Purchases Today

[Octave]

Thanks for the Bavouzet ivories feedback, Parsifal and Jeffrey.  Days after I finally buy him, after thinking about it for months, he gets tossed out of the GASPARD blind comparison charnel house.  No respect!   

Thread duty:

After enjoying two other Hyperion discs of his music, HYMNUS PARADISI and LAMBERT'S CLAVICHORD, both more-than-interesting and maybe even singular, on one listen (is that going too far?), thought I would get a little more.  I found a very cheap used copy of:

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Herbert Howells: ST. PAUL'S SERVICE etc etc (Hyperion 'Dyad', 2cd)

[Opus106]

The Europadisc Harmonia Mundi sale is very nice...

Picked up the Lewis Beethoven concerto cycle box and Isabelle Faust Beethoven violin sonatas box. 

Its cheaper to get these via amazon uk and select Europadisc as the MP seller than the actual Europadisc site..   Both came to <£33 delivered.  Worth a look if you're in the market for any Harmonia Mundi discs.

Thanks for alerting us to this (or on second thought, maybe not! ). Crossed a couple of items from my wish-list.

Biber's Rosary Sonatas, by Manze & Co. This has taken a long time coming, as it always seems high-priced and for some reason, despite its highly-regarded status, hasn't come to down to HM Gold, say. One probably can't expect it to go any lower in price, so I went for it.

Also, Staier's Diabelli Variations.

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Perlemuter Plays Ravel (the Concertos, Gaspard, Tombeau, Miroirs, Menuet antique, Pavane, Jeux d'eau, Sonatine, and new to my collection: Menuet sur le nom de Haydn):




Sarge

[springrite]

"Bach/Markevitch: The Musical Offering" Lyndon-Gee (NAXOS)

Kurtag: "Bach Crossings"

"Markevitch: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 3", Arnhem Philharmonic Orchestra;

"J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1 Complete" (Horszowski)

"Complete Piano Sonatas", Ludwig van Beethoven (Michael Korstick, pianist)

"Anders Eliasson: Double Concerto; Sinfonia per archi"

"Shostakovich: Festive Overture,Op.96/Symphony No.10 In E"
James DePreist (Conductor), Helsinki

[springrite]

What the heck, another small order:

1.    TROY 205-ALBANY
    Starer, Robert [1924-2001]: Excursions for a Pianist {'Sk...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $0.99 ($0.99 ea.)
    Code: 153881

2.    CD 354-BIS
    Back, Sven-Erik {b.1919}: The Solo Piano Music. (Roland P...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $8.99 ($8.99 ea.)
    Code: 9389

3.    TROY 139-ALBANY
    Wheelock, Donald [b.1940]: String Quartets 3 & 4. (The Ci...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $0.99 ($0.99 ea.)
    Code: 153897

4.    ZZT 070501-ZIG ZAG
    Bach, Violin Concerti 1 & 2, BWV 1041 and 1042; Violin Co...Beyer
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $7.99 ($7.99 ea.)
    Code: 153384

5.    5186749-MUSICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY
    Haydn, Symphonies 82 {'The Bear'}, 88 & 95. (Heidelberg S...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $1.99 ($1.99 ea.)
    Code: 155213

6.    APR 5665-APR
    Chopin, Piano Sonata #2. Rachmaninov, Preludes, Op.3 #2 a...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 154258

7.    CDA 67683-HYPERION
    Reger, 'The Complete Bach Transcriptions for Solo Piano'....
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $7.98 ($7.98 ea.)
    Code: 154170

8.    APR 5670-APR
    Beethoven, Piano Sonatas 12 ['Funeral March'], 28 and 29 ...(Yudina)
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 154958

9.    CDA 67506-HYPERION
    Bach [tr. Goedicke], Preludes and Fugues, BWV 539 and BWV...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 154901

10.    TROY 135-ALBANY
    Slonimsky, Sergei [b.1932], Sonata for Piano [in one move...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $1.99 ($1.99 ea.)
    Code: 153904

11.    RRC 1377-REGIS
    Shostakovich, Piano Concerto #2 [w.Leonard Bernstein, pia...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $3.99 ($3.99 ea.)
    Code: 154581

12.    TROY 342-ALBANY
    Erb, Donald [1927-2008]: Solstice. George Perle [1915-200...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $0.99 ($0.99 ea.)
    Code: 153905

13.    TROY 228-ALBANY
    Starer, Robert [1924-2001]- 'Solo Piano Music, 1946-1996'...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $0.99 ($0.99 ea.)
    Code: 153938

14.    CDH 55194-HELIOS
    Daquin, Le Coucou. Beethoven, Fur Elise. Mozart, Variatio...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $4.99 ($4.99 ea.)
    Code: 140515

15.    ARN 50591-ARION
    Faure, The Works for Violin and Piano. (Gerard Poulet and Noel Lee)
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $7.99 ($7.99 ea.)
    Code: 30907

16.    CD 0512-PALEXA
    Handel, Clavier Suites 2 & 5. Scriabin, Piano Sonata #2 [Gekic)
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $7.99 ($7.99 ea.)
    Code: 139031

17.    CCS 2591-CHANNEL CLASSICS
    Mozart, Piano Concerti #'s 24 & 25. (Jos van Immerseel, f...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 155467

18.    CDS 44471/4-HYPERION
    Beethoven, Complete Music for Piano Trio. (The Florestan ...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $19.96 ($19.96 ea.)
    Code: 154167

