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[akebergv]

Still in rock music there are rare boxes that will never reappear, Bowie's Station to Station super deluxe box, Neil Young's Archives boxes etc... I am sure these are great investments, but personally I do not see my collection as an investment, it is just for my pleasure.

Actually the Neil Young Archives I box WAS recently reissued, and is widely available right now (but only the CD version, while the Blu-ray version, which I own, has not been reissued and probably never will).

[Der lächelnde Schatten]

John, I'm going to hold you to this one!     Though I just noticed a caveat(?)..now what does "pretty much" mean?  Obfuscation might be a better word to use.

K

Hehe...well, I'm not ruling out the possibility that my parents might be getting me something for my birthday or Christmas. If they do indeed ask me what I would like as a present, I'll kindly point them to Koopman's box set of Bach's cantatas. I know I already own the Suzuki, but I'd like to have another one for prosperity.

[ritter]

I finally got hold of an affordable copy of Les Rarissimes de Georges Tzipine.



The contents is:

- Florent Schmitt: Psaume XLVII (with Denise Duval)
- Albert Roussel: Psaume LXXX (with Michel Sénéchal)
- Albert Roussel: Le Bardit des Francs
- Germaine Tailleferre: Ouverture
- Arthur Honegger: Prélude, fugue et postlude
- Francis Poulenc: Sécheresses
- Louis Durey: Le printemps au fond de la mer (with Duval)
- Georges Auric: Phèdre
- Milhaud: Symphonie n°2

[André]

Great, Rafael ! This set is a treasure trove of exciting performances of unfairly neglected music.

[André]

Live from Carnegie Hall, a 1960 performance with Maureen Forrester and Richard Lewis (same soloists as in the Reiner recording on RCA).

[vandermolen]

Been after this for a long time and found it relatively inexpensively from Japan - it includes the very moving 3rd Symphony:

[Florestan]

Been after this for a long time and found it relatively inexpensively from Japan - it includes the very moving 3rd Symphony:

Every time I see the name of this composer I chuckle: moroi in Romanian means ghost or werewolf. 

[vandermolen]

Every time I see the name of this composer I chuckle: moroi in Romanian means ghost or werewolf. 

Excellent - reminds me of one of my favourite CDs!

[vandermolen]

Gipps: Symphony No.5 etc (April release in UK):

[hopefullytrusting]

[André]

Robin Holloway's take at orchestrating Brahms' epic piano quintet op.34.



Sutermeister's fantasy-opera The Black Spider.


Little known 20th century string orchestra works. Suspense ...

[Madiel]

A few hours later... oh what the heck, I might as well get most of the Mozart I'm likely to ever want.



The copy of the main box available on eBay is in Australia and to my mind very reasonably priced. Which enabled me to justify spending a bit more than I normally would on a single disc for the other one, we must have completeness.

I spent about 30 seconds re-sampling on iTunes before going "oh that's right, these sound fantastic don't they". And Vegh includes the marches that open or close some of the serenades.

The Posthorn has turned up in today's mail, completing the set.

People always gave the impression that this wasn't in the Capriccio series because Vegh had "already" done it for Philips, but in fact he recorded it halfway through recording the Capriccio series. Bang in the middle.

Which seems really strange.

[JBS]

The Posthorn has turned up in today's mail, completing the set.

People always gave the impression that this wasn't in the Capriccio series because Vegh had "already" done it for Philips, but in fact he recorded it halfway through recording the Capriccio series. Bang in the middle.

Which seems really strange.

Some sort of exclusive contract with Philips? Or a one-off for Philips which Capriccio didn't want to compete with (any sign it was recorded at a music festival or some special event?)

TD
From the public library's used CD/DVD sale rack.
Grand total of 500 pennies.


Tiefland is 1957 mono from Vienna.

[Madiel]

Some sort of exclusive contract with Philips? Or a one-off for Philips which Capriccio didn't want to compete with (any sign it was recorded at a music festival or some special event?)

It just says it was recorded in Salzburg (which as much as many of the Capriccio volumes say, though some specify the particular location or weren't in Salzburg).

Different recording crew, and to my ears a slightly different sound. But really, it almost feels like Philips swooped in after the first couple of volumes were released and said "hi there, we really like what we're hearing, do you want to do one for us for better money?"

[Florestan]

[ChamberNut]

I'm wondering if your Rossini collection is larger than my entire collection? 

[Florestan]

I'm wondering if your Rossini collection is larger than my entire collection? 

I don't think so but I'm working on it. 

[Florestan]

I don't think so but I'm working on it. 

@ChamberNut

Et voilà!

[ChamberNut]

@ChamberNut

Et voilà!

You're getting closer and closer! 😂

[Florestan]

You're getting closer and closer! 😂

I did a quick count. It seems I have about 75 Rossini recordings.