Past Purchases (CLOSED)

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Bartók: 8 CDs-worth of his orchestral music conducted by Boulez, from DG -- oh, and my first opera on CD!

Excellent! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have, Opus106. Bluebeard's Castle is an excellent opera and one I think you will enjoy. Opera isn't my favorite genre, but I've opened up a good bit to it this year and I've discovered so much great music, especially in Wagner. Who, now, I consider one of the greatest composers ever. To hear operas like Tristan und Isolde, Das Rheingold, Parsifal, and Gotterdammerung has really opened my ears to new sonic possibilities. I'm not even sure why I chose to pursue Wagner's music, because I was always an orchestral guy, but I'm glad I did now and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle helped get the ball rolling in that direction. Happy listening!

[prémont]

One week ago, I purchased this set at $78.31 on Amazon USA, plus $8 for shipping & handling costs.

Now is tagged at $97.03.

So I ordered it five minutes ago from Amazon.fr. 
88 Euro + 13 Euro (shipping et.c.) =  101 Euro.

[Antoine Marchand]

So I ordered it five minutes ago from Amazon.fr. 
88 Euro + 13 Euro (shipping et.c.) =  101 Euro.

I hope this time we will have better luck with this blind purchase. My Klinkhammer WTC arrived one week ago. I am not so deeply disappointed like you, but certainly it's a very imperfect set. Klinkhammer has some good ideas, but she is totally unable in order to develop those ideas with some degree of consistency. After some bars she frequently seems simply lost.   

[Antoine Marchand]

Well, not to complain, but it is the worst I've ever had here. So it goes.

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Now have 9 of 10 of these boxes. As expected, the last (Vol. 9) will be very difficult, although I have the downloads already anyway, I would love to have the disks themselves. In any case, this has been an excellent series, and I can't help feeling a bit resentful towards Decca for cutting it off at <>80% complete.

It means that I am probably the only GMGer who (so far) has those ten boxes. But, we know, our Gurn is a persistent man. 

P.S.: BTW, you have not reported anything about the Beethoven set from the Smithsonian Institute.

[Gurn Blanston]

It means that I am probably the only GMGer who (so far) has those ten boxes. But, we know, our Gurn is a persistent man. 

P.S.: BTW, you have not reported anything about the Beethoven set from the Smithsonian Institute.

Oh, no worries mate. I will have volume 9. Persistent & patient.

I have received that box, but the time for listening to it properly has been hard to come by. Of course, I already had the disks by the Smithson Quartet on DHM. I look forward to the others though.



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Zurich Tonhalle Orchestre / Zinman  Bronfman - Bia 486 Op 80 Fantasy in c for Orchestra, Piano & Chorus "Choral Fantasy"

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Bought a ton of Penderecki tonight:

[Brahmsian]

Bought a ton of Penderecki tonight:

Penderecki is on my wish list.  Next major I do, he'll be a big part of.   

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Penderecki is on my wish list.  Next major I do, he'll be a big part of.   

Yeah, you know, I've been trying to get more into Polish composers as I think they're kind of overlooked many times. I'm still digesting Panufnik's music and I've been listening to Bacewicz tonight. Of course, Szymanowski and Lutoslawski I have become very familiar with over the last few years.

I went over to Naxos and sampled some Penderecki and I listened to Seven Gates of Jerusalem and really loved what I heard. I've become an admirer of large scale choral works with orchestra over this past year or so.

[Brahmsian]

I went over to Naxos and sampled some Penderecki and I listened to Seven Gates of Jerusalem and really loved what I heard. I've become an admirer of large scale choral works with orchestra over this past year or so.

I regret having not heard the piece performed live, at the New Music Festival here in Winnipeg, back in February.     I am majorly kicking myself now.  Penderecki was making an appearance as well.

[Lethevich]

I went over to Naxos and sampled some Penderecki and I listened to Seven Gates of Jerusalem and really loved what I heard. I've become an admirer of large scale choral works with orchestra over this past year or so.

Look out for the moment at the end of (iirc) the lauda jerusalem movement which sounds exactly like Woody Woodpecker's heckle. Once I heard this I couldn't un-hear i t.

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I regret having not heard the piece performed live, at the New Music Festival here in Winnipeg, back in February.     I am majorly kicking myself now.  Penderecki was making an appearance as well.

Damn, Ray, you could've met the composer himself! Oh, what could have been...

[Brahmsian]

Damn, Ray, you could've met the composer himself! Oh, what could have been...

Just like Ole Yeller, just shoot me now in the back of the barn! 

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Look out for the moment at the end of (iirc) the lauda jerusalem movement which sounds exactly like Woody Woodpecker's heckle. Once I heard this I couldn't un-hear i t.

Woody Woodpecker approves this message.

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Just like Ole Yeller, just shoot me now in the back of the barn! 

[The new erato]

As the price of this have dropped significantly on amazon.co.uk, I ordered it:

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I have two of the 8 discs from before, the Cantata Profana/Wooden Prince, as well as the one with the viola concerto.

[Sergeant Rock]

My twenty year wait has ended! The Solti Frosch is finally at midprice. Came in the mail today along with Haitink's Bruckner 6, which everyone, led by Jens, said is a must for Brucknerians.





Edit: The hardest working woman in the Bundespost hand delivered those two items at my door. For some reason she put an envelope containing another CD (from an Amazon DE seller) in my mailbox at the end of the driveway--which I just found. It's a purchase inspired by snyprrr's Mathis der Maler thread: the famous Steinberg/Boston recording.




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[Tamsin]

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[Opus106]

Excellent! I hope you enjoy them as much as I have, Opus106. Bluebeard's Castle is an excellent opera and one I think you will enjoy. Opera isn't my favorite genre, but I've opened up a good bit to it this year and I've discovered so much great music, especially in Wagner. Who, now, I consider one of the greatest composers ever. To hear operas like Tristan und Isolde, Das Rheingold, Parsifal, and Gotterdammerung has really opened my ears to new sonic possibilities. I'm not even sure why I chose to pursue Wagner's music, because I was always an orchestral guy, but I'm glad I did now and Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle helped get the ball rolling in that direction. Happy listening!

Thanks a bunch, MI! I'm not an opera buff either. I'm slowly making my way into the genre from the other end, so to speak, by listening to bits and piece of Handel and Mozart. Oh, and I considered buying The Ring just for the heck of it (the Bohm cycle was going for less than 20 Pounds a couple of weeks ago), but then rationality prevailed in the end.

[prémont]

I hope this time we will have better luck with this blind purchase. My Klinkhammer WTC arrived one week ago. I am not so deeply disappointed like you, but certainly it's a very imperfect set. Klinkhammer has some good ideas, but she is totally unable in order to develop those ideas with some degree of consistency. After some bars she frequently seems simply lost.   

To save some money for the Beethoven piano sonatas / Takács set, I have cancelled my Klinkhammer WTC book II order, which has been in backorder at JPC for 2½ month by now.

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Thanks a bunch, MI! I'm not an opera buff either. I'm slowly making my way into the genre from the other end, so to speak, by listening to bits and piece of Handel and Mozart. Oh, and I considered buying The Ring just for the heck of it (the Bohm cycle was going for less than 20 Pounds a couple of weeks ago), but then rationality prevailed in the end.

You're welcome. I've got four Ring cycles: Barenboim, Karajan, Levine, and Solti. If I can ever find the original Philips release of the Bohm at a decent price then that will be my fifth, and final, cycle. The thing with Wagner is he's better taken at doses I have found. Maybe listen to one act a day. You absorb the music better this way I think.