Recordings That You Are Considering

[j winter]

Besides Amazon, I took a quick look on eBay and there are bunches of them there for sale at reasonable prices--as long as you don't want the hybrid-SACD ones on Esoteric.    

PD

Thanks for checking!    I'm hoping to avoid hunting down the individual CDs, since they've been boxed up a couple of times before (I just missed the boat).  Hopefully they'll come back at some point -- goodness knows I've got plenty of Haydn to listen to in the meantime...

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Thanks for checking!    I'm hoping to avoid hunting down the individual CDs, since they've been boxed up a couple of times before (I just missed the boat).  Hopefully they'll come back at some point -- goodness knows I've got plenty of Haydn to listen to in the meantime...

You're welcome.

I found at least this image of a set: 

And good luck!

PD

[Madiel]

I already know I regard Weichert's op.87 preludes and fugues as one of the best available. The question is whether I need to own it on disc when I already have 2 of the others I consider amongst the best available.

[Brian]

Some time in the next few months, the long-established duo of Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello, and Alexandre Tharaud, piano, will be tackling Marin Marais.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I already know I regard Weichert's op.87 preludes and fugues as one of the best available. The question is whether I need to own it on disc when I already have 2 of the others I consider amongst the best available.

1. Very good set.
2. The price will go up and/or it will become oop.
3. In general, a regret of not buying a likable thing is 2-3 times more painful than the regret of buying a thing you didn't like.
4. If you buy it and don't like it, probably you can sell it for a good price.

[prémont]

Some time in the next few months, the long-established duo of Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello, and Alexandre Tharaud, piano, will be tackling Marin Marais.

Marais on piano?   

My Gosh, I need a break.   

[Madiel]

1. Very good set.
2. The price will go up and/or it will become oop.
3. In general, a regret of not buying a likable thing is 2-3 times more painful than the regret of buying a thing you didn't like.
4. If you buy it and don't like it, probably you can sell it for a good price.

You make some compelling arguments. Especially as the set is already a bit hard to get AND I'd set up an alert somewhere for if it became available.

Besides, I don't own a recording of the Fantastic Dances. That's several minutes of unique music. 

[Que]

Marais on piano?   

My Gosh, I need a break.   

I feel you!   
On the other hand I find the recent trend of "mainstream" performers moving (back) into Baroque and sometimes even Renaissance repertoire quite interesting.

[Mandryka]

[vers la flamme]

Interesting program. I like the Kurtág work. Don't know the others.

[JBS]

Interesting program. I like the Kurtág work. Don't know the others.

I may have heard the Schulhoff, I know I've never heard the Kurtag. I'd get it for them. The Dvorak (as opposed to the potential of a third 20th century work) would be a disincentive. [I'm sure it's a good performance, but why put it on this program? Was DG afraid it wouldn't sell otherwise?]

[Jo498]

It's one of the most elusive Hagen disc (second to the Brahms quintet with Paul Gulda), unless one wants to pay full price or more for a used copy (which I am not going to do). Until recently I didn't even know it existed... otherwise I'd probably have bought it in the early 2000s when I bought almost everything by them.

[Mandryka]

It's one of the most elusive Hagen disc (second to the Brahms quintet with Paul Gulda), unless one wants to pay full price or more for a used copy (which I am not going to do). Until recently I didn't even know it existed... otherwise I'd probably have bought it in the early 2000s when I bought almost everything by them.

Well I found a copy for less than a tenner on amazon in the UK and so have ordered. The interesting thing is the Dvorak. I've heard their Dvorak op 96 and felt as though it was a failed experiment, but clearly they feel as though they have got something to say about this composer so, what do I know? I should listen to the op 96 again and try to make sense of it.

[Jo498]

IIRC I found their Dvorak op.96 good but not particularly noteworthy. (But op.105 is a rather different piece, much less reliant on folk/bohemian idioms I think.)
It's also one of their earliest discs, still with Annette Bik on 2nd violin whereas the 2001 disc shown above is roughly contemporary with their great Beethoven op.131, 130/133 etc.  According to discogs they recorded only 4 LPs/CDs in 1986-87 before Rainer Schmidt replaced Bik, namely the Dvorak/Kodaly, Mozart/Weber clarinet quintets, last two Mozart quartets and Schubert D 804/703/87. (And the "Trout" already 1984 but that obviously has no 2nd violin, so only the 3 Hagen siblings)
(I am not sure if there are any official recordings with the "oldest" (i.e. youngest, mostly still teenaged) ensemble of 1981 with another Hagen sister playing 2nd violin.)

[Anooj]

What are the pros and cons of each set? Which would you ultimately recommend?

[Florestan]

What are the pros and cons of each set? Which would you ultimately recommend?

You can't go wrong with any of them, yet a true GMGer would get both. I hope this helps. 

[Mandryka]

It's also one of their earliest discs, still with Annette Bik on 2nd violin whereas the 2001 disc shown above is roughly contemporary with their great Beethoven op.131, 130/133 etc.

Ah, I didn't know that - I'm really looking forward to getting it now. If you want me to let you have the music files when it arrives PM me.

[Que]

What are the pros and cons of each set? Which would you ultimately recommend?

I did an extensive survey a while ago,  this was my shortlist:

[vers la flamme]

I personally love the Brilliant Classics set which features Pieter-Jan Belder and his ensemble whose name I cannot recall at this time.

[Mandryka]

It's one of the most elusive Hagen disc (second to the Brahms quintet with Paul Gulda),

What is that one?