/(Kleiber-conductor) recording of this same opera but I could never fully appreciate the music due to the horrible sound so I picked this up to offset the unpleasantness of the first recording.  I have no illusions, there will be no substitute for Callas ............


  marvin

[karlhenning]

Just noticed, the Masur/Gewandhaus on Philips DUO is not the same cycle as the one (also originally Philips) on Pentatone.  The Pentatone one is from '72 or so, the one on Philips must be more recent, judging by the lineup of singers in the 9th.

Yes the philips one I have, and I think Karl has is early 80s, well that settles that different cycles after all!

Philips, Gewandhauseorchester Leipzig
iii.1987 (Opus 67)
v.1988 & vi.1991 (Opus 60 . . . curiously split up!)
i.1989 (Opus 21)
iii.1989 (Opus 36)
i.1990 & v.1991 (Opus 125)
xi.1990 (Opus 92)
ii.1992 (Opus 93)
x.1992 (Opus 55)
ii.1993 (Opus 68)

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Just bought:



I'm not crazy about MTT's Mahler, but I think he has a wonderful way with explaining music and teaching it to the viewer. In this particular DVD, he goes to the birthplace of Mahler and details the sounds that inspired his music. Can't wait to watch it!

[Coopmv]

Just placed an order on the following CD's this evening ...

[Sid]

Not a purchase, but borrowed from the library. I remember listening to this work 15 years ago & that I really liked it (although my experience with early music has been much less than with other eras). As I remember, the choir had this ethereal quality. I'm looking forward to getting into this tonight, if I can...

Brumel:
Messe a 12 Voix- Et Ecce Terrae Motus

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[listener]

the May issue of BBC Music to get the disc of BACH ORGAN WORKS  played on the 1744 Gottfried Silbermann organ in Freiberg, Germany.    A "greatest hits" kind of program, the Passacaglia, Toccata Adagio & Fugue, a couple of P&Fs and 3 chorales  played by David Goode.

[karlhenning]

Philips, Gewandhauseorchester Leipzig

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xi.1990 (Opus 92)

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Last night, revisited the famous Allegretto from this recording, with Maria & Irina . . . it's a beauty!  Possibly the best we've heard . . . .