Purchases Today

[Moonfish]

Hmm, a different kind of purchase.  I just could not resist subscribing to the Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall. It seems like an intriguing opportunity to listen to a lot of great music and to dig into its archives (tons of performances). Does anybody here at GMG have any experience with this site? Or something equivalent (esp linked to opera)?   Would you recommend this service?

https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/

They have a 12 month special for 149 Euros (which includes 2 dvds (Rattle and Barenboim - not too intriguing)). Hmm, it is about the cost of two real life concerts. Alternatively, it is 15 euros per month, which is reasonable. Anyway, I would love to hear what my fellow GMGers think about sites such as this one.

[North Star]

Hmm, a different kind of purchase.  I just could not resist subscribing to the Berliner Philharmoniker's Digital Concert Hall. It seems like an intriguing opportunity to listen to a lot of great music and to dig into its archives (tons of performances). Does anybody here at GMG have any experience with this site? Or something equivalent (esp linked to opera)?   Would you recommend this service?

https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/

They have a 12 month special for 149 Euros (which includes 2 dvds (Rattle and Barenboim - not too intriguing)). Hmm, it is about the cost of two real life concerts. Anyway, would love to hear what my fellow GMGers think about sites such as this one.

I believe Daniel (madaboutmahler) has, but he hasn't had much time for GMG this year.. I have listened to / watched some concert recordings that were free some time ago there (some Abbado memorial freebies and something before that), I'm sure it works fine. I don't doubt that it's a nice service. My parents have enjoyed the Met broadcasts they saw in the cinema, but that's hardly equivalent.
I'll be interested to know how you like it, Peter.
Oh, and the JLA and DG originals are very nice purchases too

[ritter]

I really didn't mean to (really!  ), but I had a business meeting in downtown Madrid and stepped into my friendly neighbourhood CD store. You all know what happens then...

The result was:

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A whole lot of interesting names of what one could call the "post-everything" avant-garde. And the Boulez completist in me needed his world premiere performances of works by Mundry and Poppe.

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OK...this one I had ordered from my retailer and hadn't found time to collect until now. Since I'm not that much of an organ music fan, hearing these pieces interspersed with chorales makes the whole thing more palatable to me (or so I hope)...But I listened to the St.-Anne prelude and fugue in the car...what a marvelous piece!


This was in the remainders bin, and he owner of the store gave it to me for free when I took it to the counter  .  Irma Kolassi live, in the repertoire she was famous for..

[North Star]

Nice haul, Rafael. How much organ music (Bach and others, older and newer) have you heard before?

[ritter]

Nice haul, Rafael. How much organ music (Bach and others, older and newer) have you heard before?

Well, I've heard my fair share of Bach (I got the complete Chapuis set not long ago, and had some Walcha on LP eons ago), some of the Spanish masters (Cabanilles), Messiaen (I do find La Nativité du Seigneur enjoyable) and other assorted 20th century stuff (the Schoenberg Variations, Krenek, the Ligeti pieces)... Any recommendations that you think may change my perception, Karlo? Frescobaldi, for instance?

[The new erato]

europadisc:

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[The new erato]

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[North Star]

Well, I've heard my fair share of Bach (I got the complete Chapuis set not long ago, and had some Walcha on LP eons ago), some of the Spanish masters (Cabanilles), Messiaen (I do find La Nativité du Seigneur enjoyable) and other assorted 20th century stuff (the Schoenberg Variations, Krenek, the Ligeti pieces)... Any recommendations that you think may change my perception, Karlo? Frescobaldi, for instance?

Hm. You have heard a good bit of organ, then.
The sound of the instruments matters a lot, of course. I own just the Foccroulle integral of Bach (but not his AoF, yet anyway) but the historical organs in those recordings are superb, all from North Germany and the vicinity, built by Silbermann, Schnitger & others.
What do you think of Pärt? His Pari Intervallo is a brief work I rather like.

