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[Daverz]

More Shostakovich I don't really need.  But $30!

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More Shostakovich I don't really need.  But $30!

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A great deal, Daverz. I would have bought it too if I already didn't own it.

[SonicMan46]

Broke down and bought the new Villa-Lobos Naxos recording (I couldn't resist) for $5:

Hi John - will be interested in your comments; I've still not committed to a V-L symphony set - Dave

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Hi John - will be interested in your comments; I've still not committed to a V-L symphony set - Dave

Will do, Dave. Once I've heard the performances, I'll post my impressions on the VL thread.

[TheGSMoeller]

Biber / Muffat: Sonatas
John Holloway - Violin

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Schmelzer: Unarum Fidium
John Holloway - Violin

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Birds on Fire: Jewish Music for Viols
Fretwork

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[Octave]

I have actually bought more than this VL in the last few days, Sadko. It feels good to be buying some recordings again. I just wanted to see how long I lasted. Two months is pretty good for me.

But not two months, right?  You have been buying things since the turn of the new year, actually quite a few, no?  But informing us that the money comes from special places, exchanges, etc.  A real fast would be no new acquisitions of any kind.  That is super hard.
But I guess it was intended as a fast from personal spending.  This year and next year are probably not good times for CD lovers to stop manic collecting.  I am going to have to, quite soon; it's just a logistics and income issue.  I'm looking at being poor for the rest of my life, so I imagine with the very occasional exception, whatever I buy in the remainder of this year might remain the only hard media I acquire for good....it is distinctly possible.

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But not two months, right?  You have been buying things since the turn of the new year, actually quite a few, no?  But informing us that the money comes from special places, exchanges, etc.  A real fast would be no new acquisitions of any kind.  That is super hard.

Well that's true. I guess I can't say those two months weren't CD free because I did make some exchanges with my Dad (he even bought me a few CDs), bought some things with my birthday money, and had an Amazon gift card that I hadn't taken advantage of.

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Just bought:

[kishnevi]

For some reason, that Carmignola CD cover reminds me of this:

There actually is another photograph in that series of HvK on a motorcycle.

Very happy with this 9cd haul for £13.49p.  All new and mint...The Tennstedt I have wanted for a while, the Jansons set of 8 was bought for the Honneger and Respighi...the rest are all bonus!



Dvorak: Symphony No.7 & No.8 - Jansons/Oslo PO
Honneger: Symphony No.2 & No.3, Pacific 231 - Jansons/Oslo PO
Respighi: Fontane di Roma, Feste di Roma, Pini di Roma - Jansons/Oslo PO
Rimsky Korsakov: Scheherazade, Capriccio Espagnol - Jansons/London PO
Sibelius: Symphony No.1, Finlandia, Karelia Suite - Jansons/Oslo PO
Sibelius: Symphony No.2, Swan of Tuonela, Valse Triste, Andante Festivo - Jansons/Oslo PO
Sibelius: Symphony No.3 & No.5 - Jansons/Oslo PO
Stravinsky: La Sacre du Printemps & Petrushka - Jansons/Oslo PO

I've got those Sibelius and Stravinsky recordings in different re-issues (this is EMI we're talking about after all).  Whatever the merits of the other performances,  that set was well worth getting for them alone.

[Brian]

Just bought:

*makes violent fist-contact with wooden dining surface*

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*makes violent fist-contact with wooden dining surface*

HA! I've heard the Aho/Nielsen disc before (via MOG) and enjoyed it a lot. Can't wait to hear it on CD through a proper stereo system. As for the Hartmann, I just don't have enough of this guy's music in my collection. I didn't care much for the performances of his symphonies on EMI (Metzmacher), but could tell I would like the music. Expressionistic ecstasy. As for the Madetoja, the 2nd symphony is wonderful. I have Sakari's performance on Chandos but hopefully the Storgards will offer an upgrade. Still need Volmer's series on Alba but it's so expensive.

[Octave]

As for the Hartmann, I just don't have enough of this guy's music in my collection. I didn't care much for the performances of his symphonies on EMI (Metzmacher), but could tell I would like the music. Expressionistic ecstasy.

I like the way you describe Hartmann, and I think I am tempermentally inclined (?) sharply towards lots of music (and cinema too) that might be described that way.  Unfortunately what little Hartmann I have listened to is almost all by Metzmacher, "unfortunately" because there does seem to be some ~consensus that maybe his recordings of the symphonies are inferior to some other, like Kubelik, which I am thinking of getting, in spite of the goddamned expense.  I will be spending some time in the Hartmann thread trying to make up my mind about how to approach him.

