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[JBS]

Boosey and Hawkes' blurb for Egyptian Nights on their item page:

Prokofieff's 1933 stage music for Alexander Tairov's exotic-sounding amalgamation of Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw and Pushkin is one of the wildest and most unexpected products of his imagination. In this suite, he brings together the four contrasted worlds of the drama: sinuous waltz-music for Cleopatra, an almost tragic slow-march for Mark Antony, 'oriental'-style wailing and drumming for the land of Egypt, and brutal military thunder for the might of ancient Rome. The scoring, throughout, is heavily coloured by the sound of tenor saxophone, trumpets and percussion, which gives this astonishingly vivid music a barbaric and strikingly immediate feel.

CPO and some others have recordings of On the Dneiper under its French title, so now I'm wondering how the French got Borysthéne out of Dneiper.

[ritter]

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CPO and some others have recordings of On the Dneiper under its French title, so now I'm wondering how the French got Borysthéne out of Dneiper.

I remember looking that up when I first encountered Sur le Borysthène.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borysthenes

Voilà! 

[JBS]

I remember looking that up when I first encountered Sur le Borysthène.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borysthenes

Voilà! 

Merci!

And Wikipedia's main article on the Dneiper traces it back further to the Scythians

The earlier Graeco-Roman name of the river was Borysthenes (Ancient Greek: Βορυσθενης, romanized: Borusthenēs; Latin: Borysthenes, Ukrainian: Бористен, Борисфен, romanized: Borysten, Borysfen[13]), which was derived from a Scythian name whose form was:

either Baurastāna, meaning "yellow place,"[20]
or Baurustāna meant "place of beavers."[21]
this name was linked to the mantle of beaver skins worn by the Iranic water goddess Arəduuī Sūrā Anāhitā, whose epithet of āp (Avestan: 𐬁𐬞, lit. 'water') was connected to the name of the daughter of the river-god Borysthenēs in Scythian mythology, the Earth-and-Water goddess Api, whose own name meant "water."[21]
Ovid used Borysthenius, an adjective derived from Borysthenes, as the river's poetic Latin name.[22]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dnieper

[Symphonic Addict]

Boosey and Hawkes' blurb for Egyptian Nights on their item page:

Prokofieff's 1933 stage music for Alexander Tairov's exotic-sounding amalgamation of Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw and Pushkin is one of the wildest and most unexpected products of his imagination. In this suite, he brings together the four contrasted worlds of the drama: sinuous waltz-music for Cleopatra, an almost tragic slow-march for Mark Antony, 'oriental'-style wailing and drumming for the land of Egypt, and brutal military thunder for the might of ancient Rome. The scoring, throughout, is heavily coloured by the sound of tenor saxophone, trumpets and percussion, which gives this astonishingly vivid music a barbaric and strikingly immediate feel.

CPO and some others have recordings of On the Dneiper under its French title, so now I'm wondering how the French got Borysthéne out of Dneiper.

The suite from that incidental music doesn't have the best numbers/movements as far as I am concerned. It's more convenient to own the whole work, which has been recorded here (I don't know other complete recordings of it):

[André]

I've been naughty again, but the devil JPC made me do it...













Not all of that is for immediate consumption but I couldn't let pass this sale (35€ for the lot).

[DavidW]

Lajtha is an underrated composer!

[JBS]

One of Arkivmusic's weekend specials seems to be have been curated by @Bachtoven .
 So I went for it.

[Irons]

Boosey and Hawkes' blurb for Egyptian Nights on their item page:

Prokofieff's 1933 stage music for Alexander Tairov's exotic-sounding amalgamation of Shakespeare, Bernard Shaw and Pushkin is one of the wildest and most unexpected products of his imagination. In this suite, he brings together the four contrasted worlds of the drama: sinuous waltz-music for Cleopatra, an almost tragic slow-march for Mark Antony, 'oriental'-style wailing and drumming for the land of Egypt, and brutal military thunder for the might of ancient Rome. The scoring, throughout, is heavily coloured by the sound of tenor saxophone, trumpets and percussion, which gives this astonishingly vivid music a barbaric and strikingly immediate feel.

CPO and some others have recordings of On the Dneiper under its French title, so now I'm wondering how the French got Borysthéne out of Dneiper.

Thanks, most helpful. My initial thoughts of 'Egyptian Nights' are along the lines of Boosey and Hawkes. Composed by no other then Prokofiev, a Prokofiev on steroids. Percussion very much to the fore wild and letting rip, but a "Symphonic suite"? I did not detect much symphonic thought. Wilder for sure but Elgar's "Crown of India suite" came to mind.
 

[Spotted Horses]

The Mitropoulos Box



Grabbed it a few days ago on Amazon when the price was down to $175.

Also, Copland conducts Copland, from Grooves.land, which seems to have the best price at the moment.

[Spotted Horses]

Lajtha is an underrated composer!

I picked up the symphony recordings during an outrageous sale on Naxos downloads (before I did streaming) but I found I did not connect with them.  Maybe time to revisit.

[André]

Collecting Yun's works almost always involves some duplication. I have the Trio and Violin sonata, but the other pieces will be new to me.

[Maestro267]

Lloyd: Piano Concertos Nos. 1-4
Roscoe (1/2), Stott (3/4) (piano)/BBC PO, London SO/Lloyd

[DavidW]

I picked up the symphony recordings during an outrageous sale on Naxos downloads (before I did streaming) but I found I did not connect with them.  Maybe time to revisit.

It has been a while since I've streamed some of his symphonies, so maybe it is also time for me to revisit him.

[Mookalafalas]

DG 51 disk set of LvB Masterpieces. Set is from 2013. Sort of the Mini "complete Box". $40, second hand.

[nico1616]

It is a great time to buy cds second hand.

[JBS]

One of Arkivmusic's weekend specials seems to be have been curated by @Bachtoven .
 So I went for it.

Cancelled this this morning when I realized Arkivmusic had never gotten around to shipping it.

[DavidW]

Cancelled this this morning when I realized Arkivmusic had never gotten around to shipping it.

That sounds like Arkiv, alright.

[Daverz]

Presto is having a 22% off Lyrita sale.  The ones below are available on CD only.

[Brian]

Has anyone seen the BIS complete Bach vocal works box available in the USA for under $375 or so? It's $310 at Europadisc plus $67 shipping, but that extraordinary shipping charge still makes it $100 cheaper than Amazon USA. $475 at Amazon, sold out at ImportCDs and ArkivMusic. I am seeing $310 with free shipping from MovieMars but have never ordered directly from them, only as an Amazon third-party seller...maybe someone here can recommend them?

[JBS]

Has anyone seen the BIS complete Bach vocal works box available in the USA for under $375 or so? It's $310 at Europadisc plus $67 shipping, but that extraordinary shipping charge still makes it $100 cheaper than Amazon USA. $475 at Amazon, sold out at ImportCDs and ArkivMusic. I am seeing $310 with free shipping from MovieMars but have never ordered directly from them, only as an Amazon third-party seller...maybe someone here can recommend them?

What about the European Amazons?
I checked Amazon Japan as most likely to have a cheaper price, but instead they're superexpensive: 99,000 yen plus shipping--works out to about $650.