E: And Handel's organ concertos are perhaps worth checking out, as the instrument (in the English tradition) is a very different sounding one compared to the German / French organs - it sounds rather like baroque (wood) recorders. There are two releases, this and the one with the Op. 7 concertos.

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Here's Foccroulle's recording of the Passacaglia & Fugue, on a Schnitger in Martinikerk in Groningen, and Egarr's Handel
https://www.youtube.com/v/5GVOqrl1RgY https://www.youtube.com/v/P31u4cwC0Yw

[Henk]

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[ritter]

What do you think of Pärt? His Pari Intervallo is a brief work I rather like.

E: And Handel's organ concertos are perhaps worth checking out, as the instrument (in the English tradition) is a very different sounding one compared to the German / French organs - it sounds rather like wooden recorders.

Thanks for the recommendations, Karlo! I don't really like Pärt (to put it mildly), or any minimalism for that matter...it's music that is probably as distant as possibly can be from my taste and sensibility... Just listened to Pari Intervallo via YouTube: not for me, I'm afraid 

I should seek the Handel concertos out, though...I heard one of them--can't remember which--years ago, and should revisit.

Thanks again...

[North Star]

Thanks for the recommendations, Karlo! I don't really like Pärt (to put it mildly), or any minimalism for that matter...it's music that is probably as distant as possibly can be from my taste and sensibility... Just listened to Pari Intervallo via YouTube: not for me, I'm afraid 

I should seek the Handel concertos out, though...I heard one of them--can't remember which--years ago, and should revisit.

Thanks again...

You're welcome, always a pleasure discussing with you.
Not even Fratres or Cantus? 
Excellent, re: Handel. There's a box set of AoAM's Handel concertos (op. 6 with Manze) on HM with a good booklet if you want more Händel than just the Op. 4, with at least a flash of organ in the Op. 3 Concerti grossi.
And another piece with an organ part: Elgar's Sospiri, Op. 70, for harp, organ & strings.

https://www.youtube.com/v/7uqgv2xsw2o

[Henk]

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[Sadko]

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That's a nice one.

[Papy Oli]

For me to me pick up as Christmas treats over the holidays :

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and also pre-ordered the big Richter box (thank you Moonfish !)

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[EigenUser]

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I've been enjoying Gulda's own cello concerto recently. What a fun piece! Is anyone here familiar with it?

Last night I bought this:
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[king ubu]

several small packages in the mailbox - first one from Music&Arts (also contained a Julius Hemphill disc):

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Nice, but then all you get is a tracklist - not even accompanying musicians are mentioned in the tiny booklet - you get it all on a CD-rom. Too bad. Box is so big it could hold 12 or more discs, so there'd be ample space to print it and add it, but ah, well ...

Then, my small Hyperion order:

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And finally, first third or so of the big Harmonia Mundi party, courtesy of Presto's:

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(all in their latest musique d'abord incarnations, design as the top two - not sure why I only find the older ones on A)

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plus the first of a bunch of Supraphon items, again courtesy of Presto's:

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[Wakefield]

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These days I have read here some slightly dismissive comments about Kristian Bezuidenhout, but I think he's a superb Mozart player. In my (little and humble) book a solid top-3, anyway. 

[king ubu]

I know, some around here dislike him ... but not a problem with me, I think he's great with Mozart and I don't have many fortepiano recordings at all yet (Bilson on Hungaroton is the only complete one, and Staier I definitely don't need more of than what I have in the Versailles and Lumières boxes - he doesn't do it for me in Mozart).

[Moonfish]

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and thanks to Monkey Greg for inspiring the following purchase..   

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[Que]

I know, some around here dislike him ... but not a problem with me, I think he's great with Mozart and I don't have many fortepiano recordings at all yet (Bilson on Hungaroton is the only complete one, and Staier I definitely don't need more of than what I have in the Versailles and Lumières boxes - he doesn't do it for me in Mozart).

There are a few more options: Lubimov (Erato), Brautigam (BIS), Van Oort (Brilliant) and Badura-Skoda (Naïve,  OOP). 

Q