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[Pohjolas Daughter]

HAHA

Well, let me rephrase this then...do you need to buy (or make) more shelving in there?     

PD

[JBS]

Pre-order from Amazon
[US release date is September 8]

[vandermolen]

Well, let me rephrase this then...do you need to buy (or make) more shelving in there?     

PD

Yes, but let's not go there 

You'll be pleased to hear PD that I'm currently having a purge of my book and CD collection and have been making several trips to local charity shops.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Yes, but let's not go there 

You'll be pleased to hear PD that I'm currently having a purge of my book and CD collection and have been making several trips to local charity shops.

Congrats!  A while ago, I started doing a major purge (including going through my cookbooks--a major stumbling block for me)...need to get back to it!  So, you're not alone. 

[Irons]

Yes, but let's not go there 

You'll be pleased to hear PD that I'm currently having a purge of my book and CD collection and have been making several trips to local charity shops.

A cause of regret. Mark my words.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

A cause of regret. Mark my words.

Well, it could be a combination of duplicates and things that one has listened to at least a few times and decided that one didn't like it/them.  Regarding books...could be a number of reasons.  The older that I get, the more that I feel like I don't want to be owned by my "stuff".  Still, it isn't always easy to let go and also to decide what you don't want to keep.  Just some thoughts. 

[vandermolen]

A cause of regret. Mark my words.

Indeed. I'll probably end up buying them all back from the charity shop 

[andolink]

Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695-1764): Violin Concertos & Concerti Grossi
Isabelle Faust, violin
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini

[vandermolen]

S/H Kyle's fault! 

[Madiel]

Pre-order from Amazon
[US release date is September 8]

Any explanation for what currently seems like a rather silly title?

[JBS]

Any explanation for what currently seems like a rather silly title?

The Amazon blurb

The violin concerto accompanied Vivaldi throughout his life. And more than any other genre, the circa 220 extant violin concertos reflect the biographical and professional events relating to the "Red Priest". Hence the idea – proposed, we believe, for the first time on disc – of recording 18 concertos, divided into three "seasons" that illustrate the evolution of Vivaldi's art through the three different stages of his career: the early years, his maturity and the late period. Giuliano Carmignola grew up with Vivaldi's music, first in his own family and subsequently in various collaborations with ensembles specialised in the Baroque repertoire, leaving us recordings that still today stand as landmarks in the Vivaldi discography. The project of the Three Seasons offers an intriguing parallel between these two inimitable virtuoso violinists by assembling 18 Vivaldi masterpieces which Giuliano Carmignola has carefully selected and never before recorded, including a world premiere recording, that of Concerto RV 289. This box set of three CDs wishes to be a summa not only of Vivaldi's art, but also of Carmignola's, interweaving their personal histories and careers. The violinist is here accompanied by Riccardo Doni, directing the Accademia dell'Annunciata, musicians with whom he has enjoyed an over-ten-year collaboration.

[Madiel]

The Amazon blurb

Ta. So they could have easily gone for something like "eras", but... it's Vivaldi. So a life has "seasons". I should've known.

[Papy Oli]

A couple of boxsets.

- used on Ebay:



- FLAC for £10 on Presto:

[Florestan]

[ritter]

Some rarities there (of which I have some as single releases, e.g. Zaira), and some interesting-looking recordings of the major works. I Puritani with Mariella Devia looks particularly attractive. I'm sure you'll enjoy that set, Andrei.

TD:

Last order from an Amazon UK MP seller, to be delivered to Inverness and then brought to me next week:



Mainly for the late (1950) Andante religioso, an orchestral arrangement of a movement of the 1946 Quartet for Trombones and Tuba. Also, the intriguingly titled Fonctionnaire MCMXII (from 1923) should be interesting.

[Florestan]

Some rarities there (of which I have some as single releases, e.g. Zaira), and some interesting-looking recordings of the major works. I Puritani with Mariella Devia looks particularly attractive. I'm sure you'll enjoy that set, Andrei.

I surely will, Rafael. I already have the Zaira as well but it's the only duplicate. Besides the big hits, I am also keen on hearing Adelson e Salvini and Bianca e Fernando as I am currently reading Bellini's biography by Stelios Galatopoulos and he provides interesting and balanced analyses of these early operas that made me want to hear them.

[ritter]

I surely will, Rafael. I already have the Zaira as well but it's the only duplicate. Besides the big hits, I am also keen on hearing Adelson e Salvini and Bianca e Fernando as I am currently reading Bellini's biography by Stelios Galatopoulos and he provides interesting and balanced analyses of these early operas that made me want to hear them.

Nice. I may be the rabid Wagnerian, Boulezian, and all that, but I adore Bellini. Seeing La Sonnambula live (with the extraordinary Nadine Serra) last winter was wonderful!

I also visited the museum at Bellini's birth house in Catania years ago. That was lovely...

[Florestan]

I may be the rabid Wagnerian, Boulezian, and all that, but I adore Bellini.

You are definitely not a rabid Wagnerian. Trust me, I know. I once met and talked with such a guy. For him, all belcanto (Bellini included) was worthless trash, a music, and I quote, on the threshold of imbecility. Furthermore, anything scored for a smaller orchestra than the Wagnerian one was a bore, but not eveything scored for a giant orchestra was interesting, because he found Berlioz dull and claimed that he (Berlioz, that is) was not able to impress the posterity and impose his name on it. He waxed poetic about the literary and philosophical qualities of Wagner's libretti, crowning his tirades with the remark that, and I quote again, they are born out of the magic of the authentic, ie German, Romanticism. He also claimed, in all seriousness, that Wagner's music inspired the valiant and heroic German soldiers in two world wars. He dismissed Verdi with the remark that, if you take the voices out of Wagner you are still left with great orchestral music, while if you do the same thing with Verdi you are left with no music at all. At this point, I couldn't endure anymore and replied that this proves that Verdi was by far the greater operatic composer of the two, because opera is about singing, not about symphonies. I also pointed to him Wagner's praise of Bellini and Spontini, of which he was completely unaware, and his initial praise of, and overall indebtedness to, Meyerbeer, of which he was also completely unaware. Finally, I gave him the coup de grâce by telling him that the "effects wihout causes" of which Wagner accused Meyerbeer applies perfectly, and more aptly, to Wagner himself, what with his invisible orchestra. Presently he changed the subject and eventually bowed out of the conversation.

Seeing La Sonnambula live (with the extraordinary Nadine Serra) last winter was wonderful!

I also visited the museum at Bellini's birth house in Catania years ago. That was lovely...

Great! I envy you. 

[Madiel]

I confess that during my one experience of the Ring cycle, my favourite bit of almost every Act was the first music before the singers came in and ruined it. 

[JBS]

$400 on Amazon! I hope you paid less!