What are you listening 2 now?

[Traverso]

Kurtág

Songs of Despair and Sorrow

Four Poems by Anna Akhmatova

Colindă-Baladă

Brefs and Messages 

[Harry]

If I cannot find the complete Symphonies of Dvorak, by Jarvi for a better price then 70 euros I will buy them from JPC de. It is what it is.

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847) - teenage works from 1823-26 on 3 discs - see cover art for the chamber pieces performed on period instruments. Crawford plays an 1835 restored Conrad Graf fortepiano - for some comments see Brian's interview w/ her which appeared on Music Web HERE - Dave

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I see that the original CD releases were paired with other works; so, you're just wanting to get the rest of the symphonies--period?  If so, which ones are you missing?

Roasted Swan also made a suggestion (see above).

No, 5-9
Someone burned a few CD's for me, but neither my Quad or Esoteric player will play them, so I must somehow find secondhand copies for an reasonable price.

I found some of them here.  As I'm sure that your Dutch is Much better than mine, I'll let you look into it further: 

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/234787958028?hash=item36aa73ed0c:g:6aAAAOSwIsdjemPy&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoP3o7gG%2FL66QeUTJH8B41Fiz%2Bsa5uw%2FKZ1ERMw0aJ3yvMz0Ag1wtUrWid7o7JbHqmqB%2FOj9XCsKk7DegFBgFK7JPXn2jrjPm5fC2i2iC7P4mjn5cP7%2Fh4jPAY1SAp1ipRGL92BjzuYBN%2FaMvgqVpqlXk7Cqfd5z81bggYZOccyOqLqd8SOyKlLMlVbLfF2G8YY%2FJJYrIvUwdgEriwBiMX4s%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9bLqICfYQ

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/385261897271?hash=item59b3660637:g:luQAAOSwUcBjE0T8&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4IzsPEDcM%2Fd6eUhN55Z9wfyMngF7rGm4LX38759lceAxGNlVV7lZLaEFByeEN7RdhoIcwHt7Jt6C%2FLuxJRHTPrmH1hUbP9DLtL8G7uo0Guf0z7LknuXSCAjBjEfLjTjWjKGZw9fncIcqCs2%2BBu8Zo2xXoy9TL6QuTnckrowFCGAYfqXtcxuFpX3Y%2BCC2gQaDMhWct3UeWoK1JpzXnB79hpkThUhbwnhVM1Q96kqgOhneM54m2quG%2BbIoOajxBcwrQnB6%2FaVYePujnWb44S%2FNgppKCQBdbximSnXE7crsM%2Bzz%7Ctkp%3ABFBM1suogJ9h  No. 6

If you do your digging (and are also willing to be patient), you might find more than one available from the same seller (which hopefully would help you with shipping costs).

PD

p.s.  I didn't scroll through all of the listings; I'll leave that up to you.  Do you know the names of any good used CD stores in the Netherlands?  You might try either checking their websites and/or call them to see whether or not they might have any of them.

[Harry]

I found some of them here.  As I'm sure that your Dutch is Much better than mine, I'll let you look into it further: 

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/234787958028?hash=item36aa73ed0c:g:6aAAAOSwIsdjemPy&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoP3o7gG%2FL66QeUTJH8B41Fiz%2Bsa5uw%2FKZ1ERMw0aJ3yvMz0Ag1wtUrWid7o7JbHqmqB%2FOj9XCsKk7DegFBgFK7JPXn2jrjPm5fC2i2iC7P4mjn5cP7%2Fh4jPAY1SAp1ipRGL92BjzuYBN%2FaMvgqVpqlXk7Cqfd5z81bggYZOccyOqLqd8SOyKlLMlVbLfF2G8YY%2FJJYrIvUwdgEriwBiMX4s%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR9bLqICfYQ

