Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[The new erato]

No, I hadn't linked.  Excuse me while I rush off to rearrange my Amazon order....

ETA: Done, together with those two Petrenko CDs.  I have to wonder if this one of those situations where the $9.55 price is a piece of data entry mistake.

At any rate, thanks for the pointer.

That price has been there for a long time. I got mine more than a month ago. Now all that remains is to play it.

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived today: three Bs and a couple of zeros. (I know the Bush symphonies are available cheaply in the British box but I've decided to collect individually the CDs I want from the series.)







Sarge

[The new erato]

(I know the Bush symphonies are available cheaply in the British box but I've decided to collect individually the CDs I want from the series.)


Sarge

I liked them quite a lot even without the documentation.  Serious, contrapuntal stuff with the occasional playful rhytms and lots of diversity, pretty Hindemithian and I definitely want to explore more of this composers stuff. And that scanner of yours, is it still in the warming up stage?

[Sergeant Rock]

I liked them quite a lot even without the documentation.  Serious, contrapuntal stuff with the occasional playful rhytms and lots of diversity, pretty Hindemithian and I definitely want to explore more of this composers stuff. And that scanner of yours, is it still in the warming up stage?

Yeah, which reminds me, I need to throw some more coal on the fire.

Seriously, if you or anyone else wants the notes I'll be happy to scan them for you.

Sarge

[PaulR]

That Shostakovich recording of The Golden Age is top-notch. Good pick there. I haven't heard either of these Piston discs in quite some time. I own all of Schwarz's Piston recordings and they're all worth picking up. The recording with his VCs I don't remember at all. Please let me know what you think of them once you've heard them.

I remember you praising The Golden Age disc, so I picked it up.

I am curious how Kuchar and the National Symphony of Ukraine play the Piston.  Have a recording of a couple of Creston symphonies, I don't think it held together as it should have.  I need to listen to that again, though.

[Karl Henning]

62 Euros at amazon.es

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Needed to buy it while the Euro still is around.

Quite a good price, that.  I wonder, though, if I'm good with the Scarlatti I've got . . . .

[Karl Henning]

Although I'm ultimately holding out for Aymes on Ligia, just ordered that for €12,12 delivered. With that price they won't give me a hard time at customs either.

Thanks!!

Yes, that Frescobaldi box is lovely.

[Karl Henning]

. . . The photograph from the CD of the First makes him seem like a rather tall middle school kid when he composed the First.

Well, he was still in Conservatory (the First Symphony was his graduation piece), he was on the youngish side as a Conservatory student (precocious and all that) and it was the WWI/Revolutionary period, when there was not an abundance of foodstuffs in (as it was then known) Petrograd.

[kishnevi]

Well, he was still in Conservatory (the First Symphony was his graduation piece), he was on the youngish side as a Conservatory student (precocious and all that) and it was the WWI/Revolutionary period, when there was not an abundance of foodstuffs in (as it was then known) Petrograd.

True to all that.  But (have you seen that photo or others from that time?) he looks more like fourteen or fifteen than nineteen.  I don't have a scanner, so I can't put the photo online, or you'd see what I mean.

Am now listening to Petrenko's 10.  As good as his 8.

[Karl Henning]

True to all that.  But (have you seen that photo or others from that time?) he looks more like fourteen or fifteen than nineteen.  I don't have a scanner, so I can't put the photo online, or you'd see what I mean.

Don't have them before me, though I'm likely to have seen them (what is the total duration of that disc, BTW?) . . . anyway, I find that I am misjudging the age of youngsters quite frequently, these days.

Am now listening to Petrenko's 10.  As good as his 8.

Aye, those are both table-poundingly strong.

[Brahmsian]

At long last, I finally placed an order for Solti's Ring, from an Amazon.ca marketplace seller.  New for $111 CDN, which I thought was a decent price for the Solti Ring.  I've been wanting it for a very long time now! 

