Purchases Today

[André]

Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin. By Khaikin, with Vishnevskaya, Lemeshin, Mazurok.

Mendelssohn: 2 versions of Elijah. Kurt Masur in German on Philips, and Frühbeck de Burgos in English on EMI.

[PaulR]

Got back from Ann Arbor with these:

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[Moonfish]

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[Ken B]

Got back from Ann Arbor with these:

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Nice. Encore Records?

[Que]

Two purchases today (at my local brick-and-mortar shop), at quite opposed ends of the repertoire:


I've long been an admirer of Diego Ortiz's Recercadas del tratado de glosas--an absolute masterpiece, IMHO--, so the chance to sample his choral music was not to be missed...

Will be most interested to hear your impressions!

Q

[Harry]

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Excellent choices, you have a chance to hear the legendary counter tenor Yoshikazu Mera, a formidable voice then.

[Harry]

So I got a wake up call from Moonfish and ordered this item too.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/12/ordered-today-before-it-gets-oop.html?spref=tw

[Moonfish]

So I got a wake up call from Moonfish and ordered this item too.

http://walboi.blogspot.nl/2014/12/ordered-today-before-it-gets-oop.html?spref=tw

Yes, I got that same feeling when I saw the Suzuki set.       I cannot believe the prices for the older OOP Suzuki Bach Cantatas.   

[Moonfish]

Excellent choices, you have a chance to hear the legendary counter tenor Yoshikazu Mera, a formidable voice then.

Very much looking forward to the experience. I am finding myself enjoying Suzuki's recordings quite a bit this season!

[Harry]

Yes, I got that same feeling when I saw the Suzuki set.       I cannot believe the prices for the older OOP Suzuki Bach Cantatas.   

Well luckily I collected all the cantates, save for the last box, which I bought some months ago!
And yes the prices for box 1-3 are outrageous. If you wait long enough Brilliant will probably license a lot of the BIS recordings, and maybe, just maybe the Bach cantatas will be among them.

[Papy Oli]

Bought this in a French bookshop yesterday :

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Series of essays and courses/speeches from Harnoncourt from the last 40 years, including, at a glance some parts on HIP/modern approaches.

[PaulR]

Nice. Encore Records?

Yes!

[Moonfish]

Well luckily I collected all the cantates, save for the last box, which I bought some months ago!
And yes the prices for box 1-3 are outrageous. If you wait long enough Brilliant will probably license a lot of the BIS recordings, and maybe, just maybe the Bach cantatas will be among them.

At least it will give me enough time to finish Gardiner's cycle!     By the way, I am so excited about Brilliant's upcoming re-release of the Weiss recordings!   0:) 0:)

[Moonfish]

In my local used book/music store..

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[Harry]

At least it will give me enough time to finish Gardiner's cycle!     By the way, I am so excited about Brilliant's upcoming re-release of the Weiss recordings!   0:) 0:)

Yes I suggested this set some 4 years ago, as Que told me, to Brilliant and finally they followed this suggestion. 
And I know of more goodies to come.

[ritter]

Will be most interested to hear your impressions!

Q

An initial, percursory listen is turning out to be rather startling and a bit of a disappointment, actually (I must say that my record dealer warned me this could be the case). This bears little relation to the advanced sound-world of the Recercadas. I've read widely diverging reviews of this disc: one Portuguese commentator apparently said it's "one of the best discs ever"  , while other writers talk openly of "soup of sounds" and of "cacophony"  . I am a bit surprised to find passages sung in backward-looking plainchant, and then others with what seems a "popular" singing style (think of Sicilian folklore  ). Once I've listened to it attentively, I might comment in more depth (but I'm by no means expert in this repertoire  ).

Thread duty:

More French stuff from the first half of  20th-century France:


Although this partially overlaps with another recent Roussel/Martinon purchase, I wanted to get to know the ambitious (40 minutes) choral ballet Aeneas. The CD is OOP, but a new, cheap copy was available here in Madrid.


The Symphonie concertante for piano and orchestra is relatively late Schmitt (it was composed to a Koussevitzky commission for the 50th anniversary of the BSO). Let's see...

[PaulR]

Parents gave me some money to buy whatever I want for Christmas.....used most of it tonight on CDs.....
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Might spend the rest tomorrow on CDs....

[Mirror Image]

Parents gave me some money to buy whatever I want for Christmas.....used most of it tonight on CDs.....





Might spend the rest tomorrow on CDs....

Pounds the table! Both of these are fantastic purchases. Enjoy, Paul!

[PaulR]

I have eyed that Prokofiev set for a while now....I don't know how many sets I actually need of Prokofiev symphonies......But I think adding that one wouldn't be one too many

I have had trouble with Elgar in the past, but I am hoping I like this piece.

[Mirror Image]

I have eyed that Prokofiev set for a while now....I don't know how many sets I actually need of Prokofiev symphonies......But I think adding that one wouldn't be one too many

I have had trouble with Elgar in the past, but I am hoping I like this piece.

Rozhdestvensky's cycle is my favorite set of Prokofiev symphonies. What kind of problems have you had with Elgar's music?