Purchases Today

[Florestan]

I don't mean this as Rachmaninov-bashing, far from it.

It's not bashing, of course: it's damning with faint praise. 

Don't get me wrong, I like Medtner's music --- while it lasts, that is; half an hour later I can't remember anything, whereas with Rachmaninoff "the music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more", including that sappy vulgarity of a variation. 

As for the distinction English makes between "tune/tuneful" and "melody/melodious", I've never understood it. Romanian has only one word for that, "melodie" (with the corresponding adjective "melodios"). The only difference I can make is between memorable melodies and unmemorable ones. 

[Que]

Interesting! 

[Madiel]

As for the distinction English makes between "tune/tuneful" and "melody/melodious", I've never understood it. Romanian has only one word for that, "melodie" (with the corresponding adjective "melodios"). The only difference I can make is between memorable melodies and unmemorable ones. 

The standard thing that English does, as a mongrel Germanic language with a French-Latin overlay, is use a Germanic word to convey low-class status and a French word to convey upper-class status. A tune is common. A melody is sophisticated. 

[Madiel]

Just ordered.



My daily eBay searching of new listings yielded a result. Not cheap, and actually only fractionally cheaper than the Discogs copy that was likely to be my next purchase. But it'll serve, especially if it really is a brand new copy as claimed.

[Mookalafalas]

Found this second-hand for so little I couldn't resist...

[steve ridgway]

Found this second-hand for so little I couldn't resist...

You chose wisely .

[André]

A 2-disc compendium of Blaue's music. Songs, piano pieces, violin and piano ones. Fled Germany in 1938, settled in Hollywood. He was instrumental in unearthing little-known Jewish émigrés' works. He was recognized as a composer late in life. Married his lifelong partner at age 93, died at 103, just a few years ago. Might be interesting.



Another 2-disc set. Badura-Skoda plays D.960 3 times: on a 1826 Graf fortepiano, a 1923 Bösendorfer Imperial and a modern Steinway. That will certainly be interesting.

Plus a load of discs from JPC: Beethoven incidental music, Schmidt oratorio, Reizenstein piano concerto, Fesca quartets, Lehar operetta, Haydn (the complete symphonies by Fey/Klumpp), Feldman orchestral works, and a bunch of concertante symphonies from the early Classical era (Crusell, Hoffmeister, Kozeluch etc).

[JBS]

Just now from Arkivmusic

[André]

Jeffrey, please comment on the Silvestri Shostakovich when you've listened to it. I'm very curious about that one.

[hopefullytrusting]

Next Presto buy, forthcoming.

From Evidence Classics:
Frere's Originelles
Batagov's Seven Works of Johann Pachelbel

From Supraphon
Haba's Complete Piano Works
Krivinka, Stanislaw, Flosman's Violin Sonatas
Novak's Complete String Quartets

From Other Labels
Batagov's 16+
Munipov's Fermata
Rabinovitch's Oeuvres Pour Piano
Smit's Bach's The Art of Fugue

[André]

1 item in stock only in each instance. Had to move fast. Faster than my bank account likes.




Capriccio has issued a superb 4-disc set of Schnittke's film music. This release continues the series.



Never heard of Higgins before. I was swayed by some very laudatory reviews. And the ridiculous asking price.



Same as above.



20th century French SQ. Durey and Tailleferre are just names to me. I have yet to hear anything of their music.

[Harry]

I liked that disc very much!
Marcelle de Manziarly.

[Kalevala]

Found this second-hand for so little I couldn't resist...

Good job!   

K