Past Purchases (CLOSED)

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Just bought:

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Abbado conducts the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela in a very interesting program:

Prokofiev: Scythian Suite
Berg: Lulu Suite (soprano Anna Prohaska)
Mozart: Pamina's Aria from The Magic Flute
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6

One of the main reasons I bought this is for Berg's Lulu Suite, which is very rarely seen performed on DVD much less Blu-Ray. I have a DVD where this work is conducted by Pierre Boulez, but it is not the full performance but only an excerpt. I wanted to be able to see the whole work as I don't think excerpts do it full justice.

[The new erato]

Ordered today:

[Daverz]

That's set is excellent, especially when it is considered like a whole. But my absolute favorite in the "Pièces de clavecin en concerts" is this cheap disc on HM/Musique d'Abord:




The most courtly imaginable version of this charming music. 

My introduction to this music was the old Rampal Lp (now available in a box set on Accord).  After that, versions with just strings and harpsichord sounds somewhat monochromatic.

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[Antoine Marchand]

My introduction to this music was the old Rampal Lp (now available in a box set on Accord).  After that, versions with just strings and harpsichord sounds somewhat monochromatic.

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Well, all of this is a matter of taste, but I love the charm, flexibility and sense-of-dance in Rousset/Uemura/Terakado:

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Two more Ives on the way...

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I wonder if Litton will conduct the Holidays Symphony? I sure hope so. I'd like to hear this work with maybe Robert Browning Overture and Three Places in New England as fillers.

[Scarpia]

Just received this one:

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Got it for Tod und Verklarung and Till Eulenspiegel mostly (not an enormous fan of Zarathustra).  After hearing Blomstedt's San Francisco recordings of the Alpine Symphony and Don Juan, decided I needed all of the Blomstedt/San Francisco recordings in existence.  Have most of them, but I noticed that there are recordings of Mahler 2 and Brahms' Ein Deutsche Requiem still out there.

[MishaK]

Nice. I need to expand my Blomstedt/SFSO collection, as well, after that brilliant Schubert 9.

[Coopmv]

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My set arrived last week and I am hoping to get started on it soon ...

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A few more on the way...

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[Antoine Marchand]

Some rather heterogeneous purchases:

[Dancing Divertimentian]

....but I noticed that there are recordings of Mahler 2 and Brahms' Ein Deutsche Requiem [by Blomstedt] still out there.

I have both of these and the Brahms is one of the better performances of the work. Not quite sure why it's not better known but it stands toe to toe with another fave, Giulini/VPO.

The Mahler I haven't listened to in ages but the fact I still have it after all these years speaks to its quality.

[Que]

Some rather heterogeneous purchases:

But I see a common denominator: good taste .. a great haul!




Gut strings (at least in the Debussy)/HIP ?

Q

[jlaurson]

Debussy * Ravel * Dutilleux
Arcanto Quartet
Harmonia Mundi

Gut strings (at least in the Debussy)/HIP ?

Nope. Made up of Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec, violins, Tabea Zimmermann, viola, Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello.
A cast so good that it makes the issue of what bloody strings they play on utterly mute.

[Brian]

Made up of Antje Weithaas and Daniel Sepec, violins, Tabea Zimmermann, viola, Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello.

Well, that's me buying a copy.

[Antoine Marchand]

But I see a common denominator: good taste .. a great haul!

Thanks, Q! I think all of them are interesting discs. BTW, I recall the first time I knew about Cristiano Holtz was when you recommended his Bach's Inventions & Sinfonias played on clavichord.

Gut strings (at least in the Debussy)/HIP ?

No, unfortunately not gut strings at all. I think this Arcanto Quartett was founded to play on modern instruments. I have their Brahms too and there they also play without including gut strings. 

[prémont]

I am very interested in your opinion of the Mattheson suites. The music as well as the interpretation.

[Scarpia]

Completing the set

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[not edward]

This slightly curious coupling:

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[Gurn Blanston]

That cover has always interfered with my sensibilities, but the music inside is great.

Meanwhile, interfering in a big way with my most righteous of sensibilities is Inbal doing original Bruckner 4.  After you hear this, you will come to the conclusion that you've just had a discussion with God about your eternal salvation...
The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra are bang on the tightest crotchets, they provide a cinemascape of resplendent sound, and Inbal brings to life a musical narrative throughout.  You will engage in sniffing daffodils on a spring morning and thundering hell in a malestom of black sky later the same day.  You might come to know God through it.
Aye, it's not bad at all.
Recording was made digitally in the early 80's, but subsequent unquoted remastering has the brass burtsing forth in magnificent ways methinks.
Rating:  92%

NB:  Silly sod, I posted this in the wrong thread...should be WALT.

It's nowt but the thrill of the Bruckner, John, no worries! 



Recorded in 1988, it is still a benchmark in these works, half performed on the traverso by Janet See and the other half on various recorders by Marion Verbruggen. I have a super little disk by Dorothee Oberlinger on the recorder, I'll be interested to see if this surpasses that mammoth effort.


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Now playing:
Capella Academica Wien / Melkus  Haebler - Bach JC Concerto #1 in C for Fortepiano Op 07 2nd mvmt