Favourite Purchases of 2012

[Karl Henning]

A fine, fine year, Oli : )

[Papy Oli]

A fine, fine year, Oli : )

Considering I have hardly opened the Bernstein Edition, the Wand edition, the Victoria Sacred Works and the Stravinsky Boxset, 2013 could be a good'un too from the onset 

[North Star]

Very nice indeed, Olivier, especially that Janacek set

[Mirror Image]

Another purchase that I forgot I bought 2012 that I didn't list but should have:

[snyprrr]

 :oTHIS WHOLE FORUM HAS CDCDCD !!!

Seriously people, these Posts represent, what?, .001% of your purchases? WHAT RECESSION??

[springrite]

:oTHIS WHOLE FORUM HAS CDCDCD !!!

Seriously people, these Posts represent, what?, .001% of your purchases? WHAT RECESSION??

As a person in denial, that is why I am not listing anything here, least of all the $30 per CD purchases (best value I got this year...).

[Karl Henning]

:oTHIS WHOLE FORUM HAS CDCDCD !!!

Seriously people, these Posts represent, what?, .001% of your purchases? WHAT RECESSION??

The sting of a reproach, is the truth in it.

Thread Duty Just a few . . . .

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[Mandryka]

[Gurn Blanston]

THIS WHOLE FORUM HAS CDCDCD !!!

Seriously people, these Posts represent, what?, .001% of your purchases? WHAT RECESSION??

I didn't buy any CD's all year. I'm SO proud!

My favorite purchase(s) of 2012 are these;



(I lied about the CD's, but I was trying to look holier than Snipsss...  0:) )

[Karl Henning]

(I lied about the CD's, but I was trying to look holier than Snipsss...  0:) )

(* snigger, snigger, chortle, snigger *)

[Lisztianwagner]

Many great purchases this year! Some of mine:





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[PaulSC]

Since so much of my listening this past year has been keyboard music, I shouldn't be too surprised that my favorite purchases of the year turned out this way — even though I didn't deliberately exclude other genres.






Alexander Melnikov: Scriabine - Œuvres pour piano
Eric Le Van: Scriabin - Complete Mazurkas   Lovchinsky Plays Chopin, Scriabin, Gershwin/Wild
Jean-Marc Luisada: Chopin Mazurkas
Kevin Kenner: Chopin - 4 Impromptus - Scherzo cis-moll
Sergei Babayan: Messiaen, Carl Vine, Respighi & Ligeti   
Vincenzo Maltempo: Alkan - Grande Sonate & Symphonie pour Piano Solo
Joseph Kelemen: Kerll, J.C. - Organ Music (Suddeutsche Orgelmeister, Vol. 1)
William Porter: The Bach Organ of Stormthal

[Mirror Image]

Didn't you just buy these? How can these be your favorites when you haven't even listened to them yet?

[Lisztianwagner]

This one as well; such a gorgeous perfomance of the Capriccio espagnol it contains.

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[TheGSMoeller]

Thread Duty Just a few . . . .

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Bravo, Mr. Henning. 

[mjwal]

I don't do the image bit - so sue me. Here are a few I know I bought this year (a lot are somewhere else and I can't check):
Robert Schumann Fiorentino Edition 6 (APR)
Nikos Skalkottas Kammermusik (Ensemble Modern Edition)
Richard Wagner Götterdämmerung excerpts - Furtwängler Covent Garden 1937/8 (Gebhardt)
W.A.Mozart Cosi Fan Tutte - Hans Rosbaud Aix-en-Provence 1957 (Walhall)
Gershwin by Grofé - Lincoln Mayorga etc (harmonia mundi)
Jonathan Harvey The Angels etc - James Wood (hyperion)
Gesualdo Madrigals Book 4 - Delitiae Musicae (Naxos)
Georg Katzer Medea in Korinth - Achim Zimmermann (Arte Nova)
Oliver Knussen Autumnal etc (NMC)
William Lawes Consorts to the organ - Phantasm (Linn)
Beethoven Opp.109-111 Ruth Crawford (Musica Omnia)
Brahms Violin Sonatas - Peter Serkin/Pamela Frank (Decca)
Birtwistle Night's Black Bird etc (NMC)
Britten Serenade etc - Rolfe Johnson (Chandos)
Louis Armstrong Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (4 CDs Columbia Legacy)
Sun Ra Arkestra Jazz in Silhouette (Evidence)

And much, much more, including a lot of wonderful stuff I found wandering the web (but that would be telling). I was lucky to pick up a couple of the above before they disappear: the Armstrong and the Brahms, or at a concert: Skalkottas.
P.S. One DVD: Quartet Choreography - Kreutzer Quartet playing Stravinsky, Ligeti, Lutoslawski & Finnissy. Wonderfully filmed, wonderful sound & playing (Métier).

[Karl Henning]

I don't do the image bit - so sue me.

Nay, be at liberty.

[mjwal]

Nay, be at liberty.

"But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation" (James 5:12 KJV).

[bigshot]

I'm in hog heaven with Membran's Furtwangler box and RCA's Toscanini box. Now if someone will just to a comprehensive Stokowski box I can die happy.

[Brian]

I'm in hog heaven with Membran's Furtwangler box and RCA's Toscanini box. Now if someone will just to a comprehensive Stokowski box I can die happy.

Grab Brilliant's Russian Legends 100CD box. It might still be my favorite CD purchase ever, partly cuz I got it for $45 but partly cuz the range and quality is utterly amazing: Richter playing Beethoven and Schubert, Gilels playing Liszt, Rostropovich in pretty much every major cello concerto, and my favorite recordings ever of Tchaikovsky's violin concerto (Kogan) and Brahms' violin concerto (Tretiakov). And I'd say I've listened to only about one-third of the box.