Purchases Today

[king ubu]

in the mail today:

[asin]B0000DYN4E[/asin]
[asin]B000B9O8YE[/asin]
guess at € 13.45 for both I didn't exactly overpay 

[Que]

Some extra stock turned up in my regular (off line!) outlet store:

   

   

Q

[listener]

Booked 5 Vancouver Symphony Concerts for the next season.  Highlights will be:
ENESCU: Symphony 1 + BRAHMS  vn cto  Marcelaru cond.,
COPLAND Symphony 3 + MacDOWELL Piano Cto 2, BERNSTEIN: Prelude Fugue & Riffs, MORAWETZ: Railway Station
BERG: Violin Concerto + RACHMANINOFF Sym 2  Karen Gomyo, Karina Canellakis cond.
SCHOENBERG: Pelleas and Melisande + BRAHMS Piano Cto 1 (Kiril Gerstein)
SHOSTAOVICH: Sym 12, MOZART piano Conc 19 (Jeremy Denk

[Bogey]

My 2nd batch of Japanese purchases at Tower Records in Tokyo the day before I flew home:

[asin]B000XQ9IZO[/asin]
Bought this in addition to the disc with the "Archduke". That sounds so freaking amazing that I regret not to have bought all volumes.
Well, there is always online ordering from Japan - have to look into that...

Thanks, Q!  Reminded me that I still have a couple Smetana cds from Denon (as you said, AMAZING SOUND!) that I need to snag to complete my run of their quartets on this label.  Just purchased this one:



Beethoven: String Quartet No.11 "Serioso" / String Quartet No.12

[aligreto]

Mahler 6, Haenchen....

[marvinbrown]

  My birthday is coming up in a few weeks, (May 20) and I have not bought a CD in many months. I will be getting these from family members:

  [asin]B017I2VVKA[/asin]

  and

  [asin]B00386FG0M[/asin]

  I am very excited! The Schubert  has many pieces missing from my collection and the complete version of his unfinished symphony and many rarities.  The Schumann likewise!

LONG LIVE THE CD!!!!!!

  marvin

[North Star]

I am very excited! The Schubert  has many pieces missing from my collection and the complete version of his unfinished symphony and many rarities.

That completion is very unsatisfactory indeed. But there's plenty to enjoy in the sets apart from that, of course.

[marvinbrown]

That completion is very unsatisfactory indeed. But there's plenty to enjoy in the sets apart from that, of course.

  What didn't you like North Star?

  marvin

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived today: Arnold conducting his Fourth Symphony.




Sarge

[North Star]

  What didn't you like North Star?

  marvin

As far as I recall, they didn't sound like they're a part of the same work, but it's many years since I've heard them. A time to revisit, perhaps.

[marvinbrown]

As far as I recall, they didn't sound like they're a part of the same work, but it's many years since I've heard them. A time to revisit, perhaps.

  Perhaps, but your comment above made me think of Schubert himself, who did not complete it  as he did not know where to go with it.  I remember reading that somewhere.  IS it really possible to have a moment of genius that only lasts 2 movement or even less.......

  marvin

[North Star]

  Perhaps, but your comment above made me think of Schubert himself, who did not complete it  as he did not know where to go with it.  I remember reading that somewhere.  IS it really possible to have a moment of genius that only lasts 2 movement or even less.......

  marvin

There are plenty of instances like that, e.g. Beethoven's Op. 111 or Sibelius's Symphony no. 7...

[Maestro267]

I found a disc today of music by a name I've never heard before, the Bulgarian-American composer Henri Lazarof. Born in 1932, and still alive when this recording was made, but I've subsequently learned that he died in December 2013.

The disc includes Tableaux, for piano and orchestra, a Violin Concerto, and his Symphony No. 2. Yukiko Kamei is the violin soloist and Garrick Ohlsson the pianist. The Seattle Symphony is conducted by Gerard Schwarz.

[The new erato]

Back from my vacation, I stopped by my regular bargain outlet yesterday.
Just in time to pick up some left overs what has reportedly been a large Harmonia Mundi shipment that came in two weeks ago.... (Damnn... I guess you win some and you loose some... )
Anyway, I was still able to find some nice morsels: 

  Q

I have bought this Moulinie as a reissue. Very fine stuff BUT ATTENTION: The first production batch has serious problems, the company is aware of it and will produce a new batch.

[aligreto]

I saw this posted recently and thought that I would sample it....





....it has now arrived.

[kishnevi]

From Arkivmusic's Naxos offer.

Mostly composers of whom I have nothing or next to nothing

Granted I have more than enough Aranjuezes, but I have nothing by Brouwer, nothing by Martin.

Nor anything by Porter, Bacewicz, and Moravec*.  Tower I have the Violin Concert, and wanted a followup.  Messiaen I have only scattered bits and pieces, none of them organ.*

The Ravel was an add-on:  my only recording of L'Heure is tucked away in the Complete Ravel box...and another L'enfant will always interest me











*Is the composer any relation to the pianist?

[Brian]

I think you will really enjoy the Brouwer, Moravec, and Messiaen (which includes some of his earlier works so it is more "accessible" if you are not a diehard fan of Messiaenic style), but I also think the Nashville SO Ravel opera recording with Alistair (or is it Alisdair?) Willis is the one worth getting, if we're talking Ravel operas on Naxos. (Hey, it's not too late to go shopping!)

EDIT: Not sure I understand which composer you are asking is related to which pianist?
EDIT 2: Oh Paul and Ivan Moravec? I do not think there is a relationship there.

[kishnevi]

I think you will really enjoy the Brouwer, Moravec, and Messiaen (which includes some of his earlier works so it is more "accessible" if you are not a diehard fan of Messiaenic style), but I also think the Nashville SO Ravel opera recording with Alistair (or is it Alisdair?) Willis is the one worth getting, if we're talking Ravel operas on Naxos. (Hey, it's not too late to go shopping!)

EDIT: Not sure I understand which composer you are asking is related to which pianist?
EDIT 2: Oh Paul and Ivan Moravec? I do not think there is a relationship there.

Yes, I am not a fan of Messiaen, but he is one of those composers whom I feel a need to grapple with.
The Arkvimusic sale is only on certain selected recordings....

[Karl Henning]

This is all the Quincy Porter I own (it is very fine):

[asin]B002JP9HZI[/asin]

Will be interested in your report on the quartets.

[The new erato]

I ordered this from mdt:

[asin]B014EM31FU[/asin]