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[vandermolen]

The Concerto for Orchestra is probably the Lutoslawski work with which I'm most familiar, familiar being a relative term! I really enjoy it, especially Seiji Ozawa's recording with the Chicago Symphony. How fascinating that you got to meet him - or at least be in the same room as he was! Interestingly, he was slated to give a composition master class and conduct the Cleveland Orchestra in a program of his music my freshman year at Oberlin, in the spring of 1994. I remember the entire composition department was looking forward to it all year - but sadly he passed away in February of that year, so it wasn't to be. I think the Cleveland Orchestra still visited campus, but they played an entirely different program.

Oh, that's sad. I remember that when he was talking to the small group of students he seemed friendly. He was quite small I recall.

[Papy Oli]

A few bits and bobs over the last fortnight:

 

 

 


 

 

[Florestan]

A few bits and bobs over the last fortnight:

 

 

 


 

 

Nice haul, Olivier.

[SonicMan46]

A few bits and bobs over the last fortnight:

 

 

 


 

 

Hey Papy - many of those look quite familiar to me -    Enjoy!  Dave

[Spotted Horses]

A few bits and bobs over the last fortnight:

 

One of my favorite recordings!

[DavidW]

Papy, the Albinoni, Bach and Brahms recordings are all great.

[JBS]

@Papy Oli
Hip hip hooray for the Heinichen!

That Chandos Albinoni set has been on my wishlist for some time. I do need to get around to actually getting it.

[ritter]

Some boxes I inevitably would get sooner or later:


Found a competitively priced copy online. I have all of the Stravinsky stuff, of course, and the Webern, and some of the early music Robert Craft conducted, but none of his Berg, or his early Schoenberg, the Hindemith / Debussy disc, etc.



Bought this evening at FNAC in downtown Madrid. Mainly for Pierné's complete piano works with Diane Anderson, plus some historical stuff and orchestral pieces that were absent from my collection (Paysages franciscains, Les Cathédrales...).

[Papy Oli]

Nice haul, Olivier.

Hey Papy - many of those look quite familiar to me -    Enjoy!  Dave

Papy, the Albinoni, Bach and Brahms recordings are all great.

@Papy Oli
Hip hip hooray for the Heinichen!

Thanks all, I have streamed and really enjoyed all of them many times prior to purchase.

The exception was Albononi on CPO...

One of my favorite recordings!

...but your advocacy of this recording in recent weeks made me do it, @Spotted Horses   

@Papy Oli
That Chandos Albinoni set has been on my wishlist for some time. I do need to get around to actually getting it.

It is a gorgeous lively set, @JBS .

[vers la flamme]

Not recordings, but I found some great Bach scores at Half Price Books in Marietta GA today. The Matthäus-Passion and 11 cantatas including some of my favorites: Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, the Actus Tragicus, Christ lag in Todesbanden. Full vocal and instrumental score. I'm going to see if I can try and learn the tenor parts. Also, I found a copy of Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation Vol. 1, DBK would be proud of me

[Todd]

What the hell?

[Spotted Horses]

What the hell?

Great recording of Pastorale d'été by Honegger in that set.

Ooops, that would be the companion set of classical and romantic recordings.

Ooops, that was Cobos. Nevermind.

It turns out I've never heard of Corboz before.

[Brian]

Great recording of Pastorale d'été by Honegger in that set.

Ooops, that would be the companion set of classical and romantic recordings.

Ooops, that was Cobos. Nevermind.

It turns out I've never heard of Corboz before.

This post was a little journey 

(I had never heard of Corboz until these giant boxes either but apparently he was Erato's house choral guy.)

[Todd]

(I had never heard of Corboz until these giant boxes either but apparently he was Erato's house choral guy.)

I have heard him accompanying Maria João Pires in Bach, but that's it.  That means this set has 73 new to me CDs, including some composers I've never heard and twenty discs (!) of Monteverdi.  Erato boxes have been qualitatively reliable, so I doubt I am disappointed. 

[Spotted Horses]

This post was a little journey 

It's called encroaching senility.

[VonStupp]

I have heard him accompanying Maria João Pires in Bach, but that's it.  That means this set has 73 new to me CDs, including some composers I've never heard and twenty discs (!) of Monteverdi.  Erato boxes have been qualitatively reliable, so I doubt I am disappointed.

Neat. I know him mostly for his Romantic Era and 20th Century oratorios, cantatas, and such. His Portuguese-based Gulbekian Orchestra and Chorus weren't too bad either. If there was much recorded competition, I found him a little too efficient comparatively, a blanket statement that I would need to revisit to remember specifics. The box looks intriguing, though.

I did really like his Suppe & Bomtempo Requiems and Mendelssohn Psalms that I listened to most recently following his death a year or two ago.
VS

[Wanderer]

Souvenir de Paris:

[Papy Oli]

one more Herreweghe Bach volume (that will make 5 out of 9)

[Wanderer]

[Brian]

used copies of two discs that are getting hard to find either physically or on streaming:

Barenboim's Mahler 7
Lowell Liebermann piano concertos with Hamelin on Hyperion