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[aligreto]

Berlioz: Les Nuits D'Éte / Ravel Shéhérazade [Crespin/Ansermet]

[Mandryka]

Just ordered:



Q

You know this is full of  commentaries and stuff in Dutch?  . . . actually you're probably OK with that.

[Mandryka]

   

     

   

I know all of these now, I think they're very good. The sound especially, I think he has his own studio and he chooses interesting instruments.

[Judith]

Was in a music store and bought

Mozart
Horn Concertos 1 - 4

and also has

Haydn
Trumpet Concerto

Claire Briggs Horn
Ian Balmain Trumpet
RLPO
Stephen Kovacevich

On
Warner Essential Classics

[Traverso]

You know this is full of  commentaries and stuff in Dutch?  . . . actually you're probably OK with that.

Those commentaries are in "die Deutsche Sprache" german language, not dutch wich is not the same thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgq4PX15qj0

[Que]

You know this is full of  commentaries and stuff in Dutch?  . . . actually you're probably OK with that.

I knew that there is reciting of Biblical texts on the recording, which I assume are in German?

Not looking forward to that particular aspect, but simply need to hear Leonhardt's take on this music.... 

Q

[Mandryka]

I knew that there is reciting of Biblical texts on the recording, which I assume are in German?

Not looking forward to that particular aspect, but simply need to hear Leonhardt's take on this music.... 

Q

Let me know if the tracks on the CD let you cut out the spoken word, if so I'll buy it.

[Mr. Minnow]

I know all of these now, I think they're very good. The sound especially, I think he has his own studio and he chooses interesting instruments.

I hadn't heard anything by him until very recently, when I picked up a cheap second hand copy of his Goldbergs CD. I was happy to put up with the digipak being a bit worn as I assumed it was long deleted, only to then find that it's available along with a bunch of other CDs from his website. I have his Frescobaldi and Philips discs as well and they're very good.

[aligreto]

Long on the List but now finally purchased

[ritter]

Just ordered (hat tip to kyjo and André):

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[Moonfish]

Berlioz: Les Nuits D'Éte / Ravel Shéhérazade [Crespin/Ansermet]

Nice!!!!!   

[aligreto]

Nice!!!!!   

Cheers. Looking forward to hearing it, especially Nuits d'été, as Crespin's voice will be new to me.

[Undersea]

Long on the List but now finally purchased

That's a great set - hope you enjoy it.


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[RebLem]

This afternoon, I received a package from Albany Music, which now provides shipping services for Berkshire Record Outlet. Its 5 CDs of music by Sergei Taneyev (1856-1915), which exactly doubles the size of my Taneyev collection.

1. A NAXOS CD featuring Ivan Peshkov, violin, and Olga Solovieva, piano in Taneyev music for those two instruments: Sonata for Violin & Piano (1911) (21'20), Theme and Variations in C Major (1874), Quadrille (1879) (7'55), Prelude and Fugue in G Sharp Minor, Op. 29 (1910 (6'35), and 9 other works, all of which last 4'46 apiece or less.

2. A VISTA VERA CD of two chamber works. Tr. 1-4. Trio for piano, violin, & cello in D Major, Op. 22 (38'40) |Tr. 5-7. Piano Quartet in E Major, Op. 20 (38'03). A total of 4 different ensembles are featured in the performances of these two works, all of them prize-winners in the First Sergei Taneyev All-Russian chamber music open competition, in Kaluga, 1996. Tr. 1 (9'12) is performed by the Roslavets Trio. Tr. 2 (12'09) by the Art-Trio, Tr. 3-4 (17'12) by the Taneyev Trio, and Tr. 5-7 by the Anima Quartet.

3. A Marco Polo CD. Tr. 1-4. Symphony 4 in C Minor, Op. 12 (39'51) |Tr. 5-7. Symphony 2 in B Flat Minor (31'31)--Stephen Gunzenhauser, cond., Polish State Philharmonic Orch, Katowice. Rec. 1988.

4-5. A 2 CD Melodiya set with Evgeny Svetlanov conducting the USSR State Academic Symphony Orch. and Choir (in CD 1) CD1--|Tr. 1-3. John Of Damascus, cantata for chorus & orch, Op. 1 (after poem by Aleksey Tolstoy) (25'20) |Tr. 4-7. Symphony 4 in C Minor, Op. 12 (41'10) CD2--|Tr. 1-5. Concert suite for violin & orch. in G Minor, Op. 28 (44'35)--Andrei Korsakov, violin |Tr. 6. Temple of Apollo at Delphi, entr'acte before Act III, Scene 2 of the musical trilogy Oresteia based on the tragedy by Aeschylus (5'56).
The packaging of this last set is one of those trifold thingies. When it is opened up, one sees CDs at each end, and in the middle is a little pocket in which the accompanying booklet is housed. Its easy to remove it and to replace it. The booklet itself is in Russian (Cyrillic alphabet), French, and English. I presume this is because these are the three western languages that are official United Nations languages, although movement and tempo markings are in the traditional Italian. All in all, pretty decent packaging.

[listener]

at my usual b&m

Cindy McTEE: Symphony 1, Circuits, Einstein's Dream,  Double Play

RAVEL: Shéhérazade,  Antar - Incidental Music after works by Rimsky-Korsakov

Orchestre National de Lyon,   Leonard Slatkin

[king ubu]

Yesterday's arrivals:

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The Melos has notes in Japanese only, but priced at around 10€ (new from aDE) I won't complain, no sir!
The Richter seems to be quite amazing, I played disc one twice last night.

[aligreto]

That's a great set - hope you enjoy it.

Thank you. It has been on my list for so long 

[Daverz]

Sinopoli conducts Respighi in New York

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[André]

I have 2 other versions of Ferroud's brilliant symphony. Today I listened to the sizzling Brno Philharmonic/Konvalinka version on the Praga label (coupled with an equally sizzling Franck symphony by Munch/Czech Philharmonic). I was so thrilled that I decided to try this Krivine disc, which has the advantage of being coupled with Ferroud's best known work, the tone poem Foules (crowds).

[Alek Hidell]

Not today, but my most recent - from JPC:

   

Less than €7 for the three of these combined.


(h/t André for this one)


(h/t ritter - I think it was - for this one)

The whole kaboodle - 11 CDs total - for about $35. I'll take it.