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[Parsifal]

Ordered from the UK, destination country has a postal strike promised for next week. Taking bets on whether it ever arrives.

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[Ken B]

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Yay. As the unofficial Rota booster at GMG, I salute you!

[Mirror Image]

Did some shopping on jpc.de and here are the results:

[André]

Methink your choice of works and interpretation is both lopsided and one-sided  .  You could do much worse, although I have heard but one of these discs.

I have been at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw 4 times, and the concert that sticks in my memory is that of Russell Davies conducting the 6th symphony of Prokofiev. I distinctly remember wondering when the hall's roof was to rise and raise above the rafters. The sonic saturation was simply overwhelming (yet graciously handled by both orchestra and hall).

Let us know what you think when you receive them discs !

[Mirror Image]

Methink your choice of works and interpretation is both lopsided and one-sided  .  You could do much worse, although I have heard but one of these discs.

I have been at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw 4 times, and the concert that sticks in my memory is that of Russell Davies conducting the 6th symphony of Prokofiev. I distinctly remember wondering when the hall's roof was to rise and raise above the rafters. The sonic saturation was simply overwhelming (yet graciously handled by both orchestra and hall).

Let us know what you think when you receive them discs !

I listened to just a sample of Davies' performance of the third movement of the 6th and that was enough for me. I really like his conducting a lot anyway. I think he's highly underrated compared to many conductors out there working today. He simply doesn't get a lot of press, which is a shame. He brings an outside-of-the-box kind of thinking to the music he performs. I will definitely let you know what I think of his Bruckner.

[kishnevi]

I'm stunned myself. It feels quite odd not to be in the market really, like I've given uip a hobby. Or an old friend has moved away.

I might not have bought this except for the complete and total lack of duplication(!). I have not one disk by them.  I resisted the Beaux Arts box too! That surprised me even more as I went to Azon uk thinking about it.  Of course if the pound hits parity ... 

I do not have everything they (Emerson SQ)have released but I do have too much to make getting this box worthwhile...the only one I did not like was their Bartok cycle.  But the DSCH cycle is second only to the Borodin II, and the Art of Fugue CD is possibly the best recording of BWV 1080 available.  And the Mendelssohn cycle has a noteworthy Octet. I hope the box includes the little video which shows how they recorded it, laying down one set of parts, then overdubbing the remaining four.

From the BIS sale MDT has on until tomorrow (and on which Brian kindly alerted us  ):

   

Do you have the rest of that series? If not, go back and order as much of it as you can.

And that goes for the rest of you guys...

[kishnevi]

TD
I think this is cycle 12 for me.
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And that goes for the rest of you guys...

Too bad I couldn't have sent you all of my Skalkottas BIS recordings. They would have definitely found a better home.

[Ken B]

Too bad I couldn't have sent you all of my Skalkottas BIS recordings. They would have definitely found a better home.

Want my address? 

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Want my address? 

Do you even like Skalkottas' music, Ken?

[Ken B]

Do you even like Skalkottas' music, Ken?

Some of it. I generally like the non 12 tone dance influenced orchestral stuff, as well as the 12 tone chamber music I have heard.

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Some of it. I generally like the non 12 tone dance influenced orchestral stuff, as well as the 12 tone chamber music I have heard.

Well, that's not really the kind of response I was looking for, especially when we take Jeffrey's own enthusiasm for this composer into consideration (Wanderer also has a fondness for this composer). I always thought Dallapiccola was a much more interesting composer and had the kind of lyricism I was looking for when talking about 12-tone music or at least in relation to the Second Viennese School.

[Autumn Leaves]

Latest purchases:

[ritter]

Do you have the rest of that series? If not, go back and order as much of it as you can.

And that goes for the rest of you guys...

I have most of it...bought some form an AmFr MP seller and from jpc not long ago (as reported here and here), and already owned the two-CD set of Greek dances, the CDs with the Violin concerto and the Third piano concerto, and some chamber music on labels other than BIS).

Cheers,

[Brian]

MDT's sale + the pound's slump triggered the early spending of about 30% of my 2017 CD budget. Oops! But my 2017 shopping list is crazy short (another 30% of the budget may go completely unspent), so I'll be fine.

Some essentials:



Some Todd recs:



(That's Jean-Rodolphe Kars playing Schubert, Debussy, and Messiaen)

An essential Glagolitic Mass, replacing my cruddy 128 kbps ripped MP3 copy:



And the rest is all BIS records I've streamed and loved for some time, and want to own:



The tiny pics at the end are Myung-Whun Chung's Nielsen recordings.

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The tiny pics at the end are Myung-Whun Chung's Nielsen recordings.

You're only missing two other recordings from the Chung Nielsen series and then you'll own them all.

[Brian]

You're only missing two other recordings from the Chung Nielsen series and then you'll own them all.

I already own the Symphony #3/clarinet concerto disc, so you must mean the one with #5? Not a symphony I understand.

[Mirror Image]

I already own the Symphony #3/clarinet concerto disc, so you must mean the one with #5? Not a symphony I understand.

Oh okay, Yes, the Violin Concerto/Symphony No. 5 recording.

[Karl Henning]

[...] #5? Not a symphony I understand.

I think of it a bit (just a bit, really) like the E^b prelude and fugue from Book I of the WTC.  The Prelude is itself a double-fugue of great grandeur and profundity, and followed by a fugue which in context feels like a fizzy, vaporous thing.

Part I of the Nielsen Fifth is all earnest drama, no pussyfooting.  Part II, a gracious, good-humored dance;  almost entirely smooth sailing.

Come to think of it, I wonder how the Sarge would guide you, Brian, in this piece . . . .