Your Favourite Purchases of 2015

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#40
December 16, 2015, 08:35:32 AM Last Edit: December 16, 2015, 09:09:03 AM by Que
Quote from: The new erato on December 15, 2015, 12:22:50 AM
Considering that you are one of those who think before they buy, that's a lot indeed.

I'm afraid that there were still plenty of bloopers.... ???   :D
Some impulsive purchases,  some calculated gambles and some were recordings that I expected much more of....

Q

Harry

#41
December 19, 2015, 02:28:56 AM
Quote from: Que on December 16, 2015, 08:35:32 AM
I'm afraid that there were still plenty of bloopers.... ???   :D
Some impulsive purchases,  some calculated gambles and some were recordings that I expected much more of....

Q

A very good list, with which I fully agree, many are my favourites too. Truth be said I bought also a lot of CD'S which firmly belong in my top 100 instead of ten. There were simply too many good recordings to fit them in so short a list.
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are sweeter far than any stage could hear.

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Que

#42
December 24, 2015, 12:27:04 AM
I am ready - and very interested - to see some more favouarites of the year! :)

Will keep this topic sticky a few weeks into the new year...

Q

Dancing Divertimentian

#43
December 29, 2015, 09:43:32 PM
Very recent arrival. Played with vigor and a touching soulfulness. The recording gives Faust's violin a warm, fattened, "plenty-of-rosin" sound, not overbearing, but a definite sense of the bow interfacing with strings. Quite realistic.

Sadly the disc seems to be OOP in the States but (hopefully) still available elsewhere.




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Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Mirror Image

#44
December 31, 2015, 02:51:47 PM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on December 29, 2015, 09:43:32 PM
Very recent arrival. Played with vigor and a touching soulfulness. The recording gives Faust's violin a warm, fattened, "plenty-of-rosin" sound, not overbearing, but a definite sense of the bow interfacing with strings. Quite realistic.

Sadly the disc seems to be OOP in the States but (hopefully) still available elsewhere.




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That is a fine disc indeed, DD. Love it.

Dancing Divertimentian

#45
December 31, 2015, 05:14:30 PM
Quote from: Mirror Image on December 31, 2015, 02:51:47 PM
That is a fine disc indeed, DD. Love it.

Released over seven years ago but finally I got it! Had to order it from Amazon Germany to get a decent price, though. So happy that the exchange rate has leveled out!


Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Mirror Image

#46
December 31, 2015, 05:18:00 PM
Quote from: Dancing Divertimentian on December 31, 2015, 05:14:30 PM
Released over seven years ago but finally I got it! Had to order it from Amazon Germany to get a decent price, though. So happy that the exchange rate has leveled out!

Yes, it certainly helps to do some price investigating. I only hope Faust records more Martinu at some point.

Artem

#47
December 31, 2015, 06:44:03 PM
This was one of the latter purchases in 2015. Some of the Moments are a little bit too romantic and lyrical, but overall the CD is very good, very nice program me and sound. All in all David Fray's CDs were my favorite purchases of 2015.

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Que

#48
January 04, 2016, 08:55:25 AM
I have set this thread non sticky. ..

Unless there are any late comers, this thread will sink into oblivion with the passing of time.... :-\

On to the favourites of this year - happy hunting!  :)

Q

Dancing Divertimentian

#49
January 04, 2016, 09:23:52 AM
Sad. Great idea making it a sticky, though!



Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Karl Henning

#50
January 04, 2016, 09:47:35 AM Last Edit: January 04, 2016, 09:52:48 AM by karlhenning
In reverse chronological order (the Stan Kenton is not the actual album I fetched in . . . fetched in a few, but most of the contents on the linked album, I have):

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Karl Henning, Ph.D.
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prémont

#51
January 04, 2016, 01:08:42 PM
During the past year I have preferably listened to Baroque keyboard music from Italy, Spain, France and England and as always to JS Bach. My acquisitions reflect this tendency. Some of the listed recordings (which however represent only a fraction of all the many excellent recordings, I have purchased and listened to) were acquired in  2014 but mostly listened to in 2015. Also I have acquired a number of recordings in 2015, which I haven't listened to yet.

Trabaci: Clavicembalo Napoletano, Michèle Dévérité (Arion)

Trabaci: Organo Napoletano, Michèle Dévérité (Arion)

De Macque: Napoli Barocco, Michèle Dévérité (Arion)

Louis Couperin: Harpsichord Works, Bob van Asperen (EMI Reflexe)

Frescobaldi: Harpsichord works, Aapo Häkkinen (Alba)

Titelouze: Complete organ works, Robert Bates (Loft 3CD)

Byrd: Harpsichord works, Aapo Häkkinen (Alba)

Froberger: Harpsichord works, Wladyslaw Klosiewicz (Accord)

Scheidemann: Organ works, William Porter (Loft 2CD)

Scheidt: Tabulatura Nova II, Franz Raml (MDG 2CD)

Scheidemann, Reinken, Lübeck, Bruhns, Buxtehude: Choral Phantasies, Pierre Bardon (Syrius)

Bruhns, Hanff: Complete organ works, William Porter (Loft)

JS Bach: Toccatas for harpsichord, Irina Rees (Centaur)

JS Bach: CÜ II and Sonata d-minor, Ketil Haugsand (Simax)

JS Bach: Organ Works Schübler Chorales and Passacaglia et.c., Wim van Beek (Helior)

JS Bach: CÜ I, Martin Gester (Ligia Digital 2CD)

JS Bach et la France: Organ Works, Bernard Coudurier (BNL)

JS Bach: SMP, Philippe Herreweghe (his first recording for Harmonia Mundi France)

Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis, John McCabe (Helios)











Reality trumps our fantasy far beyond imagination.

Wanderer

#52
January 07, 2016, 01:25:48 AM
Now that 2015 is officially over, here's my favourite purchases list based upon browsing through my amazon and jpc.de order statements (so, by no means a complete assessment, but quite close to it) :

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An incandescent Sibelius concerto by Kavakos, followed by an excellent "Rheinische" Symphony in the superb Megaron acoustics. You can hear me clap in the end.

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Bought in February, this stands currently in my top 3 Elgar VC's, just below the Kennedy/Rattle.

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Splendid yet obscure, Katsaris' Mozart dazzles and delights (and if that isn't enough, he provides some exquisite cadenzas). The whole series (ongoing) is superb.

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Kudos to Kavakos for a superbly intense (and more importantly, not whiny) Shostakovich VC1.

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Baráti's Korngold was so unexpectedly good, I had to investigate further; both his Beethoven and Brahms sonatas are also outstanding.

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A nod to Barry Douglas' excellent Brahms traversal.

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Once one gets past the cover, the realization comes that the CD contains just Le sacre du printemps and nothing else; but they probably needed that extra CD space to fill all the awesomeness this rendition explodes with.

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Coruscating, echt-Korngoldian music-making. Not for the faint of heart.


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Beatrice is here to stay. Splendidly impressive in both concertos, especially the Prokofiev. This is how Daenerys Targaryen should be summoning her pesky dragons.





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