Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[The new erato]

Good choice. I enjoyed this and wrote a pleased review. Here's a very abridged version:

Don't underestimate your influence. That's why I bought it.

[Coopmv]

DG not bother to re-issue an HvK recording? Are you listening to yourself here? That's crazy talk ; )

This has to be total misinformation.  Karajan is still the god of classical music in Japan almost 25 years after his death.   

[Lisztianwagner]

I wish Karajan had made a studio recording of Tannhäuser ...

Yeah, it would have been really wonderful.

[Fafner]

This has to be total misinformation.  Karajan is still the god of classical music in Japan almost 25 years after his death.   

Yes, that is why they released the huge 240 disc box only in Japan, not bothering to waste it on the unwashed western masses.

[Coopmv]

Yes, that is why they released the huge 240 disc box only in Japan, not bothering to waste it on the unwashed western masses.

A Japanese member of another forum mentioned a while back a very limited edition of a Karajan Beethoven Ninth that sold for $2000 was released for the Japanese market only.  It might have been released by Nippon Columbia.  At any rate, instead of the usual polycarbonate plastic, the CD was made of glass before the musical bits were etched on the disc.  This CD obviously is quite heavy.  This fellow was able to borrow the CD to have a spin.

[mc ukrneal]

I figured I should pick up Gergiev's double Boris Godunov (original and revised version) with the libretto while it was still at a reasonable price.
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[Fafner]

I really liked the Paik/Wit Naxos recording of Prokofiev PC 3, but I decided I would like to have this disc to compare with:

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[Fafner]

A Japanese member of another forum mentioned a while back a very limited edition of a Karajan Beethoven Ninth that sold for $2000 was released for the Japanese market only.  It might have been released by Nippon Columbia.  At any rate, instead of the usual polycarbonate plastic, the CD was made of glass before the musical bits were etched on the disc.  This CD obviously is quite heavy.  This fellow was able to borrow the CD to have a spin.

The Japanese certainly mastered the ancient and sublime art of spending money.

[North Star]

The Japanese certainly mastered the ancient and sublime art of spending money.

Nah, I'm a bit disappointed that there isn't any gilding, and they should have used crystal (lead glass) 

[Bogey]

I really liked the Paik/Wit Naxos recording of Prokofiev PC 3, but I decided I would like to have this disc to compare with:

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Absolute classic.  The only difference, probably, is that I keep it filed under Ravel.

[Coopmv]

The Japanese certainly mastered the ancient and sublime art of spending money.

It obviously also had to license the Karajan's recording from DG.  No matter how you look at it, DG made money ...

[North Star]

I really liked the Paik/Wit Naxos recording of Prokofiev PC 3, but I decided I would like to have this disc to compare with:

(Argerich & Abbado: Gaspard, Ravel PC, Prokofiev 3rd PC)

I only have the Ravel PC from that (in the Decca Ravel box), but it's certainly a great performance. I have heard the Gaspard, though, and it's gorgeous, too - although there may be more precise renditions these days (not that that's the only thing that matters).

[kishnevi]

After putting a bunch of clearance stuff  in my shopping cart, and then throwing out most of it on the grounds that while they were nice to have,  they weren't as nice to have as the Solti Wagner box,  so a total of three items in the order:


I have Solti's Rheingold and Lohengrin already;  I used to have his Parsifal on LP,  and the Meistersinger in this set in a CD set that got ruined by dried out styrofoam--both of them recordings I've always promised myself to get again.   But most of this set will actually be totally new to me.

(The Liszt is performed by Accentus, if the image is not legible--a work which I've never heard before.)

[Octave]

I'd no idea that Accentus had a recording of VIA CRUCIS; that's interesting to me because I heard that piece for the first time very recently and thought it was awesome.  The Vivaldi ERCOLE was a blast and a pure pleasure; I enjoyed it so much, I've shelved it as a bailout-in-reserve for some future foul mood.  I haven't even listened to it with the libretto handy, so I have no idea what's going on!   
I'm getting the feeling that I can trust Biondi with at least any Vivaldi; I'm able to buy things sound-unheard and find them invigorating and quite exciting.

[kishnevi]

Fetched this in from Amazon MP.



