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[Geo Dude]

Geo - the Savall Brandenburg is a very fine recording! 

I look forward to reading your thoughts on it, especially in relation to your praises for Fasolis and I Barocchisti. . .

I have five recordings lying around if I include the Savall one, so I will likely do some comparative listening when it comes in.  That said, based on the samples it sounds damn near perfect!

[Sammy]

Maintaining momentum on a new discovery.


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Excellent choice.  The most rewarding Saygun I've purchased is his 2-cd set of the string quartets.

[Parsifal]

Excellent choice.  The most rewarding Saygun I've purchased is his 2-cd set of the string quartets.

I've recently obtained the string quartets as well, but ended up starting my exploration with the orchestral music.

[Sadko]

I've done quite a bit of purchasing since leaving taking a break from GMG -

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And several more...my arm is tired from copying and pasting.

I read the post scrolling up from the bottom, and before reaching the top I thought "MI is back"

[Octave]

Geo - the Savall Brandenburg is a very fine recording! 
Octave - the Cafe Zimmermann Bach set is a jewel.  One of the best musical gifts I've ever received!  Enjoy.

Agh, the Savall BRANDENBURGs....I knew I'd forgotten something.        I've heard that one is great.
I cannot wait to dig into the Zimmermanns.  I heard at least a couple discs, several years ago, and it was quicksilver.  I think Brian and several others here have also liked those.

Thread duty/confession:

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Dallapiccola: ORCHESTRAL WORKS VOLS. 1 & 2 [Noseda/BBC et al - Chandos]
Because I enjoyed the disc with "Prisoner's Song" etc on Apex, so much; it's nice that there's little or no overlap of pieces among these three discs.

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La Reverdie: HISTORIA SANCTI EADMUNDI (Arcana)

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La Reverdie: NOX LUX - FRANCE & ANGLETERRE 1200-1300 (Arcana)

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Morton Feldman: FOR CHRISTIAN WOLFF [California E.A.R. Unit - Bridge, 3cd]

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Nicolaus Bruhns: DAS KANTATENWERK (Ricercar Consort - Ricercar, 2cd)

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Orlando Gibbons: CONSORTS FOR VIOLS [Phantasm] (Avie)

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Robert Schumann: FÜR MEINE CLARA [Valli/Ghielmi + La Gaia Scienza] (Winter & Winter)
Milk recommended the Graf-pedal-pianoforte-two-hands pieces; also, I was so impressed with the LGS HIP Brahms quintets [same label], I had to check this quintet out.  The disc seems to be a bit short by crammed-disc standards, ~45m, but advance samples made that a nonissue for me.

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Schumann: COMPLETE SOLO PIANO MUSIC [Eric Le Sage] (Alpha, 13cd)

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Schumann: INTRO/ALLEGRO + GEISTERVARIATIONEN etc [Eschenbach/Barto/NDRSO] (Ondine)
For weeping.

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Richard Strauss: FOUR LAST SONGS + ORCH SONGS [Schwarzkopf/Szell] (EMI)

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Lawes: CONSORTS TO THE ORGAN [Phantasm] (Linn)

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Lawes: HARP CONSORTS [Eilander + Les Voix Humaines] (Atma)

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Handel: KEYBOARD MUSIC - WHEN THEY HAD PEDALS, VOL. 2 [Paul Wolfe] (Lyrichord, 2cd)
The GMG descriptions that led me to this speak of Wolfe's "60s" recordings, but I think this Lyrichord reissue was recorded in 1958.  I hope I didn't get the wrong recordings.

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Chopin: PIANO CONCERTOS 1 & 2 [K. Zimerman + Polish Festival Orch]

[Parsifal]

When are you going to find time to listen to all of that?

[Que]

A 'small' order partly inspired by Octave:

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Definitely like to follow the example to get that.

Did you guys found it by any chance anywhere cheap? (£30 at Amazon it a bit too steep for me... )

Q

[knight66]

I have finally geared myself up and ordered the DVD Rattle version of Bach's St Matthew Passion. The only source for it is the on-line shop of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

It is a ritualisation rather than a stand and deliver concert. The singers listed are as good as any now singing, but it was the reviews that convinced me, as i am just not a Rattle fan. It is a filmed concert and in the on-line extract the presentation looks a mess, but I assume it is also about entering that amazing Bach journey from the start and experiencing it all rather than an odd looking two minute edited mash-up. So now the wait has started.

