What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[jlaurson]

So one must have the second as well as the third cycle?

For your "off-all-things" approach to collecting, I'd say you can skip the famous 2nd cycle and only get the 3rd, because that's the more "typical" of Karajan and this more distinctive...

Thread Duty: More Bacewicz String Quartets... Volume II with Quartets 6, 3, and 2.

Update: Now listening to Bacewicz's Fourth Quartet on this disc:


Grazyna Bacewicz, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Joseph Haydn: String Quartets (SACD)
Szymanowski Quartet
Avie 2092

[RussellG]

1984:

[DavidRoss]

A good set. I prefer this version of the symphonies to Blomstedts later steel-perfect LA version.

I have the earlier one on vinyl and the SFS set on CD.  Like most of Blomstedt's SFS recordings, it's tops in my book.  Think I'll give it a spin this evening--number 6, perhaps.

[Lethevich]

Britten - Phaedra (Lorraine Hunt)

Edit:

Tüür - Architectonics V (Finlandia)

Wonderful naked electric guitar tone. Cool piece as usual, weird morphing tune, the usual decaying minimalism/modernism mix.

[ChamberNut]

Courtesy of Harry!  0:)

Vivaldi

La Stravaganza Violin Concertos, Op. 4, Nos. 1-6

Alberto Martini, violin
Orchestra da Camera "I Filarmonici"
Brilliant Classics

[Benji]

I have the earlier one on vinyl and the SFS set on CD.  Like most of Blomstedt's SFS recordings, it's tops in my book.  Think I'll give it a spin this evening--number 6, perhaps.

Amen to that! Everything i've heard them do has been revelatory. Have you heard this disc though:



I hate to sound like Verucca Salt, but I want it I want it I want it! But of course Decca wont reissue it until I have handed over a ridiculous amount of cash for it. 

I have this one though, and it's fab:

[Fëanor]

J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, BWV 1051 -- three versions back-to-back 

All early instrument ensembles, I think.  A difficult call for a non-technical listener like me, but, tonight, I'd say Lamon / Tafelmusik by a nose!

[jlaurson]

R.Strauss, Also Spoke, Till, D&T

I hate to sound like Verucca Salt, but I want it I want it I want it! But of course Decca wont reissue it until I have handed over a ridiculous amount of cash for it. 

C'mon... if you wants your precious, $17 (new "ArkivCD" with complete liner notes) or $11 (used) doesn't seem so bad?! 

(Admittedly, from Amazon.co.uk and other European countries it's a bit more hefty... )

[Benji]

R.Strauss, Also Spoke, Till, D&T

C'mon... if you wants your precious, $17 (new "ArkivCD" with complete liner notes) or $11 (used) doesn't seem so bad?! 

(Admittedly, from Amazon.co.uk and other European countries it's a bit more hefty... )

Oh yes, I did have a look at Amazon US but none of the marketplace sellers will post internationally and I'm not paying some bozo in my own country that kind of money. 

Maybe I will plump for the ArkivCD. Are they decent enough copies and not going to be coasters in two years time? 

[Coopmv]

Now playing disc 4 or the first disc - Act 1 of Orlando.  This has been a pretty delightful set ...

[George]

Sokolov Plays a Chopin Mazurka

[SonicMan46]

Late this afternoon, I started my third listening of the 3-CD set below; definitely a keeper for me, a well recommended set by many, and at @ bargain price - if you want a Beethoven PCs cycle on modern piano, then this set should be a 'top' consideration! 

[ChamberNut]

Late this afternoon, I started my third listening of the 3-CD set below; definitely a keeper for me, a well recommended set by many, and at @ bargain price - if you want a Beethoven PCs cycle on modern piano, then this set should be a 'top' consideration! 

Pssst, Dave, you're inbox is full! 

[DavidRoss]

Maybe I will plump for the ArkivCD. Are they decent enough copies and not going to be coasters in two years time? 

That's why I've never bought one, sometimes paying more for a used OOP CD than I would for an Arkiv copy.  I've never been able to determine whether these are commercial pressings or dye-based CDRs. 

[Coopmv]

That's why I've never bought one, sometimes paying more for a used OOP CD than I would for an Arkiv copy.  I've never been able to determine whether these are commercial pressings or dye-based CDRs. 

There will be no paid CDR's in my collection ...

[greg]

Just got back from a piano recital at the library by Katherine Jacobsen Fleisher (Leon Fleisher's wife). I was the only young person in the whole room, which sucked, but the program and performance wasn't so bad. She played two Mozart pieces- the K.511 Rondo (something i haven't heard before but really liked), and the K.330 Sonata (which I've always liked). Then she played the Schubert op.90 Impromptus. Very enjoyable, and she said that she is coming out with a new album with a concerto for 3 pianos played on 3 pianos, or maybe it was the other way around.

[SonicMan46]

Pssst, Dave, you're inbox is full! 

Ray - it can't be - no one sends me messages!     If so, will correct immediately!  Dave 

[DavidRoss]

Now playing:

As most folks here already know, this may be the most compelling Bruckner performance on record, darned near as definitive as Giulini's Giovanni.  To paraphrase Woody Allen, however, this music does make me want to gear up and go conquer something!

[ChamberNut]

Ray - it can't be - no one sends me messages!     If so, will correct immediately!  Dave 

Thanks Dave.  You got mail.  0:)

[jlaurson]

Oh yes, I did have a look at Amazon US but none of the marketplace sellers will post internationally and I'm not paying some bozo in my own country that kind of money. 

Maybe I will plump for the ArkivCD. Are they decent enough copies and not going to be coasters in two years time? 

Yes... never mind what DavidRoss and Coompmv say (based on assumptions I gather?).

ArkivCDs look like the real thing at first glance. You can tell that it's not the original because the print-quality of the liner notes (and back cover, of course) is not _quite_ that of the original... and the print of the top side of the CD isn't quite as sharp as an originally pressed CD, either. But I've had BMG Music Club CDs that looked less convincing.

I haven't had my ArkivCDs for more than two years, but I know they use high quality material that does not suffer from potential die-fade and the like.

I'm a CD-R snob... even if friends go through the effort of color-copying the liner notes to OOP CDs... I don't really include them in my collection... I barely even listen to them, for some strange reason. But with the ArkivCDs I have no problem, at all. I threat them like the real deal. I would pay a few bucks more for the original, I suppose... but not much.

If ArkivCDs had existed a few years back, the Blomstedt Sibelius would never have gotten above $25,-, $30,- USD per Twofer.

And as far as the used sellers--especially private ones--are concerned: It's always worth asking if they might not make an exception. They may simply not have thought about their product attracting overseas attention. It's really not much more hassle to ship to the UK than it is to Scotsdale. And shipping from the US internationally is fairly cheap.