Purchases Today

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

[Harry]

A few things I ordered, maybe something is of interest to others

[Harry]

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[Brian]

My copy of "Narcisse et Echo" arrived last week! The English string album on Chandos sounded very good on a first streaming listen.

[Symphonic Addict]

Interesting.  I have nothing at all by Tcherepnin (at the moment), but I'm a big fan of Borowicz and always consider carefully anything he's thought worth recording.  Will look forward to reading reports of this.

Excellent recording and performance. The music is quite reminiscent of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.

[Harry]

My copy of "Narcisse et Echo" arrived last week! The English string album on Chandos sounded very good on a first streaming listen.

Any thoughts about the Narcisse et Echo already Brian?
Jeffrey recommended the Chandos disc, and he said it sounded spectacular. It has also a SACD track, so I am very curious about it. I recently listen to a couple of compositions on  an EMI box by Britten that are also on this Chandos disc. I was not too keen on the EMI recordings so maybe the Chandos has something more to offer in terms of interpretation and sound.

[Harry]

Interesting.  I have nothing at all by Tcherepnin (at the moment), but I'm a big fan of Borowicz and always consider carefully anything he's thought worth recording.  Will look forward to reading reports of this.

What I can say that the sound is almost State of the Art, and from the samples I concluded that it was definitively my cup of tea!

[Harry]

Excellent recording and performance. The music is quite reminiscent of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé.

That is good to know!

[Symphonic Addict]

That is good to know!

The CD with Volbach's Symphony is terrific too. The slow movement is something else, particularly.

[VonStupp]

Interesting.  I have nothing at all by Tcherepnin (at the moment), but I'm a big fan of Borowicz and always consider carefully anything he's thought worth recording.  Will look forward to reading reports of this.

I put Tcherpnin's Princesse Lointaine, op. 4 on my Greatest Symphonic Poems list, and it is the definition of sumptuous beauty. I haven't heard the CPO recording that was purchased, but Pletnev on DG from the mid-90's.

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides (and Ruy Blas)
Delius: Eventyr
Tchaikovsky: The Tempest
Honegger: Pacific 231
Vaughan Williams: Fen Country
Tcherepnin: A Distant Princess
Bantock: Witch of Atlas
Liszt: Ce qu'on entend sur la montagne
Wallace: Sir William Wallace

[André]

I have 3 discs of Tcherepnin's music (on Thorofon and Olympia), all of them very good. I'll be reading the comments on Narcisse et Écho with much interest. 

[ritter]

A visit to a Fernand Léger exhibition here in Madrid, at which the painter's experimental film Ballet mécanique was been screened, for which George Antheil's score was originally intended, led me to order this:



The film, a mildly interesting and rather curious translation to the screen of Léger's ideas at the time (early 20s), close to surrealism, was supposed to be synchronised with Antheil's score, but apparently there were technical difficulties (not surprising, as the film is almost 10 minutes shorter than the music) and artistic differences, and both works, film and score, went independent ways (the former becoming a silent movie). Man Ray was also involved in the project, but he also seems to have fallen out with Léger (AFAIK).

Let's see...

[Harry]

The CD with Volbach's Symphony is terrific too. The slow movement is something else, particularly.

Well that is a surprise to me, for in general the critics were enthusiastic about this recording, but music lovers ignored it totally. I am glad you like it, I will listen to it with more pleasure.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Just bought:

Looking good!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Interesting.  I have nothing at all by Tcherepnin (at the moment), but I'm a big fan of Borowicz and always consider carefully anything he's thought worth recording.  Will look forward to reading reports of this.

Excellent disc! I love it. La Pavillon d'Armide is good as well.

[JBS]

Any thoughts about the Narcisse et Echo already Brian?
Jeffrey recommended the Chandos disc, and he said it sounded spectacular. It has also a SACD track, so I am very curious about it. I recently listen to a couple of compositions on  an EMI box by Britten that are also on this Chandos disc. I was not too keen on the EMI recordings so maybe the Chandos has something more to offer in terms of interpretation and sound.

I think the Chandos recording has the most impressive performance of the Britten Variations I have heard (of course I don't have that many recordings of the piece), and the Bliss is certainly good as well.

[TheGSMoeller]

A few more Bartok for the collection, two recordings of Rachmaninov's 1st/Isle of the Dead. And the newest, incredibly solid Nelson/BSO 2-fer of DSCH.

[Mirror Image]

Looking good!

I hope so, Dry Brett. You can't go wrong with Ančerl.

[Mirror Image]

A few more Bartok for the collection, two recordings of Rachmaninov's 1st/Isle of the Dead. And the newest, incredibly solid Nelson/BSO 2-fer of DSCH.

Fantastic haul, Greg.

[The new erato]

A small Triangle streamer:



I need to start experimenting with streaming, and streaming on my phone or PCs crappy sound have never been of any interest.

We'll see. I wonder if I should start a limited test of Apple Music, which my borther swears by for classical music.