Mike

[Octave]

Re: Handel CHANDOS ANTHEMS (Chandos, 4cd):

Did you guys found it by any chance anywhere cheap? (£30 at Amazon it a bit too steep for me... )

The best I could find was via Importcds domestic USA, $36 all-in.  (But that was during their brief 10% sale, which might happen again in November.)

When are you going to find time to listen to all of that?

This is a problem and a symptom, though I did a little math and it's not so hopeless: once I chill out on the movies, I can listen (with full attention) to 2-3 discs per day and get through this Brobdingnagian haul in about four months or less.  That's 2-3 discs not used as background at work etc, so if I cheat then I'll get through them all a bit more quickly.  Very few of these are "impulse" buys...I've been hovering over most of them for months or longer.

[Opus106]

I have finally geared myself up and ordered the DVD Rattle version of Bach's St Matthew Passion. The only source for it is the on-line shop of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Also Presto Classical.

[Geo Dude]

Re: Handel CHANDOS ANTHEMS (Chandos, 4cd):
The best I could find was via Importcds domestic USA, $36 all-in.  (But that was during their brief 10% sale, which might happen again in November.).

I pulled a used copy off the Amazon MP myself; $34 with shipping, but that had some scuffing on the front of the booklet so the price was lowered to be competitive.

Speaking of sets that cost a pretty penny, where did you pull that Cafe Zimmerman Bach from?

[Octave]

Speaking of sets that cost a pretty penny, where did you pull that Cafe Zimmerman Bach from?

$42 all-in from Importcds, during that 10% sale.  Not exactly a steal at all, but a small break.

[....] Can't wait to dampen your guilt by praising the rest.

I spaced out on replying to that nice, guilt-assuaging post, Brian; you were one of the big nudges toward that Cafe Zimmermann set.

[Mirror Image]

Thread duty/confession:

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Dallapiccola: ORCHESTRAL WORKS VOLS. 1 & 2 [Noseda/BBC et al - Chandos]
Because I enjoyed the disc with "Prisoner's Song" etc on Apex, so much; it's nice that there's little or no overlap of pieces among these three discs.

Great recordings, Octave. Dallapiccola is quite underrated.

[Jay F]

Another version of Beethoven's Violin Sonatas:

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[Pat B]

Thread duty/confession:

LOL.

I almost bought something from the AMP seller "gurnblanston67" but it turns out to be not GMG's Gurn Blanston. So, no purchases for me today. That's not a bad thing as my unlistened stack is too large.

[Jay F]

LOL.

I almost bought something from the AMP seller "gurnblanston67" but it turns out to be not GMG's Gurn Blanston. So, no purchases for me today. That's not a bad thing as my unlistened stack is too large.

LOL.

I just realized "Gurn Blanston" isn't a real person's name.

[Gurn Blanston]

LOL.

I just realized "Gurn Blanston" isn't a real person's name.

Even my mother calls me Gurn....

[jlaurson]

LOL.

I just realized "Gurn Blanston" isn't a real person's name.

The joke's on us.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ywgcMpNL9c

[Gurn Blanston]

The joke's on us.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ywgcMpNL9c

I saw Steve in Saratoga Springs, NY back in 1979, and he did that bit live, the first time I ever heard it. For reasons unknown, it struck me as just wildly amusing, and I ended up using it as a nom de plume as early as 1981. I still find it amusing, it has just the right absurd, yet flaccid sort of tone that tickles me.

You can call me Gurn.... but ya doesn't have to call me Mr. Blanston.   

[Geo Dude]

Re: Zelenka MISSA VOTIVA (Zigzag):
I would be happy to say something about it, but you might refer to the end of the Zelenka composer thread for a couple brief opinions, maybe a little more earlier in that thread, and I think there were a couple good/knowledgable reviews at Amazon?  (including one by 'Giordano Bruno'?)  FYI on that, as those were my motivas for buying it...
EDIT: oops, well...you heard the tragic chorus here already!  It is cheering to get reinforcement for $$$$ already spent.

For anyone interested, there is a video of that entire performance on YouTube.  Talk about quality sampling before you (inevitably) buy!

EDIT:  Thread duty.  Needed a (cheap) book of libretti and decided to mop up a couple of other 'next month's essentials' along the way:

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