Purchases Today

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Found this in a second hand bookshop today, a signed copy of Sculthorpe's autobiography!

Just saw this post, awesome, Jessop! Love Sculthorpe's music (as you know).

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I obviously didn't order it today, but I just received my order of Claudio Monteverdi's L'orfeo in the mail!!!! 

I fell in love with it several weeks ago after hearing it for the first time and purchased it instantly, I hope i still love it 

I heard it on YouTube and was instantly compelled to buy it!



Now next, a DVD version would be nice? 

I would be very surprised if you did not still love it. That version still sounds so raw and exciting 

[PerfectWagnerite]

I heard it on YouTube and was instantly compelled to buy it!



Now next, a DVD version would be nice? 

Yes a very fine recording, one of the best that JEG did and that is saying a lot.

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Santa Clause just got me this.  Listening to it now.  Wow!!!!!!!!

Link to the Cedille Website.  CD much more reasonable there and one can order downloads: http://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/coleridge-taylor-perkinson-a-celebration

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the piano cds from a few days ago:
Earl Wild - transcriptions
ROREM: 6 Variations, Sicilienne, Dance Suite    CORIGLIANO: Gazebo Dances, Kaleidoscope
piano duets
CHAVEZ: Piano Sonata VI, GINASTERA Sonata (1952), 12 American Preludes
MEDELSSOHN: Variations Sérieuses, Variations in E^b
Adrian Ruiz   piano

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Unplanned (the result of a short visit this morning to La Quinta de Mahler in downtown Madrid):

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Happy 2017 to all! 

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On the last day of the year, ordered from mdt:

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[Todd]

Started the year off by going for everything I have an interest in, both out now and pre-order.  Aside from LvB piano sonata recordings, and perhaps the almost (and hopefully) inevitable Zoltan Kocsis and Heinrich Schiff Philips boxes, this should hold me over until at least sometime in summer.  Lots of (quasi-) comparative listening to do.



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

   



 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[kishnevi]

Going bezerka for mazurkas?  I'll be interested in your comments there, because the only set I like is Rubinstein, and I have none of the ones you ordered.

TD
Ended 2016 with a small but good one


And a preorder of this

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Something for the New Year..

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Something for the New Year..

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Do you have Stokowski? I'd consider that one next if you don't...

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Do you have Stokowski? I'd consider that one next if you don't...

For the Nevsky? No I don't, Neal.

[Mahlerian]

Something for the New Year..

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I love both of these.  Great choices.

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For the Nevsky? No I don't, Neal.

Oops - yes, Nevsky. A wonderful performance. I think it's my favorite, but there a few still to hear!

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I love both of these.  Great choices.

Excellent.

Oops - yes, Nevsky. A wonderful performance. I think it's my favorite, but there a few still to hear!

Alright, thanks. I'll keep that in mind, along with the Gergiev, Jablonski, and others.

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Excellent.
Alright, thanks. I'll keep that in mind, along with the Gergiev, Jablonski, and others.

Gergiev isn't bad, but the sound is constricted and I find this takes away from the enjoyment. Maybe try to get a listen to see if the sound will irritate you. Yablonsky is pretty good. I don't like that in the Battle on the Ice, when they get about 1.45 in, most will start slow and speed up, while Yablonsky just heads right in at full speed. I also  find there are some issues of balance in hearing all the instruments, but it's not as bad as the Gergiev (which was recorded live by the way). And there are also some intonation issues - usually at key times. I'd certainly pick Yablonsky over Gergiev. I find the Field of Death to be quite well done with Yablonsky - Irina Gelahova has just the right sound/atmosphere here. I find it quite effective (and one of my favorites). I actually prefer her to Olga Borodina, who sings well, but doesn't have quite the darkness and sorrow. But then, voices can be a more personal thing.

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Personally, I think Gergiev's is the best Nevsky.

[mc ukrneal]

Personally, I think Gergiev's is the best Nevsky.

It's not a bad version at all. Nevsky is a bit like Verdi's Requiem in that it is really hard to find one version that does everything to one's liking: right speeds, buildup, highlighting of sections or instruments, whether to smooth some rough edges or really slam it hard with edge, etc. Gergiev's Battle on the Ice, for example, is actually quite cohesive, something a lot of conductors don't always succeed at throughout (as it comes across sometimes as episodic or stop/go).

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It's not a bad version at all. Nevsky is a bit like Verdi's Requiem in that it is really hard to find one version that does everything to one's liking: right speeds, buildup, highlighting of sections or instruments, whether to smooth some rough edges or really slam it hard with edge, etc. Gergiev's Battle on the Ice, for example, is actually quite cohesive, something a lot of conductors don't always succeed at throughout (as it comes across sometimes as episodic or stop/go).

I agree. There's not one 'perfect' performance of Nevsky. Besides Gergiev, I like Previn's first go-around on EMI and also Jarvi's on Chandos.