Mahler Mania, Rebooted

[greg]

For illustration, a page of my copy of the Mahler-Cooke, as used long ago on the mystery scores thread:

You got this from a library, didn't you? You can buy it online for a over a hundred bucks.

[lukeottevanger]

No, it's my own copy. I found it in a second hand bookshop for £5, along with many other goodies that day, I recall....

[greg]

No, it's my own copy. I found it in a second hand bookshop for £5, along with many other goodies that day, I recall....

where the heck do you go shopping, dreamland?

oh yeah, and a few years ago i found a Penderecki score at a yardsale for tree fiddy........

[knight66]

M, Thanks for the review of the 7th. I have been away for a few days and had five minutes to dash into an HMV shop....did so, grabbed the disc and when I got to my hotel I opened the bag to discover I had grabbed the 6th....which I already have....and the 7th remains ilusive.

I will return it via another branch soon and I will try to come home with the right one. The reviews I have read don't mention any accidents in the playing, so I guess it got tidied up.

Mike

[M forever]

M, Thanks for the review of the 7th. I have been away for a few days and had five minutes to dash into an HMV shop....did so, grabbed the disc

Well, apparently, you haven't actually read my review.

[knight66]

Yes I did, (Here I would insert an emoticon that rolls its eyes), but I read other and more positive reviews and it seems like it will give me a real contrast with the two versions I have.....and it does not cost much to try it out; roughly what I spend in London on a sandwich and a drink. From having listened to the broadcast; I won't however be going near his 8th.

Mike

[Guido]

where the heck do you go shopping, dreamland?

oh yeah, and a few years ago i found a Penderecki score at a yardsale for tree fiddy........

I think I know the place that Luke is referring to, and in many ways it is!

[lukeottevanger]

In this case, I doubt you are - it was a now-closed-down secondhand bookshop in Bury St Edmunds; the same glut of scores also contained (among other things) a few major John Adams scores, £5 each (Harmonium, Harmonielehre, Chairman Dances, Shaker Loops.....); I bought them all even though I already had some of them  Can't harm to have two copies of Harmonium, can it?  0:)

But the one I believe you are referring  to - Brian Jordan's in Cambridge - is probably the scene of my greatest score buying triumphs. The complete Des Canyons aux Etoiles (all three volumes) for £20; Turangalila for £8; Takemitsu's A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden for £5. And so on....

[Guido]

Yes Brian Jordan's is what I was referring to. A fantastic place. Haven't quite got things as good as yours yet but I did get the full score to Bliss' cello concerto for £3 (my best buy so far) and several cello/piano pieces for even less.

[lukeottevanger]

You realise that if you and I both went 'upstairs at Brian's' at the same time we would automatically become sworn enemies fighting over the same scores. Either that or some strange space-time thing would happen and the universe would implode.

I forgot - Suk's A Summer's Tale, a huge and gorgeous-looking score, £15. That one made me very happy. Oh, and at the Bury shop where I got the Mahler 10 and all the Adams, Elgar's Gerontius in the big critical edition that sells for about £100. For £5. 

[Guido]

You realise that if you and I both went 'upstairs at Brian's' at the same time we would automatically become sworn enemies fighting over the same scores. Either that or some strange space-time thing would happen and the universe would implode.

Fact.

I forgot - Suk's A Summer's Tale, a huge and gorgeous-looking score, £15. That one made me very happy. Oh, and at the Bury shop where I got the Mahler 10 and all the Adams, Elgar's Gerontius in the big critical edition that sells for about £100. For £5.

That's a truly astonishing find!

[greg]

You know what, screw you guys.

[lukeottevanger]

Greg, didn't the mystery score thread give you a faintest clue that I'm a bit of a score addict? 

[karlhenning]

Greg, dude, keep cool!

[greg]

I'm so jealous, I might have to devise a plan to break into Luke's house and steal all of his scores.......


pst, pst, Karl, you got any ideas?

[lukeottevanger]

An easier option would be to wait until every page of my scores has appeared on the mystery scores thread. May take quite a while, however.

[imperfection]

lukeottevanger, is your avatar in any way related to East Asian philosophy? I think I've seen that symbol somewhere, and it's got something to do with 禪.

[Joe_Campbell]

lol...I look forward to his answer!

[lukeottevanger]

In some ways, and very consciously, yes. And in other ways, no. See my composer's thread from this page and on for a couple more... 

[imperfection]

In some ways, and very consciously, yes. And in other ways, no. See my composer's thread from this page and on for a couple more... 

Interesting, the dialogue between Emperor Wu and the Chan/Zen teacher is especially so. Thanks.