Purchases Today

[The new erato]

There's a range of Hyperion discs at very fine prices on mdt:

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(I bought vol 2 of the Stanford some time ago and were very favorably impressed

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And this:

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[king ubu]

in the mail yesterday:

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[asin]B007NM8DJS[/asin]
[asin]B00SSLUXHI[/asin]
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(last one looks somewhat like Sepp Blatter plays Medtner, but I might be biased  )

[Wanderer]

in the mail yesterday:


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(last one looks somewhat like Sepp Blatter plays Medtner, but I might be biased  )

I don't normally approve of table-pounding/smashing, but I'll make an exception for just this once. 

[Sadko]

Someone went to a seminar and was told that sans serif was really "in" this year.

[Moonfish]

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[aligreto]

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The Kletzki version is my favourite interpretation of M4.

[aligreto]

My first foray into the sound world of Ludvig Irgens-Jensen....

[Karl Henning]

My first foray into the sound world of Ludvig Irgens-Jensen....

What are the dates of the respective works?  TIA.

[ritter]

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Great version indeed of the Fourth (and the first one I ever heard--40 years ago?--as it was included in a promotional album given to my dad a a present by the Austrian State Oil Compnay when we lived in Vienna... The Lied von der Erde I only got to know when I bought that same CD you've posted, Moonfish, and I must say thatt IMHO FiDi is at his (considerable) very best in Der Abschied...recorded in his prime, an interpretation full of insights and with none of the mannersims that could occasioinally intrude in his singing later on in his career...

[Moonfish]

The Kletzki version is my favourite interpretation of M4.

Great version indeed of the Fourth (and the first one I ever heard--40 years ago?--as it was included in a promotional album given to my dad a a present by the Austrian State Oil Compnay when we lived in Vienna... The Lied von der Erde I only got to know when I bought that same CD you've posted, Moonfish, and I must say thatt IMHO FiDi is at his (considerable) very best in Der Abschied...recorded in his prime, an interpretation full of insights and with none of the mannersims that could occasioinally intrude in his singing later on in his career...

I am looking forward to it!    I am sure the mailman will linger with this one!       I have had a penchant for M4 lately, but Das Lied von der Erde comes along as a bonus this time.  So far I have found any vocal work with Mahler very enchanting.  Das klagende Lied has been on my listening menu quite a bit over the last few months. So this was your first M4? Out of curiosity - what was your first exposure to Mahler, Ritter?   0:)

[ritter]

. So this was your first M4? Out of curiosity - what was your first exposure to Mahler, Ritter?   0:)

IIRC, Moonfish, it was actually this recording of the Fourth under Kletzki...as I mentioned, it was included in a 4 LP album called Der Goldene Saal, given as a present by the Austrian State Oil Compnay (my father was in the oil industry).It was a tribute the the Musikvereinsaal in Vienna (what relation a recording with the Philaharmonia had with that venue remains a mystery to me to this day  ). We lived in Vienna from 1967 to 1972, so I must have been some 7 or 8 years old at the time. My dad was a fervent mozartian and mahlerian. He had the chance to see Bernsetin in the Second --or was it the Third?--with the VPO, and when we moved back to Venezuela, he would listen to lots of Mahler (Levine and Solti were his favourites). Mainly the Second, the Third and the Eighth;  the words "Blicket auf!" still have a special resonance with me 40 years on  .  I myself wasn't that much into Mahler (some kind of oedipical reaction?  ), and my first love in classical was (and remains) Wagner. But still, I started to explore some Mahler (the First,  the Fahrenden Gesellen , and the Seventh in Kubelik's DG versions, Abbado's VPO take on the Fourth--still a personal favourite of mine). My first live Mahler was a Third with the Israel Philharmonic under Mehta in Caracas in 1983 (the soloist was Florence Quivar).

