Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[KeithW]

BTW, is it a sign of OCDCDCD to get a recording a week before its official US release date?
(And are there any other Yanks who have received it yet?)

I'm a Brit - but living in the US so I guess I fit the profile you ask about.  I bought the album as a lossless download from Hyperion last week.  Partly because that is my default approach these days - lossless download rather than CD where I can - but partly because I wanted the instant access.  So glad that I did.  I'm on a 19 hour flight sector (to Singapore) tonight and it is already on my iPod for the trip.

[mc ukrneal]

One of my favourite no-brainer priced chamber music boxes (along with the ridiculously priced Smithson Quartet box of Mozart stuff).

Ok! I'm sold! You had me at one... 

[Lethevich]

:3 It is typical Lindseys in style - not austere and polished Schubert in the manner of the Alban Berg Quartet, etc - lively, a bit rough and ready, and a really good quintet recording too I can see why some may find it a little scrappy, though.

[chasmaniac]

I've had this for quite a while. I'm not the world's biggest Schubert fan, but I like this group alot, and their playing here is typically edgy, maybe even a tad neurotic. If the set can now be had at budget price, many a Schubertian will benefit from it.

[Karl Henning]

Perhaps there's no having too much of Il prete rosso . . . .

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[Sergeant Rock]

Mine are Mackerras, Pinnock, Solomons, Harnoncourt, Orpheus and now Weil.... with Solomons' being my top choice at the moment.

Solomons is my favorite too.

Dennis Russell Davies, Bruno Weil, Trevor Pinnock, Ton Koopman, Adám Fischer, Antal Doráti, Orpheus CO, Hermann Scherchen here.

I forgot Dorati. I have his Farewell, too, in a box of LPs containing symphonies 36 to 48.

Sarge

[jlaurson]

I've had this for quite a while. I'm not the world's biggest Schubert fan, but I like this group alot, and their playing here is typically edgy, maybe even a tad neurotic. If the set can now be had at budget price, many a Schubertian will benefit from it.

What do you mean "now available at budget price"? The set [in that edition] has always been at budget price... so long, in fact, that I'm slightly surprised it's still around. :-)

T'was one of my very early "Dip Your Ears" recommendations... http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2004/11/dip-your-ears-no-20.html

[chasmaniac]

What do you mean "now available at budget price"? The set has always been at budget price... so long, in fact, that I'm slightly surprised it's still around. :-)

T'was one of my very early "Dip Your Ears" recommendations... http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2004/11/dip-your-ears-no-20.html

News to me. I bought this a long time ago, man! I know I paid full price for the group's ASV discs and assumed I had done same for this. I'm happy to think it was a bargain, though, whether I remember it that way or not. 

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

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I had bought this a year or so ago, but the condition was not as described, but I liked the program and performance so much that I now bought a brand new copy. It will sit well next to my other Wagner recordings.

Ilaria, have you heard this recording? It's simply stunning.

[Papy Oli]

One of my favourite no-brainer priced chamber music boxes (along with the ridiculously priced Smithson Quartet box of Mozart stuff).

:3 It is typical Lindseys in style - not austere and polished Schubert in the manner of the Alban Berg Quartet, etc - lively, a bit rough and ready, and a really good quintet recording too I can see why some may find it a little scrappy, though.

I've had this for quite a while. I'm not the world's biggest Schubert fan, but I like this group alot, and their playing here is typically edgy, maybe even a tad neurotic. If the set can now be had at budget price, many a Schubertian will benefit from it.

What do you mean "now available at budget price"? The set [in that edition] has always been at budget price... so long, in fact, that I'm slightly surprised it's still around. :-)
T'was one of my very early "Dip Your Ears" recommendations... http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2004/11/dip-your-ears-no-20.html

ok ok I get it - i am late to the party   

I remember it being mentioned and praised not too long ago in the super-duper thread and then after a search on quartets in the Recordings section, I also found George and Hornteacher praising it too... ..in 2007 

[Karl Henning]

Just bought:

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I had bought this a year or so ago, but the condition was not as described, but I liked the program and performance so much that I now bought a brand new copy. It will sit well next to my other Wagner recordings.

Ilaria, have you heard this recording? It's simply stunning.

Sehr gut.

[Lisztianwagner]

Just bought:

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I had bought this a year or so ago, but the condition was not as described, but I liked the program and performance so much that I now bought a brand new copy. It will sit well next to my other Wagner recordings.

Ilaria, have you heard this recording? It's simply stunning.

Of course I have, I agree it's a very ravishing recording! I particularly appreciate the performances from Tristan und Isolde and of Karfreitagszauber from Parsifal.

Enjoy it John!

[Mirror Image]

Of course I have, I agree it's a very ravishing recording! I particularly appreciate the performances from Tristan und Isolde and of Karfreitagszauber from Parsifal.

Enjoy it John!

Thanks, Ilaria. I can't wait to hear it again!

[Geo Dude]

I put in an emergency order when I realized that there was a copy of the Jacobs Mozart 38th and 41st disc on sale new for $5 in the MP.  On that note, if anyone is interested there's a copy of that Jacobs CD used on the marketplace for $5.

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[Mirror Image]

Sehr gut.

Yes, I'm glad you enjoyed this recording too, Karl.

[Elgarian]

I put in an emergency order ...

Mental image of you crawling desperately  across the floor, credit card clutched in hand, arm outstretched towards the computer: 'Just ... one ... more ...'

There's no need to put yourself through this. What do you think the Emergency Services are for?

[madaboutmahler]

Just bought:

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I had bought this a year or so ago, but the condition was not as described, but I liked the program and performance so much that I now bought a brand new copy. It will sit well next to my other Wagner recordings.

Ilaria, have you heard this recording? It's simply stunning.

Not like you to enjoy only excerpts from the full works, John! I really still think that you should get the Abbado Prokofiev R+J selections, such an amazing recording!

And I agree with everyone here, this is an excellent Wagner recording!

[Lethevich]

Not like you to enjoy only excerpts from the full works, John! I really still think that you should get the Abbado Prokofiev R+J selections, such an amazing recording!

CORNERED!

[Mirror Image]

Not like you to enjoy only excerpts from the full works, John! I really still think that you should get the Abbado Prokofiev R+J selections, such an amazing recording!

And I agree with everyone here, this is an excellent Wagner recording!

True, I'm out-of-character with this Wagner excerpt recording, but I have quite of a few of these anyway and it's not like Abbado is going to release any more Wagner any time soon. The first Wagner excerpt recording I bought was with Adrian Boult on EMI. That's still a good one that holds up quite well. I don't know but that Prokofiev Abbado recording just doesn't look enticing enough to me. Plus, as I've told you before, I'm not that big of a fan of Romeo & Juliet anyway. I prefer Prokofiev's other ballets like The Stone Flower, Sur le Borysthène (On The Dnieper), The Prodigal Son, and Le Pas d'Acier. Some may view these Prokofiev ballets as minor works and that's perfectly fine with me. I just like them better than Romeo & Juliet.

[Brian]

CORNERED!

awesome post.