Purchases Today

[Karl Henning]

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Shostakovich: SEVEN ROMANCES + PIANO TRIOS [Florestan Trio + Susan Gritton] (Hyperion)
h/t Jens

I don't know this recording, but the Blok Romances are below the green lemon!

[Cato]

I don't know this recording, but the Blok Romances are below the green lemon!

That reminds of something...

[Brahmsian]

Arrived this morning: Kreisler and Korngold String Quartets played by the Brodsky Quartet




Sarge

Nice, Sarge.  I hope you will enjoy Korngold's string quartets. 

BTW, Sarge - I do hope that every Christmas, you give the hardest working postwoman in Germany a brand new pair of walking shoes and a heavy duty parcel pouch for all the deliveries she works so hard at delivering to you. 

[Sergeant Rock]

Nice, Sarge.  I hope you will enjoy Korngold's string quartets. 

BTW, Sarge - I do hope that every Christmas, you give the hardest working postwoman in Germany a brand new pair of walking shoes and a heavy duty parcel pouch for all the deliveries she works so hard at delivering to you. 

The Bundespost has already made her job easier: she doesn't walk (or ride a bike) any longer: she drives a Post-yellow VW Golf to make her rounds 

The Second Korngold Quartet is great...especially the waltz-heavy last movement. Good performance too. The Brodsky's Kreisler was disappointing though. I prefer the slower, more heavily inflected performance by Nigel Kennedy and friends.

Sarge

[Brian]

The Second Korngold Quartet is great...especially the waltz-heavy last movement.

I think MusicWeb just sent me a new Gramola CD combining the Second Korngold Quartet, the Second Pavel Haas Quartet ("Monkey Mountains" with the percussion finale), and the Haydn "Lark" Quartet. I salivated over the combination!

[jlaurson]

I think MusicWeb just sent me a new Gramola CD combining the Second Korngold Quartet, the Second Pavel Haas Quartet ("Monkey Mountains" with the percussion finale), and the Haydn "Lark" Quartet. I salivated over the combination!

Superb disc, superb program. The Second of Haas is such a good piece to play... and to put it on a debut CD is a mild case of inspiration. :-)

[Octave]

Obviously we all need to order while there's something left, so I ordered these:

Yes, looks like I might have to get something before Octave has emptied the storages.

"Revenge!"



I'm more ashamed about it than is apparent, but that's okay if I don't leave the house, which is the idea.  Unless they take the house!
Thanks passim to those who have helped me with leads.

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Kernis: SYMPHONY IN WAVES + STRING QUARTET #1 'MUSICA CELESTIS' [Schwarz, Lark 4tt] (Phoenix US, reissue of an Argo disc?)

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Stockhausen: STIMMUNG [Singcircle dir. Gregory Rose] (Hyperion)

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Ives: SYMPHONIES 1 & 4 [Dallas SO/Litton] (Hyperion, sacd)

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Ives: SYMPHONIES 2 & 3 [Dallas SO/Litton] (Hyperion, sacd)


Liza Lim: THE ORESTEIA [Elision Ensemble] (Riccordi)
She hosts the whole OOP recording on her Soundcloud account.

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Liza Lim: THE HEART'S EAR [Ensemble für neue Musik Zürich dir. Henneberger (hat[now]ART)
I see that there is a new HatART disc of a few orchestral pieces out this year.  That and the Wergo disc with Uri Caine...not a bad year for her.

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Finzi: EARTH AND AIR AND RAIN [Thomas Hardy song cycles] {Martyn Hill, Stephen Varcoe} (Hyperion, 2cd)

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Frank Bridge: PIANO TRIOS 1 & 2 + PHANTASY PIANO QUARTET [Dartington Trio + Patrick Ireland] (Hyperion/Helios)

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Frank Bridge: STRING SEXTET/QUINTET + LAMENT [Raphael Ensemble] (Hyperion)

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Karl Amadeus Hartmann: CONCERTO FUNEBRE + SUITES/SONATAS FOR SOLO VIOLIN [Alina Ibragimova] (Hyperion)
Mainly for an ~hour of denuded chamber works that I don't have elsewhere.

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Dane Rudhyar: WORKS FOR PIANO [Steffen Schleiermacher] (hat[now]ART)

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Fretwork: HARMONICE MUSICES ODHECATON (Harmonia Mundi Gold)
Transcriptions/arrangements of 15c polyphony....we'll see!

[Que]

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Fretwork: HARMONICE MUSICES ODHECATON (Harmonia Mundi Gold)
Transcriptions/arrangements of 15c polyphony....we'll see!

Rest assured, that is a good one.

