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[Kalevala]

John Mackey has been an effective concert band composer over the last ten years.
Gia has a issued a series of CD's dedicated to a specific composer. I have previously purchased the one dedicated to Donald Grantham.
Although I already have a few of these works on other CD's, this fills in most of my gaps.

FOLLOW UP NOTE: The work that has been really blowing me away is The Frozen Cathedral.  I am on the fourth listen through 

The title is certainly intriguing [The first thing that popped into my mind was a work by Debussy.].  I'll see if I can find some place/way to listen to it.

K

[arpeggio]

I served with the 75th Army Band out of Fort Belvoir from 1969 through 1971.  Bassoonists were very rare in the military at that time.  The bassoonist for the Band was being discharged.  I had played some bassoon in college.  I passed the audition by just being able to put the horn together.

I started to look for a teacher.  At that time Truman was the principal bassoonists with the United States Air Force Band.  He was my first bassoon teacher.

After he got out of the Air Force, he was accepted into the National Symphony. 

He retired as assistant principal bassoonist a few years ago.

[André]

@ Duke Bluebeard: Die Gezeichneten is a wonderful opera. Enjoy !

[ChamberNut]

I hope you enjoy this set as much as I do. The early string symphonies are delightfully inventive!

[Duke Bluebeard]

I hope you enjoy this set as much as I do. The early string symphonies are delightfully inventive!

Thanks! I also own a set with Ross Pople (and the London Festival Orchestra) on Hyperion, but I was in the market for another set and Masur is a well-noted Mendelssohn conductor, so I figured why not give it a shot. Definitely looking forward to digging into it.

[Duke Bluebeard]

@ Duke Bluebeard: Die Gezeichneten is a wonderful opera. Enjoy !

Thank you, André. I own the Decca recording of it with Lothar Zagrosek at the helm. But the Conlon recording sounded even more enticing to me based on a few excerpts that I listened to online.

[Duke Bluebeard]

Just bought:



I love Dohnányi's recordings of Wozzeck and Schoenberg's Erwartung, so buying this Lulu seemed like a no-brainer. Anja Silja is featured in all of these performances.

[arpeggio]

It is sad that many of the PDQ Bach Albums are out of print.

I found the following on Ebay:

[André]

Thank you, André. I own the Decca recording of it with Lothar Zagrosek at the helm. But the Conlon recording sounded even more enticing to me based on a few excerpts that I listened to online.

I haven't heard the Conlon recording. I have Zagrosek's as well as a wonderful filmed production from the Salzburg Festival under Nagano with the delicious Anne Schwanewilms. She makes the character of Carlotta the real centre of the opera. And that voice !

[Duke Bluebeard]

I haven't heard the Conlon recording. I have Zagrosek's as well as a wonderful filmed production from the Salzburg Festival under Nagano with the delicious Anne Schwanewilms. She makes the character of Carlotta the real centre of the opera. And that voice !

Ah, yes. You've recommended the Nagano DVD to me before and I'd go for it, but, in all honesty, I'm not much of a fan of watching opera. Now, if I was in the audience I would certainly be whistling a different tune. I wish that Nagano performance was on CD. I'd buy it in a heartbeat!

[Duke Bluebeard]

Just bought:



I already own the Klemperer orchestral box set from Warner, so I might as well go with the companion set as well. From this set, I'm definitely interested in the Beethoven Fidelio and Missa Solemnis (the Wagner, too, and it'll be nice to have a newly remastered Ein deutsches Requiem as well). I may actually end up liking the Bach and Mozart included in this set, which, if I do, it'll probably send me into a deep rabbit hole from which I'll never be physically seen again.

[Daverz]

Just bought:



I already own the Klemperer orchestral box set from Warner, so I might as well go with the companion set as well. From this set, I'm definitely interested in the Beethoven Fidelio and Missa Solemnis (the Wagner, too, and it'll be nice to have a newly remastered Ein deutsches Requiem as well). I may actually end up liking the Bach and Mozart included in this set, which, if I do, it'll probably send me into a deep rabbit hole from which I'll never be physically seen again.

I've always liked Klemp's Magic Flute.  The Missa Solemnis seemed less noisy in the new remastering.

[Florestan]

[Duke Bluebeard]

Cancelled the Klemperer box set --- there's just too much in it that I don't want, so placed an order with JPC instead:



And this set, which will be my first-ever Jordi Savall purchase -

[DavidW]

I hope you enjoy this set as much as I do. The early string symphonies are delightfully inventive!

I have that set and it is phenomenal!

[André]

Korstick's Liszt Années de pèlerinage are wonderful. The Masur Missa is very fine, too, with vg soloists. Expect fast tempi.

I look forward to read what you make of Korstick's Brahms concertos. I haven't bought the set but reviews seem to differ sharply.

[Duke Bluebeard]

Korstick's Liszt Années de pèlerinage are wonderful. The Masur Missa is very fine, too, with vg soloists. Expect fast tempi.

I look forward to read what you make of Korstick's Brahms concertos. I haven't bought the set but reviews seem to differ sharply.

Will do, André. Good to know I made some good choices. As for sharply contrasted reviews of Korstick's Brahms, my favorite set of Brahms' PCs --- Schiff and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment on ECM, has received reviews that have praised it to the hills and others that basically condemn it, but, for me, it was absolute love on first-listen. If Korstick's Brahms divides listeners, then it's going to be, if anything, an enjoyable listening experience.

[JBS]

If you don't have the rest of the Mozartists recordings, go back and add them on to that order.

[Madiel]

 

Nice. I've listened to the great majority of these, they became my go-to option for streaming the early operas. Very pleasing indeed.

[hopefullytrusting]

Norway, both old and new: