Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[nesf]

Needed to test my debit card due to bank problems over here so...

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More Dvorak! More String Quartets!

[jlaurson]

P. Lieberson
Neruda Songs
Levine / BSO / L.Hunt-Lieberson
Nonesuch
German link - UK link

I needed a replacement copy, after all -- one can't be separated from these gorgeous songs for too long.



W. Walton
Sy. No.2, Partita
Hindemith Variations
Szell / Cleveland Orchestra
CBS / Sony
German link - UK link

[Lisztianwagner]

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I'm sorry only for Martinon's Ravel Orchestral Works, the cd had already been sold

[Zizekian]

I've been going a little crazy with music purchases lately, and I picked up two more albums today:

[Mirror Image]

I've been going a little crazy with music purchases lately, and I picked up two more albums today:

Great choices, Zizekian. The Karajan performance of the 10th is one of best out there and Haitink's 15th is very good as well.

[TheGSMoeller]

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I'm sorry only for Martinon's Ravel Orchestral Works, the cd had already been sold

Some good picks there, Ilaria. I do, however, encourage you hear Maazel's performance of L'enfant et les sortileges. Quite an achievement.

[Lisztianwagner]

Some good picks there, Ilaria. I do, however, encourage you hear Maazel's performance of L'enfant et les sortileges. Quite an achievement.

Thanks, John; the next time I think I'll get Bavouzet's Ravel Piano Works, and maybe Bernstein's Shostakovich No.5. I've already had Maazel's L'enfant et les sortileges.

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Thanks, John; the next time I think I'll get Bavouzet's Ravel Piano Works, and maybe Bernstein's Shostakovich No.5. I've already had Maazel's L'enfant et les sortileges.

Sounds good, Ilaria. Like I told Daniel, please make sure you get Bernstein's 1979 performance of Shosty's 5th.

[Brian]

I'm sorry only for Martinon's Ravel Orchestral Works, the cd had already been sold

Don't worry, in August EMI is re-releasing Martinon's Ravel and Debussy orchestral works in one 8 CD box set for very cheap:


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[Lisztianwagner]

Sounds good, Ilaria. Like I told Daniel, please make sure you get Bernstein's 1979 performance of Shosty's 5th.

Ok; that is the recording containing the Chamber Symphony in C too, right? Anyway, before deciding, I would like to listen to some excerpts from it; I saw there was the last movement uploaded on youtube.....

Don't worry, in August EMI is re-releasing Martinon's Ravel and Debussy orchestral works in one 8 CD box set for very cheap:


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Wow, these are wonderful news, thank you, Brian!

[Mirror Image]

Ok; that is the recording containing the Chamber Symphony in C too, right?

Yes, that is correct.

[Opus106]

I've been going a little crazy with music purchases lately...

Yes, that's a known effect of being a member of GMG.

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Yes, that's a known effect of being a member of GMG.

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[DavidRoss]

Yes, that's a known effect of being a member of GMG.

Amen! When I'm on hiatus from this site, I might buy a dozen CDs in a year. I've been popping in again for a couple of months now and my waiting-to-be-heard acquisitions pile is nearly two feet high! 

[madaboutmahler]

Excellent, Greg! Excellent performances full of Solti vigour! And he does all the magical moments incredibly well too. Will be interested to hear what you think!

Sounds good, Ilaria. Like I told Daniel, please make sure you get Bernstein's 1979 performance of Shosty's 5th.

Arrived today, looking forward to listening to it!

[Conor71]

Just ordered :





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[Zizekian]

Great choices, Zizekian. The Karajan performance of the 10th is one of best out there and Haitink's 15th is very good as well.

Good to know! I've only listened to Karajan's 10th twice (both times this morning), but I think it may be the greatest piece of music I have ever heard. I think I'll give it another listen tonight.

[Lilas Pastia]

This year Sony-RCA reissued a lot of their back catalogue in ridiculously cheap, intelligently assembled collections of 4-14 discs, all from stereo master tapes.

Among the treasures to be had feature collections by Stokowski, Munch, Wand's Cologne  Bruckner, Beethoven and Prokofiev symphonies by Leinsdorf, Haydn by Weil and Szell, concertos by Heifetz, Van Cliburn, Fleisher, Bruno Walter conducting Mahler and Mozart, Vaughan-Williams symphonies under Slatkin, Brahms piano works and concertos by Rubinstein, bla bla bla. Well, these are the ones I purchased a few weeks ago. There are more but I am not interested in them or I have it already.

An outright and rather unexpected winner is the box of Prokofieff symphonies 2, 3, 5 and 6 + piano and violin concertos (plus Romeo And Juliet and Lieutnant Kijè excerpts) under Leinsdorf, with the BSO. I don't know what prevented them from recording the other symphonies, but in the four contained herein, there is no contest between them and other contenders such as Weller, Järvi, Martinon or Gergiev. Indeed the most surprising comparison was with Gergiev's LSO which sound uniformly blasé, sleepy, dodgy and flat in comparison. Leinsdorf's bostonians are at once alert, spicy, rythmically pungent and sonically up to Prokofieff's mélange of tartness and lyricism. Even the sound is more open and better defined. A sleeper if ever there was one.

I already shelved one of the Munch boxes and the Rubinstein Brahms (both very good but in slightly boxy sound), and have started the Haydn Weil and mammoth Stokowski compendium. I'l get back to these in due time when I'm done listening.

The whole series is highly recommended.

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Good to know! I've only listened to Karajan's 10th twice (both times this morning), but I think it may be the greatest piece of music I have ever heard. I think I'll give it another listen tonight.

Ha! That's great to hear! I'll turn you into a Shostakovich fan before you know it. If you would like any recommendations feel free to message me.