Purchases Today

[North Star]

Serious table-pounding for that, Olivier! I have the Debussy and half of the Ravel there - missing Daphnis, the concertos and Tzigane. The orchestral playing may not be flawless, but it sure is idiomatic.

[Papy Oli]

looking forward to that 

[Sergeant Rock]

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Excellent 

Sarge

[Fafner]

Excellent 

Sarge

I still have to get the Friedmann recording.

It is funny. The list price of the Svetlanov 3CD set is £32. I got it for half and still it was more expensive than the "mispriced" Tchaikovsky 60CD box.
The BIS Kalinnikov was easily the most expensive (per disc) of my March purchases (at £11). Overall I got 134 CDs (including two very large boxsets) with the average price/CD being £1.11.

Oh, the joys of statistics! 

[jlaurson]

Listen What a Leipzig Cat Dragged In:

1

J.S. Bach
Cantatas 36, 61, 62 (v.1, Advent)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

2

J.S. Bach
Cantatas 63, 110, 190 (v.2, Christmas)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

3

J.S. Bach
Cantatas 3, 65, 72 (v.3, Epiphany)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

4

J.S. Bach
Cantatas 34, 74, 172 (v.7, Pentecost)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

5

J.S. Bach
Cantatas 19, 50, 79, 80 (v.10, Reformation)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

BM

J.S. Bach
Mass in B-Minor
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
U.Selbig, S.Krumbiegel, E.Wilke, M.Petzold, G.Schwarz
Leipzig Baroque Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

JP

J.S. Bach
St John's Passion (IV, 1749)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
R.Holton, M.Rexroth, M.Ullmann, G.Schwarz, H.Boehm
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

MR

W.G. Mozart
Requiem (Ed. Franz Beyer)
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
J.Boehnert, S.Krumbiegel, M.Petzold, G.Schwarz
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

FMB

F. Mendelssohn-B.
Psalms & Motets
Thomanerchor Leipzig / G.C.Biller
C.Wolff, M.Petzold
Ensemble amarcord, Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchstra
Rondeau
German link - UK link

AS

J.S. Bach
"100 Years of Humanity 2013 -
Albet Schweitzer in Lambarene
Ullrich Boehme plays JSB at St. Thomas, Strasbourg
Rondeau
German link - UK link

A re-creation of the Bach Memorial concerts that Schweitzer would often perform on 'his' (1741) J.A.Silbermann organ.

Queyras doing Britten is automatically super interesting for me.  I really like those pieces a lot!  I think of them as 'sub-aquatic', but you'll please not ask me to try explain this impression.

It was his first recording (at least his first for HM) and he chose it very deliberately -- to make a point (an outrageous point, back then, when he was known as an avant-garde specialist) about music and about what he thought about the 'trench warfare' among musical ideologists. (Britten was just about the most wildly unfashionable 'old fashioned' music that could be imagined. It was not just not contemporary, but worse and doubly offensive than "ancient" (i.e. Bach) might have been, this was old fashioned 20th century.

[Karl Henning]

. . . It was his first recording (at least his first for HM) and he chose it very deliberately -- to make a point (an outrageous point, back then, when he was known as an avant-garde specialist) about music and about what he thought about the 'trench warfare' among musical ideologists. (Britten was just about the most wildly unfashionable 'old fashioned' music that could be imagined. It was not just not contemporary, but worse and doubly offensive than "ancient" (i.e. Bach) might have been, this was old fashioned 20th century.

Judith Shatin is such a cool composer to have studied with; among the scores she had me study while I was in her studio were pieces by Chopin, Shostakovich, and Britten.

[Mirror Image]

Bought some more Hindemith all on Berlin Classics:





Also, just bought:

[madaboutmahler]

Spent quite a large chunk of my birthday money already:

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[Octave]

viz. Queyras recording Britten cello suites:

It was his first recording (at least his first for HM) and he chose it very deliberately -- to make a point (an outrageous point, back then, when he was known as an avant-garde specialist) about music and about what he thought about the 'trench warfare' among musical ideologists. (Britten was just about the most wildly unfashionable 'old fashioned' music that could be imagined. It was not just not contemporary, but worse and doubly offensive than "ancient" (i.e. Bach) might have been, this was old fashioned 20th century.

