Past Purchases (CLOSED)

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Thomas

[Kullervo]

I am very interested in these two. Where did you get them?

[Lilas Pastia]

The Bloch got a very good review in ARG. I've know the first quintet for over 35 years and it's a gem. Never heard the other, though.

I'm also interested in hearing comments on the Vierne as well 

[12tone.]

Went shopping today:










= Pettersson symphs 10 -11
= Schulhoff symphs 1-3
= Kienzl sq's 1-3

[Harry]

I would say, a excellent haul.
The six orchestral suites by Telemann is awesome, Bertali is special too, Toch speaks for its self, Pettersson and Schulhoff, and Kienzle are top of the bill, and Francois Couperin's work in this fine  Brilliant box is the cream on it all.
Enjoy.

[ChamberNut]

Brahms

The Cello Sonatas

Rostropovich, cello
Serkin, piano

DG

Ravel & Faure - String Quartets

Ravel - Quartet in F
Faure - Quartet in E minor, Op. 121

Ad Libitum Quartet
Naxos

[Papy Oli]

not the prettiest cover  but good enough to dip a first toe and get a feel of RVW's music

Tracklisting :
Fantasia on Greensleeves.
Linden Lea.
Symphony No.2 London Symphony : Lento / Scherzo - Nocturne Allegro vivace.
Symphony No.1 Sea Symphony : Scherzo The Waves / The Explorers O vast Rondure / The Explorers O we can wait no linger / The Explorers O thou transcendent / The Explorers Away O Soul!.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
The Wasps : Overture.
Job : Dance of Job's Comforters / Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty / Pavane of the Sons of the Morning. Symphony No.5 in D : Scherzo / Romanza Lento.
Symphony No.6 in E minor : Allegro / Moderato.
Symphony No.7 Sinfonia antartica : Prelude.
The Lark Ascending.

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Davis

[Lethevich]

not the prettiest cover  but good enough to dip a first toe and get a feel of RVW's music

Tracklisting :
Fantasia on Greensleeves.
Linden Lea.
Symphony No.2 London Symphony : Lento / Scherzo - Nocturne Allegro vivace.
Symphony No.1 Sea Symphony : Scherzo The Waves / The Explorers O vast Rondure / The Explorers O we can wait no linger / The Explorers O thou transcendent / The Explorers Away O Soul!.
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis.
The Wasps : Overture.
Job : Dance of Job's Comforters / Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty / Pavane of the Sons of the Morning. Symphony No.5 in D : Scherzo / Romanza Lento.
Symphony No.6 in E minor : Allegro / Moderato.
Symphony No.7 Sinfonia antartica : Prelude.
The Lark Ascending.

BBC Symphony Orchestra / Andrew Davis

That does seem to be a pretty decent representation of the range of his orchestral music. Hope you like it.

[Papy Oli]

That does seem to be a pretty decent representation of the range of his orchestral music. Hope you like it.

I'd say that the Tallis Fantasia and the 2 mvts from the 5th are standing out for me. Makes me now regret that the 5th is not complete !

The London symphony, the Wasps's overture and the Lark Ascending also caught my interest.

Worthy continuation of the discovery of RVW, after the BBC documentary 

[12tone.]

I would say, a excellent haul.
The six orchestral suites by Telemann is awesome, Bertali is special too, Toch speaks for its self, Pettersson and Schulhoff, and Kienzle are top of the bill, and Francois Couperin's work in this fine  Brilliant box is the cream on it all.
Enjoy.

Hey Harry! 

With the Pettersson, is that what all his symphonies sound like?  It's awkward music    It's not awkward in the atonal way but it's just strange.  I'll take a listen to the Toch soon!

I really like the Couperin though...listening to that now with the Neuvieme Concert Intitule Ritratto dell'amore on disc 5.  It's simple and light... 0:)

[Kullervo]

I've been sticking to mainly 19th and early 20th C. composers, so I thought I'd give my post-WWII list some attention.

[Lethevich]

Hehe, snap - I bought these yesterday:


(These two were the final all-Tüür discs I lacked)


(This is the same performance of the 2nd as on the Apex disc, but I needed the oratorio - hope the disc is in good condition -_- If it gets reissued in any time under one year I am going to bomb Warner Music's HQ )


(This, I think, is the only major work on a multi artist CD that I had missed - there are other multi artist ones featuring him, but the pieces are too small/duplicated to bother with)

[Kullervo]

Yes, thanks again for sending me Lighthouse a few months back, I really enjoyed it. I'll check this disc and see if I want to hear more.

[Lethevich]

Yes, thanks again for sending me Lighthouse a few months back, I really enjoyed it. I'll check this disc and see if I want to hear more.

I am slightly scared that I may not have underlined how changable his style is though, sym.2 is way less friendly

[Kullervo]

I am slightly scared that I may not have underlined how changable his style is though, sym.2 is way less friendly

You underestimate me!

[Lethevich]

You underestimate me!

Indeedie, considering you grabbed some Boulez too, who with a few exceptions I cannot stomach ATM Hope they arrive soon

[Que]

Puchased yesterday.



Q

[Harry]

Hey Harry! 

With the Pettersson, is that what all his symphonies sound like?  It's awkward music    It's not awkward in the atonal way but it's just strange.  I'll take a listen to the Toch soon!

I really like the Couperin though...listening to that now with the Neuvieme Concert Intitule Ritratto dell'amore on disc 5.  It's simple and light... 0:)

You defined the Pettersson alright.......that is hard work for some, but utterly rewarding, that is, if you like the reward......

[Sergeant Rock]

"Litton is very free with rubato in the curiously epigrammatic first movement, dangerously undermining the structure while achieving a stricken, almost Mahlerian sense of collapse at the end of the development..."-- Gramophone discussing the Rachmaninoff Third. That sounded like something I should hear so I tracked down the twofer that contains all three Rach symphonies, readings described as "hyper-romantc."




I already owned the Bernstein DG CDs containing the Sibelius Second, Fifth, and Seventh but had never picked up the First. This box, containing Britten's Sea Interludes and Elgar's Engima too, was roughly the same price as a used CD of the now OOP First:



Sarge

[Hector]

I can't get on with Toch.

I'll have to put him aside and try again later.

I shall delete him from my iPod.