Purchases Today

[Le Buisson Ardent]

I bought these over the past few days:




And I pre-ordered these:

[Que]

Finally located a reasonably priced copy of the Andante issue of Toscanini's Meistersinger, recorded live at the 1937 Salzburg Festival...

Nice! That series was good but copies are rare.

[DavidW]

@Le Buisson Ardent where did you find the Vanska Mahler box set?  I can't find it anywhere.  I've been waiting for this set.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

@Le Buisson Ardent where did you find the Vanska Mahler box set?  I can't find it anywhere.  I've been waiting for this set.

Oh...I pre-ordered it off of Amazon US. Here's the link:

Vänskä's Mahler cycle on BIS

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I bought these over the past few days:




And I pre-ordered these:

Particularly looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Les Ballets Russes and also on the Aho one.

PD

[DavidW]

Oh...I pre-ordered it off of Amazon US. Here's the link:

Vänskä's Mahler cycle on BIS

Aha!  I searched and couldn't find it before.  I have now preordered it.

[Florestan]

[prémont]

Do you have a link to this?

[Que]

Do you have a link to this?

Hasn't that been superseded by this?

[prémont]

Hasn't that been superseded by this?

Perhaps, but I'm not familiar with the content and was curious to find out how many of the recordings I already own – probably quite a few.

[Brian]

Particularly looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Les Ballets Russes and also on the Aho one.

PD

I'm very curious about the Aho disc of course - and I don't think I've ever heard of Fauré's Penelope??

[Florestan]

Do you have a link to this?

For a general overview of the content, look here:

https://www.pointculture.be/mediatheque/musique-classique/guide-des-instruments-de-la-renaissance-aa4555

For the complete thing, I can let you have the booklet.

[Spotted Horses]

I'm very curious about the Aho disc of course - and I don't think I've ever heard of Fauré's Penelope??

Never heard of Faure's only opera? 

[Brian]

Never heard of Faure's only opera? 

Maybe years ago and forgotten it, but yes 

Just means I have something to look forward to 

[Spotted Horses]

Maybe years ago and forgotten it, but yes 

Just means I have something to look forward to 

I've only heard the overture. Ansermet recording is unequaled, in my opinion.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

I'm very curious about the Aho disc of course - and I don't think I've ever heard of Fauré's Penelope??

I've heard of Pénélope, but haven't listened to it...at least yet.

PD

p.s. Oh! I did buy a record today (LP).  It's an early digital recording (hopefully will sound o.k.).  It's of Beethoven's violin concerto with Kyung Wha Chung/the Vienna Phil./ and Kiril Kondrashin on London.

[JBS]

I'm very curious about the Aho disc of course - and I don't think I've ever heard of Fauré's Penelope??

Searching GMG shows I listened to it in November 2021, but made no comment on what it was like.
My now hazy memory says it sounded like what an opera by Faure would sound like. (Isn't that helpful?)

Since it's not clear from the cover image, the opera covers the concluding books of the Odyssey.

Edit: I did post about it in the Opera thread, but the comment was more discographical than musicological. But if you scroll there's follow up comments from Tsaraslondon and Ritter.
https://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26890.msg1406355.html#msg1406355

[Symphonic Addict]

Never heard of Faure's only opera? 

He actually wrote two operas, the other being Promethée, op. 82 (1900), of which I don't know any recording.

[Spotted Horses]

He actually wrote two operas, the other being Promethée, op. 82 (1900), of which I don't know any recording.

Oooops. I've never heard of that one.

[Le Buisson Ardent]

I'm very curious about the Aho disc of course - and I don't think I've ever heard of Fauré's Penelope??

It seems that Pénélope has been recorded a few times and I saw the Aho disc on Amazon's future releases, so I pre-ordered it immediately after running across it.