Least Favorite Purchase of 2015

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Karl Henning

December 16, 2015, 10:00:20 AM
Our Que set me to thinking:

Quote from: Que on December 16, 2015, 08:35:32 AM
I'm afraid that there were still plenty of bloopers.... ???   :D
Some impulsive purchases, some calculated gambles and some were recordings that I expected much more of....

Q

Anyone have a 2015 Blooper purchase to report?  I think I must, but I shall marshal my thoughts . . . .
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Mandryka

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December 16, 2015, 10:24:15 AM Last Edit: December 16, 2015, 10:33:59 AM by Mandryka


Joseph Payne, Dublin Manuscript. Hasn't made me enjoy the music.



Dichterliebersreigentraum. I had the recording via spotify but I bought the CD because I thought there was a libretto with it. But no libretto.



Mikkelsen plays Boehm -- not a very interesting organ.



Vlach Quartet Mozart. Bought for The Hunt because I knew it was "special", but it's just too romantic for me.
Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

vandermolen

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December 16, 2015, 11:29:24 AM
Not my cup of tea:
Others might enjoy it more than I did however:
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"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Que

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December 16, 2015, 11:35:08 AM
Quote from: karlhenning on December 16, 2015, 10:00:20 AM
Our Que set me to thinking:

Anyone have a 2015 Blooper purchase to report?  I think I must, but I shall marshal my thoughts . . . .

I will report back...  :D

Q

Karl Henning

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December 16, 2015, 11:49:03 AM
In my case, no genuine bloopers.  The recording purchased in 2015 with which I was least satisfied, was not anything like a grievous lapse  8)
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Brian

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December 16, 2015, 12:21:57 PM
Quote from: karlhenning on December 16, 2015, 11:49:03 AM
In my case, no genuine bloopers.  The recording purchased in 2015 with which I was least satisfied, was not anything like a grievous lapse  8)
Seconded! After looking over my list of 2015 purchases, there are certainly still things that have not yet been listened-to, but everything I've heard has been great!

Todd

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December 16, 2015, 12:44:58 PM
Easy:

The universe is change; life is opinion. - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

People would rather believe than know - E.O. Wilson

Propaganda death ensemble - Tom Araya

DaveF

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December 17, 2015, 12:34:16 PM
This is pretty bad:

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Terrible piano, which succeeds in being at once muffled and headachingly piercing, only two dynamics used - ppppppp and fffffffffff, humourless, joyless, charmless...  Luckily only cost me £7.50 in a charity shop, and was just about worth it for Jane Manning.
"All the world is birthday cake" - George Harrison

Daverz

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December 17, 2015, 01:00:48 PM Last Edit: December 18, 2015, 01:34:27 PM by Daverz
Most of the new things I heard this year were via Tidal, which lowers the risk of disappointment.  I have to go back to October of 2014 to find something I purchased that actively annoyed me:

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You may have heard pieces where the flutist sings into the flute or overblows.  Ge Gan-ru has the flute soloist sobbing into the flute.  Not just a little bit; a lot.  Just awful.  I really liked his string quartets, but I won't be bothering after this.

kishnevi

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December 17, 2015, 06:05:34 PM Last Edit: December 17, 2015, 06:07:29 PM by Jeffrey Smith
I do not remember anything awful among my purchases this year for classical.  However I got interested in this guy based on a song heard on the local country/western station ("Lose my mind"), which suggested a promising blend of pop and country, but which ended up delivering bland (albeit listenable) tunes, the two best of which seem to have ripped off Jimmy Buffet lyrics.
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