Purchases Today

[Todd]

And the first package from Italy landed today

There you go.  A baseline set, against which all other piano trio recordings can and should be compared.  As close to a mandatory purchase as I can think of.

[Artem]

[asin]B0095MUR7K[/asin]

I really like that disk.

[The new erato]

Meantime I ordered this out of print item, the discount made up for the shipping costs....

[asin]B0090OPC50[/asin]
Q

On learning this was OOP, so did I. This has been on various wish lists for a few years. What ridiculous P&P!

[The new erato]

As an avid collector of the series, I ordered this new release at mdt:

[asin]B015P76KB0[/asin]

This post in the superb "On an overgrown path" blog:

http://www.overgrownpath.com/search?updated-max=2015-10-05T09:46:00%2B01:00&max-results=5&start=20&by-date=false

convinced me to order this:

[asin]B00SZ0ONL4[/asin]

If you check through the last 3 or 4 pages of posts on this blog, you will find some really interesting and illuminating reading!

Quote from a recent post:

"The assertion that we must try to help the composer is very revealing. Because, today, too many celebrities see the composer as the person who helps them to a contract with a super agent, lucrative tours of China and the United Arab Emirates, and endorsement contracts with Rolex and Bugatti. But it wasn't always like that. In a post back in 2005 I analysed the Berlin Philharmonic programmes conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler between 1923 and 1944. During that period, and despite the latter years being the dark age of Entartete Musik, no less forty-four substantial new works from twenty-seven contemporary composers were played under Furtwängler - see the full list via this link.

Another post in the same year pointed out that while music director of the New York Philharmonic, John Barbirolli conducted music by, among others, Daniel Gregory Mason, Joseph Deems Taylor, Abram Chasins, Samuel Barber, Ernst Toch, Arkady Dubensky, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Quinto Maganini, Gardner Read, Charles Griffes, Quincy Porter, Lucien Cailliet, Paul Creston, Jacques Ibert, and Eugene Goosen. Even the notoriously self-interested Herbert von Karajan strayed from the path of established masterpieces, with his advocacy of Arthur Honegger's Second Symphony and Symphonie Liturgigue (no. 3) ranking as one of the great achievements of the gramophone."

I couldn't agree more!

There's a great recent post about Alan Hovhaness as well!

[71 dB]

Contemporary composers exploration: Reza Vali (b. 1952):

[asin]B0001FYR1M[/asin]

[aligreto]

Yesterday....

[Sergeant Rock]

Inspired by Nut I bought another Schumann Violin Concerto (coupled with the G minor Piano Trio op.110). Faust, Queyras, Melnikov and the Freiburger Barockorchester.




Sarge

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

[Mirror Image]

Also bought...

[Camphy]

[ritter]

Bought today  d'occasion at Gibert Joseph in Lyon:

[asin]B000003XIQ[/asin]

[asin]B000003EX3[/asin]

[Bogey]

Just bought:

Wow!  Reports expected unless I missed your reviews, John.

[Todd]

Next to last purchase(s) of the year.  The Japanese items (Heidsieck and Yokoyama) landed today.

[Mirror Image]

Wow!  Reports expected unless I missed your reviews, John.

Will do, Bill. Good to see you around again.

[Que]

On learning this was OOP, so did I. This has been on various wish lists for a few years. What ridiculous P&P!

I think discplus' crazy international shipping costs and the expensive Swiss frank must have done them in....

I am still browsing through their stock, looking for some items cheap or rare enough to justify the added costs....

meanwhile I placed a small order at jpc.de:

   

   

 

The Jenkins and the Stölzel were recommended by Harry!

Q

[North Star]

meanwhile I placed a small order at jpc.de:

 

Q

Good stuff.

[king ubu]

I think discplus' crazy international shipping costs and the expensive Swiss frank must have done them in....

Not sure what's at the heart of it, but the shop closes since the company they're affiliated with has been sold - that's what the email they sent out a few days ago said. Must be this:
http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/05/belgium-based-recording-group-to-take-over-harmonia-mundi/
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6708253/pias-acquires-classical-harmonia-mundi-record-label

[Que]

Browsing through one's Amazon wishlist is a dangerous thing to do....

[asin]B004V4GXX4[/asin]
This looked a good deal at £6 at Amazon UK.....
I was still shocked how weak to euro has become.  And that is probably going to get worse...

Q

[Que]

Not sure what's at the heart of it, but the shop closes since the company they're affiliated with has been sold - that's what the email they sent out a few days ago said. Must be this:
http://www.classicalmusicmagazine.org/2015/05/belgium-based-recording-group-to-take-over-harmonia-mundi/
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6708253/pias-acquires-classical-harmonia-mundi-record-label

Oh wow....Harmonia Mundi sold, that is big news! 
Hope all goes well under the new ownership and more of HM's back catalogue comes available again. .

Q

[king ubu]

Oh wow....Harmonia Mundi sold, that is big news! 
Hope all goes well under the new ownership and more of HM's back catalogue comes available again. .

Q

It sounds good on first impression, but then who knows what the future will bring ... might all be lip service at this point.
Anyway, discplus was more or less the HM store in Switzerland, though they added plenty of other things to their roster

Btw, re: HM - my disc 1 of "Concert Royal de la Nuit" is skipping!  I was worried when I saw it, but shit now! Too much glue in that package.