Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Wakefield]

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[DavidRoss]

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"The Beethoven Cycle for the 21st Century"

A bit premature, even for Sony marketing's hyperbolically challenged copy writers?

[Brian]

"The Beethoven Cycle for the 21st Century"

A bit premature, even for Sony marketing's hyperbolically challenged copy writers?

Check out the nutty 'Die Presse' quote in the gold bar.

[Wakefield]

Check out the nutty 'Die Presse' quote in the gold bar.

Don't worry, David & Brian, it's just a sticker on the cellophane; it's not written on the box.

Call me naïve, but I won't judge this book by its cover. 

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Don't worry, David & Brian, it's just a sticker on the cellophane; it's not written on the box.

Call me naïve, but I won't judge this book by its cover. 

I wish you luck with Thielemann. After a few measures of his Beethoven I wanted to kill him, but that's just me.
I consider him a inflated ego of enormous size.

[Wakefield]

I consider him a inflated ego of enormous size.

Like Beethoven himself! 

Sorry, sorry, my Beethovenian friends! It was just a bad joke. 

[DavidRoss]

Check out the nutty 'Die Presse' quote in the gold bar.

I love the "interchangeable" bit.

And I'm laughing my ass off at the quote Gordon posted. Talk about irony!

[Wakefield]

And I'm laughing my ass off at the quote Gordon posted. Talk about irony!

the quote on the sticker? 

[stingo]

Some Indian classical music...

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[Wakefield]

Some Indian classical music...

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That was fast! 

[North Star]

Cheap at jpc

Thanks, bought it.

[marvinbrown]

  I just bought a truckload of Haydn.........please help I'm addicted:

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With the sole exception of The Creation, everything else is new music to me  .

  marvin

[jlaurson]

  I just bought a truckload of Haydn.........please help I'm addicted:


With the sole exception of The Creation, everything else is new music to me  .

  marvin

? So much new music for you? You blessed, blessed man. That's like never having read any Wodehouse.

And worry not. Haydn is not an addiction. It is a blessing, it is a grace.

Mahler is an addiction, and not always a good one. Other composers or worse: performers can become an obsession. No such dangers, ever with Haydn... who -- almost more-so than Bach, even -- radiates health of mind and spirit with every note.

[stingo]

That was fast! 

I've learned to jump on deals on stuff I like - they disappear so quickly...

[Brian]

? So much new music for you? You blessed, blessed man. That's like never having read any Wodehouse.

Now I'm very excited as I've never read any Wodehouse.

[kishnevi]

I wish you luck with Thielemann. After a few measures of his Beethoven I wanted to kill him, but that's just me.
I consider him a inflated ego of enormous size.

His Beethoven cycle isn't THAT bad; it's just a tad safe and much too boring. The VPO would have been quite satisfied with playing it back in the 70s with any number of Central European conductors on the podium.   If any cycle can be called "interchangeable" with another cycle,  I would suggest it's Thielemann's.   I have four other "21st century" cycles, and prefer all of them to Thielemann (Immerseel; P. Jarvi; Chailly; Haitink/LSO).
And if we can demarcate 21st century at about 1990 or so,  three more wold outrank him in my estimation (Gardiner; Zinman; Harnoncourt)

[DavidRoss]

the quote on the sticker? 

Nope. The one about inflated egos.

[jlaurson]

His Beethoven cycle isn't THAT bad; it's just a tad safe and much too boring. The VPO would have been quite satisfied with playing it back in the 70s with any number of Central European conductors on the podium.   If any cycle can be called "interchangeable" with another cycle,  I would suggest it's Thielemann's.   I have four other "21st century" cycles, and prefer all of them to Thielemann (Immerseel; P. Jarvi; Chailly; Haitink/LSO).
And if we can demarcate 21st century at about 1990 or so,  three more wold outrank him in my estimation (Gardiner; Zinman; Harnoncourt)

But comparing Thielemann to all those, except Chailly and Haitink, is... well... absurd. It's also absurd to say it's the LvB for the 21st century... as it is quite obviously the LvB for those who want to AVOID the 21st century.

I wouldn't keep it over Jaervi, Chailly, Barenboim, Vanska, Gardiner or Dausgaard (just heard the latter in concert tonight, incl. LvB PC1 with Andsnes, which was very well done), but I'm glad I have it also... there are some surprisingly spunky things about it in it... amid the broad and sumptuous and sound-caressing body.

Now I'm very excited as I've never read any Wodehouse.

Ah! Start here, if you are intrigued... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jtZMAFA2Zo and here Richard Dawkins and Stephen Fry et al. repeat what I insinuated. :-) Takes a while to get into Wodehouse (depending on the book and your background a quarter novel, or half a novel, or max. 1 1/2...) but it's like a perfect drive in the perfect countryside. "Where are we going? Who cares. What a wonderful drive this is!"

[Opus106]

Now I'm very excited as I've never read any Wodehouse.

With Wodehouse, you rarely get tired of reading essentially the same storyline over and over again.

[The new erato]

Go for the superb Jeeves & Wooster series with Fry and Laurie on CD

Ordered from presto, dispatched the same day:

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I'm stocking up for the rainy day when the CD bubble have busted.