Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Lilas Pastia]

Go for his keyboard works, by far his deeper music in a quite large output. There's a complete series on BIS (17 discs?), some of which is available for cheap as high quality mp3 downloads at www.eclassical.com

[rubio]

Some cheap Richter Regis discs arrived today:

[Don]

So far, two today:

Chopin/Rach. - Cello Sonatas/Kniazev/Lugnasky/Warner Classics
Mendelssohn/Bruch - Violin Concertos/Jansen (fantastic eyes)/Chailly/Decca

[George]

So far, two today:

Chopin/Rach. - Cello Sonatas/Kniazev/Lugnasky/Warner Classics
Mendelssohn/Bruch - Violin Concertos/Jansen (fantastic eyes)/Chailly/Decca

I hadn't realized that Slash played the cello. 

[SonicMan46]

C.P.E Bach is certianly a composer with whom I am desperate to become more aquainted with. I see that at least one of your suggestions is a Naxos Recording, so I will gladly be listening to those soon. Any other CPE Bach suggestions? Thanks.

Steve - below is just a 'snippet' from my classical music database of the CPE Bach recordings which I currently own - not that many, but all quite enjoyable; his keyboard & wind music are particularly to my liking (of course he composed at the court of Frederick the Great in Berlin, an accomplished flute player).  I'll be looking forward to other recommendations -    P.S. a number of those are 2-CD bargins, if still available.

[George]

Dave, you've gotta be a Virgo! 

[Harry]

C.P.E Bach is certianly a composer with whom I am desperate to become more aquainted with. I see that at least one of your suggestions is a Naxos Recording, so I will gladly be listening to those soon. Any other CPE Bach suggestions? Thanks.

Steve, just go to the JPC site, and take a look at CPO. All the recordings listed there, from CPE Bach I have,well almost, and are of excellent quality.
They have quite a few. Last thing I bought was a complete box of the Sinfonia's concertante for little enough money, so there you have to be.

[jwinter]

[PerfectWagnerite]

The MCA incarnation of this:



For $12 including postage on ebay.

[SonicMan46]

Dave, you've gotta be a Virgo! 

George - LOL!     Actually, I'm an Aries, but not much into these astrological signs, so looked up both, and you're RIGHT - I am closer to the description of a Virgo!  But, I was curious if I could do a 'screen capture' (using Snag-It) of my database, upload it to my usual image site, and then reference it - was quick & worked fine!      Dave

[George]

George - LOL!     Actually, I'm an Aries, but not much into these astrological signs, so looked up both, and you're RIGHT - I am closer to the description of a Virgo!  But, I was curious if I could do a 'screen capture' (using Snag-It) of my database, upload it to my usual image site, and then reference it - was quick & worked fine!      Dave

I was actually referring to your thorough, organized bookkeeping. Very Virgo-like. Perhaps your moon sign or ascendant is Virgo? My entire family (sister, bother, mother, father) are all Aries. As is at least a few other very good friends here on GMG, so I take it as good news!   

[Sergeant Rock]

Mendelssohn/Bruch - Violin Concertos/Jansen (fantastic eyes)

AND she plays a mean fiddle!    This disc continues to grow on me. Love it.

Sarge

[not edward]

Found cheaply in a second-hand shop at lunchtime:

[marvinbrown]

   I have fallen back into my opera "mood" again, the last time this happened it took 5 months for me to get out of it  , just ordered from amazon, these should supplement my audio cd recordings nicely  :

   Just look at the smile on Solti's face....priceless
    

   

  marvin

[Don]

In today's mail:

Tchaikovsky's 5th - Fischer/Channel Classics SACD
V. Williams 5th - Spano/Telarc SACD
Shostakovich St. Qts. - Jerusalem Qt./Vol. 2/Harmonia Mundi

[karlhenning]

How does Spano do with the Vaughan Williams, Don?

[longears]

Via Amazon (GMG link of course):

Brahms PCs, Freire/Chailly
Hindemith & Penderecki VCs, Isaac Stern

[karlhenning]

Just landed:



The Previn recording of the Fourth and Fifth demonstrated how good the CSO could sound in Shostakovich, so I got curious about this 'un, too.

[Don]

In Today's Mailbox:

Roussel Symphonies - Eschenbach/Ondine (2 separate cds)
Nielsen - String Quartets/Dacapo (already have all other recordings of the qts.)
Cyril Scott - Violin Concerto/Chandos
Bruch/Mendelssohn V. Cons - Perlman/EMI, Chung/Decca, Menuhin/EMI, Bell/Decca, Heifitz/RCA (Bruch and Vieuxtemps).

[Heather Harrison]

Here are more from that recent group of purchases.



Two of Handel's English oratorios.  Jephtha is on a reissue from Brilliant Classics with a different cover picture from the original (pictured here).  The price on that one was way too good to pass up - an entire 3-CD oratorio for the price of one typical CD.  Both of these are great performances of two of Handel's latest works.  Jephtha is a version of a rather nasty and unappealing (in my opinion) Old Testament story, modified a bit to suit the morals of Handel's time, and Theodora is the usual "Christians won't worship the Roman emperor, so they must die" story.  (I found the story of Theodora to be somewhat compelling, however.  It does bring up some worthwhile philosophical issues.)  It is the music that really makes these shine.  There are many good da capo arias, as well as wonderful examples of Handel's choral writing.  Valens' air "Racks, gibbets, sword and fire" from Theodora is an especially entertaining one, in large part because of the words.



This was an interesting find.  As the years went on, Vaughan Williams revised and cut his Second Symphony considerably.  This is a recording of the much longer original.  The performance is very good, as is the sound (I bought the SACD version).  I am not as familiar with this symphony as I am with some of this others (especially Nos. 3 and 4), but this performance has definitely made me more curious.  I will have to compare this with performances of the final revision.

Heather