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[Mirror Image]

At long last, I finally placed an order for Solti's Ring, from an Amazon.ca marketplace seller.  New for $111 CDN, which I thought was a decent price for the Solti Ring.  I've been wanting it for a very long time now! 

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Awesome, Ray! I hope you enjoy it. I haven't made my way through this set yet. I've liked what I heard so far though.

[Lisztianwagner]

At long last, I finally placed an order for Solti's Ring, from an Amazon.ca marketplace seller.  New for $111 CDN, which I thought was a decent price for the Solti Ring.  I've been wanting it for a very long time now! 

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Solti's Ring is very remarkable, I hope you will enjoy it Ray

[Karl Henning]

It was Fate, wasn't it? . . . I was walking to get lunch at a place where I have often taken lunch before, but which I haven't visited in a great while.  My way wended past one of the few remaining brick-&-mortar CD shops . . . and I saw signs.  It isn't shutting down, but they're renovating, and selling off three floors at a discount . . . one of those floors is Classical. (Though in truth, Classical has shared that floor with Jazz and . . . Country . . . for a while now.)

Anyway . . . I went in, and what should I see but some items for which some few GMGers have pounded the table, repeatedly, ere now.  So i picked up the following for < $65, all in:

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[listener]

Well, if you don't see me, I'll be 'Haydn'.   The 150-disc set just arrived that I thought the order hadn't gone through for - there was a response that my German was 'zu wenig' for and I thought it was cancelled.  I got it at EUR 54.90, It's still avalailable at just under EUR 100 at the German amazon site

[mc ukrneal]

Well, if you don't see me, I'll be 'Haydn'.   The 150-disc set just arrived that I thought the order hadn't gone through for - there was a response that my German was 'zu wenig' for and I thought it was cancelled.  I got it at EUR 54.90, It's still avalailable at just under EUR 100 at the German amazon site
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That's better...and congratulations!

[Elgarian]

At long last, I finally placed an order for Solti's Ring, from an Amazon.ca marketplace seller.  New for $111 CDN, which I thought was a decent price for the Solti Ring.  I've been wanting it for a very long time now! 

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This is one of those occasions where I can truly and wholeheartedly understand, and thoroughly enter into, someone else's pleasure. I'd been wanting a Solti Ring since the mid 1970s (when I first heard the Solti Gotterdammerung on a friend's state-of-the-art system in his specially designed music room), but my desire totally outstripped my means, year after year, decade after decade.

I finally got one at a bargain price not very long ago, and the desire had been stifled so long, and (with flames fanned by things like Culshaw's book and the Golden Ring documentary) the idea of the Solti Ring had grown so toweringly supreme in my imagination, that it was sure to disappoint, when I finally got one. Wasn't it? Well it didn't. It was and is unbelievably fine. I'm not sure whether it brought the Ring fully into my living room for the first time, or whether it magically expanded my living room to accommodate it, but it's the recording that my LS3/5As have been waiting for all these years.

So Ray - I wish you deep and abiding joy in your Solti Ring. You've bought a boxful of Greatness.

[Brahmsian]

So Ray - I wish you deep and abiding joy in your Solti Ring. You've bought a boxful of Greatness.

I know I will enjoy it immensely - as I've listened to the copy of it at the public library on more than one occasion.  In fact, it was the Solti Ring which made me finally appreciate Wagner's music. 

[marvinbrown]

At long last, I finally placed an order for Solti's Ring, from an Amazon.ca marketplace seller.  New for $111 CDN, which I thought was a decent price for the Solti Ring.  I've been wanting it for a very long time now! 

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  A superb Ring! I have 6 complete ring cycles and Solti's is easily in the top 3. It is without doubt my favourite studio recording. My other 2 favourites happen to be live recordings, Bohm and Krauss.

  You are in for a real treat  !

marvin

 

[Coopmv]

Just placed an order with Presto this evening consisting of the following recordings ...