Purchases Today

[Pat B]

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(Schubert: String Quintet and Rondo - Archibudelli)

Granted, it's available in the Vivarte re-release box set now for pretty cheap, but at $5 shipped I don't think I can complain too much about jumping the gun and ordering the single disc.

I paid a bit more than that, and it was still well worth it.

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No online orders this week but I was in the vicinity of the record store yesterday.
Glass: Akhnaten
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Bach: Goldberg - Staier
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[jut1972]

I'm not helping my backlog pile, this arrived today...
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Found it for <£40 from a French MP seller, described as Used, very good but still shrink wrapped. 

Also ordered this to go with it...


I'll cut quite a dash.

[jlaurson]

  Toni Bruckner
Symphony No.6
+ Bach/Webern ricerare
C.v.Dohnanyi / Cleveland Orchestra
CPO
German link - UK link

(Not only got it for the Bach-Webern... but that was a big fat attractive bonus!)

[bhodges]

Olivier Latry: Three Centuries of Organ Music at Notre Dame de Paris (Naïve) - Not a purchase but a gift from a friend. After hearing Latry live a few years ago, I'd hear him play pretty much anything. This menu includes many French composers new to me, and the final track is one of Latry's own improvisations.

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--Bruce

[bhodges]

I agree with you about his playing - based mainly on this set, which I consider first rate.

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The disc you were given sounds very interesting.

Yes! Definitely like other organists in Messiaen as well, but as a set that one is hard to beat.

Most of the composers in this new set are from the 1600s and 1700s, but there are works from Jean-Pierre Leguay (b. 1939) and Pierre Cochereau (1924-1984). The comprehensive notes - written by Latry - also include the complete specifications for the instrument itself. 

--Bruce

[Geo Dude]

Camelcamelcamel politely informed me this morning that Zoverstocks had this OOP Lully opera available for $16 with shipping, so I jumped on it:



...Unfortunately, I've had to re-order this opera from a different seller after the copy from Zoverstocks got lost in the mail:



Hopefully that Lully opera will not suffer the same fate.

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

[Geo Dude]

[Parsifal]

Yes! Definitely like other organists in Messiaen as well, but as a set that one is hard to beat.

What do you think of Jennifer Bate in Messian organ music?

[Mirror Image]

Also bought:



This recording has been OOP almost every time I looked at it. I quit looking at it for a few months and now it's back in-print! Yay!



This has been a recording I've been considering for quite some time. It contains the only other performance of the Martinu's last orchestral work Estampes. Weller, of course, is no stranger to this music as he's conducted Martinu in the past.

[HIPster]

+1 

[NorthNYMark]

My Mercury Living Presence 2 box arrived today.  I'm tempted to listen to quite a few discs, but I still haven't finished with the first box, or the second DG 111 box (but almost through that one), or the Philips Original Jacket box.  For some reason, though I'm not normally very OCD about this sort of thing, I feel compelled to listen to the CDs in these boxes in order.  It's probably to keep from going through the ones I'm most curious about right away and then having less incentive to listen through the rest.

[Parsifal]

My Mercury Living Presence 2 box arrived today.  I'm tempted to listen to quite a few discs, but I still haven't finished with the first box, or the second DG 111 box (but almost through that one), or the Philips Original Jacket box.  For some reason, though I'm not normally very OCD about this sort of thing, I feel compelled to listen to the CDs in these boxes in order.  It's probably to keep from going through the ones I'm most curious about right away and then having less incentive to listen through the rest.

Rather than listen in a linear progression, I have a "system" where when I have listened to a disc I replace it facing backwards.  Then when I comeback to a set I can see which discs I have listened to and which not.  Smaller sets I will go through in a linear fashion (I am doing so with the Glazunov symphony box from Warner) but not with the bigger boxes.  There are discs in the Mercury box I will never listen to (sounds of the Civil War, etc).

[Pat B]

My Mercury Living Presence 2 box arrived today.  I'm tempted to listen to quite a few discs, but I still haven't finished with the first box, or the second DG 111 box (but almost through that one), or the Philips Original Jacket box.  For some reason, though I'm not normally very OCD about this sort of thing, I feel compelled to listen to the CDs in these boxes in order.  It's probably to keep from going through the ones I'm most curious about right away and then having less incentive to listen through the rest.

