Purchases Today

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

This doesn't count as a purchase, but a friend of mine from another forum is sending this recording due to the fact that they're downsizing their collection:



I'm really looking forward to listening to this recording, too, because I love each of these pieces and the notion of Tilson Thomas conducting is making me rather excited I must admit since I'm such an admirer of his conducting.

The other works besides Coptic Light are Piano and Orchestra and Cello and Orchestra. All lovely works.

[JBS]

From Arkivmusic's other storefront, HBDirect

[H/T @Andre for this⏬]

[This⏬ really goes in the Jazz Purchases thread...]

[steve ridgway]

A couple of Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky CDs for 50p each from a charity shop. Jeu De Cartes and Piano Concerto No. 3 being new to me.

[Wanderer]

[André]

A fascinating recital, with lots of little-known stuff and two substantial works (the Turina trio and Cassado's cello suite). I love these musical full-course meals, complete with appetizers..

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New, 2$. Hard to resist. Even the Stravinsky looks fine (BRSO, Jansons...)

[nico1616]

I already posted a lot here about the Bruges thrift store where I often go treasure hunting. Today it was an extra feast, I was hopping in for my weekly visit and to my surprise there was a promotion: 0,30€ per set (also for every boxset!). So I spent €32,70 euros and I could fill my new cd cabinet.
I am especially happy with the Clara Haskil box, a live 1964 Idomeneo, the BIS Sibelius box, the Kempff/Menuhin Beethoven violin sonatas, the Gardiner Bach box...
Only problem now is when will I ever find time to listen to this all 

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

@nico1616 you're getting dangerously close to where I was when I was buying CDs regularly. The notion of time and space is what curtailed my spending sprees. My hope for you is that you can stop and look around the world around for awhile before plunging back into the abyss. You can do it.

[steve ridgway]

@nico1616 you're getting dangerously close to where I was when I was buying CDs regularly. The notion of time and space is what curtailed my spending sprees. My hope for you is that you can stop and look around the world around for awhile before plunging back into the abyss. You can do it.

If I could buy that many CDs I liked at that price I'd do it . Some sort of listening plan might now be required.

[nico1616]

My hope for you is that you can stop and look around the world around for awhile before plunging back into the abyss.

If I would stop listening to music, that would be the abyss...

Some sort of listening plan might now be required.

Exactly what I was thinking! My listening habits are quite random. If I heard Mahler 2 in concert, then I listen to that work the next 2 weeks (amongst others). But for the rest, I just hop in and out of my collection. Sometimes I try to bring some structure: all Haydn symphonies in a row, learning to know all Beethoven string quartets or piano sonatas but somewhere halfway I am always drawn to something else...

[Spotted Horses]

Exactly what I was thinking! My listening habits are quite random. If I heard Mahler 2 in concert, then I listen to that work the next 2 weeks (amongst others). But for the rest, I just hop in and out of my collection. Sometimes I try to bring some structure: all Haydn symphonies in a row, learning to know all Beethoven string quartets of piano sonatas but somewhere halfway I am always drawn to something else...

Hopping around is a great plan. Listening to a group of masterpieces and becoming familiar with them is also a great plan. Not having a plan can itself be a plan.