Purchases Today

[Florestan]

Good stuff, especially the lovely and endearing string quartets. Do you know his two piano trios? Delectable music.

Yes, I have and enjoy the Trio Parnassus. His piano and violin concertos are also delectable, as are the violin sonatas.

[Mirror Image]

There was some idiotic store on Amazon MP that kept doing that to me several years ago.  They kept listing it when they didn't have it.  I was so mad I complained to Amazon about it!

It has happened to me several times as well. A real annoyance.

[Spotted Horses]

I may have posted about this already, but it arrived. I was was happy to report that it came in a convenient format, a sturdy cardboard box with 18 discs in cardboard sleeves with track list on the back (plus a booklet). I was nervous it would be one of those releases where Naxos packs a prodigious stack of jewel cases in a cardboard sleeve.



I've already ripped it, now I have to listen...

Also, ended up ordering this release with the original published version of Brahms Piano Trio No 1 (Op .



Trio Parnassus rings a bell, and it turns out I have a CD of them playing Reger Piano Trios. If I like their performance I may collect the other volumes of the series, which includes Brahms' revised version of Op 8.

[DavidW]

I've already ripped it, now I have to listen...

Wait a sec!  I thought you were the digital download, physical media belongs in a landfill guy!

[Brian]

Wait a sec!  I thought you were the digital download, physical media belongs in a landfill guy!

I thought that was MI.

[DavidW]

I thought that was MI.

(* chortle *)

[Spotted Horses]

Wait a sec!  I thought you were the digital download, physical media belongs in a landfill guy!

When it was that or pay United Van Lined to move them, I sent them to the landfill. I'm happy to let them sit in boxes in the garage.

I generally get what's cheapest. Sometimes it's a lossless download, sometimes a used CD, often big box sets aren't available as a download. I try to avoid downloads that don't come with a booklet, and I have a mild preference for ripped CDs because I prefer the cue+flac format over individual flac files for each track.

[Papy Oli]

A first salvo of operas ordered on eBay:

Mozart - La Nozze di Figaro (Giulini, Taddei, Moffo)

Puccini - La Boheme (Karajan, Pavarotti, Freni)

Puccini - Tosca (Davis, Caballe, Carreras)

Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gui, de los Angeles, Alva, Cava)

Verdi - Aida (Muti, Caballe, Domingo)

Verdi - Rigoletto (Giulini, Cappuccilli, Cotrubas, Domingo)

Verdi - La Traviata (Kleiber, Cotrubas, Milnes, Domingo)

[Mirror Image]

Bought late last night:

[Florestan]

A first salvo of operas ordered on eBay:

Mozart - La Nozze di Figaro (Giulini, Taddei, Moffo)

Puccini - La Boheme (Karajan, Pavarotti, Freni)

Puccini - Tosca (Davis, Caballe, Carreras)

Rossini - Il barbiere di Siviglia (Gui, de los Angeles, Alva, Cava)

Verdi - Aida (Muti, Caballe, Domingo)

Verdi - Rigoletto (Giulini, Cappuccilli, Cotrubas, Domingo)

Verdi - La Traviata (Kleiber, Cotrubas, Milnes, Domingo)

Hours of pleasure ahead! Enjoy!

[Karl Henning]

Five volumes of Telemann Grand Concertos

[JBS]

Five volumes of Telemann Grand Concertos

Now add this to your wishlist

[Florestan]

Now add this to your wishlist

Plus eight volumes of Telemann's Violin Concertos, with Elizabeth Walfisch and L'Orfeo Barockorchester..

[JBS]

Plus eight volumes of Telemann's Violin Concertos, with Elizabeth Walfisch and L'Orfeo Barockorchester..

I don't have those: if you go through the comments here relating to the VC series, it seems to not be as good. TBH, you may be the first person here to actively recommend it.

[Florestan]

I don't have those: if you go through the comments here relating to the VC series, it seems to not be as good. TBH, you may be the first person here to actively recommend it.

Oh but I did not actively recommend them --- I simply mentioned them in a humorous vein. 

I have them all but listened to the first volume only and I can't even remember anything about it. 

[Papy Oli]

Hours of pleasure ahead! Enjoy!

I have streamed large chunks of them all so it already is a pleasurable exploration, Andreï 

[Florestan]

I have streamed large chunks of them all so it already is a pleasurable exploration, Andreï 

Excellent, Olivier, excellent! Opera is truly a fascinating world and experience.

[Papy Oli]

Excellent, Olivier, excellent! Opera is truly a fascinating world and experience.

So it seems. As if the Bach cantatas weren't enough of a rabbit hole already ! 

[Florestan]

So it seems. As if the Bach cantatas weren't enough of a rabbit hole already ! 

Give me opera any day --- and night... 

[Spotted Horses]

Brahms Horn Trio, Faust, Melinkov, van der Zwart (natural horn), and a collection of British Piano Concerti featuring a work by Maconchy.





Both purchased as lossless downloads.