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[Karl Henning]

Sweet! The Khatchaturyan/Masur disc of the vn cti is outstanding.

[Brian]

The three discs of Albeniz by Esteban Sanchez are also available from Brilliant as their own 3cd set; I heard a solid recommendation for those recently too, though I cannot remember where.  Curious if the other material in the 6cd above (with two discs of Falla by Benita Meshulam, and one disc of Granados' "Goyescas" and "El Pele" by Cristina Ortiz) is worth the extra outlay.

Here's another option. It takes Albeniz, Granados, and a disc of Falla and adds some Turina, Soler, and various other odds and ends. By a whole lot of people's favorite Spanish pianist, and selling for $15 new on Amazon Marketplace....

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Disclaimer: I've heard neither box but am considering the de Larrocha.

[mc ukrneal]

Here's another option. It takes Albeniz, Granados, and a disc of Falla and adds some Turina, Soler, and various other odds and ends. By a whole lot of people's favorite Spanish pianist, and selling for $15 new on Amazon Marketplace....

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Disclaimer: I've heard neither box but am considering the de Larrocha.

I've yet to hear anything I didn't like from her in this repertoire. Her Mozart is excellet as well.

[Karl Henning]

Mm, looks nice!  (1900 digital remaster is a funny typo on Amazon's part, though.)

[Todd]

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I know the Sanchez very well, the others not at all.  His Iberia is my favorite, followed very closely by Michel Block.  (I'm in the minority here, perhaps.)  If the other three discs add very little to the price, it may make sense to get the bigger box.

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This is a fine box for the most part, though some of the recordings sound absolutely awful.  The Albeniz, fortunately, is in better sound than earlier incarnations.

Also interested in this Youri Egorov collection[asin]B00151HZ42[/asin]

An extraordinary collection.  His Schumann and Debussy is top shelf stuff.

[jlaurson]

We squeezed in Classical Music at Forbes! Slightly off topic, except that it's the beginning of a series that asks readers to consider a very specific list of recordings among those with which to catch the classical bug.

Bit of economics... to spice it up, though when it comes to the recommended recordings (next iteration), it will probably be too basic for most GMG-members.
(Though still, perhaps or especially, kick off a nifty debate.)



Forbes.com: Two Cents About Classical Music For $100
Pronounced dead, classical music is more alive than ever

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I'm fairly sure that editing a post doesn't make one as 'unread'; although I could be wrong. Deleting and re-posting certainly does that, so I checked the post time, but it hadn't changed.

It depends on when a post is edited. If a post is the very last post on a thread it is subject to infinite "unread" status no matter how many times it's edited.

A post that's been edited but is NOT the last post won't come up as unread. This has been the patter on GMG for as long as I can remember.

So I guess it depends on the position of Mandryka's post at the time of the incidents.

[Opus106]

It depends on when a post is edited. If a post is the very last post on a thread it is subject to infinite "unread" status no matter how many times it's edited.

A post that's been edited but is NOT the last post won't come up as unread. This has been the patter on GMG for as long as I can remember.

So I guess it depends on the position of Mandryka's post at the time of the incidents.

Hmm... I hadn't noticed that before. It seemed to happen again, within the last hour or so, when many threads which I had read through were showing up as unread in the forum main page.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Also interested in this Youri Egorov collection; there was a little GMG discussion of him around the time this box came out, several years ago; I heard an OOP Schubert disc by him (Channel Classics) that seemed very fine to me.  Someone also praised his Schumann "Davidsbundlertanze" in passing, recently. 
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Definitely second Todd's thumbs up for this set, mainly for the Debussy and Schumann. However, I'm unaware of a DBT from Egorov. Is there one outside this set somewhere? If so, I want it!!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Hmm... I hadn't noticed that before. It seemed to happen again, within the last hour or so, when many threads which I had read through were showing up as unread in the forum main page.

How interesting. Well, if the posts have been edited then that might account for the continued unread status. But they would've had to have been the last post on the thread of course. Or the gremlins are indeed invading.

[Octave]

I appreciate these responses to my last inquiry.  I will get that Egorov!  DD queried about my Egorov/Davidsbundlertanze comment, which I think is an hallucination on my part:

Definitely second Todd's thumbs up for this set, mainly for the Debussy and Schumann. However, I'm unaware of a DBT from Egorov. Is there one outside this set somewhere? If so, I want it!!

