Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[George]

... I agree with George: that set won the prestigious Golden Antoine some years ago. 

I must have missed that awards show. 

BTW, how is the sound quality of Ciccolini's recordings on EMI? I am considering this 5-CD set:

Sounds is very good, no obstacle there. He plays the music too straight for me, though. Not dreamy enough.

If you want some superb Ciccolini, try this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oeuvres-Chopin-Schumann-Frederic-Maurice/dp/B002AHJUMK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1281052033&sr=8-5

[Sid]

Stanford - Requiem (Soloists/RTE Nat. Orch. Ireland/Leaper) Naxos

Pablo Casals recordings from the 1930's - Bach, Beethoven, Brahms - EMI

Handel - Messiah, highlights (Baroque Scholars Ens.) Naxos

Thomson - The Plow that Broke the Plains & The River - suites; Autumn for harp, strings, percussion / Hanson - Symphony No. 2 "Romantic" (LA Ch. Orch/Marriner/St. Louis Sym/Slatikin) EMI

[Dancing Divertimentian]

B. Bartok
String Quartets 1-6
Hagen Quartet
newt on

I've been waiting AGES for DG to reissue this one. Looks like now they won't have to.

Thanks for posting this.

I take it Newton Classics is the "new kid on the block" as far as reissuing the majors' back catalog. I guess Brilliant can't reissue everything...

[George]

A bit pricey, but it's the original issue of this CD and it's Richter/Schubert, so I had to have it. Plus, Mandryka recommends it. 

[kishnevi]

Well, some of it is too weird for me.  But some of it is also weird and wonderful.

It's the sort of music which is impossible to predict beforehand whether or not you will  like, and should be listened to at least once.  My own reaction to the orchestral Ligeti is mostly boredom--there's a certain sameness to it all, even among pieces that were written years apart.  I vastly prefer the string quartets (have the Artemis recording on Virgin and Parker on Naxos) and the Etudes (Aimard) and will probably at some point get the equivalent box of piano/chamber music. 

[kishnevi]

Sh*t n'stuff picked up and/or piled up while I was in Salzburg:

The hero has encountered Rihm in mortal combat and returns laden with the spoils of battle.

Welcome back!

[Daverz]

It's the sort of music which is impossible to predict beforehand whether or not you will  like, and should be listened to at least once.  My own reaction to the orchestral Ligeti is mostly boredom--there's a certain sameness to it all, even among pieces that were written years apart.  I vastly prefer the string quartets (have the Artemis recording on Virgin and Parker on Naxos) and the Etudes (Aimard) and will probably at some point get the equivalent box of piano/chamber music.

60s Ligeti sounds radically different to me from 80s Ligeti (e.g. Lontano vs. Piano Concerto).

[kishnevi]

60s Ligeti sounds radically different to me from 80s Ligeti (e.g. Lontano vs. Piano Concerto).

For those that don't have it:
Disc 1 of that set consists of, in order, Melodien, Chamber Concerto,  Piano Concerto,  and an arrangement of Mysteries of the Macabre for solo trumpet and chamber orchestra.

Honest truth: The only way I knew I was listening to the Piano Concerto was because there was a piano playing; and the only way I was sure the Concerto had ended and Mysteries had begun was that the piano was no longer noticeable, but a trumpet was.

Fortunately I had already gotten the Etudes, so I knew there was still Ligeti worth getting.  But the orchestral stuff just doesn't do it for me.

[Franco]

Sh*t n'stuff picked up and/or piled up while I was in Salzburg:



Ludovico Einaudi
Nightbook
Ponderosa Music & Art

Ah, now I understand your caption with this included with the "stuff".

[canninator]

Bunch of classical period guitar today but this might be of interest to people.

Pre-ordered from Glossa



A new recording of vihuela music by period plucked string master Jose Miguel Moreno so I'm as happy as a happy thing. Interesting repertoire as well as this isn't just retreading the Mudarra/Narvaez standards.

Here is the man himself playing the superlative Mudarra Fantasy no. 10 complete with individual who can't hold back coughing for 2 whole minutes. The performance given here would come under the heading of unorthodox but gives a clear idea of his mastery of the instrument.

http://www.youtube.com/v/3BRuOhGJYe8&feature=related

[The new erato]

Bunch of classical period guitar today but this might be of interest to people.

Pre-ordered from Glossa



A new recording of vihuela music by period plucked string master Jose Miguel Moreno so I'm as happy as a happy thing. Interesting repertoire as well as this isn't just retreading the Mudarra/Narvaez standards.

Have you noticed how these discs from Glossa tend to be 2 cm taller than other discs making for a complete headache in the storage department?

[jlaurson]

Have you noticed how these discs from Glossa tend to be 2 cm taller than other discs making for a complete headache in the storage department?

it's called "turning by 90 degrees".

[The new erato]

it's called "turning by 90 degrees".

ad then you're completely lost as there is no information on what should have been the spine.....

[canninator]

Have you noticed how these discs from Glossa tend to be 2 cm taller than other discs making for a complete headache in the storage department?

If you got storage problems I feel bad for you, son. I got 99 problems but the shape of my CDs aint one.

[jlaurson]

ad then you're completely lost as there is no information on what should have been the spine.....

Not quite correct... You then have the information that it's a Glossa recording of a composer whose name starts with the letter of the section you filed it in. :-)

[Scarpia]

Sounded ok in Amazon excerpts:



Also these:

[Antoine Marchand]

I must have missed that awards show. 

Sounds is very good, no obstacle there. He plays the music too straight for me, though. Not dreamy enough.

If you want some superb Ciccolini, try this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Oeuvres-Chopin-Schumann-Frederic-Maurice/dp/B002AHJUMK/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1281052033&sr=8-5

Thanks for the recommendations, George.

On Ciccolini playing Satie my doubts were principally about the sound quality because -although I have just listened to some samples-, I have found attractive certain kind of bareness in his interpretations... After all, Satie never considered himself a Romantic.   

[Antoine Marchand]

Also these:

I love that set, but I don't know if you will enjoy its sound quality and, principally, those eccentric performances. I feel you are a little bit "fussy" on those matters, dear Scarpia. 

[George]

Thanks for the recommendations, George.

Your welcome. 

On Ciccolini playing Satie my doubts were principally about the sound quality because -although I have just listened to some samples-, I have found attractive certain kind of bareness in his interpretations... After all, Satie never considered himself a Romantic.

We could check with k a rl, but I'd wager that the modernists dream too.

I appreciate your desire to hear these works as Satie intended them to be played, but what I have read and heard of Thibadeau's Satie seems to indicate that he played these works fairly straight.

[George]

It's all k a rl's fault. The samples indeed show a beauty that I don't recall Gergiev conveying in these works. Plus it was under $20 shipped.