What are you listening 2 now?

[aligreto]

Handel: Concerto Grosso Op. 6/12 [Standage]





This is a lively and very engaging performance.

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Have you heard the earlier recording of this work from Boulez? The performance can be found in this set, but also the complete DG set.

I have not, but I'd love to check it out. Wow, this box set looks excellent. I'm already looking at two Boulez boxes, the complete Erato recordings and the Boulez/Cleveland Orchestra box on DG, but now I have another to consider. 

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I have not, but I'd love to check it out. Wow, this box set looks excellent. I'm already looking at two Boulez boxes, the complete Erato recordings and the Boulez/Cleveland Orchestra box on DG, but now I have another to consider. 

It'd be nice if you could find the Complete DG box, but this doesn't look like it'll happen unless they reissue it, which I don't understand why they haven't yet to be honest. I bought this box in 2014 for $60. Now, looking back on it, I should've bought two of them, so I can sell the other one for a ridiculous price on Amazon or eBay. A fun fact about the Boulez Complete DG box is he worked very closely with DG in preparing the box set, so it definitely has his stamp of approval.

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Fauré
Thème & Variations, Op. 73
Stott

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It'd be nice if you could find the Complete DG box, but this doesn't look like it'll happen unless they reissue it. I bought this box in 2014 for $60. Now, looking back on it, I should've bought two of them, so I can sell the other one for a ridiculous price on Amazon or eBay.

Yes, I'm super bummed that I seem to have missed the boat on the Complete Works box on DG. I'm sure I'd get a lot of mileage out of it if I ever did manage to land a copy. I'll be looking out for halfway decent prices. The Boulez Complete Webern on DG seems to be going for a lot of money these days too, but I hope to get a copy of that some day too. Until then, the Sony Boulez/Webern box is damn fine too. I've spent so many hours and hours and hours listening to those 3 discs...

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Franz Schubert: Symphony No.4 in C minor, D 417, the "Tragic". Roy Goodman, Hanover Band.

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Yes, I'm super bummed that I seem to have missed the boat on the Complete Works box on DG. I'm sure I'd get a lot of mileage out of it if I ever did manage to land a copy. I'll be looking out for halfway decent prices. The Boulez Complete Webern on DG seems to be going for a lot of money these days too, but I hope to get a copy of that some day too. Until then, the Sony Boulez/Webern box is damn fine too. I've spent so many hours and hours and hours listening to those 3 discs...

Yes, that Webern Complete DG box is fantastic and worth its' weight in gold and, yes, the Sony set is great, too. Looking at my past orders, I bought the Complete Webern on DG for $40 back in 2010. While I think it's never been a finer time to be a classical music fan, I have to say that so many of these older box sets that are now OOP were excellently presented and designed that you don't really get the same quality whenever a set gets reissued.

[Todd]

More from the Muti box.

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Yes, I'm super bummed that I seem to have missed the boat on the Complete Works box on DG. I'm sure I'd get a lot of mileage out of it if I ever did manage to land a copy. I'll be looking out for halfway decent prices. The Boulez Complete Webern on DG seems to be going for a lot of money these days too, but I hope to get a copy of that some day too. Until then, the Sony Boulez/Webern box is damn fine too. I've spent so many hours and hours and hours listening to those 3 discs...

The Boulez box in my country is now sold. It has been there for months for 25 euros, that was a bargain, even if you add the shipping costs and everything was in mint condition.
I bought mine for only 20 euros.

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The Boulez box in my country is now sold. It has been there for months for 25 euros, that was a bargain, even if you add the shipping costs and everything was in mint condition.
I bought mine for only 20 euros.

Damn, I know you showed it to me at one point too. I totally forgot about it

Now playing:



Gabriel Fauré: Thème et Variations in C-sharp minor, op.73. More great music from the French Brahms. 

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Richter the Mystic

Liszt  Nuages Gris

Prokofiev Légende,Op.12 No.6
Piano Sonata No.6 Op.82 
3.Tempo di valzer lentissimo

Shostakovich
Peélude and fuge in F,Op.87 No.23

César Franck
Prélude,Chorale et Fugue

Beethoven
Sonata No.32 inC,Op.111
Scriabin
Poème-Nocturne
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Richter the Mystic

Liszt  Nuages Gris

Prokofiev Légende,Op.12 No.6
Piano Sonata No.6 Op.82 
3.Tempo di valzer lentissimo

Shostakovich
Peélude and fuge in F,Op.87 No.23

César Franck
Prélude,Chorale et Fugue

Beethoven
Sonata No.32 inC,Op.111
Scriabin
Poème-Nocturne
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Looks like an excellent program! I have to check it out. Looks like the box set is out of print, I wonder if I can find a used copy of just that disc...

Edit: I'm now realizing I have most of it already, the Scriabin, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, on this great Decca 2CD:



Continuing the Fauré disc... next up is the Ballade in F-sharp major, op.19

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The Boulez box in my country is now sold. It has been there for months for 25 euros, that was a bargain, even if you add the shipping costs and everything was in mint condition.
I bought mine for only 20 euros.

A fine bargain, indeed, although the price I paid for mine while higher is also a bargain compared to the prices they're going for now.

Edit: I'd say that anyone who is interested in Boulez's music and want the DG recordings, the best, and less expensive, route to take would be to hunt down the individual issues. Many of them can be had for good prices on the used market (if one wants to go through the trouble to find them all of course).

Edit II: It appears that I own four recordings from the Boulez DG already (before I bought the DG box) and these were all purchased around the same time (all four recordings were bought in 2011). These recordings were a part of that cool 20/21 series DG had going for awhile.

[Symphonic Addict]

Penderecki
The Dream of Jacob
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Krzysztof Penderecki



A fantastic piece. I don't know what it is but early Penderecki always sounded better to me than anything written by Xenakis. There's a beating heart in this music.

A terrific miniature, maybe terrifying too. I love it. Not sure if this piece was used in some scary movie or documentary, but it would be a great idea.

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A terrific miniature, maybe terrifying too. I love it. Not sure if this piece was used in some scary movie or documentary, but it would be a great idea.

Indeed. This particular work was used in Kubrick's The Shining (along with many other Penderecki works).

[Florestan]

Nostalgia's the name of the game, but a sunny and gentle one.

[Traverso]

A fine bargain, indeed, although the price I paid for mine while higher is also a bargain compared to the prices they're going for now.

When it was first  released it was only 50 euros,Some adventurous people bought it and were probably shocked when they listened to a few pieces and probably thought how to get rid of it as soon as possible! 
A trader only wants the highest price, you have to be lucky that a poor fool puts his set online, unaware of its value  artistically or market value.

[vandermolen]

Vasks: Piano Quartet.
I'm very impressed by this work but will need to listen to it again. It reminded me in places of Shostakovich's Piano Quintet but also fully characteristic of Vasks. I'm delighted to have a CD featuring the Ippolitov-Ivanov Piano Quartet!:

[Ratliff]

Ireland, Mai-Dun, Thomson, London Philharmonic



Wow, a surprise. I was expecting something along the lines of Ireland's Legend, vaguely mythical and poetic. This is like the score of a Kirk Douglas movie. Mai-Dun refers to a pre-historic hill fort in England, and this music seems to depict an epic battle, with a slow middle section. Very dramatic, delightful music, but not what I was expecting.

[André]

Disc two, hymnes VII-XII