https://www.ebay.nl/itm/385261897271?hash=item59b3660637:g:luQAAOSwUcBjE0T8&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAA4IzsPEDcM%2Fd6eUhN55Z9wfyMngF7rGm4LX38759lceAxGNlVV7lZLaEFByeEN7RdhoIcwHt7Jt6C%2FLuxJRHTPrmH1hUbP9DLtL8G7uo0Guf0z7LknuXSCAjBjEfLjTjWjKGZw9fncIcqCs2%2BBu8Zo2xXoy9TL6QuTnckrowFCGAYfqXtcxuFpX3Y%2BCC2gQaDMhWct3UeWoK1JpzXnB79hpkThUhbwnhVM1Q96kqgOhneM54m2quG%2BbIoOajxBcwrQnB6%2FaVYePujnWb44S%2FNgppKCQBdbximSnXE7crsM%2Bzz%7Ctkp%3ABFBM1suogJ9h  No. 6

If you do your digging (and are also willing to be patient), you might find more than one available from the same seller (which hopefully would help you with shipping costs).

PD

p.s.  I didn't scroll through all of the listings; I'll leave that up to you.  Do you know the names of any good used CD stores in the Netherlands?  You might try either checking their websites and/or call them to see whether or not they might have any of them.

Thank you PD I will dive into it.!

[jlopes]

[Todd]

Liszt and Pärt do not necessarily seem like natural discmates, but Vanessa Wagner has other ideas.  By blending a big chunk of Liszt's Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses (including Cantique d'amour, which is not listed in the booklet) with three selections from Pärt, one gets where she is coming from.  In an interview in the liner notes, she states that this is not a concept disc, but rather a recording focused on different expressive styles of spirituality, and that she senses an innate similarity between the two composers.  If it works for her, it works for me.  The Liszt selections tend toward the slightly quick, slimmed down, not OTT romantic side, while the Pärt sounds austere as all get out.  Wagner mentions her high regard for Für Alina, and it shows.  The Liszt does not perhaps match up to the best of the best in the included pieces - though her take on Funérailles boasts some of the finest, most delicate right hand playing I've heard - but it is more than good enough to make me wish she had just recorded the whole thing.  And her Pärt makes me want to investigate more piano music from him.  Superb sound.  Those French micro-labels always punch above their weight.

[Symphonic Addict]

Love the music but that Mata/Chavez set has to be one of the most disappointing/least met my expectations boxes I know.  On paper it should be a dream-team for this repertoire but everyone sounds so uninvolved!

It could be, but it's the only recording I know of the piece, and believe it or not it wasn't as bad to my ears.

[Klavierman]

[Lisztianwagner]

Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations

[JBS]

Thank you PD I will dive into it.!

@Harry
The 6 CD set (w/o the tone poems) is listed on AmazonUS Marketplace for approximately $55 US. The vendor is I-Deals.
Obviously I have no idea what shipping from the US to Europe and Dutch customs duties will add on to that.

[prémont]

The postage would not be a problem but the import duties would finish me. I had one experience with importing CD's from England.

Yes, quite a problem for those of us who chose to stay in the EU. I don't purchase physical CDs from Great Britain any more.

[Harry]

@Harry
The 6 CD set (w/o the tone poems) is listed on AmazonUS Marketplace for approximately $55 US. The vendor is I-Deals.
Obviously I have no idea what shipping from the US to Europe and Dutch customs duties will add on to that.

Double the price, that would be it.

[ritter]

Aldo Ciccolini plays Granados' Goyescas.



Faster tempi than usual, but not bad, not bad at all....

[JBS]

Double the price, that would be it.

Ouch!

[Mandryka]

Yes, quite a problem for those of us who chose to stay in the EU. I don't purchase physical CDs from Great Britain any more.

It's quite interesting because amazon.fr have made it so easy to import into the UK, with hardly any extra cost for import charges, if any at all. I'm almost inclined to say that amazon.fr is the only positive effect of Brexit so far.

[Linz]

Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor

[SonicMan46]

Mendelssohn, Felix - Chamber Works w/ piano, clarinet, et al - Dave

 

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Alice Sara Ott. Chopin Waltzes.

[Karl Henning]

Louis Couperin

A very fine recording....

Looks nice, Jan!