Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Florestan]

Please report on this one, Harry, it's on my wish list.

[Harry]

Please report on this one, Harry, it's on my wish list.

Will do Andrei, and goodmorning to you my friend.

[Florestan]

Will do Andrei, and goodmorning to you my friend.

Thanks and good morning!

Just ordered:

[sidoze]

couldn't resist

[Kullervo]

Something new today. I am feeling adventurous!

[not edward]

Something new today. I am feeling adventurous!

Looks interesting. I heard the Songs of Despair and Sorrow some years back in Edinburgh, and I thought it was very powerful in live performance.

Let us know what you think!

[Que]

Jan Vermeulen, fortepiano (Tröndlin, Leipzig ca. 1825)

F. Schubert
Sonate nr. 18 in a, op.42, D 845
Impromptus, op. 90, D 899
VANGUARD CLASSICS 99704

F. Schubert
Sonate nr. 5 in a, op. 164, D 537
Sonate nr. 15 in A, op. posth. 120, D 664
16 Deutsche Tänze und 2 Ecossaisen, op. 33, D 783
VANGUARD CLASSICS 99715

Q

[Mark]

Arrived today:







And perhaps the biggest surprise of all, given my recent anti-Bernstein rant:




Plus, I've just ordered these:

[FideLeo]

[Peregrine]

This purchase pretty much ends any attempt on my part to use bricks and mortar music stores. I will not fund a shop where discs not only cost more, but are in inferior condition versus online retailers. If people like me doing this causes them to go bankrupt, then fine - they weren't competetive.

I will not put up with someone opening the case, PUTTING THEIR FINGERS on the surface the disc goes against, sliding the disc out of the sleeve (the discs are all kept seperately behind the counter so that people can only steal empty cases - which they wouldn't bother doing - from the display racks), once again, fingers on the disc surface, before being put in ham-fistedly.

Having a bad day? 

No, good rant, and entirely agree. I'm working in Oxford at the moment and despite a nice selection of music at Blackwells music and HMV, the prices are generally appalling. I have a browse, curse, then leave and have a further browse back home at Amazon!

[marvinbrown]

  Purchases Today: DVORAK MADNESS  :  I must admit that this first recording was inspired by Mark or at least Mark's thread on DG Collector's Edition:

 

  Then I decided that I needed to have the ever popular Dvorak Cello Concerto so I picked this up as well:

 

  And then I thought, well I still need that wonderful Serenade Op.22 that I just loved the first time I heard it:

 

  So in summary, DVORAK, DVORAK and then some more DVORAK!!! 

  marvin

[marvinbrown]

Arrived today:


And perhaps the biggest surprise of all, given my recent anti-Bernstein rant:

  Well Mark you certainly took me by surprise with that purchase!  You and I both own the Solti (Chicago) Symphony Cycle.  So I guess this Bernstein Cycle would be the 2nd complete cycle in your collection.  I did not respond well to the Solti Cycle so I would be interested in reading your reviews on this Bernstein set should you choose to post it  !!

  marvin

[Mark]

  Well Mark you certainly took me by surprise with that purchase!  You and I both own the Solti (Chicago) Symphony Cycle.  So I guess this Bernstein Cycle would be the 2nd complete cycle in your collection.  I did not respond well to the Solti Cycle so I would be interested in reading your reviews on this Bernstein set should you choose to post it  !!

  marvin

Let's put it this way, Marvin: I'm currently listening to Bernstein's account of Mahler's Fourth Symphony, and I'm completely bowled over. (And incidentally - and going against the grain of popular opinion - I think the boy treble works superbly in the finale. )

Hmm ... looks like I shall soon live to regret starting that thread.

[Peregrine]

Hmm ... looks like I shall soon live to regret starting that thread.

You were only winding them up, anyway...

[Haffner]

Let's put it this way, Marvin: I'm currently listening to Bernstein's account of Mahler's Fourth Symphony, and I'm completely bowled over. (And incidentally - and going against the grain of popular opinion - I think the boy treble works superbly in the finale. )

I thought Bernstein's overall conducting of Mahler's works quite satisfactory. But still, the HvK and Ludwig...

[Mark]

You were only winding them up, anyway...

Well, I'll admit to any element of mischievousness, yes.

[Don]

Today's Catch:

The two most recent Bach Cantatas recordings from Gardiner and Argerich doing Shostakovich.

[Lilas Pastia]

This organ is one of the most colourful around, and probably the best for that music. I have it with Chapuis, but I think Bardon's are much more recent recordings? Please let us konw what you think of them!

[Que]

Please let us know what you think of them!

Seconded! 

Q

[Bogey]

Thanks and good morning!

Just ordered:

Very nice.