Purchases Today

[Brian]

Pashchenko is good.

[Harry]

Ordered today

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God, you people have purchased so much since I've been gone! Has COVID made you all crazy?!?!? Oh wait...nevermind don't answer that, I already knew you were all crazy.

I haven't really bought any classical lately except for this set, which I told myself I wasn't going to buy, but the price was rather attractive, so I couldn't refuse:

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The symphony is conducted by Kosler, the tone poems by Chalabala. Both are fabulous IMO, very idiosyncratic compared to 'western' versions of the works.

Oh, this looks rather nice, André. I may have to pick it up myself as I'm a sucker for more locally-colored Dvořák performances.

[Mirror Image]

There is a Chandos sale at Arkive Music.  I ordered the following:

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Pounds the table! Such great music here, although I admittedly don't know Il prigioniero, so please let me know what you think of this opera once you've heard it.

[The new erato]

I enjoyed that very much! 
Still on my wishlist, but the Spotify trials were very successful indeed!

Sounded like top drawer Huelgas.

Q

Yes it is top drawer.

And just finished listening to the Cut Circle discs and found the set very good.

[The new erato]

Recent arrivals from jpc. I've listened to the last disc and this is very fine, both music and recording.

[Que]

Ordered yesterday from Dutch (!) Amazon:







Q

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Hit a used CD sale yesterday (with cheap, cheap prices so decided to do some exploring):

On BIS:

Roland Pöntinen Plays Russian piano music (Stravinsky:  Petrushka - Scriabin:  Sonata No. 7, etc.) [a pianist new to me]
James MacMillan:  Symphony No. 2 - Cumnock Fair - Sinfonietta with the Scottish CO
Wilhelm Stenhammar:  Serenade, Opus 31 with the Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi
Wilhelm Stenhammar:  Snöfrid - Intermezzo from "Sången", Midvinter - _ "Lodolezzi sjunger", Suite with GSO/N. Järvi

on Naxos:

Ernö Dohnányi - Konzerstück for Cello and Orchestra; Sonata for Cello and Piano; Ruralia Hungarica with Maria Kliegel, cello and Jenõ Jandó, piano, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia and Michael Halasz
Anton Arensky - Chamber Music:  Piano Quintet, String Quartet No. 2 and Pianot Trio No. 1 with Spectrum Concerts Berlin [New]
Alexander Zemlinsky:  Cello Sonata; Three Pieces for Cello and Piano; Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano with Other Müller, cello, Ernst Ottensamer, clarinet and Christopher Hinterhuber, piano
Carl Nielsen:  Violin Concerto; Clarinet Concerto and Flute Concerto:  Jonathan Carney, violin; Kevin Banks, clarinet; Gareth Davies, flute with Bournemouth SO and Kees Bakels

Gimell

Josquin:  Missa Pange lingua; Missa La sol fa re mi with the Tallis Scholars with Peter Phillips


on EMI:

Brahms:  Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 with Kyung-Wha Chung and Peter Frankl (purchased elsewhere but still quite inexpensive)
Martha Argerich and Friends (Live from Lugano 2005)

Praga

Josef Suk:  Asrael Symphony with Prague Radio Sym. Orch.  and Vladimir Valek

Marco Polo

Enescu:  String Octet in C, Op. 7; Distuor for Winds in D with Winds of the Iasi Moldova Phil. with Ion Baciu

Alto

Nikolai Myaskovsky (finally Jeffrey!):  Complete Symphonic Works Vol 13 (Sym. No. 17, 21 and Salutatory Overture) with Russian Fed. Acad. SO and Svetlanov [Olympia]

RCA

Panufnik:  Sym. No. 9; Piano Concerto with Ewa Poblocka, London SO and Sir Andrzej Panufnik

Telarc

Dohnanyi:  Sym. No. 1 with Leon Botstein and the London PO
Vaughan Williams:  Sym. No. 2 and the Lark Ascending with Barry Griffiths, violin, Previn and the Royal Phil. Orch.

Erato

Poulenc:  Concerto for 2 Pianos with Duchable and Collard, pianos and Rotterdams PO with James Conlon

Vox

Glinka:  SQ No. 2; Myaskovsky:  SQ No. 13; Taneyev Trio No. 2 with the Gosteleradio Quartet

Cirrus (never heard of this label before--Do others know of it here?)

Sibelius:  Finlandia with the LSO and Rozhdestvensky (too tempting to pass on it!)

