Purchases Today

[Fafner]

Walton - Hindemith Variations etc. (Naxos)

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At £0.01 for a used disc, I would be a fool to pass. 

[Mirror Image]

Walton - Hindemith Variations etc. (Naxos)

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At £0.01 for a used disc, I would be a fool to pass. 

That Sinfonia Concertante is a very nice work, Fafner.

Just bought:



I just couldn't help myself.

[Fafner]

That Sinfonia Concertante is a very nice work, Fafner.

Yes, it is.  I already have the RCA recording with RPO/Handley.

[Mirror Image]

Yes, it is.  I already have the RCA recording with RPO/Handley.

If I recall, the audio quality in that performance was quite lacking. Am I remembering this correctly?

[Fafner]

If I recall, the audio quality in that performance was quite lacking. Am I remembering this correctly?

I am not sure. It is in a Collected Works compilation with some older recordings and I do not remember it sticking out in either way.

[The new erato]

Went ahead and ordered this:

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[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

[Artem]

I, too, have quite a few of these Kairos recordings under my radar. Maybe a peculiar question, but how is Kairos' packaging? I also bought some Scriarrino recordings from this label.

Their packaging is OK. Paper digipacks. My only issue is that the booklets are attached to the digipack and you can't take it out, except if it is a 2 or 3 cd sets where they're separate.

[Mirror Image]

Their packaging is OK. Paper digipacks. My only issue is that the booklets are attached to the digipack and you can't take it out, except if it is a 2 or 3 cd sets where they're separate.

Ah, okay, yeah the attached booklets seem to be a developing trend in recent years. I've gotten a few like this and, while, it's not a bad idea, it can be a bit of a hinderance if you want to read through the liner notes.

[jlaurson]

I, too, have quite a few of these Kairos recordings under my radar. Maybe a peculiar question, but how is Kairos' packaging? I also bought some Scriarrino recordings from this label.

I rather like their packaging... not quite Winter & Winter, but sometimes they get close.

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Haydn quartets played by the Schuppanzigh Quartett; and Zimmer's soundtrack to the Thin Red Line.




Sarge

[jlaurson]

Sarge: Do you know where the phrase "The Thin Red Line" comes from? (Hint: Reading Flashman's Diaries holds the solution... and is the funnest way to get there!)

Among the French Cat's draggings today:




J'adore Menahem Pressler!

[TheGSMoeller]

Arrived this morning: Haydn quartets played by the Schuppanzigh Quartett; and Zimmer's soundtrack to the Thin Red Line.




Sarge

Good buy, Sarge. Zimmer's best score, I'm also a little biased because of my love of this film. But Zimmer's music is very understated here, and melancholy.

And, Sarge, Happy Veterns Day.

[jlaurson]

Good buy, Sarge. Zimmer's best score, I'm also a little biased because of my love of this film. But Zimmer's music is very understated here, and melancholy.

And, Sarge, Happy Veterns Day.

If Zimmer were a painter, the title would be:

"Music from the workshop of Hans Zimmer"

[Brian]

Among the French Cat's draggings today:



J'adore Menahem Pressler!

Did you hear the recent BIS recital? Beethoven A flat Op. 110, Schubert B flat D960, Chopin Nocturne Op. post.

[Fafner]

GMG is deadly for my wallet. 

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[Sergeant Rock]

Sarge: Do you know where the phrase "The Thin Red Line" comes from?

I do. British military history was a passion when I was a kid; the Crimean War of special interest. I celebrate Balaclava Day each Oct 25th.

(Hint: Reading Flashman's Diaries holds the solution... and is the funnest way to get there!)

I love George MacDonald Frasier's books. I own a first American edition of Flashman at the Charge 

Sarge

[jlaurson]

I do. British military history was a passion when I was a kid; the Crimean campaign of special interest. I celebrate Balaclava Day each Oct 25th.

I love George MacDonald Frasier's books. I own a first American edition of Flashman at the Charge 

Sarge

Few of my lady-acquaintances get away from me without my having recited "The Charge of the Light Brigade" at least once to them.

I was right on in thinking that you'd George MacDonald Frasier's Flashman... and a fool to think you don't already know him.

Ditto military history.

I couldn't find hardcover copies (as I did with 007 -- though unfortunately they're rubbish, for the most part, thanks to Fleming*) when I wanted to get my own set of the diaries... so i settled for the Harper paperback series.

(*Frasier is a liberal Woodehouse compared to Fleming.)

[Sergeant Rock]

Few of my lady-acquaintances get away from me without my having recited "The Charge of the Light Brigade" at least once to them.

Ha! My ladies had to suffer through long-winded verbal reenactments of the battle. That probably explains why so few stayed long with me 

My best friend photographed me giving a lecture on Balaclava in history class during my senior year of high school. The 93rd Highlanders, the "thin red line," is the thin rectangle just above my wrist in the first photo; in the second photo the arrow depicts the Russian cavalry charging the line. In that photo the square I'm pointing at represents the Light Brigade before it moved into the adjacent valley. The Heavy Brigade is the square above them, before its charge up the slope.

Left click to enlarge images.






Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

And, Sarge, Happy Veterns Day.

Thanks, Greg 

Sarge