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[North Star]

This will be my last purchase. Until I can afford to buy more - and have listened to the pile...

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[Geo Dude]

What does your pile look like, North Star?

[Wakefield]

My apologies to Jens and the forum crew for the hemorrhoidal flare-up a page ago.  I regret it!   

From BRO.  My last batch for the near future, I mean it---you can believe it when you see/don't see it.
Thanks, as always, to more GMGers than are listed.  (My memory crumbles.)

Great hunt, Octave!

You got several recordings that I like very much too: that Handel set, La Reverdie, Mendelssohn by Herreweghe, Paul O'Dette, Schumann and, of course, the cello sonatas.

BTW, that disc of La Reverdie is exactly the same on Nuova Era. I own almost the complete Cantus discography, but usually they don't recognize when a recording is a re-release.   

[North Star]

What does your pile look like, North Star?

It's not too big - Around 20 discs from the Britten box, maybe 5 CD's worth in the Harmonia Mundi Lumières box, Wand's Bruckner 8 & 9 (attending to this now), around 3 discs from the Sony Debussy box, 3 discs' worth from the Decca Ravel edition, and 2 discs from the Ashkenazy Scriabin orchestral box. That's pretty well, I think, considering how much I've bought in the past 13 months or so.

[Karl Henning]

You've been working well!

[North Star]

You've been working well!

And it has paid off, too.

[Geo Dude]

[Brian]

That Zelenka CD will soon be, justly, in everyone's collection!

Here is my July shipment of MusicWeb review CDs - not counting downloads, which should be requested next week.

- Volodos Plays Mompou (Sony). Just arrived today; it's in book form, the CD on an inside cover. 60-page book with lots of photos of Gaudi's gorgeous Casa Batllo.
- Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique - Tonkunstler Orchester Niederosterreich, Andres Orozco-Estrada (Oehms). Snoozer.
- Beethoven Sonatas by Steven Masi (self-released), Cameron Watson (MSR), and Beth Levin (Navona).

[12tone.]

What's Zelenka's music like?

[Geo Dude]

What's Zelenka's music like?

The Missa Votiva is available on YouTube.

[jlaurson]

What's Zelenka's music like?

"The Dresden-Bach"

[12tone.]

"The Dresden-Bach"

In other words, his music is worth checking out?

[Geo Dude]

In other words, his music is worth checking out?

When you have access to a free YouTube video....

Seriously, yes.

Thread duty:

[Parsifal]

Currently the best price I've found is on importcds.com

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http://www.importcds.com/music/1944598/js-bach-bach-works-for-organ-digital

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amazon.co.uk has a much better price than amazon.com

[kishnevi]

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amazon.co.uk has a much better price than amazon.com

I think the only CD in that set I have is the Ligeti;  but that recording is the sort that I put on my list of "you have to have this one even if you don't  particularly care for the composer" recordings.

[North Star]

I think the only CD in that set I have is the Ligeti;  but that recording is the sort that I put on my list of "you have to have this one even if you don't  particularly care for the composer" recordings.

+1, I need to get this box at some point...

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

[kishnevi]

Just bought:

Some nice gems among all those, especially the Fleisher recording.  The other two sets EMI (piano and vocal) issued in that series fall into the nice but you can live without them  category--not enough included to be a reasonable substitute for a complete set, and there's a good chance that if you're really interested in that music, you've already got the better recordings included in them.  These two are better quality in terms of both performance and completeness (although I'm pretty sure neither one qualifies as being a complete set).

If you don't mind, please report on the Abbado recording once you've formed an opinion on it.

Seeing the Fleisher and Zimmerman CDs together brings out the fact how often they've been coupled on recordings, especially during the 60s (they meaning the Grieg and Schumann concertos). 

  But--IIRC--this is the first time you have a 19th century composer as your avatar!  (But a good one to have!)

ETA:  Hellooo....the Eschenbach recording disappeared while I was posting my reply.  Did you cancel it?

[Mirror Image]

Some nice gems among all those, especially the Fleisher recording.  The other two sets EMI (piano and vocal) issued in that series fall into the nice but you can live without them  category--not enough included to be a reasonable substitute for a complete set, and there's a good chance that if you're really interested in that music, you've already got the better recordings included in them.  These two are better quality in terms of both performance and completeness (although I'm pretty sure neither one qualifies as being a complete set).

If you don't mind, please report on the Abbado recording once you've formed an opinion on it.

Seeing the Fleisher and Zimmerman CDs together brings out the fact how often they've been coupled on recordings, especially during the 60s (they meaning the Grieg and Schumann concertos). 

  But--IIRC--this is the first time you have a 19th century composer as your avatar!  (But a good one to have!)

ETA:  Hellooo....the Eschenbach recording disappeared while I was posting my reply.  Did you cancel it?

Thanks for the feedback, Jeffrey. I, in fact, own hardly any of Schumann's chamber music so the EMI set will be a nice chance to acquaint myself with this part of his oeuvre. Yes, I cancelled the Eschenbach recording after reading some negative opinions of the volume level of the this recording. This troubles me as I don't like low-level recordings which so many of Slatkin's earlier recordings suffered from. As for the other Schumann recordings I have coming, I'm really excited to get them. I've been really enjoying Szell's Schumann symphony set this afternoon and listened to all four symphonies because it was so damn good. Top-notch performances. Now I understand why Sarge likes Szell so much. Szell's Dvorak is also excellent.

Anyway, Schumann hasn't been the first 19th Century composer to be featured as my avatar. I have had Bruckner on several occasions. Speaking of Schumann recordings, I just bought this for a great price:



I simply couldn't resist and I like Gielen's conducting anyway.

[kishnevi]

Thanks for the feedback, Jeffrey. I, in fact, own hardly any of Schumann's chamber music so the EMI set will be a nice chance to acquaint myself with this part of his oeuvre. Yes, I cancelled the Eschenbach recording after reading some negative opinions of the volume level of the this recording. This troubles me as I don't like low-level recordings which so many of Slatkin's earlier recordings suffered from. As for the other Schumann recordings I have coming, I'm really excited to get them. I've been really enjoying Szell's Schumann symphony set this afternoon and listened to all four symphonies because it was so damn good. Top-notch performances. Now I understand why Sarge likes Szell so much. Szell's Dvorak is also excellent.

Anyway, Schumann hasn't been the first 19th Century composer to be featured as my avatar. I have had Bruckner on several occasions. Speaking of Schumann recordings, I just bought this for a great price:



I simply couldn't resist and I like Gielen's conducting anyway.

Of course! How could I forget Anton!   

The one set of Schumann's symphonies I actually like is Kubelik.  I don't think I have the Szell.  OTOH, I have Dvorak from both of them, and I think I prefer Kubelik there.  The one composer in which I think Szell definitely outpaces the competition is Haydn.  I'd like to get his Beethoven cycle at some point.