Somm

Chamber music by Jacques Ibert with the Bridge String Quartet with Michael Dussek, Bryn Lewis and Richard Alsop

Helios

Frank Bridge:  Phantasie Trio, Phantasy Quartet and Piano Trio No. 2 with the Dartington Trio with Patrick Ireland

Supraphon

Josef Suk, violin:  Dvorak Miniatures, Bagatelles, Terzetto; Suk:  Piano Quartet

Unicorn-Kanchana

Peter Maxwell Davies:  Into the Labyrinth; Sinfonietta Accademica with Neil Mackie, tenor, Scottish CO, cond. by Davies

E Classical Express /Harmonia Mundi

Prokofiev:  Piano Music - romeo and Juliet and Cinderella with Frederic Chiu, piano

MusiFrance (Radio France)

Dutilleux:  Mystère de l'Instant; Métaboles; Timbres, Espace, Mouvement ou "La Nuit Etoilée" with Collegium Musicum, Paul Sacher, Orch. National de France, M. Rostropovich

DG

Anna Netrebko:  Russian album with Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre and V. Gergiev
Bela Bartok:  Concerto for Orchestra; 4 Orchestral Pieces; Orchesterstücke, Op. 12 with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago SO

Sony

Witold Lutoslawski:  Sym. No. 4, Les Espaces du sommeil, Sym. No. 3 with John Shirley-Quirk, baritone and Los Angeles Phil. with Esa-Pekka Salonen

Ondine

Kaija Saariaho:  Private Gardens with Camilla Hoitenga, Florent Jodelet, Anssi Karttunen and Dawn Upshaw

London

Paul Hindemith:  Mathis der Maler; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Trauermusik with San Francisco Sym. and Herbert Blomstedt


Chandos

Dohnanyi:  Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ruralia Hungarica with Howard Shelly and BBC Phil. Matthias Bamert

The End!

PD

[vandermolen]

Hit a used CD sale yesterday (with cheap, cheap prices so decided to do some exploring):

On BIS:

Roland Pöntinen Plays Russian piano music (Stravinsky:  Petrushka - Scriabin:  Sonata No. 7, etc.) [a pianist new to me]
James MacMillan:  Symphony No. 2 - Cumnock Fair - Sinfonietta with the Scottish CO
Wilhelm Stenhammar:  Serenade, Opus 31 with the Gothenburg SO/Neeme Järvi
Wilhelm Stenhammar:  Snöfrid - Intermezzo from "Sången", Midvinter - _ "Lodolezzi sjunger", Suite with GSO/N. Järvi

on Naxos:

Ernö Dohnányi - Konzerstück for Cello and Orchestra; Sonata for Cello and Piano; Ruralia Hungarica with Maria Kliegel, cello and Jenõ Jandó, piano, Nicolaus Esterhazy Sinfonia and Michael Halasz
Anton Arensky - Chamber Music:  Piano Quintet, String Quartet No. 2 and Pianot Trio No. 1 with Spectrum Concerts Berlin [New]
Alexander Zemlinsky:  Cello Sonata; Three Pieces for Cello and Piano; Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano with Other Müller, cello, Ernst Ottensamer, clarinet and Christopher Hinterhuber, piano
Carl Nielsen:  Violin Concerto; Clarinet Concerto and Flute Concerto:  Jonathan Carney, violin; Kevin Banks, clarinet; Gareth Davies, flute with Bournemouth SO and Kees Bakels

Gimell

Josquin:  Missa Pange lingua; Missa La sol fa re mi with the Tallis Scholars with Peter Phillips


on EMI:

Brahms:  Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-3 with Kyung-Wha Chung and Peter Frankl (purchased elsewhere but still quite inexpensive)
Martha Argerich and Friends (Live from Lugano 2005)

Praga

Josef Suk:  Israel Symphony with Prague Radio Sym. Orch.  and Vladimir Valek

Marco Polo

Enescu:  String Octet in C, Op. 7; Distuor for Winds in D with Winds of the Iasi Moldova Phil. with Ion Baciu

Alto

Nikolai Myaskovsky (final Jeffrey!):  Complete Symphonic Works Vol 13 (Sym. No. 17, 21 and Salutatory Overture) with Russian Fed. Acad. SO and Svetlanov [Olympia]

RCA

Panufnik:  Sym. No. 9; Piano Concerto with Ewa Poblocka, London SO and Sir Andrzej Panufnik

Talarc

Dohnanyi:  Sym. No. 1 with Leon Botstein and the London PO
Vaughan Williams:  Sym. No. 2 and the Lark Ascending with Barry Griffiths, violin, Previn and the Royal Phil. Orch.

Erato

Poulenc:  Concerto for 2 Pianos with Duchable and Collard, pianos and Rotterdams PO with James Conlon

Vox

Glinka:  SQ No. 2; Myaskovsky:  SQ No. 13; Taneyev Trio No. 2 with the Gosteleradio Quartet

Cirrus (never heard of this label before--Do others know of it here?)

Sibelius:  Finlandia with the LSO and Rozhdestvensky (too tempting to pass on it!)