Of the 55 I really wanted about 20 of them. But I made the decision to listen to all of it even though, like you, I am in progress on three other big boxes including the first MLP box.

I agree that "favorites first" probably would mean I'd never get through it (and might miss an unexpected gem). I tried front-to-back on the other three boxes. This time I started at the beginning but quickly switched to random. (I made exceptions for the 3 ballets, listening to them when I knew I had plenty of time.) I believe if I had gone front-to-back, I would have gotten bogged down in the 19 consecutive discs of Fennell and Hanson. But with random order, I am 40/55 through it and still going strong.

So, random works much better than in-order for me. YMMV of course.

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Boulez and Bruckner.






Sarge

[Geo Dude]

+1 

You ordered it recently or you like that recording?

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[HIPster]

You ordered it recently or you like that recording?

An excellent disc, as is this one:
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A sort of Yang/Yin of Josquin. . .

[Octave]

GD, don't follow me too closely*....I don't know what I'm doing!   
Driving cross-country by night with no map and low-beams only.

Still looking forward to proper sessions with the Josquin and Bach motets disques that we both got.
I can certainly say that that Rameau HYPPOLITE/ARICIE was a pleasure.

I am glad to see that recommendation of another Josquin disc, HIPster....that one will go on the to-buy list, probably.

*j/k of course....we drink at the same befouling well

[Parsifal]

Just to make sure: did you see the brief recent discussion of the Badura-Skoda reissue from Arcana (9cd)?  $25 shipped direct (worldwide) from Outhere's web store.  I am grateful Outhere's prices on all their labels are not that low, it would be a disaster for me.  B-S uses several beautiful instruments with little photos featured in the enclosed leaflet.  HIP porn.

I take for granted I will get that release, but I will wait for it to be officially available in the US.  I think the Amazon MP street price will be just as low, and I prefer to limit the number of places I give my credit card number.

[NorthNYMark]

Of the 55 I really wanted about 20 of them. But I made the decision to listen to all of it even though, like you, I am in progress on three other big boxes including the first MLP box.

I agree that "favorites first" probably would mean I'd never get through it (and might miss an unexpected gem). I tried front-to-back on the other three boxes. This time I started at the beginning but quickly switched to random. (I made exceptions for the 3 ballets, listening to them when I knew I had plenty of time.) I believe if I had gone front-to-back, I would have gotten bogged down in the 19 consecutive discs of Fennell and Hanson. But with random order, I am 40/55 through it and still going strong.

So, random works much better than in-order for me. YMMV of course.

Glad to see I'm not the only one going through several of these boxes simultaneously.  I think I will wait to begin this one until I get through the first Mercury set, though.  You make a really good point about the value of going randomly, since these MLP boxes have more homogeneous "groupings" by conductor or performer than the other sets.  I may consider that--do you just close your eyes and fish out a CD?

Rather than listen in a linear progression, I have a "system" where when I have listened to a disc I replace it facing backwards.  Then when I comeback to a set I can see which discs I have listened to and which not.  Smaller sets I will go through in a linear fashion (I am doing so with the Glazunov symphony box from Warner) but not with the bigger boxes.  There are discs in the Mercury box I will never listen to (sounds of the Civil War, etc).

Interesting.  Probably because I'm relatively new to classical in general, I've committed to giving every CD in the big boxes a listen, even when I am pretty confident that I may never listen to some again.  Oddly, those Civil War discs were among the most unexpectedly pleasant surprises.  Unlike the Sousa marches or the "Circus Screamers," or the Viennese New Year's Waltzes in other boxes (which just do not resonate with me in any positive way at all), those Civil War songs actually had an oddly touching, even haunting quality.  While I may not revisit the "war sounds" sections at the end of the discs, I will almost certainly revisit the musical sections; the "British Band Classics" was another positive surprise from Fennell.  But I can imagine that someone with as huge a collection as you seem to would have to take a different approach to these giant box sets than I do.