What is your best purchase of 2010?

[Scarpia]

And if we go ahead and just randomly pick one anyway, what's the point of that?

It's a game and those are the rules.  Looking up on the list, I see people who have picked more CDs for "best purchase of 2010" than most people buy in a year.  What's the point of that? 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Why can't some of you just pick one?  And not simply list most of what you bought this year?  What a waste of a thread!

Dude. Just to make you happy: Sibelius symphonies, Rozhdestvensky.

And no, I didn't list most of what I bought, since I got over 20 discs this year 

[Todd]

I bet you could think of one that you preferred over the others.  But it takes some effort.

You'd lose that bet with me.  My list is long, but that's because those are the discs that really hit the spot in 2010.  I can't say that one is so much better than any of the others that it is the one. 

[Lethevich]

This thread makes me wish I kept a listening log. I'm sure that several important discs stand out, but I can't think of any

[Sergeant Rock]

It's a game and those are the rules.

I know those are the rules...that's why I haven't played. I'd have to violate them. A Top Ten list would be easier.

Sarge

[Brian]

This thread makes me wish I kept a listening log. I'm sure that several important discs stand out, but I can't think of any

I kept a listening log this year. Did it as a list in Microsoft Word. Next year I'm thinking that some more sophisticated software will be in order - like a database or something - so I can keep track of how many times each CD is listened to and other more interesting things. As is, I have to go through each page of the Word file and count by hand.

[Opus106]

As is, I have to go through each page of the Word file and count by hand.

Wouldn't performing a find & replace on all occurrences of the album name be faster and easier? (Of course, this assumes that you have listed the name only once per report. And also that you don't save the document before replacing the original strings. )

[DavidRoss]

I didn't buy much this year, only a couple of dozen titles, including all the Quatuor Mosaïques Haydn recordings.  They're probably the most played among recent acquistions, but they're not new releases and I'd have a hard time picking one as a fave.  The best value purchase had to be the 13-disc Haydn symphony set by Brüggen scooped up on sale from jpc.de.  But among new releases for 2010, my favorite purchase would probably be:



Now I'm wanting only the Abduction from Jacobs's Mozart operas...and it would be nice if he'd record a few more of the symphonies--and the late piano concertos, too!

[Philoctetes]

Ingram Marshall's September Dreams

[Brahmsian]

These would be my 5 for 2010:

[MDL]

[bhodges]

Seeing that Cerha reminds me: I'd like to just scoop up the entire Kairos catalogue.

--Bruce

[Papy Oli]

very easy pick for me :



The ballade in G minor being my most listened to work of the year (with various ABM versions and others')

[karlhenning]

Possibly my Shure SRH840 Professional Monitoring Earphones.  These have revolutionized the usefulness of my Sansa Fuze player : )

[MN Dave]

Possibly my Shure SRH840 Professional Monitoring Earphones.  These have revolutionized the usefulness of my Sansa Fuze player : )

What do you like about them?

[MishaK]

very easy pick for me :



The ballade in G minor being my most listened to work of the year (with various ABM versions and others')

I approve! 

[karlhenning]

What do you like about them?

They've got wonderful depth; and while they don't absolutely filter out noise from without, they do 'quiet' the environment.

[Cato]

I bought it for the concerto, which I had never heard, but I find Busoni's chamber work, the Violin Sonata #2, to be the superior work!  And for me that was a surprise, because I usually have not liked chamber music much.  But I find that in my dotage - and perhaps because I have been following Karl Henning's Kammermusik for some years now - that it is growing on me.

[Sergeant Rock]

Cato, can you post a larger pic of the cover? I'm having trouble seeing it with my ancient eyes.

Sarge

[MN Dave]

They've got wonderful depth; and while they don't absolutely filter out noise from without, they do 'quiet' the environment.

I shall wishlist them for when I'm not reading a book.