Recordings That You Are Considering

[SonicMan46]

This will cost you only $51-52 if you buy this at the Abeille sale (I checked the cost of just the one item with shipping for one item). This includes shipping of EUR8.28) And you can buy two more items for shipping at this price (if you can find something). Just an FYI if you want to get both or want to get this one more cheaply and use the Amazon certificate on something else.

Thanks Neal for the 'heads up' on Abeille - I've only made a couple of orders there but will take a look today; there's always something on Amazon to blow $50 or more!  Dave

[mc ukrneal]

Thanks Neal for the 'heads up' on Abeille - I've only made a couple of orders there but will take a look today; there's always something on Amazon to blow $50 or more!  Dave

Sure. Of course, you can get free shipping if you buy 15 or more items, but I didn't want to get you in trouble!

[Karl Henning]

I do - although I don't much care for the reconstructed score they used (however good it is to have it as an alternative option). That was one of my very first Mozart Requiems, btw; Telarc used to release very good stuff back then.

Agreed on all counts. There's something rather inartistically "tidy" about the reconstruction. I think we must own that the work really is unfinished.

[SonicMan46]

Sure. Of course, you can get free shipping if you buy 15 or more items, but I didn't want to get you in trouble!

Well - just left an order there for 7 items (total was just over $130 including S/H to me), but included the Ohlsson box and several other smaller boxes & some singles/doubles on my 'wish list' - probably 30+ discs total - some great deals there at the moment!  Dave

[Wanderer]

Hey ALL - ...

I can't speak for the set-with-the-name-I-can't-pronounce, but I can highly recommend the Ohlsson set.

[mc ukrneal]

Well - just left an order there for 7 items (total was just over $130 including S/H to me), but included the Ohlsson box and several other smaller boxes & some singles/doubles on my 'wish list' - probably 30+ discs total - some great deals there at the moment!  Dave

Cool! I hope you enjoy them - let us know!!

[nesf]

Not a record but...

I'm considering a sub to the Berliner Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall as a cheap enough way to be exposed to a lot of music (at least initially while I work through the archive). That and it's very expensive for me to go to concerts in this country and even if I choose to I'd be going to see them in a hall that was originally intended for exam sitting not music playing.

Anyone using this service/got opinions on it?

[jlaurson]

Not a record but...

I'm considering a sub to the Berliner Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall as a cheap enough way to be exposed to a lot of music (at least initially while I work through the archive). That and it's very expensive for me to go to concerts in this country and even if I choose to I'd be going to see them in a hall that was originally intended for exam sitting not music playing.

Anyone using this service/got opinions on it?

Astonishing good video quality from the camera set-up in the Berliner Philharmonie. And some very fine recent performances available in the archives.
Obviously it's not a 'live experience... and you should know if you like the idea of sitting in front of a screen (hopefully connected to good speakers) for a concert, but if that's a yes, I don't see why you wouldn't very much enjoy what that can offer you.
Have you already exhausted the free content at medici?

[madaboutmahler]

Not a record but...

I'm considering a sub to the Berliner Philharmonic's Digital Concert Hall as a cheap enough way to be exposed to a lot of music (at least initially while I work through the archive). That and it's very expensive for me to go to concerts in this country and even if I choose to I'd be going to see them in a hall that was originally intended for exam sitting not music playing.

Anyone using this service/got opinions on it?

I am another keen user of the Digital Concert Hall. I absolutely love it, the Berliner Philharmoniker is my favourite orchestra, and through this online concert hall, you can not only enjoy the perfect music-making but also 'get to know' the players rather well! It has my strongest recommendations.

Have you already exhausted the free content at medici?

Are you saying there is free Berliner Philharmoniker concerts on 'medici'? If so, better get there right away!

[Opus106]

Are you saying there is free Berliner Philharmoniker concerts on 'medici'? If so, better get there right away!

I know there was at least one in the recent past: Chailly conducting them in 20th Century "bon-bons" -- Shosta's jazz suites, Respighi and stuff -- and a fun concert it was. The one that's conducted in the open-air auditorium, a summer festival kind.

[nesf]

Astonishing good video quality from the camera set-up in the Berliner Philharmonie. And some very fine recent performances available in the archives.
Obviously it's not a 'live experience... and you should know if you like the idea of sitting in front of a screen (hopefully connected to good speakers) for a concert, but if that's a yes, I don't see why you wouldn't very much enjoy what that can offer you.
Have you already exhausted the free content at medici?

My wife and I are planning on a trip to the National Concert Hall at some point this year but with hassle of arranging care for young kids, getting her schedule and my schedule matched etc. All I've heard is some string quartet stuff in our university, which I very much enjoyed. I know that it's no substitute for a live concert really but it's the best I'll be able to manage on a regular basis.

I'm working on the good speakers part, I'm listening on decent headphones at the moment (HD598s).

I hadn't heard about the free content at medici, I'll give that a look. Thanks.

[Opus106]

All I've heard is some string quartet stuff in our university, which I very much enjoyed. I know that it's no substitute for a live concert really but it's the best I'll be able to manage on a regular basis.

The Met. in New York, for instance, relays its productions live to many theatres in some US cities and, if I remember correctly, to some places in Europe as well. Perhaps they and other orchestras have a listing at their website.

[madaboutmahler]

I know there was at least one in the recent past: Chailly conducting them in 20th Century "bon-bons" -- Shosta's jazz suites, Respighi and stuff -- and a fun concert it was. The one that's conducted in the open-air auditorium, a summer festival kind.

Thanks for the reply - I've heard about that concert, it certainly sounds wonderful!

[nesf]

The Met. in New York, for instance, relays its productions live to many theatres in some US cities and, if I remember correctly, to some places in Europe as well. Perhaps they and other orchestras have a listing at their website.

There's nothing like that in my home city. We've an Opera house that very occasionally hosts opera or small scale orchestral stuff at best (there's one on in April that I'm considering). There's not really a burgeoning classical scene to support stuff like broadcasting the Met or similar.

[Lethevich]

There's nothing like that in my home city. We've an Opera house that very occasionally hosts opera or small scale orchestral stuff at best (there's one on in April that I'm considering). There's not really a burgeoning classical scene to support stuff like broadcasting the Met or similar.

Being stuck at the butt-end of of a country in terms of orchestra-access sucks! Most corners of the UK are well-serviced for professional orchestras, but mine is not, hence I am stuck with the "Sinfonia Classica" (or whatever name they choose for the occasion) doing regional tours of draughty halls and theatres. I sympathise with your situation.

[Mirror Image]

Hey Sara, what all Shostakovich symphony cycles do you own?

[Lethevich]

Hey Sara, what all Shostakovich symphony cycles do you own?

Despite my deliberately misleading persona, I am not the greatest Shostakovich fan. So far I have been very satisfied with Barshai, and Mravinsky's semi-cycle. I have access to most of the others, but don't feel particularly motivated to explore too far. The only one I outright am not okay with is Kitajenko, which while valid in its poise and finesse, I found to lack some of the heft that can really make the works impress.

Barshai's 5th was one of the first classical recordings I had heard, it really impressed me both sonically and musically - I hope to recapture that feeling one day.

[DavidW]

You don't have the Kondrashin set? 

[Mirror Image]

Despite my deliberately misleading persona, I am not the greatest Shostakovich fan.

That's unfortunate.

[Lethevich]

You don't have the Kondrashin set?

I don't really have an opinion on it I wish I could enthuse myself more.