Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: a box of orchestral works by Harald Sæverud, including his Peer Gynt Suites and Kjempeviseslåtten (Ballad of Revolt), a work recommended by Erato in the WWII Classical thread. And a Boult/BBC CD with Brahms 3 and Elgar 1 recommended by Elgarian.




Sarge

[J.Z. Herrenberg]

A must-listen - I love Hardy's poetry ever more strongly, and I like Finzi a lot.

[Lethevich]

This is a great series I feel lucky that Simax recorded so much of his music with their limited resources.

[Karl Henning]

Just landed:

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[DieNacht]

Ravel - CD Designo-Series, from Membran, 4 Euros on a local sale
An interesting set if one wants to trace early Ravel recordings.

Track list:
http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/ravel-maurice-maurice-ravel-p-981767.html?osCsid=eh8a5uldn3opc2sp1r0m73t0f3

Had a lot of the content which consists solely of historical recordings (as opposed to most of the sets in this 4 CD composer portrait series, usually mingling old and lesser known, not very interesting recent recordings). But I did not own the Quartet/Calvet4, Trio/Rubinstein,Heifetz,Piatigorsky, Introduction-Allegro/Laskine,Moyse,Calvet4, and the Ansermet recordings of the 1940s. The Wittgenstein/Walter recording of the Left-hand Concerto here is better than Wittgenstein´s with Scherchen, at times extremely wild, but Wittgenstein´s playing style seems to have included a lot of errors in general, very far from today´s performance praxis.

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

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[Mirror Image]

Landed today:

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

A new composer for me. The samples of both CD'S, made a huge impression on me, his wayward writing has me hooked.

[listener]

Ordered the DVORAK box, still $ 7.99 (+ $ 7.98 shipping to Canada) for 8 discs
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contents list is from presto:
Symphonies Nos. 1-9 (complete)
Symphonic Variations, Op. 78
In Nature's Realm Overture, Op. 91
Carnival Overture, Op. 92
Othello Overture, Op. 93
The Water Goblin, Op. 107 (B195)
The Noon Witch, Op. 108 (B196)
The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109
The Wild Dove, Op. 110 (B198)

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: the ECM disc containing Tchaikovsky and Kissine Piano Trios played by Gidon Kremer and Co; and Haydn Quartets played by the Auryn Quartet: op.9, 54 and 55.






Sarge

[Elgarian]

Ordered the DVORAK box, still $ 7.99 (+ $ 7.98 shipping to Canada) for 8 discs
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Had an email from Amazon today, pushing the expected delivery date back by a couple of weeks.

[KeithW]

Unfortunately, the Urana CDs aren't included in the discography.

Thanks.

Sarge

I just realised that I do have the Russian Revelation disc - here are the performance dates

Sonata No. 6 in A - 2 May 1966
Sonata No. 7 in B flat - 10 May 1970
Sonata No. 8 in B flat - 17 April 1961

I found a reference to the Urania recording (different cover but same pieces) here - http://www.ariama.com/albums/prokofiev-piano-sonatas-(sviatoslav-richter-urania)

The dates of those are earlier - 1956/1958

Hope that is of some help

[Sergeant Rock]

I just realised that I do have the Russian Revelation disc - here are the performance dates

Sonata No. 6 in A - 2 May 1966
Sonata No. 7 in B flat - 10 May 1970
Sonata No. 8 in B flat - 17 April 1961

I found a reference to the Urania recording (different cover but same pieces) here - http://www.ariama.com/albums/prokofiev-piano-sonatas-(sviatoslav-richter-urania)

The dates of those are earlier - 1956/1958

Hope that is of some help

Thanks. Yes, big help 

Edit: I wonder, though, if they might be different performances. The Urania cover of the CDs I was asking about says 1959-61 Original Productions. In any case, it seems they are probably not the same performances as on the Revelation disc...except possibly the Eighth.

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Hey, Sarge, how'd you do with the Op.83?

[Sergeant Rock]

Hey, Sarge, how'd you do with the Op.83?

Better than I have in the past. I didn't drift off this time    Give it a few more listens and it might just click finally.

Sarge

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Ordered today!

[The new erato]

Ordered from an mdt offer:

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[Mirror Image]

Just bought these two Schoeck recordings:

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Landed today:

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[madaboutmahler]

Ordered today!

Lucky you, Harry....