Purchases Today

[Papy Oli]

Lasso: LAGRIME DI SAN PIETRO (Capella Dvcale Venetia dir. Livio Picotti)

Haven't visited to that one in a long while - on the listening pile for the week-end it goes 

  G. Mahler
Symphonies 1 & 2, arr. Piano Four Hands by Bruno Walter
Trenkner/Speidel
MD|G SACD
German link - UK link
Listening to it right now... love it. Trenkner/Speidel are awesome and I love these sorts of transcriptions as is.

Auferstehung...on piano....damn it... I'm gonna have an other M2 soon, aren't I.... 

[Geo Dude]

Came across this used at Amazon for $12 + shipping.



BRO had this in for $25 + shipping.

[Wakefield]

  A. Bruckner
Symphony No.3
J.v.Zweden / Netherlands RPO
Challenge Classics
German link - UK link

He looks a bit scared.

[Que]

Just arrived via today's mail:
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A wonderful disc!

It is such a pity that you missed the box set that includes it and many other sought-after discs by Van Nevel and his ensemble... It was frequently discussed before your arrival here.
Perhaps members here could alert you when it resurfaces somewhere for a reasonable price? I will in any case keep an eye out!

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Q

[jlaurson]

He looks a bit scared.

He's a tiny little man... Bruckner must seem daunting.

[HIPster]

A wonderful disc!

It is such a pity that you missed the box set that includes it and many other sought-after discs by Van Nevel and his ensemble... It was frequently discussed before your arrival here.
Perhaps members here could alert you when it resurfaces somewhere for a reasonable price? I will in any case keep an eye out!

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Q

Yes Q, that disc is wonderful in every way!  I've almost had it on auto-repeat since its arrival a few days ago. . .  Simply gorgeous.

Thank you for the offer to alert me when and if the box again becomes reasonable. . .  Much appreciated.  I assume that the discs in this box are in sleeves and not jewel cases - is this correct?  I enjoyed reading the liner notes in the Utopia Triumphans release; very informative and well-written.

Just ordered from Zoverstock:

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[Que]

Yes Q, that disc is wonderful in every way!  I've almost had it on auto-repeat since its arrival a few days ago. . .  Simply gorgeous.

Thank you for the offer to alert me when and if the box again becomes reasonable. . .  Much appreciated.  I assume that the discs in this box are in sleeves and not jewel cases - is this correct?  I enjoyed reading the liner notes in the Utopia Triumphans release; very informative and well-written.

Yes, the discs come in sleeves, without liner notes ... but fortunately it does include a thick booklet with all the texts.

Q

[Geo Dude]

Man, that Pluhar recording of Monteverdi's Vespers was damaging.  Not only did it result in my order of the O'Dette box set but now this:

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I suppose that at $22 shipped for a 7 disc set I'm not complaining too much.

In case anyone is wondering, that is a reboxing of this set:

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[Todd]

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Some Father's Day indulgences.

[Parsifal]

Ordered with 10% off coupon at importcds.com.  (Taking into account prices and shipping rates, way cheaper than available on Amazon Marketplace.)

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[71 dB]

Finally I pulled the trigger with this one.

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I feel it's time to explore this music by Shostakovich.

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[Karl Henning]

Man, that Pluhar recording of Monteverdi's Vespers was damaging.  Not only did it result in my order of the O'Dette box set but now this:

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I suppose that at $22 shipped for a 7 disc set I'm not complaining too much.

In case anyone is wondering, that is a reboxing of this set:

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Well do I understand addiction to Monteverdi.

I feel it's time to explore this music by Shostakovich.

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Good on ya, Poju!

[Octave]

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A keeper in all respects!  You probably know this, but there's an additional 2cd mopping up some madrigali not included in the box:

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And it's great.

[Jay F]

Ordered last night: Beethoven's Violin Sonatas by Aaron Berofsky and Phillip Bush.

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[71 dB]

Good on ya, 71 dB!

That's how I feel too, Karl. 

[kishnevi]

Possibly my last order until I get back from vacation (don't want to let the mailbox get jammed up while I'm gone!)

[HIPster]

Speaking of Monteverdi, is anyone familiar with this recording:

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Also, any thoughts on Parrott's newest?  Thanks.

[Geo Dude]

I picked up this at a used bookshop today:



And this was an "I need to give up and get around to this" purchase:

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[HIPster]

Nice scores there, Geo Dude!

Jeffrey - nice order you have there too (sorry, I missed it when posting my Monteverdi question earlier)!

This arrived today:

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[Gurn Blanston]

In order to expand my available stock of potential church music to go along with the masses of Austria, I got a couple of pre-Classical organ concerto disks;



Wagenseil was the top drawer composer in Vienna from the mid-1750's to 1770 or so. These are 4 of his many organ concertos, performed by Elisabeth Ullmann on a ~1800 organ in Rust, Austria. She is accompanied by one of my truly favorite groups, Piccolo Concerto Wien. Typical 'church group' of 2 violins, cello, violone (early double baß), bassoon archlute & harpsichord. Looking forward to giving this a good listen.

The second disk is similar works by his lesser and greater contemporaries; J. Haydn (Hob 18:5), Werner (Haydn's first Kapellmeister at Eisenstadt), Zechner, Auffmann, Königsperger and J.C. Bach. This is a combination of concertos and pastorellas with similar instruments as above (no archlute though!), also intended mainly for church use. I have heard this one once, and will be looking at it more in depth in the Masses of Classical Austria thread soon.