Then Boulez started to record his cycle in the early nineties, and my interest in Mahler strengthened. I was really into Mahler a couple of years ago, and still love his music, but don't listen to it that much these days (but remain quite active in the Spanish-language Mahler forum). His time will come (back), of course! 

Cheers,

EDIT (THREAD DUTY):

I finally found an affordable (and apparently new) copy of this, lon OOP:



I've owned for years the live recording of the concert at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (on Montaigne, also OOP) around which this studio effort was made, but not latter (which is the one discussed by Stravinsky himself in one of the books of converstaions with Robert Craft).

Preparing for dispatch, the AmUK MP seller says  ...

[aligreto]

What are the dates of the respective works?  TIA.

Symphony in D minor [original version] - 1942
Air - 1959
Passacaglia - 1928

[Karl Henning]

Symphony in D minor [original version] - 1942
Air - 1959
Passacaglia - 1928

Thanks!

[Wakefield]

This afternoon at Santiago's downtown:



Funny thing? Just after I put the 1st disk, I recalled that I have had this set for almost a decade under this incarnation:

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Definitely, I'm less focused now than I used to be. 

I also purchased this... if I'm right I hadn't purchased it before: 

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[kishnevi]

Easy to be confused seeing that it is also available in two other formats


I have the first, concertoless, set.

[Mirror Image]

My first foray into the sound world of Ludvig Irgens-Jensen....

Great recording! Enjoy!

TD:

Just bought -



Why Evocations wasn't recorded while Deneve was doing his Roussel cycle for Naxos is just baffling. I have a recording with Kosler on Supraphon, but I'm anxious to hear how Plasson does with this great work.

[ritter]

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Just bought -



Why Evocations wasn't recorded while Deneve was doing his Roussel cycle for Naxos is just baffling. I have a recording with Kosler on Supraphon, but I'm anxious to hear how Plasson does with this great work.

That looks very intreresting! I don't know Évocations, but I quite admire Padmâvâti, so the prospect of a big choral Roussel work is very tempting...

[Moonfish]

IIRC, Moonfish, it was actually this recording of the Fourth under Kletzki...as I mentioned, it was included in a 4 LP album called Der Goldene Saal, given as a present by the Austrian State Oil Compnay (my father was in the oil industry).It was a tribute the the Musikvereinsaal in Vienna (what relation a recording with the Philaharmonia had with that venue remains a mystery to me to this day  ). We lived in Vienna from 1967 to 1972, so I must have been some 7 or 8 years old at the time. My dad was a fervent mozartian and mahlerian. He had the chance to see Bernsetin in the Second --or was it the Third?--with the VPO, and when we moved back to Venezuela, he would listen to lots of Mahler (Levine and Solti were his favourites). Mainly the Second, the Third and the Eighth;  the words "Blicket auf!" still have a special resonance with me 40 years on  .  I myself wasn't that much into Mahler (some kind of oedipical reaction?  ), and my first love in classical was (and remains) Wagner. But still, I started to explore some Mahler (the First,  the Fahrenden Gesellen , and the Seventh in Kubelik's DG versions, Abbado's VPO take on the Fourth--still a personal favourite of mine). My first live Mahler was a Third with the Israel Philharmonic under Mehta in Caracas in 1983 (the soloist was Florence Quivar).

Then Boulez started to record his cycle in the early nineties, and my interest in Mahler strengthened. I was really into Mahler a couple of years ago, and still love his music, but don't listen to it that much these days (but remain quite active in the Spanish-language Mahler forum). His time will come (back), of course! 

Cheers,

Such great memories, Ritter!     You definitely seem to have grown up within the Mahlerian sphere based on your father's adventures!!

[Mirror Image]

That looks very intreresting! I don't know Évocations, but I quite admire Padmâvâti, so the prospect of a big choral Roussel work is very tempting...

You would enjoy this work very much, Ritter. It's one of my favorites from Roussel.

[TheGSMoeller]

Flavor of the day, Sibelius' 5th. A few used ones and a new one. Falling in love with this symphony again...