I was way off on that; apparently I'd been reading the DAVIDSBUNDLERTANZE thread then saw this comment from Val in the Listening thread:

SCHUMANN:       Kreisleriana                           / Yuri Egorov
To me, Kreisleriana is the absolute masterpiece of Schumann.
Egorov was one of the best interpreters of Schumann (excepting his version of Carnaval that I don't like much). In the Kreisleriana he shows all the imagination, the contrasts, even the moments of deep introspection that the work requires. One of the four greatest versions, with Nat, Horowitz and, more recently, Jonathan Biss.

Surfeit flattens all differences in my smooth brain.  Unfortunately, now that I've tracked down the source of my interest, I'll have to scare up a few additional version of the KREISLERIANA, alas.

Weird that Jens' $100 Classical Collections would make a resurgence today, as I was reading those for the first time, unprompted, just like ~16 hours ago.

And yes, thanks for the Larrocha ICON box suggestion; I actually have that one, and I do like it very, very much, in spite of the occasional c. 1900 sound.  In fact, I have heard a couple accounts that she dominates in this repertoire to the extent that if you want performances in better sound, the thing to do is to get her Decca (Philips?) recordings of many of the same pieces.  I have not done the research there yet; I am probably holding out for a box, per my spoiled standard.  Anyway, thanks for the feedback on the Brilliant collection by Sanchez et al.

[mc ukrneal]

I appreciate these responses to my last inquiry.  I will get that Egorov!  DD queried about my Egorov/Davidsbundlertanze comment, which I think is an hallucination on my part:

I was way off on that; apparently I'd been reading the DAVIDSBUNDLERTANZE thread then saw this comment from Val in the Listening thread:Surfeits flattens all differences in my smooth brain.  Unfortunately, now that I've tracked down the source of my interest, I'll have to scare up a few additional version of the KREISLERIANA, alas.

Weird that Jens' $100 Classical Collections would make a resurgence today, as I was reading those for the first time, unprompted, just like ~16 hours ago.

And yes, thanks for the Larrocha ICON box suggestion; I actually have that one, and I do like it very, very much, in spite of the occasional c. 1900 sound.  In fact, I have heard a couple accounts that she dominates in this repertoire to the extent that if you want performances in better sound, the thing to do is to get her Decca (Philips?) recordings of many of the same pieces.  I have not done the research there yet; I am probably holding out for a box, per my spoiled standard.  Anyway, thanks for the feedback on the Brilliant collection by Sanchez et al.

Well, if you want this repertoire, you probably need to check out the RCA discs. Alas, she recorded for them too. Decca have issued the "The Art of Alicia de Larrocha" box. I imagine it is good, though it covers a broader repertoire. It gets good reviews!

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I appreciate these responses to my last inquiry.  I will get that Egorov!  DD queried about my Egorov/Davidsbundlertanze comment, which I think is an hallucination on my part:

I was way off on that; apparently I'd been reading the DAVIDSBUNDLERTANZE thread then saw this comment from Val in the Listening thread:Surfeits flattens all differences in my smooth brain.  Unfortunately, now that I've tracked down the source of my interest, I'll have to scare up a few additional version of the KREISLERIANA, alas.

Ah, well, no sweat, Octave. It was a tantalizing thought.

[Octave]

Well, if you want this repertoire, you probably need to check out the RCA discs. Alas, she recorded for them too. Decca have issued the "The Art of Alicia de Larrocha" box. I imagine it is good, though it covers a broader repertoire. It gets good reviews!

Thanks MCU, I managed to not even know about these two tidbits (RCA discog and Decca box).

[The new erato]

A couple of interesting new releases:


I didn't know that Martin had written a Cinderella. And a disc containing the missing cantatas from the pilgrimage

[listener]

noted at my local: RIES  Symphonies 5&6, 7&8, RANGSTROM Symphonies 3&4, PETTERSON Violin concerto, SINDING Symphonies 3&4, DVORAK Requiem (Sawallisch)...

[Todd]

Might as well.  I mean, you can see that Yundi is now a bad ass, what with the raised collar and all.  Perhaps his LvB is reckless and fierce.

[Todd]

Something more interesting, I must say. 

And if you can't get enough Abbado, there's the below 40 disc set coming.  Will it have both his Brahms cycles, I wonder?

[Papy Oli]

just the one Brahms cycle. Contents here :

http://www.deccaclassics.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4791046

http://www.deccaclassics.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4785365

[North Star]

just the one Brahms cycle. Contents here :

http://www.deccaclassics.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4791046

http://www.deccaclassics.com/en/cat/single?PRODUCT_NR=4785365

The Symphony Edition's content list is a bit sketchy - CD's 4, 5, 6, 12, 13, 15, 25, 26, 32, and 35 are missing from the list, and the last disc's (Mahler 9th) number is 41, even though the box is supposed to have just 40 discs.