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Just pre-ordered this recording (due out Feb. 28th):



This recording ought to be good, especially after Faust's exemplary performance of the Berg Violin Concerto.

[Christo]

A beautiful work. I've had it as a download for some years, but that's not good enough. Make room for the real thing!

It is. Can you believe it is also, after all these years, still, the only recording? 

You didn't get the joke, did you?   

You think so?   

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March release:

[steve ridgway]

After a couple of CDs lost in transit and another not actually in stock I gave up on them and completed my target of filling my iPod with a few downloads different to what I'd originally ordered. Everything in my collection from my 10 favourite composers fit, apart from Ligeti's "Poème Symphonique for 100 Metronomes" - i.e. all the actual music .

Scelsi Collection Vol 1 - Chamber Works. This has a good variety of works and completes the 3 Riti compositions along with the wrongly titled one on the "Rito" CD.

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Scelsi Edition Vol 7 - The Works for Double Bass. Some great sounds on here, better for listening all the way through than Vol 9 for viola.

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Schnittke's Symphony No. 1 on Chandos which I really want to hear having already got 2-8.

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In converting these to 320kbps MP3 for the iPod I also put them on a USB stick so can leave that plugged into the car and switch from the SD card full of non-classical music when I'm in it by myself .

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Just bought:

[Daverz]

After a couple of CDs lost in transit and another not actually in stock I gave up on them

Who are we talking about?  I missed the contest.

[steve ridgway]

Who are we talking about?  I missed the contest.

I just had to get a couple of refunds for CDs lost in the post which I feel bad about as the sellers may wonder if I've ripped them off .

[Daverz]

I just had to get a couple of refunds for CDs lost in the post which I feel bad about as the sellers may wonder if I've ripped them off .

The last one that USPS lost was Humperdinck's Hansel & Gretel conducted by Eichhorn.  It actuallly had tracking, but tracking showed it ending up in some USPS facility in Los Angeles and then....nothing.  I suppose it got mutilated or crushed.  The seller refunded, but, still, gotta mourn a bit for that poor Humperdinck set.

[Papy Oli]

More RVW...

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And Wilfried Mellers' book "VW and the vision of Albion"

[JBS]

over the weekend, now en route to me

[Daverz]

over the weekend, now en route to me

The Sibelius is one of my favorite sets.  It's been repackaged many times before.

The Beethoven is also one of my favorite cycles.  Looking forward to hearing these new remasters.

I'm still not quite sure whether Antonini's Haydn is a success.

[T. D.]

Cross-posted from another thread.

[Christo]

More RVW...

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Thomson's unusual opening of this terrific symphony, slow, threatening, slowly gaining in power, ever more tremendous, still my favourite of them all, certainly aided by an archetypical Chandos recording sound. In one word: thrilling. 

[Mandryka]

Cross-posted from another thread.

Here's a little light reading for you

https://robhaskins.net/2015/02/20/the-harmony-of-emptiness-john-cages-two2-mode-records-193-2008/

[Papy Oli]

Thomson's unusual opening of this terrific symphony, slow, threatening, slowly gaining in power, ever more tremendous, still my favourite of them all, certainly aided by an archetypical Chandos recording sound. In one word: thrilling. 

The copy on YT was very enticing already, can't wait to hear it properly on the hifi and headphones. I have his 9th already on the way. I blame your advocacy of this recording for this purchase and Sarge for the Bakels. It's not all on Jeffrey  ... that RVW thread is lethal...

[André]

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Nice! I've seen this recording before, but never bought it because of all the other recordings I own of both these SQs. Will be interested to know your opinion of it once you've heard it. The Schoenberg Quartet are a fantastic group.

[Symphonic Addict]

The Braunfels CD is great. The 2nd movement from the Piano Concerto is a real beauty. The Enna CD is good for the Fairy Tale Suite but not too much for the Symphony.

[André]

I look forward to hear all of these. I often buy because the price is very low and I want to explore even if it's only in a year or two from now (even longer with some big boxes). But this batch will be listened to posthaste. The Braunfels in particular - I adore this composer. Enna is a recent discovery. I just listened to his short opera The Little Match Girl and was smitten by the beauty of the themes and the orchestration.

[j winter]

While I have lots of Schubert's piano music, I have very little for four hands.  So I think this will nicely fill that gap, and hopefully provide some interesting new (to me) music to explore... more Schubert is always a good thing IMO