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bhodges

#49880
June 26, 2009, 01:00:58 PM
Quote from: Christo on June 26, 2009, 12:53:51 PM
Third (and final  ;)) time this quiet, Summer evening:

                               

I think I'll investigate this, too (although perhaps a--cough, cough--used and cheaper copy).  Your write-up sold me: I like neoclassicism, love the 1940s, and the Lyrita discs I have are terrific, so...

--Bruce

Christo

#49881
June 26, 2009, 01:04:28 PM
Quote from: Lethe on June 26, 2009, 12:55:52 PM
I'm going to have to investigate this fellow! Shame that Lyrita discs are expensive and I am a skinflint - but I suppose I could buy the one with the Brian coupling and kill two birds with one stone.

Three birds, actually, as both of Brian's symphonies are worthy of your esteemed attention, too!  :) Great disc anyhow, and just £7.43 at Amazon.co.uk! (Hope Q. isn't here to scale it down)  ;)

             
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

Christo

#49882
June 26, 2009, 01:15:06 PM Last Edit: June 26, 2009, 01:18:18 PM by Christo
Quote from: bhodges on June 26, 2009, 01:00:58 PM
I think I'll investigate this, too (although perhaps a--cough, cough--used and cheaper copy).  Your write-up sold me: I like neoclassicism, love the 1940s, and the Lyrita discs I have are terrific, so...

--Bruce

Okay, a fourth time - for my own used & cheap copy of the admirable First (1947) by the "lean" Arnold Cooke.  ;) Neoclassicism and Modernism go very well together after all, isn' it?  ;)  0:)

                 
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

bhodges

#49883
June 26, 2009, 01:20:55 PM
 ;D

IIRC I have seen copies of this Cooke disc at our local credit card leeching service used CD store, so I'll check over the weekend. 

--Bruce

DavidRoss

#49884
June 26, 2009, 01:25:22 PM
Quote from: bhodges on June 26, 2009, 01:20:55 PM
our local credit card leeching service
I smell a story.
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

bhodges

#49885
June 26, 2009, 01:28:56 PM
Quote from: DavidRoss on June 26, 2009, 01:25:22 PM
I smell a story.

;D

The slightly sad part: it's one of now just a handful of stores in NYC dedicated to CDs.  The only other one I know of is J&R Music (although Barnes & Noble and Borders stores aren't too bad).  The recent closing of the two Virgin stores was a big blow.

--Bruce

Lethevich

#49886
June 26, 2009, 01:35:31 PM
I just ordered the Brian disc. I hope my significant other doesn't find out - I am already rightly being made to feel guilty for buying so many books and CDs in the past 2 weeks 0:)
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Catison

#49887
June 26, 2009, 01:39:00 PM
Quote from: Lethe on June 26, 2009, 08:44:35 AM
How do you feel about these Dopper symphonies compared to the 7th? I found them all to be somewhat lacking next to the 7th's riot of energy and colour.

I'll have to get back to you about this.  I've only just been introduced and I was listening at a time of distraction, i.e., work.  Usually new composers take some time to soak into my brain until I wrap my head around them.  But I've had a quick introduction to Dutch composers thanks to Johan and his sidekick Johan.
-Brett

Lethevich

#49888
June 26, 2009, 01:40:50 PM
Quote from: Catison on June 26, 2009, 01:39:00 PM
I'll have to get back to you about this.  I've only just been introduced and I was listening at a time of distraction, i.e., work.  Usually new composers take some time to soak into my brain until I wrap my head around them.  But I've had a quick introduction to Dutch composers thanks to Johan and his sidekick Johan.

That's the best way. I've managed to find some works very bland on a first listen, but after a second or third I fall in love with them.
Peanut butter, flour and sugar do not make cookies. They make FIRE.

Christo

#49889
June 26, 2009, 01:43:44 PM
Quote from: bhodges on June 26, 2009, 01:28:56 PM
The slightly sad part: it's one of now just a handful of stores in NYC dedicated to CDs.  The only other one I know of is J&R Music (although Barnes & Noble and Borders stores aren't too bad).  The recent closing of the two Virgin stores was a big blow.

Are things really going that way in NYC, too?  :-X Sounds almost like a perfect summary of the fate of the music stores in my own, very small, town of Utrecht - or indeed Amsterdam. Happily, we're saved by the (mostly investigative-partner-proof) Internet:

Quote from: Lethe on June 26, 2009, 01:35:31 PMI just ordered the Brian disc. I hope my significant other doesn't find out - I am already rightly being made to feel guilty for buying so many books and CDs in the past 2 weeks 0:)

;)
... music is not only an 'entertainment', nor a mere luxury, but a necessity of the spiritual if not of the physical life, an opening of those magic casements through which we can catch a glimpse of that country where ultimate reality will be found.    RVW, 1948

George

#49890
June 26, 2009, 01:47:46 PM
Quote from: bhodges on June 26, 2009, 01:28:56 PM
The slightly sad part: it's one of now just a handful of stores in NYC dedicated to CDs.  The only other one I know of is J&R Music (although Barnes & Noble and Borders stores aren't too bad).  The recent closing of the two Virgin stores was a big blow.

--Bruce

Yes, but two that remain are by far the best, IMO. Virgin was handy, but I don't really miss it, all that LOUD music overlapping from the neighboring section got annoying. I miss browsing (not buying) at the uptown tower, though.

DavidRoss

#49891
June 26, 2009, 01:52:35 PM
Quote from: Lethe on June 26, 2009, 01:35:31 PM
I just ordered the Brian disc. I hope my significant other doesn't find out - I am already rightly being made to feel guilty for buying so many books and CDs in the past 2 weeks 0:)
I'd rather my wife bought a few more CDs and a lot fewer expensive haircuts and cosmetics and magazines and...never mind.  

Now spinning:
"Maybe the problem most of you have ... is that you're not listening to Barbirolli." ~Sarge

"The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people's money." ~Margaret Thatcher

Henk

#49892
June 26, 2009, 01:59:20 PM Last Edit: June 26, 2009, 10:56:37 PM by Que

George

#49893
June 26, 2009, 03:21:05 PM
Schubert
Piano Sonatas
D 537, 279, 157
Wilhelm Kempff
DG

Evening, friends!  :)

ChamberNut

#49894
June 26, 2009, 04:44:53 PM
Quote from: George on June 26, 2009, 03:21:05 PM
Schubert
Piano Sonatas
D 537, 279, 157
Wilhelm Kempff
DG

Evening, friends!  :)

Evening!  Hey, get goin' on the Op. 132 bud!   $:)

mahler10th

#49895
June 26, 2009, 04:45:50 PM
In the tray...and out again...and back in...


Coopmv

#49896
June 26, 2009, 04:48:09 PM Last Edit: June 26, 2009, 05:03:37 PM by Coopmv
Now playing this CD, which arrived yesterday from Amazon MarketPlace ...

George

#49897
June 26, 2009, 04:52:15 PM
Quote from: ChamberNut on June 26, 2009, 04:44:53 PM
Evening!  Hey, get goin' on the Op. 132 bud!   $:)

:P

Coopmv

#49898
June 26, 2009, 06:16:35 PM
Now playing CD5 from this set ...

ChamberNut

#49899
June 26, 2009, 06:22:46 PM
Beethoven

Op. 135

Quartetto Italiano
Philips
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