Q

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Honeck/Pittsburgh Strauss recommended by Brian




Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I think MusicWeb just sent me a new Gramola CD combining the Second Korngold Quartet, the Second Pavel Haas Quartet ("Monkey Mountains" with the percussion finale), and the Haydn "Lark" Quartet. I salivated over the combination!

Superb disc, superb program. The Second of Haas is such a good piece to play... and to put it on a debut CD is a mild case of inspiration. :-)

Sounds great. I pre-ordered (release date in Germany 13 Jan 2014).

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Sarge

[mc ukrneal]

Arrived this morning: Honeck/Pittsburgh Strauss recommended by Brian




Sarge

And have your Clevelanders anything to be concerned about from these Pitts...burghers!?

[Sergeant Rock]

And have your Clevelanders anything to be concerned about from these Pitts...burghers!?

Sonically I'm sure it will surpass the old Columbia recordings. As interpretation and performance? I don't know. For 40 years Szell and Cleveland have been my benchmark for these three works. But Honeck can work magic and Pittsburgh is a fine orchestra. I'm keeping an open mind.

Sarge

[prémont]

Rest assured, that is a good one.

Q

What Que wrote.

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:



Listened to a little bit of this on Spotify and was blown away by it. This may very well prompt me to revisit all of my Elgar Elder recordings.

[marvinbrown]

  I received from JPC music my Schubert complete songs boxset on the Hyoerion label a few days ago. I have removed the skrinkwrap, counted the Cds to make sure they were all there.....and they were. The boxset comes with a big book with the translated songs. I must admit that I am a bit daunted by the listening task at hand. Where does one start? The beginning perhaps? I have decided to read the text first prior to listening, and then again as I am listening.  The last time I took on a project like this was with the cantatas of Bach. It took me 4 months to get through ~200 sacred cantatas. But the songs of Schubert are different. Here we have a marriage of poetry and music that might require an appreciation of the text to appreciate the music- much like opera. Oh how does one start?

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   Also received this as well from JPC music:

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  marvin

[Octave]

Thanks to all and sundry for comments of support, chastisement, enablement!
Re: Ewa Podles, I need more of her.  Two high-profile recordings I've long been meaning to acquire are Gluck's ARMIDE (Podles as "La Haine"!) and that much ballyhooed Handel's ARIODANTE, both Minkowski.  Also probably a Rossini's TANCREDI on Naxos.

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Couperin: PIECES DE VIOLE, SUITES 1 & 2 + CONCERTS 3 & 11 [Mieneke van der Velden, Glen Wilson] (Channel)

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Couperin: LES OMBRES ERRANTES [Mitzi Meyerson] (Glossa)

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Charles Ives & Ivan Wyschnegradsky: QUARTER-TONE PIECES [Christof/Schleiermacher] (hat[now]ART)

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Carl Friedrich Abel: MR. ABEL'S FINE AIRS [Susanne Heinrich] (Hyperion)

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Jacobus Clemens (Non, Papa!): MISSA PRO DEFUNCTIS [Brabant Ensemble dir. Stephen Rice] (Hyperion)

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Schumann: DAVIDSBUNDLERTANZE, ARABESKE, HUMORESKE [Ann Schein] (Ivory Classics)
h/t Sammy

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Forqueray: PIECES DE CLAVECIN [Blandine Rannou] (Zigzag Territoires, 2cd)
h/t MonkeyGreg and Sadko

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Rameau: REGNE AMOUR [Carolyn Sampson w/Ex Cathedra dir. Skidmore] (Hyperion)
H/t Elgarian.

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Leonin [Magister Leoninus]: SACRED MUSIC FROM 12th CENTURY PARIS, VOL. 1 [Red Byrd, Cappella Amsterdam] (Hyperion/Helios)

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Locatelli: L'ARTE DEL VIOLINO OP. 3 [Elizabeth Wallfisch w/Raglan Baroque Players] (Hyperion, 3cd)
After really enjoying her J.S. Bach violin concertos (Virgin Veritas).  I think it's my first Locatelli recording....

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Beethoven: THE COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS [Budapest, Columbia 1951-52] (United Archives, 8cd)

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Beethoven: PIANO CONCERTOS 1 & 3 [Artur Schnabel w/LOS/LPO dir. Sargent] (Arkadia)
Rec. Mar 1932, Feb 1933.  A hasty, basically accidental purchase, pretty dumb....as I already knew there was a Naxos Historical alternative, w/the same program AFAIK.      I cannot imagine Arkadia sound/sources compare favorably.  At least this was a dirt cheap mistake.