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I like the way you describe Hartmann, and I think I am tempermentally inclined (?) sharply towards lots of music (and cinema too) that might be described that way.  Unfortunately what little Hartmann I have listened to is almost all by Metzmacher, "unfortunately" because there does seem to be some ~consensus that maybe his recordings of the symphonies are inferior to some other, like Kubelik, which I am thinking of getting, in spite of the goddamned expense.  I will be spending some time in the Hartmann thread trying to make up my mind about how to approach him.

Thanks, Octave. I don't think Metzmacher's performances were that good. These works should be heavy and dense. I'm very interested in Kubelik's performances, but, as you said, they're so expensive. As I said, I liked the music, but thought the performances were inferior in the Metzmacher set. I'd be interesting to hear this recording I bought on Berlin Classics.

[Coopmv]

There actually is another photograph in that series of HvK on a motorcycle.

I've got those Sibelius and Stravinsky recordings in different re-issues (this is EMI we're talking about after all).  Whatever the merits of the other performances,  that set was well worth getting for them alone.

That was Karajan posting with his plane.  He was an avid pilot as well. 

[Octave]

More squalor

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Dvorak piano trios by Suk & Co.
(There is a second product page at Amazon US for apparently the same item; the prices are sometimes different.)

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Dvorak quartets by Stamitz, hat-tip Jens, Brian, Que, etc.
Likewise, there is a second product page for the same exact box, with prices that vary.
It is almost certain I won't be able to stop with this, but I found it cheap, and I liked the sound samples when I did A/B/C with the Prager [which I was also really attracted to....quite different] and the Panocha; not even to think about the non-boxy issues, among which I will almost certainly succumb to the Pavel Haas 4tt hype before summer.  I almost decided by coin-toss.

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Prokofiev piano ctos by Krainev/Kitajenko, hat-tip Jens iirc

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Brahms symphonies by Harnoncourt, hat-tip Brian

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Prokofiev NEVSKY, Franck SYMPH, Ravel FANFARE by Stoki, hat-tip Neal, who has written about this NEVSKY a few times on the forum.

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Taneyev CONCERT SUITES + Oresteya bits (Ondine), hat-tip Cato & 71db

[Que]

More squalor

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Dvorak piano trios by Suk & Co.
(There is a second product page at Amazon US for apparently the same item; the prices are sometimes different.)

A true classic - and unbeaten IMO. Though I also quite like the "Dumky" by the Smetana Trio (Supraphon).

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Dvorak quartets by Stamitz, hat-tip Jens, Brian, Que, etc.
Likewise, there is a second product page for the same exact box, with prices that vary.
It is almost certain I won't be able to stop with this, but I found it cheap, and I liked the sound samples when I did A/B/C with the Prager [which I was also really attracted to....quite different] and the Panocha; not even to think about the non-boxy issues, among which I will almost certainly succumb to the Pavel Haas 4ttb hype before summer.  I almost decided by coin-toss.

Curious how that will fare!

Q

[Octave]

Re: Shostakovich symphony cycle by Rostropovich:

More Shostakovich I don't really need.  But $30!

You should weigh in on this set in one of the Shost threads after you've spent time with it, Daverz.  If the price stays low, I might get it as a consolation prize since it seems I have missed the Kondrashin/Melodiya at Presto.   
Somehow I remember Slava's DSCH cycle being "controversial"?  Or receiving divergent responses.

[Que]

Been naughty in the bargain bin...



From left to right: 1) lute music from the Italian Renaissance, 2) more lute & baroque guitar music from the Italian Renaissance & early Baroque and 3) vocal music by Luigi Battiferri (1614-1682) by Roberta Invernizzi et al.

More info HERE.

Q

[Daverz]

Re: Shostakovich symphony cycle by Rostropovich:
You should weigh in on this set in one of the Shost threads after you've spent time with it, Daverz.  If the price stays low, I might get it as a consolation prize since it seems I have missed the Kondrashin/Melodiya at Presto.   
Somehow I remember Slava's DSCH cycle being "controversial"?  Or receiving divergent responses.

Unlikely I'm going to listen to more than a couple of the symphonies for a while.  And maybe some of them never!  Them is my habits.  So I don't expect to have much useful to report ever! 

[71 dB]

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Taneyev CONCERT SUITES + Oresteya bits (Ondine), hat-tip Cato & 71db

Enjoy!