Somm

Chamber music by Jacques Ibert with the Bridge String Quartet with Michael Dussek, Bryn Lewis and Richard Alsop

Helios

Frank Bridge:  Phantasie Trio, Phantasy Quartet and Piano Trio No. 2 with the Dartington Trio with Patrick Ireland

Supraphon

Josef Suk, violin:  Dvorak Miniatures, Bagatelles, Terzetto; Suk:  Piano Quartet

Unicorn-Kanchana

Peter Maxwell Daview:  Into the Labyrinth; Sinfonietta Accademica with Neil Mackie, tenor, Scottish CO, cond. by Davies

E Classical Express /Harmonia Mundi

Prokofiev:  Piano Music - romeo and Juliet and Cinderella with Frederic Chiu, piano

MusiFrance (Radio France)

Dutilleux:  Mystère de l'Instant; Métaboles; Timbres, Espace, Mouvement ou "La Nuit Etoilée" with Collegium Musicum, Paul Sacher, Orch. National de France, M. Rostropovich

DG

Anna Netrebko:  Russian album with Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre and V. Gergiev
Bela Bartok:  Concerto for Orchestra; 4 Orchestral Pieces; Orchesterstücke, Op. 12 with Pierre Boulez and the Chicago SO

Sony

Witold Lutoslawski:  Sym. No. 4, Les Espaces du sommeil, Sym. No. 3 with John Shirley-Quirk, baritone and Los Angeles Phil. with Esa-Pekka Salonen

Ondine

Kaija Saariaho:  Private Gardens with Camilla Hoitenga, Florent Jodelet, Anssi Karttunen and Dawn Upshaw

London

Paul Hindemith:  Mathis der Maler; Symphonic Metamorphosis; Trauermusik with San Francisco Sym. and Herbert Blomstedt

The End!

PD

Chandos

Dohnanyi:  Piano Concerto No. 1 and Ruralia Hungarica with Howard Shelly and BBC Phil. Matthias Bamert

What a great selection PD! Naturally I'm delighted by the Miaskovsky choice. 

[Pohjolas Daughter]

What a great selection PD! Naturally I'm delighted by the Miaskovsky choice. 

Just went back after noticing some (more) typos to correct them. 

Thanks!  Hopefully, I chose wisely--particularly re Russian composers and their compositions which I don't know much about which ones are supposed to be their best!  I did double-check my Miaskovsky list (your suggestions re symphonies) which I had put on my iPhone    The Suk (both the Joseph and the Praga ones) were no-brainers....figured that I'd be safe with the Boulez/Bartok one...have heard the Netrebko Russian album before too.    The Macmillan and Saariaho ones:  don't know the works, but I've heard some of their works before and enjoyed them.  Also, heard good things about the Lugano sets with Argerich before.  Nielsen, I like but didn't know his concertos.

Looks like Cirrus (made in Germany) licensed the Sibelius/Rozhdestvensky recording from EMI; hopefully, the transfer was decent?  I haven't heard anything about Roz.'s recordings of Sibelius, but am hoping that it's good!  It also has Valse Triste, Karelia Suite, Swan of Tuonela and P.D. on it. 

PD

[André]

I'm sure you'll love the Stenhammar discs, PD !

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I'm sure you'll love the Stenhammar discs, PD !

I have a set called "Five Nordic Masters" (BIS) which I knew had some Stenhammar on it.  It looks like I duplicated the Serenade, Opus 31 CD.    Also, the Interlude from the cantata "The Song" (on another CD).  The Snöfrid, Midwinter and Lodolezzi Sings are new works to me however.  Looks like I'll need to find a new home for the Serenade disc.  Oh, well.  At least it was only $1 (which was the same for all of the other CDs except for one which was purchased elsewhere for $3).

Looking forward to the exploring, so thanks André!

PD

[Handelian]

Emmanuelle Haim and various duettists. Sublime!

[MusicTurner]

That's a lot of fine and interesting CDs, 'PD'. Congrats!

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Emmanuelle Haim and various duettists. Sublime!

Bet that that is!  I like Emmanuelle Haim's recordings. 

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Oh, this looks rather nice, André. I may have to pick it up myself as I'm a sucker for more locally-colored Dvořák performances.

I've enjoyed all of the Praga discs that I've purchased in the past:  great sound and nice performances.  I have a handful of ones with the Prazak Quartet.

PD

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I've enjoyed all of the Praga discs that I've purchased in the past:  great sound and nice performances.  I have a handful of ones with the Prazak Quartet.

PD

Yes, they're an excellent quartet.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

That's a lot of fine and interesting CDs, 'PD'. Congrats!

Thanks MT! 

PD

[Harry]

As an addition to some JPC orders a few days ago.