Purchases Today

[kishnevi]

I'll agree that The Haydn Project is not one of their better efforts, but I find it to be an excellent collection and well played. There are better performances by others, and some not as good.
But I really enjoy their "Seven Last Words" and their Prokofiev SQ is also mighty fine.

I have their much more recent (most recent, in fact, I think) release of the Prussian Quartets.  I think it's a worthwhile acquisition.  I don't think I have the CD actually under discussion*.
One Emerson CD I would heartily recommend is The Art of Fugue.


*I spent a couple of hours this afternoon trying to organize a lot of boxes of never organized CDs that have been accumulating over the last couple of years, and didn't have time to finish.  I found a few I had forgotten I have, so I can't rule out the possibility that other unremembered purchases lurk in the remaining boxes.

[North Star]

From Amazon Italy, 16 discs of Chailly for 35 €

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[Bogey]

And, just because the concept still boggles that which serves me for a mind....

The crazy things that they are doing with vinyl these days!

What was the price on this, Karl?  Also, have you tried the Haydn, or did the Bach stick whack him to the side?

[Bogey]

Thanks, Parsifal!

[Parsifal]

Thanks, Parsifal!

I hope you enjoy it!

[Bogey]

I am sure that I will. Never met a cantata I didn't like.

[kishnevi]

while searching for the correct image to post in Bogey's "Glaring Omission" thread,  I stumbled over this, which I bought mostly for the 243.
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[Geo Dude]

[Wakefield]

AFAIK, for the sonatas: Kempff, Uchida, Schiff, Endres, Badura-Skoda (twice?), Bilson, Klein and Dalberto; Lewis might, some day. One may be able to construct partial sets out of what Richter and Brendel, for example, have recorded. And there are probably those about whom only Todd knows.

Apparently, his RCA cycle [Schubert: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 - 4, 12LP's] never was released as CDs:



I have heard superlative opinions about this old cycle. 

[Geo Dude]

Shipped for all of $5.25.

[Octave]

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Bartók: KLASSIKER DER MODERNE! [CLASSICIST OF THE MODERN AGE] (Membran, 10cd)

I'm mainly getting it for Bartok himself playing the Sonata for Two Pianos plus (only some) of Mikrokosmos, plus three of the Vegh's mono quartets (unfortunate that they weren't all included!), a few other odds and ends.  If the sounds stinks, I might chalk it down to experience and get the SONATA/MIKROKOSMOS disc in its Pearl single-disc edition.
It looks like the Membran set might also include the German-language (and cut) BLUEBEARD'S CASTLE by Fricsay/Topper/FiDi/RIAS, which I recently enjoyed very much in its for-the-moment-OOP DG edition:

[The new erato]

From presto (they have good prices for many Hyperion titles for a few days more):

[Geo Dude]

Came across this gem for a good price:

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[Opus106]

Apparently, his RCA cycle [Schubert: Complete Piano Sonatas Vol. 1 - 4, 12LP's] never was released as CDs:

[...]

I have heard superlative opinions about this old cycle. 

In that case, "thrice?", then. I was having in mind his recordings for Genuin; I wasn't, and still am not, sure whether it's complete, or even "complete enough" for snobs.

[listener]

still groggy from working again, 13 - 14 hr days buts that's over,  found these on Hyperion's "Please, someone, buy me" page:   TANEYEV  String Trios,    SULLIVAN: Le Contrabandista/The Forester,  PEERSON: Latin motets

[Octave]

Based on some longstanding interest and a strong recommendation from Brian re: the included Weinberg concerto:


Mstislav Rostropovich: HISTORIC RUSSIAN ARCHIVES (Brilliant, 10cd)
ASIN: B000BUEGFE  (there are two additional product pages for the same item, but this one seems to usually be the cheapest)

[Geo Dude]

Based on some longstanding interest and a strong recommendation from Brian re: the included Weinberg concerto:


Mstislav Rostropovich: HISTORIC RUSSIAN ARCHIVES (Brilliant, 10cd)
ASIN: B000BUEGFE  (there are two additional product pages for the same item, but this one seems to usually be the cheapest)

Was your copy shipped from Texas, by chance?

Thread duty:

[Octave]

Was your copy shipped from Texas, by chance?

Hey!  And for whatever reason I thought you had emigrated not long ago, in spite of your profile location.

[The new erato]

I also ordered these:

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Now where is John (Mirror Image)?

[Brian]

Now where is John (Mirror Image)?

Buried by an avalanche of CDs.