Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Harry]

Since being assigned to your route, this post office lady must have become more muscular by the day.

Well that's the funny part Paul, she has the figure of a ballet dancer........

[Harry]

Harry orders her some Myoplex with each shipment. 

Her admiration for me, somehow gives her strenght. But then I like her very much so.....

[George]

  Well I am so glad you feel that way George.  I recently picked up this set up and have yet to listen to it:
  My guess is the 2-fer Decca set that Sarge bought is included in this. 

  marvin

Yes it should be, if it isn't, then Decca has made a terrible, terrible mistake.

[Brian]

  Well I am so glad you feel that way George.  I recently picked up this set up and have yet to listen to it:

 

  My guess is the 2-fer Decca set that Sarge bought is included in this. 

  marvin

Oooh! That looks like a terrific box set! Also, Rice professor alert: Lynn Harrell completed his tenure this spring, as professor of the cello at my university's own Shepherd School of Music.

[Air]

Great Walton from Previn and the RPO.

[Lilas Pastia]

Since I've been so pleased with recent Abbado recordings (as with most of his older recordings!), I've supplemented my recent purchase of his Mozart symphonies with his Orchestra Mozart:



with the same forces' recording of the Mozart VCs:



with concertmaster Giuliano Carmignola handling the soloist's role.

For too long I was put off of these by "M forever's" dismissive comments.  Then I 'happened' to hear them via a torrent service.  It took no time to decide that I must have them.  If only more record companies were to understand what a great marketing tool substantial streaming samples (not stupid 30 second clips) on their sites could be!

You chose wisely.

Not that I  know these recordings, but one should not be unduly influenced by others' opinions (including mine, yours, or whoever's). ESPECIALLY if they're negative. IMO that's simply an indication that theyr'e far off someone's inclinations or tastes.

Bought this today at HMV Japan:

   

The 1958-1963 Decca Ansermet Beethoven symphonies and assorted orchestral works (Overtures plus Grosse Fuge). Recorded with his beloved Suisse Romande Orchestra in Geneva's fabled Victoria Hall. The date of issue is August 10, 2009   Maybe it'll take a couple of months before I get them, but I'm willing to wait. After all, I got 4 other integral sets waiting on my shelves to be listened to  

Here's an essay (in French about Ansermet's work (his style, his recording carreer, his importance as an interpreter). It's not often that I advocate reading a French musical article. This one is right on the money, and exemplifies what French musical criticism does at its best: bring a 'second level' understanding that goes beyond the description of the printed page (the score) and its restitution (the disc). The relationship between music and the human experience is something the French and the Germans understand particularly well. I don't know about the German musical critics, but  the french ones usually puff mightily in an arcane lingo.

End of the aside. These readings should bring the kind of combination I like particularly: "french" tonal qualities in a warmly resonant acoustic (the other one is "german" tonal qualities in pellucid, transparent sound - for exampe the WP in the Musikverein - NOT the Sofiensaal). Ansermet was a very catholic interpreter - as much at ease in Stravinsky as he was in, Debussy, Brahms or Beethoven or Ravel or Honegger. Technically and intepretively, I'd put Ansermet in the same league as Paray, Cluytens, Schuricht, Cantelli or Ormandy.  

In any case, what I meant to say is that this Beethoven cycle is more about the total aesthetic experience as the more sober technical assessment of these recording's value as a beethovenian testimony - there are so many out there, each with their individual slant to the composer's musical genius.

[Renfield]

The 1958-1963 Decca Ansermet Beethoven symphonies and assorted orchestral works (Overtures plus Grosse Fuge).

Thanks a million for the tip-off. I've been waiting for Eloquence to release that cycle ever since they started their Ansermet project!

[Renfield]

Double-posting for some purchases, not strictly today's, but "toweek's".




For one, this fuelled a running joke on Facebook about the orgasmic (!) effect of these works; for another, it is seemingly going OOP, and so I decided to stop waiting for a price-cut. However, I got the following item for 50 Euro, via Amazon.de:





Also this, which seemed to be the last copy on Amazon.de, following David's (DavidRoss') repeated praise, and my trust of his musical taste:





And, taking advantage of the MDT offer that expired on Tuesday (as well as using my own money!):

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

And, taking advantage of the MDT offer that expired on Tuesday (as well as using my own money!):

That Järvi DSCH 10 is probably my overall favorite of the 5 or 6 that I've heard. The 7th is pretty good but not in the same class.

[Renfield]

That Järvi DSCH 10 is probably my overall favorite of the 5 or 6 that I've heard. The 7th is pretty good but not in the same class.

I loved the samples of the 1st, 8th and 10th I heard, so I thought I might as well go for the lot, at that price.

[Bogey]

Double-posting for some purchases, not strictly today's, but "toweek's".

A wonderful set!