While looking up the listing,  I noticed that the fifth volume  ('Per Pisendel')of Violin Concertos is in the process of being released; at the moment Amazon US only seems to have in MP3 format.   

I'd no idea that Accentus had a recording of VIA CRUCIS; that's interesting to me because I heard that piece for the first time very recently and thought it was awesome.  The Vivaldi ERCOLE was a blast and a pure pleasure; I enjoyed it so much, I've shelved it as a bailout-in-reserve for some future foul mood.  I haven't even listened to it with the libretto handy, so I have no idea what's going on!   
I'm getting the feeling that I can trust Biondi with at least any Vivaldi; I'm able to buy things sound-unheard and find them invigorating and quite exciting.

It was probably your post that prompted my interest in the work.   So now it's my turn to blame you for getting me to buy something 

I agree about Biondi with Vivaldi;  although it so happens that DiDonata and Villazon are among my favorite opera singers.

[The new erato]

While the industry is reeling from MI's retreat from the buying game, I do what little I can and ordered this from mdt (good prices on Timpani now)

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His fine opera Polypheme made me realize I need to look further into this composer.

[Octave]

I agree about Biondi with Vivaldi;  although it so happens that DiDonata and Villazon are among my favorite opera singers.

I am still trying to persuade my parents to attend a recital DiDonato (whose singing I am only just barely becoming acquainted with, and whose voice I do like very much) at Aspen this year, should they finally decide to go, instead of, um, Pink Martini.  (I did not grow up in a High Culture house.)

Thread duty!

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I actually got mine from this alternate ASIN via Amazon MP-US, which for the moment offers cheaper copies: B0000034ZL
I do not see any differences between these two products; I think the recording is exact same.
I actually was quite sure I wanted this Supraphon recording, but now I cannot remember why; where did the recommendation come from?     So, maybe I should have asked first; is there a better recording?

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It seems for the moment that only burn-to-order "new" copies can be had of this title, which seems to be the way things are for the Marco Polo catalog; I think I got the last currently available actual CD (let's hope), used.

[Fafner]

This just arrived:   

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It is my first dedicated Sibelius Symphony cycle (I already have the Bernstein/NYPO as part of the Symphony Edition).

[jlaurson]

This just arrived:   



J. Sibelius
Symphonies
Barbirolli / Halle
EMI
German link - UK link

It is my first dedicated Sibelius Symphony cycle (I already have the Bernstein/NYPO as part of the Symphony Edition).

You sure are picking highly individual (idiosyncratic, wilfull) Sibelius cycles, for your first exposures. 

Not that that's bad, necessarily. I find both charming; both have highlights... but if you ever look for less personality driven cycles, you might like to look at ... any other cycle. :-)

Well, more specifically: Berglund III, Ashkenazy, Maazel I, Sanderling, Blomstedt, Oramo, or Segerstam II. (Although it would be hard to argue that there's less difference between, say, Berglund III and Segerstam II than between either of those and Barbirolli...)

Thread duty:



A.A. Saygun
Yunus Emre
Naci Özgüç / Osnabrueck SO et al.
dreyer | gaido
German link - UK link

This is amazing! The first ever recording in the original Turkish of Saygun's Magnum Opus, the Yunus Emre Oratorio!!!



A.A. Saygun, F. Say, M. Sun, M. Doğuduyal, I. Usmanbaş
Contemporary Voices of Turkish Music
Sonatas & Pieces for Violin and Piano
Atilla Aldemir / Şevki Karayel
dreyer | gaido
German link - UK link



Anatolijus Šenderovas
Concerto in Do
+ Sonata for Cello & Percussion, 4 Pieces for Cello & Piano
Due Canti, Songs of Sulamite for Cello, Bayan, Percussion, and Tape
David Geringas, Geir Draugsvoll, T.Schatz-Geringas
Lithuanian Academy SO / R.Šervendikas
dreyer | gaido
German link - UK link

[Fafner]

You sure are picking highly individual (idiosyncratic, wilfull) Sibelius cycles, for your first exposures. 

Actually, my first exposure to Sibelius's symphonies was through this set:

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Lahti Symphony Orchestra,  Osmo Vänskä

However, I do not own it on CD, I listened to it via streaming on Naxos. I decided to buy a CD set that was a little cheaper.