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[kishnevi]

Excellent


Excellently excellent

And this one:

Sarge, I'll be interested to see what your impressions of this recording are.

[HIPster]

Picked up a few things today, including this beauty:

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Gorgeous!

[Octave]

That Lassus/Herreweghe is marvelous, I just got it a few months ago.  In case you don't know this other one, it is great as well; I might even like it a little more:

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[Coopmv]

Picked up a few things today, including this beauty:

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Gorgeous!

Excellent choice.  I bought this recording last year ...

[Octave]

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Gielen/Oppens vs. Carter

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Wm. Walton: bought primarily for the Previn symph.; all I've heard is the cello concerto by Piatigorsky/Munch (via Living Stereo box)...will think about the recent EMI box if I like this helping enough...

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Gundula is on the scene.  Don't let light music come between us!  A brief steep discount from i-Deals decided me.

[HIPster]

That Lassus/Herreweghe is marvelous, I just got it a few months ago.  In case you don't know this other one, it is great as well; I might even like it a little more:

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Thank you, Octave and Coopmv.  On a second listen to it now; really splendid in every way.

[SonicMan46]

These two are very good I have enjoyed both.  The CPE Bach looks interesting as well, since Miklos Spanyi is my primary exposure to these works and it is usually good to hear someone else from time to time.

Hi SanAntone - thanks for the support on the Beethoven & Haydn - really enjoying those Papa works w/ Huss & his gang!  The Beethoven Violin Sonatas selection was unexpected, i.e. I went to Amazon looking for another highly recommended set and was directed to the one purchased - appears to have been a good choice!

Now, I own a bunch of CPE Bach's 'Keyboard Conccertos', but nearly all on harpsichord, so just wanted a piano alternative - the one selected received an excellent review in Fanfare (Mar/Apr 2013) which is attached - Ricshe had another one (may be a future purchase?) - Dave

[Papy Oli]

2 new composers added cheaply to my collection :

Feldman - Rothko chapel (£2.97 amazon download)

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Zemlinsky - Lieder (£ 1.19 used via zoverstocks)

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[TheGSMoeller]

One Schubert...




And a bunch of Haydn...

         


...the one with the profile of the unknown man is String Quartets Op. 77 and Op. 103 performed by the Edding Quartet, which I listened to on Spotify and it is phenomenal, might be the best 77/103 I've heard.

[Geo Dude]

Jeffrey:  I'm glad to know that someone knows of the existence of that Schubert set.  That you like it is even better.

In other news, I decided to take a look at Amazon and see how Bezuidenhout's series of Mozart's piano sonatas was coming along and....I was bad; when I saw this I had to have it immediately.

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[North Star]

He has also embarked on what I hope is a complete set of Beethoven violin sonatas with Viktoria Mullova.

Have you reason to believe that this wasn't a one-off?

[jlaurson]

He has also embarked on what I hope is a complete set of Beethoven violin sonatas with Viktoria Mullova.

I heard them performing those pieces live (though not, thankfully, the performances where this was recorded). I can't wait to hear how their Beethoven sounds when it's up to snuff.
Mullova had had a bad day and rehearsals were undercut by some scheduling glitch... and it all went awry after that.  Can't detract from the fact that the two in this repertoire are a tantalizing combo!
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2011/08/notes-from-2011-salzburg-festival-11.html

[North Star]

No - but I am hopeful for more.

Ah, OK. I, too, would love it if they recorded the rest, too (though I've only heard this recording from Spotify...). I don't really imagine it will happen anytime soon, though. 

[Wakefield]

From Amazon.es:

Bach: Violin Concertos BWV 1041-1043 & 1064R



Lully: Musiques Royales (8 CDs):



Mozart: The Piano Sonatas (5 CDs)



Marriner conducts Mozart/ The Symphonies (12 CDs)



Rachmaninoff: Solo Piano Works (5 CDs)

[kishnevi]

Just ordered from Amazon:

Telemann overtures (Don Quixote/La Changeante) performed by Europa Galante
and the only reasonably priced (<$50, with some offered for well over $100) copy of this on Amazon MP  (actually, from Amazon itself)--the rest of you, if interested, had better hope there's a reissue along the way, or that this post mortem spike returns to reality soon).

(h/t Mike the Mod.)

[Octave]

Old school.

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Bach cantatas by Münchinger et al (Eloquence, 2cd)

This has been sitting in my cart for many months, so long that the source of the recommendation has become obscure.  (Pre-GMG, I think.)  It looks like a potential brand-new vocal love of mine, Susanne Danco, sings on the first two warhorses, which have (iic) been issued on a Testament disc as well.  I ran across a new copy via Amazon US-MP for ~$3+shipping and finally could not refuse....coincidence + bargain = a calling.  There is at least one more copy at about that price as well, last time I looked.  I hope it proves to be interesting!  I am also interested in the Newton box of some major sacred Bach by Münchinger, but that can wait.

Also a crazy, sick number of Naxos discs.  I am ashamed of myself.  Like that starfish in FINDING NEMO.

[Todd]

 


 


 


 


 



Another haul o' Handel, plus some other goodies.  After looking at my recent purchases pile(s), I think it may be time to take a purchasing hiatus.  I've bought something like 300 CDs in the last six months.  That's just too many.  I'm running out of space.  I need to cull a bit.  After I listen to this haul, that is.

(Beethoven piano sonata recordings are exempt from any hiatus.) 

[Karl Henning]

(Beethoven piano sonata recordings are exempt from any hiatus.)

Understood!

[Mirror Image]

Just bought for $7:



I bought this for the Hartmann, but another Berg VC performance won't hurt anything.

[bhodges]

Toshio Hosokawa: String Quartets (Quatuor Diotima) - Fabulous group, new to me, with a very refined sound. They opened their Sunday afternoon concert here with Hosokawa's Blossoming (2007), followed by the Bartók Sixth and Brahms No. 2 - all superb.

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--Bruce