[ChamberNut]

Yesterday's purchases (8 Eloquence CDs at $5.99 CDN each, including 1 double disc at $5.99 , and 1 Naxos for $9.99 CDN)

Satie

Petite ouverture a danser
Gymnopedies
Sonneries de la Rose et Croix
Pieces froides
Gnossiennes

Reinbert de Leeux, piano
Eloquence budget label (original Philips issue)

Ginastera

String Quartets

Lucy Shelton, soprano for string quartet # 3
Enso Quartet
Naxos

Haydn/Brahms

Symphony No. 103 in E flat major
Symphony No. 104 in D major

*Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a

Eugen Jochum
London Philharmonic Orchestra
*London Symphony Orchestra
Eloquence budget label (original DG issue)

Bartok

Miraculous Mandarin
Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal
Charles Dutoit
Eloquence budget label (original Decca issue)

Bartok

Concerto for orchestra

Antal Dorati
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam

Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion and orchestra

Nelson Freire/Martha Argerich, pianos
David Zinman
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Eloquence budget label (original Philips issue)

Sibelius

Finlandia
Valse Triste
Swan of Tuonela

Karajan
Berlin Philharmonic

Symphony No. 2 in D major

Okko Kamu
Berlin Philharmonic
Eloquence budget label (original DG issue)

Mozart

Mass in C minor, K.427 "Great"
Mass in C major, K.257 "Credo only"

Sir Colin Davis
London Symphony Orchestra
Eloquence budget label (original Philips issue)

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 8 in C minor, op.65

Bernard Haitink
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Eloquence budget label (original Decca issue)

Berlioz

Requiem

Lorin Maazel
Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus

Chants pour choeur

Roger Norrington
Heinrich Shutz Choir and Chorale

Grande Symphonie funebre et triomphale

Orchestre symphonie de Montreal
Charles Dutoit
Eloquence budget label (original Decca issue)

[bhodges]

Bartok

Miraculous Mandarin
Music for strings, percussion and celesta

Orchestre symphonique de Montreal
Charles Dutoit
Eloquence budget label (original Decca issue)

Bartok

Concerto for orchestra

Antal Dorati
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam

Concerto for 2 pianos, percussion and orchestra

Nelson Freire/Martha Argerich, pianos
David Zinman
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Eloquence budget label (original Philips issue)

Shostakovich

Symphony No. 8 in C minor, op.65

Bernard Haitink
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
Eloquence budget label (original Decca issue)

I have the original releases of all of these--all superb.  You have some great listening in store.  

--Bruce

[Brian]

For one, this fuelled a running joke on Facebook about the orgasmic (!) effect of these works; for another, it is seemingly going OOP, and so I decided to stop waiting for a price-cut. However, I got the following item for 50 Euro, via Amazon.de:

Hmm, the only work I'd heard described as "orgasmic" before was Janacek's Sinfonietta, after a live concert, by a girl my age from Panama. 

[DavidW]

Hmm, the only work I'd heard described as "orgasmic" before was Janacek's Sinfonietta, after a live concert, by a girl my age from Panama. 

You proposed to her on the spot, didn't you?

[Brian]

You proposed to her on the spot, didn't you?

I should have. 

[Drasko]

Bought this today at HMV Japan:

   

Andre, have you checked buywell for prices, they are usuallly cheapest source for Australian Eloquence titles. For instance those three Ansermets would be around 33 euros to Canada (shipping included). And they are decently quick with delivery time (about two weeks average to Europe).

www.buywell.com

[Air]

These came today:

$2
$3
$3

[Coopmv]

I have had this set for over 2 years.  It is a great set and among my top three favorite sets of Beethoven Symphonies ....

[Coopmv]

You chose wisely.

Not that I  know these recordings, but one should not be unduly influenced by others' opinions (including mine, yours, or whoever's). ESPECIALLY if they're negative. IMO that's simply an indication that theyr'e far off someone's inclinations or tastes.

Bought this today at HMV Japan:

   

The 1958-1963 Decca Ansermet Beethoven symphonies and assorted orchestral works (Overtures plus Grosse Fuge). Recorded with his beloved Suisse Romande Orchestra in Geneva's fabled Victoria Hall. The date of issue is August 10, 2009   Maybe it'll take a couple of months before I get them, but I'm willing to wait. After all, I got 4 other integral sets waiting on my shelves to be listened to  

Here's an essay (in French about Ansermet's work (his style, his recording carreer, his importance as an interpreter). It's not often that I advocate reading a French musical article. This one is right on the money, and exemplifies what French musical criticism does at its best: bring a 'second level' understanding that goes beyond the description of the printed page (the score) and its restitution (the disc). The relationship between music and the human experience is something the French and the Germans understand particularly well. I don't know about the German musical critics, but  the french ones usually puff mightily in an arcane lingo.

End of the aside. These readings should bring the kind of combination I like particularly: "french" tonal qualities in a warmly resonant acoustic (the other one is "german" tonal qualities in pellucid, transparent sound - for exampe the WP in the Musikverein - NOT the Sofiensaal). Ansermet was a very catholic interpreter - as much at ease in Stravinsky as he was in, Debussy, Brahms or Beethoven or Ravel or Honegger. Technically and intepretively, I'd put Ansermet in the same league as Paray, Cluytens, Schuricht, Cantelli or Ormandy.  

In any case, what I meant to say is that this Beethoven cycle is more about the total aesthetic experience as the more sober technical assessment of these recording's value as a beethovenian testimony - there are so many out there, each with their individual slant to the composer's musical genius.

And I have the LP-set that had probably been pressed from the same original tapes from which these CD's were remastered.