Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Michel]

The best? Why? Because it is from a major record label while the de Waart is from Naxos/Marco Polo?

Anyway JPC has it for 33 Euro, not sure how many pounds that translates into.

Who said anything about Label? I am merely saying it is a consensus, like Guilini Don Carlo, or Solti's Ring. Not everyone will agree, but there is some consensus, thats all!

[PerfectWagnerite]

Who said anything about Label? I am merely saying it is a consensus, like Guilini Don Carlo, or Solti's Ring. Not everyone will agree, but there is some consensus, thats all!

Bad examples you gave. Neither the Guilini nor the Solti represent any consensus as to what opera lovers think are definitive recordings, but are rather one of many famous versions.

A better example might be Callas' Tosca or Vickers/Gorr's mono Dialogue of the Carmelites.

[Michel]

Bad examples you gave. Neither the Guilini nor the Solti represent any consensus as to what opera lovers think are definitive recordings, but are rather one of many famous versions.

A better example might be Callas' Tosca or Vickers/Gorr's mono Dialogue of the Carmelites.

Why be so anal? The actual examples are irrelevant to the ongoing discussion and there is no need to sidetrack it; they only sought to demonstrate the logic. And for that reason I couldn't care less about your supposedly better examples.

And I would still dispute your claim that there is not a strong consensus that suggests Solti and Giulini are very, very good recordings, and as close everyone can get to universally agreeing on the "best" ones.

[Sergeant Rock]

Sargeant, I was a member of the board even before you were! I am real old skool!
I just left for a period of time to recitify my arrested mental development.
And lets not forget who started the orginal, El Libertador, "My Purchases Today" thread that lived on in my wake! 

The mistake lies in my relative newbie status. I've only been participating actively for a year (joined Feb 2006, began posting two months later). You were gone by then, I gather. From Harry's message count, I thought he had been a founding member and everyone knew him.

I hope you realize my joke was not aimed at you but at Harry. We love to tease him about the amount he buys. Of course we're all insanely jealous too.

So, we owe it all to you, this temple of greed, lust, and unbridled consumerism.

Sarge

[Wanderer]

I have my eyes on this version, just waiting for a good price:




Have anybody heard it?

I would welcome comments on this version, as well. I have the excellent Nagano DVD version but I'd certainly get this as well if I came by an attractively priced item.

[Don]

Just ordered these:

Tchaikovsky - Sym. 4/Fischer/Channel Classics SACD
Roussel - Syms./Eschenbach/2 Ondine cds
Scott - Violin Concerto/Chandos
Nielsen - String Quartets/Dacapo/Vol. 1
Shostakovich - String Quartets/2nd volume from the Jerusalem on Harmonia Mundi
Vaughan Williams - Sym. 5/Spano/Telarc SACD

[Maciek]

Especially if that lighter came with it. 

No, unfortunately it didn't. Do you think I should have given them negative feedback?

[George]

No, unfortunately it didn't. Do you think I should have given them negative feedback?

Imagine if they did send it and when it arrived it was nothing but ash? 

[Maciek]

But maybe it wasn't a working lighter? And they did put it on the photo! I think I'm going to write them about this...

[George]

But maybe it wasn't a working lighter? And they did put it on the photo! I think I'm going to write them about this...

Do send them my love.  0:)

[Maciek]

Of course I will!

[Bogey]

....because it is a Dutoit/Montréal recording.

also:

[Drasko]

 

These two finally landed after three weeks wait (Hagen disc was a backorder) and I got slapped with import tax

and this

[Harry]

This box was lend by a friend of mine, but I will have it myself

[Maciek]

Not nice, Harry. Give the box back. You have enough CDs of your own.

[Harry]

Not nice, Harry. Give the box back. You have enough CDs of your own.

Oke governor, I did. But she firmly pushed it my hands after I professed interest in it.
I could not say no, but I told her, that I ordered it myself, so now she is willing to take it back. See!

[Sergeant Rock]

and this

Drasko, is that the four-hour version? It's one of my favorite films...well, you all know of my unlimited patience: I listen to Celibidache's Bruckner and Klemperer's Mahler...watching Emmanuelle Béart naked for four hours is a breeze compared to that

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

....because it is a Dutoit/Montréal recording.

Unusual repertoire for Dutoit. I don't know this disc. Any thoughts yet, Bill? Got anything to compare it to?

Sarge

[Drasko]

Drasko, is that the four-hour version? It's one of my favorite films...well, you all know of my unlimited patience: I listen to Celibidache's Bruckner and Klemperer's Mahler...watching Emmanuelle Béart naked for four hours is a breeze compared to that

Sarge

Yes, 229 minutes and I don't even like Celibidache's Bruckner

[Harry]

Here you are, so as to contradict anyone that states I dont like opera, I do, but the right kind of opera, like this one.