[Octave]

Re: Schubert lieder:

I received from JPC music my Schubert complete songs boxset on the Hyoerion label a few days ago. I have removed the skrinkwrap, counted the Cds to make sure they were all there.....and they were. The boxset comes with a big book with the translated songs. I must admit that I am a bit daunted by the listening task at hand. Where does one start? The beginning perhaps? I have decided to read the text first prior to listening, and then again as I am listening.  The last time I took on a project like this was with the cantatas of Bach. It took me 4 months to get through ~200 sacred cantatas. But the songs of Schubert are different. Here we have a marriage of poetry and music that might require an appreciation of the text to appreciate the music- much like opera. Oh how does one start?

Marvin, we are stuck in the same lifeboat, you and I.  In fact, it was that conversation about Fi-Di vs. Hyperion collections that you started a month ago which finally tipped me over the edge and made me acquire the selfsame Hyperion set, damn you.     So mine is on the way.
I am guessing you have seen that the nice book included with the box does not include all those notes by Graham Johnson enclosed in the original series?  I think your idea of becoming familiar with the source texts is the best idea; but if you'd like context, you might download the PDFs of those single-installment notes from the Hyperion site (the 'digital booklet' link in the left column)....it is almost certainly worth the trouble, based on the notes I read (from only two volumes).  (I keep running across praise for Johnson scholarship even from people who do not prefer his pianism.) 
It's remarkably generous of Hyperion to offer high-quality PDFs of these for free....it's incredible that they offer a PDF of the whole texts/translations/index/chronology book that comes with the big box, for free.  This makes me like Hyperion more and more.

I'd like to do more reading on Schubert's life and work, but I need to trawl our old threads for leads first.

Anyway, that will be a major 2014 project for me, so I will be with you at least in spirit.

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Schubert: THE COMPLETE SONGS [Graham Johnson et al] (Hyperion, 40cd)

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Schubert & Schumann: SONG CYCLES [Petre Munteanu w/Franz Holetschek] (Preiser, 3cd)

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Schubert: STRING QUARTETS 13 & 14 [Takacs Quartet] (Hyperion)
w/'Heavy Metal' cover art.

[trung224]

  Possibly my last purchase in 2013
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[marvinbrown]

Re: Schubert lieder:
Marvin, we are stuck in the same lifeboat, you and I.  In fact, it was that conversation about Fi-Di vs. Hyperion collections that you started a month ago which finally tipped me over the edge and made me acquire the selfsame Hyperion set, damn you.     So mine is on the way.
I am guessing you have seen that the nice book included with the box does not include all those notes by Graham Johnson enclosed in the original series?  I think your idea of becoming familiar with the source texts is the best idea; but if you'd like context, you might download the PDFs of those single-installment notes from the Hyperion site (the 'digital booklet' link in the left column)....it is almost certainly worth the trouble, based on the notes I read (from only two volumes).  (I keep running across praise for Johnson scholarship even from people who do not prefer his pianism.) 
It's remarkably generous of Hyperion to offer high-quality PDFs of these for free....it's incredible that they offer a PDF of the whole texts/translations/index/chronology book that comes with the big box, for free.  This makes me like Hyperion more and more.

I'd like to do more reading on Schubert's life and work, but I need to trawl our old threads for leads first.

Anyway, that will be a major 2014 project for me, so I will be with you at least in spirit.

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Schubert: THE COMPLETE SONGS [Graham Johnson et al] (Hyperion, 40cd)

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Schubert & Schumann: SONG CYCLES [Petre Munteanu w/Franz Holetschek] (Preiser, 3cd)

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Schubert: STRING QUARTETS 13 & 14 [Takacs Quartet] (Hyperion)
w/'Heavy Metal' cover art.

  Hello octave  , yes I do remember that Fi-DI conversation we had a while back. I had that set in my shopping basket for couple of weeks after that. But then an opportunity presented itself: a 20% discount voucher at JPC, a reduced price in relation to amazon.co.uk sellers and a strong pound against the euro made the Schubert Hyperion set too good to pass up. I sent a PM to a GMG member who highly recommended it. So I jumped at the chance to own it.

  You are right the booklet only contains the songs, translated in italics to English. That is more than enough for me to start my journey. Many have complained that the boxset lacks the Graham Johnston notes. I am not very particular here. Besides I kind of like the idea of having a mix of voices on one CD. Helps alleviate listening fatigue. The GMG member who recommended this set was also of the same opinion.

  Enjoy the set once you receive it. I will look at the Hyperion site for more information.

  marvin

[springrite]

Since the promise has already been broken, it does not hurt to break it again:

Book: Hb: Aspects of Havergal Brian (Music in Nineteenth-century Britain) (Music in Nineteenth-century Britain)

Music:
Holmboe: Chamber Symphonies
Vagn Holmboe,John Storgårds,Lapland Chamber Orchestra; Audio CD
   
Art of Fugue Partita 2
Bach, J.S.; Audio CD (Sokolov)

A very modest order for my LAST FINAL order