So, did you get any CDs for Christmas?

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Here is your chance to show any related presents you received for Christmas/Hanukkah etc.
I asked my daughter for this:
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It features an excellent and very moving performance of Prokofiev's 6th Symphony, maybe not quite as urgent as Mravinsky's old recording but in a much better recording. Furthermore the CDs has some interesting fillers including an unusual vocal version of Lieutenant Kije and The Love of Three Oranges, with its 'March' rather reminiscent of the 'March of the Ewoks' from John Williams's much later score to 'Star Wars, Return of the Jedi'!

[Harry]

I've got nothing I am afraid, maybe I wasn't good enough.

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I've got nothing I am afraid, maybe I wasn't good enough.

Maybe next year. Try to be good. 

[Rinaldo]

Yep!

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Didn't have a chance to play it yet, hopefully tonight.

[Abuelo Igor]

No. I am sure that no one around me knows either what I have, what I like or what I'd want. As far as classical music is concerned, I'm an island.

[71 dB]

I don't usually even ask CDs for Christmas. I buy those enough myself. I ask books because I don't buy those myself. I got Lawrence M. Krauss' "A Universe from Nothing" (Finnish translation). Very nicely written book, easy and entertaining to read.

[vandermolen]

Yep!

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Didn't have to chance to play it yet, hopefully tonight.

Let us know what you think of it.

[Rinaldo]

No. I am sure that no one around me knows either what I have, what I like or what I'd want.

A wishlist helps. I maintain one on Amazon and get pleasantly surprised once in a while.

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I don't usually even ask CDs for Christmas. I buy those enough myself. I ask books because I don't buy those myself. I got Lawrence M. Krauss' "A Universe from Nothing" (Finnish translation). Very nicely written book, easy and entertaining to read.

Never heard of this book, so looked it up. Is it comprehensible to someone without much scientific background and who failed 'General Science' ( the easy option  ) at school? Looks very interesting.

[Que]

No. I am sure that no one around me knows either what I have, what I like or what I'd want. As far as classical music is concerned, I'm an island.

Same here.....  

But I gave myself CDs - before, during and after Christmas! 

Q

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Same here.....  

But I gave myself CDs - before, during and after Christmas! 

Q

Which ones?

[EigenUser]

I didn't get any CDs for Christmas (even though I asked for the Boulez box -- I guess I was too good this year ), but I did get a bunch of scores:
-Honegger's Pacific 2-3-1
-Bartok's The Miraculous Mandarin
-Ravel's LH-PC and the orchestral Le Tombeau de Couperin
-Messiaen's Des Canyons aux Etoiles, Vol II
-Reich's Music for 18 Musicians
-Another very nice one that I'm not posting here yet since it is on the mystery scores thread

[Papy Oli]

received as gifts (upon recommendation) :

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[amw]

There was a christmas sale at the local cd shop, cds being 4 for $16 (cheap ones) or 3 for $25 (expensive ones). In total I think I ended up with 18 CDs (costing me around $100). Lots of new repertoire including the Roussel symphonies, Ruth Crawford, Scodanibbio, Nono, Kabelač, George Benjamin, Frank Corcoran, etc, plus some things I just wanted to hear (Rozhdestvensky conducting Vermeulen, Anderszewski playing Szymanowski, some Janáček rarities)

However I haven't found time to digitise them and scan in the booklets, so they've been sitting in a pile for about a week. :<

My family doesn't celebrate Christmas so no presents from other people. I did get a set of Dvořák piano trios from mum for my birthday though.

[vandermolen]

received as gifts (upon recommendation) :

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That Celibidache set of Bruckner looks great.

[Bogey]

Here are the ones I posted on another thread:

           

[Cato]

Here are the ones I posted on another thread:

Hi Bogey!

Does the Western collection have The Rifleman?  I always liked the music for that show!  Along with Rawhide.

[Bogey]

Hi Bogey!

Does the Western collection have The Rifleman?  I always liked the music for that show!  Along with Rawhide.

No.  There is at least one disc of songs that I probably could have come up with that were missing. Also, I knew when I threw this on my wishlist, I knew the following going in form a review on Amazon:

Just so it's clear "I KNOW THESE AREN'T ORIGINAL ARTIST"! Now that said this is a great compilation of the music of great Westerns on TV and movies. The orchestra does an above average job of imitating the original scores. You will have to listen with super quality headphones for hours to distinguish the subtle differences. If you are that "a" retentive then by all means find the original scores and pay far more to compile this collection. Otherwise suffice that this is a bargain for the number of songs and the caliber of the recreation of the movie scores.

However, this did not bother me when it came to having this many western scores compiled.  I have original versions of many on vinyl and other cds.  I have also learned that re-recordings are not always a bad thing.  Elmer Bernstein for instance, always preferred his score for The Magnificent Seven on a newer recording.  Just a set to throw in and enjoy.

[Bogey]

Yikes:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Erich-Kunzel-Roundup-Fav-Western-Themes-CD-New-/131132194297?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item1e88167df9

Your Rifleman theme seems to be a difficult one to find.  Even here, it has been watered down....I think.

[Cato]

Yikes:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Erich-Kunzel-Roundup-Fav-Western-Themes-CD-New-/131132194297?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item1e88167df9

Your Rifleman theme seems to be a difficult one to find.  Even here, it has been watered down....I think.

Yes, that one I do have, and it is just a taste of the music.  I make do occasionally with the reruns on AMC!    

Not a CD yet, Taneyev's The Oresteia was given to me as a download for Christmas by my son.  Wonderful work!  See my comments under the Taneyev topic.