I like Queyras more already!
A composition tutor once asked me what I thought about "the return of tonality".   "Where did it go?"
He might as well have asked me if I was attracted to men or women.  Primitive is the norm, especially in the Schools.

[Mirror Image]

Great haul, Daniel.

[TheGSMoeller]

Spent quite a large chunk of my birthday money already:

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He shoots! He scores!  

[madaboutmahler]

Thanks, John and Greg! Very much looking forward to these!

[kishnevi]

Spent quite a large chunk of my birthday money already:

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Excellent choice! 
And the Adams is superb too, although I'm less enthusiastic about the work itself than I am of the Ravel.

[Daverz]

From Archivmusic:



Ives: String Quartets - Juilliard Quartet

The 1976 production of the Three Penny Opera with Raul Julia.

And (no pic) ...

Music Of Sessions & Lees:

1. Symphony no 3 by Roger Sessions
Conductor:  Igor Buketoff
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1957; USA

2. Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra by Benjamin Lees
Performer:  Frederick Riddle (Viola), John Ronayne (Violin), Geoffrey Grey (Violin),
Norman Jones (Cello)
Conductor:  Igor Buketoff
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Written: 1965

The Sessions is a duplication of this recording I already have on a CRI CD. 

For the Lees, CRI claims, "This previously-unavailable CRI LP title has been carefully transferred from the original tapes but has not been remastered—i.e. it is a "flat" transfer. "  It will be interesting to hear how this sounds.

From Amazon:

[Octave]

I AM THE VANGUARD.

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Strauss operas by Solti
Been wanting this since it was announced, been knowing I needed to own at least a couple of these operas since before I'd even listened to any opera.  Amazon (MP) price dropped by another ~$8 and I hit the switch, shazam.  Hat-tip, Sarge.

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Beethoven's FIDELIO by Fricsay
Interested in this because of some comments by GMG crew etc; I know I want Klemperer's, but not sure whether I will start (and end?) with his studio/EMI or his Testament recording.  Also i-Deals (Amazon MP) sometimes drops the price of this to $5, which makes it a painless risk.  Also I ❤ Fricsay.

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Handel Italian Cantatas by Maria Zadori w/Concerto Armonico (w/Miklos Spanyi!) and Capella Savaria, on Brilliant Classics.  Hat-tip Elgarian.
There is a second product page for the same Brilliant 2cd, and prices vary.  I got a used copy (fingers crossed) for ~$5.

[Mirror Image]

Was surprised to find these two omissions in my Guarnieri collection so I rectified this:

[Mirror Image]

Bought some more Penderecki but instead completing my Wit collection, which would be easy to do since I'm missing maybe 3-4 recordings, I bought these on Dux:

[Octave]

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Emma Kirkby sings Handel, Arne, Haydn, Mozart (w/Hogwood - Decca, 2cd)

It's been hanging around in my cart for months, but another i-Deals price drop (~$4!) finally tipped me; I think I don't have any of these recordings yet.  Loved a couple Eloquence reissues of her Mozart and Handel Italian Cantatas (both also with Hogwood, no overlap here iirc).

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:



Having listened to the Berlin Classics recording which contained Symphonies 5, 6, & 8, I had to get more as that CD only wetted my appetite! I didn't care much for Metzmacher's EMI cycle, so I'm really looking forward to these performances.

[kishnevi]

Landed today:
Simon Bolivar String Quartet: Ginastera SQ 1 Dvorak SQ 12 Shostakovich SQ 8
Shostakovich Symphony 8  LPO/Rozhdestvensky (live recording from 1983)
Pacifica Quartet: Soviet Experience III (Shostakovich SQs 9-12 and Weinberg SQ 6)
John Adams: Complete String Quartet Works   Attaca Quartet (John's Book of Alleged Dances/String Quartet/Fellow Traveler)
Roussel: Padmavati  Horne, Gedda, van Dam, etc. Orch du Capitole de Toulouse M. Plasson cond.
Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor    Callas, etc.  Philharmonia Orchestra, T. Serafin cond.

I got the Simon Bolivar SQ recording principally to hear the Ginastera.