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[Florestan]

He could be rather cursi at times TBH (much as I admire his novel)... 

He has one on Schumann as well.

Du vieux jardin dont l'amitié t'a bien reçu,
Entends garçons et nids qui sifflent dans les haies,
Amoureux las de tant d'étapes et de plaies,
Schumann, soldat songeur que la guerre a déçu.
La brise heureuse imprègne, où passent des colombes,
De l'odeur du jasmin l'ombre du grand noyer,
L'enfant lit l'avenir aux flammes du foyer,
Le nuage ou le vent parle à ton coeur des tombes.
Jadis tes pleurs coulaient aux cris du carnaval
Ou mêlaient leur douceur à l'amère victoire
Dont l'élan fou frémit encor dans ta mémoire;
Tu peux pleurer sans fin:
Elle est à ton rival.
Vers Cologne le Rhin roule ses eaux sacrées.
Ah! que gaiement les jours de fête sur ses bords
Vous chantiez! - Mais brisé de chagrin, tu t'endors...
Il pleut des pleurs dans des ténèbres éclairées.
Rêve où la morte vit, où l'ingrate a ta foi,
Tes espoirs sont en fleurs et son crime est en poudre.
Puis éclair déchirant du réveil où la foudre
Te frappe de ouveau pour la première fois.
Coule, einbaume, défile aux tambours ou sois belle!
Schumann, o confident des âmes et des fleurs,
Entre tes quais joyeux fleuve saint des douleurs,
Jardin pensif, affectueux, frais et fidèle,
Où se baisent les Iys, la lune et l'hirondelle,
Armée en marche, enfant qui rêve, femme en pleurs!

[hopefullytrusting]

[Florestan]

[Florestan]

Fancied some (off the beaten track) Haydn...

[DavidW]

@Florestan Emma Kirkby and Haydn cantatas!? Oh wow, I have to listen to that. Was that in the Haydn Edition, and I forgot?

[Florestan]

@Florestan Emma Kirkby and Haydn cantatas!? Oh wow, I have to listen to that. Was that in the Haydn Edition, and I forgot?

If it was, I must have forgotten myself. 

[Florestan]

@DavidW

I just checked the Haydn Brilliant Edition: the songs are performed by Elly Ameling and Joerg Demus and there are no cantatas. The Kirkby disc is therefore not included.

[JBS]

From Amazon US

[DavidW]

I put in a big order yesterday as a birthday treat to myself:

[Florestan]

I put in a big order yesterday as a birthday treat to myself:

Superb haul! And happy birthday, David!

[hopefullytrusting]

[Daverz]

I got this second hand for about $12. All seem to be true gems, and I have very few of them.

  I anticipate 25 hours of great pleasure

Discogs lists the discs:

CD1      Sequentia - Hildegard Von Bingen: Canticle Of Ecstasy
CD2      Giulianio Carmignola - Antonio Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
CD3      Glenn Gould - Jean-Sebastien Bach: The Goldberg Variations
CD4      Gustav Leonhardt - Jean-Sebastian Bach: Saint Matthew Passion
CD5      Yo-Yo Ma - Jean-Sebastian Bach: 3 Suites For Cello Solo
CD6      Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem
CD7      George Szell - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonies N°35, 39 & 40
CD8      Leonard Bernstein - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Symphonies N°5 & 7
CD9      Isaac Stern - Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Trios (Eugene Istomin, Leonard Rose)
CD10      Günter Wand - Franz Schubert: Symphonie N°9 "The Great"
CD11      Jean-Marc Luisada - Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto N°1 (Piano Sextuor Version - Version Pour Sextuor Avec Piano) / Antonin Dvorak: Piano Quintet
CD12      Arthur Rubinstein - Frédéric Chopin: Valzes
CD13      Vesselina Kasarova - Giocchino Rossini: Arias And Duets
CD14      Fritz Reiner - Giocchino Rossini: Overtures
CD15      Jascha Heifetz - Johannes Brahms & Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
CD16      Bruno Walter - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies N°1 & 3
CD17      George Szell - Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies N°8 & 9 "From The New World"
CD18      Charles Munch - Claude Debussy: La Mer, Prélude À L'Après-midi D'Un Faune, Printemps, Nocturne / Jacques Ibert: Escale
CD19      Pierre Boulez - Maurice Ravel: Boléro, La Valse, Ma Mère L'Oye, Menuet Antique, Rapsodie Espagnole
CD20      Vladimir Horowitz - Sergei Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto N°3
CD21      John Williams - Joaquin Rodrigo: Guitar Concerto, Fantasy For A Gentleman / Heitor Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto
CD22      Seiji Ozawa - Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
CD23      Montserrat Caballé - Bellini, Donizetti: Arias
CD24      Carlos Kleiber - New Year's Concert 1989
CD25      Laurent Korcia - «Tzigane» Ravel, Bloch, Enesco, Janacek, Bartok

Some very intelligent choices there, though I would have chosen Bylsma's Bach Suites over Ma's.  I'm not familiar with Lusaida, Kasarova or Korcia.  Also takes some courage to include 2 vocal recitals.  I remember when classical radio avoided vocal music like the plague.

[Mookalafalas]

Some very intelligent choices there, though I would have chosen Bylsma's Bach Suites over Ma's.  I'm not familiar with Lusaida, Kasarova or Korcia.  Also takes some courage to include 2 vocal recitals.  I remember when classical radio avoided vocal music like the plague.

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  Yeah, it's a lovely set, and they're in the more serious sleeves, with names on the spines. I have two 5-CD carousel players in my office. I like to load 'em up and let 'em play all day

[Judith]

Just ordered

Maurizio Pollini
Performing

Schumann
Fantasy in C
Arabesque

Liszt
Sonata in B Minor
La Lugubre Gondola

Read the book Franz Liszt by Oliver Hilmes  where it kept mentioning the B Minor Sonata. Although I have one recording which is a BBC one, I wanted another pianist that was more familiar.

[The new erato]

Just took advantage of the ongoing Hyperion sale on presto to supplement my early music collection with some missing Brabant ensemble releases:

Brumel: Missa de beata virgine & motets 
de Févin: Missa Ave Maria & Missa Salve sancta parens
Guerrero: Magnificat, Lamentations &
Pierre de La Rue: Missa Nuncqua fue pena mayor & Missa Inviolata 
Jacquet of Mantua: Missa Surge Petre & motets

The Guerrero is a Spanish production.

[Kalevala]

I put in a big order yesterday as a birthday treat to myself:

A belated happy birthday!

K

[Papy Oli]

I put in a big order yesterday as a birthday treat to myself:

What I have listened to of this one so far is top notch. Birthday greetings, Sir!

[Brian]

Amazon US pushed the Oistrakh Big Box release date from Oct. 18 to Nov. 1. (I preordered it and got a reschedule notice.)

[vandermolen]

Ravel:

[Maestro267]

Berg: Violin Concerto
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
Ravel: Tzigane
Perlman (violin)/New York PO/Ozawa

Beethoven: Missa solemnis
Söderström (soprano), Höffgen (alto), Kmentt (tenor), Talvela (bass)
New Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus/Klemperer