Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[kishnevi]

Landed today--my order from Arkivmusic and the Gulda Beethoven box from Amazon Marketplace.



Unfortunately tonight was my night to work the evening shift, so I can't start listening to any of it until tomorrow.  And I had just finally finished off my "listen to for the first time" pile this morning before I left for work.

[eyeresist]

Last night I ordered the soundtrack for the 1964 film First Men in the Moon, composed by Laurie Johnson. The music for this film impressed me deeply when I first saw it many years ago, and until recently I have sufficed with a short piece combining the main title march and the monster caterpillar organ section (LSO conducted by Ettore Stratta). But when I realised I didn't have to pay the ridiculous Amazon seller prices, and could get the complete thing on CD from HMV Hong Kong for about $19, it didn't take long to make the decision.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sJP9IFegHM



EDIT: Sadly, I have been notified that this CD is out of stock

[Antoine Marchand]

Purchased today at a physical store:



BTW, not today but yesterday, I acquired this set, also here in Santiago:



No liner notes, no recording dates at all, just 10 CDs of Beethoven's solo piano music. Anyway, I have enjoyed two discs of Schnabel's quickie style. 

[kishnevi]

I will soon - just ordered it.  It sound exactly like the kind of recording I love. You're right: 5 discs for $14 (incl. s/h) is ridiculous!

Thanks, toñito

In which I heartily join.   Does anyone have an opinion on their Haydn and Beethoven recordings, some of which are relatively inexpensive on Amazon and some of them outrageously expensive?

Meanwhile the Amazon algorithm offered this one up for under $17 including S/H , and just too tempting,especially as I have no recordings of these works at all.


And the Matteo Messori recording of Kunst der Fuge/Musical Offering/etc.  landed today--another gracias a Tonito.

[Coopmv]

Just placed an order consisting of the following CD's this evening to fill in some gaps in my collection ...

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

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[kishnevi]

Arkivmusic is offering some Harmonia Mundi CDs at 50% off or better.  Naturally, I fell for the gambit, and ordered 8 CDs.

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        Handel: Concerti Grossi / Manze, Academy of Ancient Music
        Bach: 6 Cello Suites / Jaap Ter Linden 
        Bach: Alio Modo / Fretwork 
        Mozart: Fantasias & Rondos / Richard Egarr
        English Church Music - Byrd, Humphrey, Gibbons/Chanticleer and others 
        Byrd: Second Service & Consort Anthems / Fretwork and others
        Mozart: Violin Sonatas / Petra Müllejans, Kristian Bezuidenhout
        Dall'aquila: Pieces For Lute / Paul O'dette 
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I posted the URL on the SDCBargains thread.

[Conor71]

Had a bit of stuff arrive today :

[jwinter]

I paid one last visit to my local Borders today.  A rather melancholy trip; lots of good memories from that store, that's where I did a lot of my initial classical music shopping (back when they had two whole aisles of nothing but classical), and my wife worked there for a while about 10-15 years ago.  Sad to see it go.

Picked this up as a souvenir:

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[kishnevi]

Landed today: a lot of Beethoven and some Bach and Chopin: the Sony box of some of Gould's Beethoven piano sonatas and all the concertos; the Sony box of Stern playing Beethoven (violin and triple concertos, romances, sonatas and piano trios), the DG box of Kempff's stereo sonata cycle;  Arrau playing Chopin Nocturnes, with the Bacarolle and Fantasie thrown in to fill it up the CDs;  Gardiner and his forces in the Bach Cantatas for the First and Second Sundays after Easter (official title Cantatas v. 23: Arnstadt/Echternacht), which I'm playing now--first listen for all these cantatas.  BWV 42 is especially beautiful;  shame I've missed it this long.

And an order with a coupon from Barnes and Noble--the Sixteen recording of Handel's Israel in Egypt and the Belcea Quartet recording Bartok's string quartets.

The Bach was an order from Borders website: I guess that is the last bit of business I'm giving to a company whose b&m location in my area probably was the source of at least half of my CDs.

[Que]

Me and my French baroque obsession....

 

 

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[Conor71]

Ordered this morning to complement my recently arrived late symphonies set

[prémont]

Me and my French baroque obsession....

I own these two. They are well worth to know. BTW the Dieupart set contains the Suite which Bach quoted in the prelude to his first so called English suite.

[Drasko]

I want those two! Both composers I heard of but never heard. Dieupart looks like someone especially interesting since he seems to have spent most of his life in England, off the main 'stage' of French baroque happenings, and I'm quite curious to how that influenced his music. Wishlisted! Don't know why I thought Pierre Verany was defunct? 

[Coopmv]

Me and my French baroque obsession....

 

 

Q

All specials at JPC?   

[kishnevi]

Landed today:


The second Jerusalem Quartet CD consists of live concert recordings from 1999 and 2002
and this one from Zoverstocks of Amazon Marketplace--ordered 6/19, shipped 6/22, arrived 7/23, at least two weeks longer in transit than anyone else I've been dealing with, including the Ebay vendor from Taiwan.  Perhaps they used a tramp steamer to get it across the Atlantic.


And ordered these from Arkivmusic tonight. 
Paul O'Dette
Bartok Duos by the Chuns
Mozart from the Festetics
on sale this weekend for a few dollars less than other places
Orlando Consort in a flower and  garden themed CD

[Lethevich]

[The new erato]

Jeesus - you read as well? '

[Lethevich]

I can guarantee that one or two of those will find itself unread for at least a year because of the weather No sun = no sitting outside with a book

[Mirror Image]

Just bought this rare, 3-CD set from Kocsis and Fischer:



Why this set and Fischer's set on Philips are out-of-print is beyond me. But I'm glad I own both now.