Purchases Today

[Brian]

BTW, the Richter Icon and Martinon box can probably be considered super duper cheap bargains on Amazon MP right now--about $20 for the Richter and $29 for the Martinon, including s/h and sales tax on the Martinon.

Martinon Sony box PURCHASED. $27 (Prime shipping). Second CD purchase since January 1. Thanks!

[aligreto]

Harnoncourt's late Haydn....








....but what happened with Symphony No. 100?

[The new erato]

Indeed, but fortunately a horse that has been trotting lately out of the enourmous shadow of J.S. Bach. 

Pretty appropriate as I managed to visit the Thomaskirche in Leipzig this summer, a long unrealized goal.



Pretty unassuming church as such things go. And yes, it's upside down, but that was the side we were allowed to watch it from

[Brian]

My new haul of MusicWeb review discs is a good reminder of just what a freaking awesome gig this is!

- Mozart: Violin Concertos 1, 3, 4 (Frank Peter Zimmermann, Hanssler)
- Vasily Petrenko conducts Elgar Symphony No. 1
- Kitajenko conducts Rachmaninov Symphony No. 2
- Philip Glass: Symphony No. 10. Bruckner Orch Linz, Dennis Russell Davies
- David Wilde Plays Chopin, Volume III
- Chopin Now: Hakon Austbo piano recital (4 ballades, barcarolle, polonaise-fantaisie, nocturnes op. 62)
- Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Janina Fialkowska
- Grieg: Lyric Pieces and Piano Concerto, Javier Perianes (+BBC/Oramo)
- Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 2 (HIP, Martin Haselbock on Alpha)
- Stephane Deneve conducts Ravel, Vol. 2 (Mother Goose etc.)
- Solitaires: Alain, Dutilleux, Ravel, Messiaen (Kathryn Stott, piano)

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My new haul of MusicWeb review discs is a good reminder of just what a freaking awesome gig this is!

If you say so. Personally, I don't like tying music down to some kind of obligation. I just like listening and occasionally I'll write a review, but only at my own discretion.

[kishnevi]

Tonight, again from Arkiv

[Que]

Good choice!

Q

[Karl Henning]

Martinon Sony box PURCHASED. $27 (Prime shipping).

That's fabulously good.

[HIPster]

A recent interest in Dante, inspired this purchase from Zoverstocks ~
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FWIW, I just finished Prue Shaw's excellent Reading Dante: From Here To Eternity and very much recommend this book for those who might be interested ~
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Prue Shaw is emeritus reader in Italian studies at University College London and the editor of the edizione nazionale of Dante's Monarchia and of a digital edition of the Commedia. She lives in Cambridge, England.

[Jo498]

FWIW, I just finished Prue Shaw's excellent Reading Dante: From Here To Eternity and very much recommend this book for those who might be interested ~
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Prue Shaw is emeritus reader in Italian studies at University College London and the editor of the edizione nazionale of Dante's Monarchia and of a digital edition of the Commedia. She lives in Cambridge, England.

I am somewhat interested in this as I read the Commedia (iin translation) for the first time all through earlier this year (I had read the inferno and all or most of the purgatorio once or twice 20 or more years ago but always got stuck around the beginning of the paradiso).
Did you read it in hardcopy or on kindle? As kindle is considerably cheaper I might go for this option unless there are beautiful/important pictures/graphics in the book.

[ritter]

Continuing my exploration of the Ballets Suédois, I finally went for this (ordered from ArkivMusic):



Within the quota
A "Ballet-sketch" in One Act
Music by Cole Porter
Libretto by Gerald Murphy
Choreography by Jean Borlin
Scenery and Costumes by Gerald Murphy
Orchestrations by Charles Koechlin

Gerald Murphy's backdrop and costumes for the ballet:

[HIPster]

I am somewhat interested in this as I read the Commedia (iin translation) for the first time all through earlier this year (I had read the inferno and all or most of the purgatorio once or twice 20 or more years ago but always got stuck around the beginning of the paradiso).
Did you read it in hardcopy or on kindle? As kindle is considerably cheaper I might go for this option unless there are beautiful/important pictures/graphics in the book.

I read the paperback edition (U.S.).

There are many illustrations, diagrams and maps throughout and you are probably right to wonder if these will translate to the kindle (often frustrating in my experience with kindle books).  I will say that all of the illustrations are in b & w.  Maybe check for specific kindle reviews on amazon?

Hope this helps with your decision.  It's a wonderful book! 

[Todd]

[Moonfish]

I am somewhat interested in this as I read the Commedia (iin translation) for the first time all through earlier this year (I had read the inferno and all or most of the purgatorio once or twice 20 or more years ago but always got stuck around the beginning of the paradiso).
Did you read it in hardcopy or on kindle? As kindle is considerably cheaper I might go for this option unless there are beautiful/important pictures/graphics in the book.

Perhaps this one for the Kindle? I am not sure who translated it?

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[Jo498]

I already read the Divine Comedy in a German translation, I do not need the epic for Kindle and I am not terribly interested in his other pieces right now and in any case I would not read them in English... and I do not think the Doré illustration would be all that great on my little Kindle. (I think I have to find some nice book with best of Doré sometimes.)
I am only wondering about the abovementioned book by P. Shaw because the price of the kindle edition is about 1/3 of the hardcover and 1/2 of the pbck. One amazon reviewer mentioned that the pictures are rather small on the kindle (of course) but apparently he was not really bothered by that.

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Just bought:



I never heard this film work by Sculthorpe and his Island Songs for saxophone and orchestra is also a completely new work for me. Oh, and Amy Dickson is quite easy on the eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/v/46VWPIi_gP0

[kishnevi]

For Dante on Kindle, this is probably the best bet. Price is unbeatable.
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The Rossetti translation.

For the Commedia,  a heavily annotated version is important, because Dante often identifies characters cryptically,  relying on what was common knowledge back in 1315.
  I have a old paperback edition from OUP which has the Italian text facing an English prose translation.

Dore's pictures are available online, and as an independent book.  More intriguingly for me, so are the Blake illustrations and those of John Flaxman.

[Jo498]

Thanks; I have seen most of the Doré illustrations online but this is usually not as nice as in a book. It's not a high priority.
As I said, I read a German translation of the Commedia which had annotations (although it is not one of those with 1 part text, 2 parts annotations). I hope I'll understand enough Italian some day to be able to read a bilingual edition (I already can read enough to realize that a lot of the poetry is lost in translation; this is, together with the heavy theology and philosophy probably one reason why most translation readers have a harder time with the Paradiso).
There is a nice newish bilingual German one in three volumes but it's very expensive (and more like 1:4 text:annotations).

[PaulR]

Buying things that have been on my wishlist for more than a year:  (Some of them at least)
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A great, and important, set.