19.    CAT092-CHANDOS
    Respighi, Church Windows; Brazilian Impressions. (Philharmonia, Simon)
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 155252

20.    RRC 1346-REGIS
    Abel, Five Pieces in d for Unaccompanied Bass Viol. Johan...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $3.99 ($3.99 ea.)
    Code: 150971

21.    BCD 9171-BRIDGE
    Davidovsky, Mario [b.1934]: Synchronisms No. 5 [The Manha...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $5.99 ($5.99 ea.)
    Code: 155161

22.    PH 05049-PROFIL
    Sibelius, Luonnotar, Op.70 [w.Ute Selbig, soprano]; En Saga, Sym 2 (Colin Davis)
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 139632

23.    CDA 67687-HYPERION
    Rozsa, Miklos [1907-1995]: Viola Concerto, Op.37. Bela Bartok Viola Concerto (Powers, Litton)
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 155508

24.    CDA 67642-HYPERION
    Arensky, Anton Stepanovich [1861-1906]: Violin Concerto, ...
    Format: CD, Qty: 1, Price: $6.99 ($6.99 ea.)
    Code: 155519

[Geo Dude]

springrite, I like your definition of what constitutes a small order.

Thread duty:

[springrite]

springrite, I like your definition of what constitutes a small order.

Thread duty:

Less than $200?

[Geo Dude]

Hmm, nice metric.  Now, make it 'less than 200 not including shipping costs' and you can really raid the Amazon marketplace and have a quite substantial small order.

[marvinbrown]

  Just bought this:

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  I love the English Suites on harpsichord so I needed to hear the French Suites! I don't like Bach on the piano and insist that all keyboard compositions scored for the harpsichord be played on the harpsichord!

  marvin

[Karl Henning]

  Just bought this:

  [asin]B0037W391K[/asin]

  I love the English Suites on harpsichord so I needed to hear the French Suites! I don't like Bach on the piano and insist that all keyboard compositions scored for the harpsichord be played on the harpsichord!

  marvin

That's a set I enjoy very well, Marvin.

[Geo Dude]

It's possible that Baumont has recorded something that isn't pure gold but I haven't heard it yet.

[Que]

  Just bought this:

  [asin]B0037W391K[/asin]

  I love the English Suites on harpsichord so I needed to hear the French Suites! I don't like Bach on the piano and insist that all keyboard compositions scored for the harpsichord be played on the harpsichord!

  marvin

I don't think you could have made a better choice - enjoy.

Q

[North Star]

Ordered Bavouzet's Liszt disc from French Amazon marketplace earlier today,  0,13 € + delivery.

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[jut1972]

Just ordered this from uk MP seller for <7 plus shipping - 1 copy left!
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good luck!

[Geo Dude]

Just ordered this from uk MP seller for <7 plus shipping - 1 copy left!
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good luck!

Good job!  It's not to my taste but hopefully someone here will grab that bargain.

Thread duty:

[kishnevi]

Applause for the Podger and the Baumont.

Thread duty:
Landed today:
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Fortepiano:  Schroeder/Immerseel
Mozart: La Finta Gardinera/ Jacobs et al
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No. 1/Cello Sonata/Moderato for Cello and Piano
Bertrand, cello Amoyel, piano BBC National Orchestra of Wales  Rophe conductor

Bought at the used CD store yesterday but not yet reported here:
Vivaldi: La Stravanganza  Huggett/Hogwood/AAM
Handel: Messiah   Marriner/ASMF ("250th Anniversary perfomance")
Bach: a single CD of well known organ works performed by Karl Richter, under the title"Toccata and Fugue: Bach Organ Works" although the only T&F included is BWV 565
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 /CSO et al/Solti
Verdi:  Rigoletto/Muti conducting
Offenbach: Contes de Hoffmann/Sutherland, Domingo, et al.

The Beethoven has been featured on the Ugly CD covers thread,  but the liner notes are rather interesting,  with descriptions of the rehearsals and first performance by participants/direct witnesses, including, by way of illustrating negative reactions, one Joseph Carl Rosenbaum, who called the concert (this is the one which included three movements from the Missa Solemnis) "lovely but tedious".  This perceptive listener, btw, had once served Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy, and therefore was a fellow employee of Haydn.

[kishnevi]

Just ordered the Badura Skoda Schubert set from Amazon France.

(makes bow of acknowledgement to GeoDude)

This will be, not merely my only PI Schubert sonata set, but my only Schubert sonata set, MI or PI.

[Octave]

This will be, not merely my only PI Schubert sonata set, but my only Schubert sonata set, MI or PI.

<breaks out champagne>

Look out, it could get Bad Addictive.  Though I imagine you know this already and have already collected Schubert the way I should have: more singles, less sets.  However, I remember at least a couple GMG old hands saying the completism impulse for Schubert was much stronger for them than even the comparable Beethoven sonatas temptation.

[Opus106]

This perceptive listener, btw, had once served Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy, and therefore was a fellow employee of Haydn.

That PL was also partly responsible for severing his former colleague's head from the latter's corpse in the name of phrenology.

[marvinbrown]

That's a set I enjoy very well, Marvin.

It's possible that Baumont has recorded something that isn't pure gold but I haven't heard it yet.

I don't think you could have made a better choice - enjoy.

Q

  Thank you all for the positive feedback.  . I have been on a Bach "kick" for quite some time now. That man is a genius in every sense of the word.

  marvin