Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Coopmv]

Poor George.

Well I hope that you note sellers that suck and post them on the online sellers thread.

I've received my Bernstein Mahler set today, I look forward to listening.  I'm glad I saved $25 and waited on media mail, instead of jumping on from amazon with 2 day shipping.  I was so busy listening to the Hoffmeister Quartet that I didn't care about the delay on Mahler.

I have never bothered with the 2-day shipping.  It is not worth it ...

[Coopmv]

I recently covered a recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons for piano, on MusicWeb. It nearly put me to sleep.

Now, the Four Seasons arranged for tuba, mandolin, flute, bongos, and four cellos ...  

Vivaldi's Four Seasons for Piano?  I don't want to find out ...   

[DavidW]

I have never bothered with the 2-day shipping.  It is not worth it ...

I was actually going to cancel it this year, but forgot to and it was automatically renewed.

[Coopmv]

I was actually going to cancel it this year, but forgot to and it was automatically renewed.

Isn't it the Amazon Prime or something like that?  You pay $45 a year for membership ...   

[DavidW]

Isn't it the Amazon Prime or something like that?  You pay $45 a year for membership ...   

Yup it's called Amazon Prime.  There are almost no stores in town, so I order from amazon ALOT.  Fast shipping is a neat perk.  In fact, most two day things arrive next day just because I'm so close to major shipping centers.

[Coopmv]

Yup it's called Amazon Prime.  There are almost no stores in town, so I order from amazon ALOT.  Fast shipping is a neat perk.  In fact, most two day things arrive next day just because I'm so close to major shipping centers.

I can say the same about the part of CT where I live.  I used to shop for CD's in NYC but really have not done that in years.  The majority of my collection in fact came from NY.  But with the demise of Tower Record, where I used to pick up many hard-to-find CD's, I stopped visiting the brick-and-mortar stores altogether.  Unfortunately, Amazon Prime really does not apply to MarketPlace and I typically order about 2 dozen times a year through MP.

[DavidW]

I also used to shop at Tower Records and Virgin Records, man I miss those days.  There is one thing neat that's happening on the marketplace-- amazon has started a program where sellers can ship their products to them, and then amazon ships them when a purchase is made.  Those marketplace items qualify for prime shipping, and I've bought through that route before.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Exploring more Prokofiev opera, this time War And Peace.

[Que]

After the Paradies , I really got the Enrico Baiano bug again, so I ordered these.
(Hopefully they will actually arrive, since these discs are OOP. )



Q

[Harry]

After the Paradies , I really got the Enrico Baiano bug again, so I ordered these.
(Hopefully they will actually arrive, since these discs are OOP. )



Q

The first two are in my collection Que, and as far as I remember they are fine examples of his art.

[Valentino]

[Opus106]

Isn't it the Amazon Prime or something like that?  You pay $45 a year for membership ...   

I think it's $79 now. Last month around Father's Day there was free registration for a month's worth of Prime shipping, and I took advantage of it. But since I ordered on a Friday, and since it took a couple of days for them to procure one of the items, the items were delivered a little after the 2-day mark.

[Elgarian]

Some recent purchases from the Hyperion website Bargain Basement extravaganza:



Details, with samples, here:
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDA67634&f=duo%20love

Bought for the princely sum of £4.32 in the Hyperion 'bottom ten' sale (including 10% discount as part of a larger order). A curious record, nothing much like anything I have already, except perhaps some traditional folk singing done unaccompanied by June Tabor. Not that these songs are unaccompanied, nor that the singing is similar - far from it; but the way the melodies run in this medieval music has clear links with some traditional folk tunes, it seems to me. Maybe someone who understands these things will be able to explain the similarities. The sole accompaniment is the vielle, a curious instrument that I don't think I've heard before - at least, I've not heard it as a distinct entity, playing alone so that I'd notice. There's a certain haunting quality to these tales of courtly love, blighted passion, and what have you. A very interesting experiment.

And then there's this:



Details, with samples, here:
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDH55253&f=linley

They were virtually giving these away at £2.80 a few days ago. I recall reading some years ago a whole book about Garrick's 1769 Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford, in which the words of the bard himself were largely ignored in favour of 18th century tributes. This piece of music was an offshoot from that, Linley himself having died shortly after composing it at the age of 22 in a boating accident.

It's a real oddity - it has the flavour of the time. As with Garrick's Jubilee, here again the words of Shakespeare himself don't feature: the text is a kind of paean of bardolatry. And the music seems to straddle uncomfortably between baroque and classical, without being wholeheartedly one or the other. So, a curiosity rather than a revelation (just as well - an enthusiasm for Linley would be hard to satisfy!). But these bargain basement deals at the Hyperion website make for some interesting experimental purchases that, at full price, I wouldn't contemplate making.

Even these cheap sale discs come postage free, incidentally. The bottom ten ever-changing sale is here:
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/o.asp?o=1016

[George]

For the second time in as many days I received a CD that was not in the condition specified by the third party amazon seller. 

Good news - I got an email from one of the sellers, who admitted their mistake, apologized and gave me a full refund without requiring me to return the CDs. The seller was HPB Dallas.

[DavidRoss]

Handel, Ariodante -- Leppard/ECO w/Baker, Mathis, Ramey

[Elgarian]

Handel, Ariodante -- Leppard/ECO w/Baker, Mathis, Ramey

Go Janet, go! And roll over, Beethoven.

[Elgarian]

Meanwhile, back at the Hyperion Bargain Basement Bonanza:



Details and samples here:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/al.asp?al=CDA66894&f=sagbutts

What amazing fun! Starting with a distinctly Tudor flavour - indeed, with a couple of items composed by Henry VIII himself, no less - these wonderful parping and purping instruments sound deliciously and wickedly regal in an ancient sort of way, yet bursting with vitality. Parparp parpaparp papapurp! I'd never have paid full price for an experiment like this, but at £4.80 I'm laughing and parping all the way back to my Hampton Court Palace-shaped piggy bank.

[DavidW]

Huh that's interesting, Henry VIII has composed music before.  They had that in the tv show The Tudors and I thought (I'll admit rather ignorantly) that must be a fabrication.  Well now I know better.

[bhodges]

Even these cheap sale discs come postage free, incidentally. The bottom ten ever-changing sale is here:
http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/o.asp?o=1016

Somehow I missed this great little link, thanks.  Rather plaintive, the way each selection is followed by, "Please, someone, buy me..."

--Bruce

[Elgarian]

Rather plaintive, the way each selection is followed by, "Please, someone, buy me..."

Yes, like the Walrus contemplating the oysters, I've shed a tear or two myself at that. But the nice and smiley thing is that someone actually does buy every one of these sad little orphans, and in a couple of days' time they'll know they are loved at last, and will be replaced by a different ten.