Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Leclair is relatively underrepresented in recordings, Bowen is a blank for me but I'm a great fan of Lawrence Power's powerful (no pun intended) viola playing; I have quite a lot of his discs (his 3 Hindemith discs on Hyperion is essential IMO).

Both Leclair recordings are really fine performances. Bowen is one of the composers I have come to admire over the years. This recording does him full justice in my opinion.

[Sergeant Rock]

The other Schuppanzigh Haydn CD arrived this morning. It has op.77/1 (one of my favorites), 64/5 and 9/4 (the great D minor):




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[The new erato]

On europadisc I ordered these:

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My love of baroque vocasl music is practically unlimited; so in the current Glossa offer I got this from one of my favorite labels.

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There is a two week offer on various UK websites on a large part of Hyperions catalogue; so I'm mopping up various odds and ends. In this case widening my knowledge of Bacewicz's music.

[Lethevich]

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I do wonder why Hyperion chose an orchestra that specialises in light music to record this disc. It's nicely done, and essential to a Bacewicz fan, but could've been better, and possibly killed a potential series right from the start.

[kishnevi]

Ordered these at Hyperion's website:

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I was going to get those exact, but then reflected that I've got the Dutton recording of the Bowen viola works, and the Naxos recording of some of Leclair's sonatas, so I diverted to works of which I have no recordings--the Mendelssohn string symphonies (3 CDs for 8GBP!) and Medtner's piano concertos (4 GBP) plus two Helios CDs of pre-Bach cantatas.

[Opus106]

Mendelssohn string symphonies (3 CDs for 8GBP!)

Oh, so it was you who sneaked away with the last copy?

[Que]

On europadisc I ordered these:

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My love of baroque vocasl music is practically unlimited; so in the current Glossa offer I got this from one of my favorite labels.

Niiicccce!

I got this one myself! Trying to quench my thirst for more harpsichord music... Italian harpsichord music is now firmly on my radar.

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Q

[Mirror Image]

Landed today:

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Can't wait to hear the music. The liner notes are especially nicely done with a contributions by composer Lou Harrison, MTT, among others.

[jlaurson]

Niiicccce!

I got this one myself! Trying to quench my thirst for more harpsichord music... Italian harpsichord music is now firmly on my radar.
Q

Then this might be of interest. (If you don't mind the piano in Galuppi.)


Notions of Bach, Berio, and Galuppi. An Interview with Andrea Bacchetti (with a little Galuppi-snippet. )

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Just bought:



I haven't heard this recording and I read a member here really enjoyed it, so why not?

[kishnevi]

Arkiv is offering this as a special this weekend at a price is more or less competitive with MDT and Amazon MP, so I ordered it:
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I have some of the Boulez recordings included,  but that's all, so it's sixteen CDs worth of  performances I've never heard, and in some cases (some of the chamber music, Pelleas et Melisande, the songs) music I've never heard before.

[Mirror Image]

Looking through my MacMillan collection earlier and found that I didn't own this:

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So I ordered it.

Also bought this:

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This will be my third The Confession of Isobel Gowdie but how could I pass on Colin Davis and the LSO performing it? I couldn't!

[The new erato]

Ordered these from amazon.co.uk:

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[The new erato]

And these:

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[Que]

Then this might be of interest. (If you don't mind the piano in Galuppi.)


Notions of Bach, Berio, and Galuppi. An Interview with Andrea Bacchetti (with a little Galuppi-snippet. )

An interesting read, thanks.

Of course, as a Baroque lover and harpsichord admiror I find the reasoning behind the use of the modern piano - as a means to unearth treasures that are hidden inside the score - amusing... It's the old dogma of the harpsichord being restrictive and the piano as the "big liberator". Maybe the use of the piano helps a modern performer (and listener) to musically (re-)connect by transforming the music, but that's another matter entirely. Which doesn't diminish the significance of that process for the performer and listener concerned BTW.

Q

[Lisztianwagner]

My first recording of Berg's Wozzeck!

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[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Two very interesting issues on Brilliant.

[Antoine Marchand]

I had tried to purchase this before, but finally I have acquired it via the Amazon Market Place:

[jlaurson]

Haydn (Re) Releases:


J. Haydn et al.
"Haydn ...out of Hainburg
A.Holzapfel / dolce risonanza
Gramola
[mp3 only in the US?]
German link, UK link

Salve Regina XXIIIb:2, Pieces for small organ XIX: 12-13
+ works by Albrechtsberger, Fux, M.Haydn, Reutter




J. Haydn et al.
Haydn alla Zingarese
Paul Gulda, R.G.Banda et al.
Gramola
Music Classic edition: German link, UK link
Re-release from a 1993 recording, out on CD on the "musica classic" label (Denon?)

Excerpts with gypsy influences from Haydn's oevre interspersed with traditional Hungarian / Gypsy music.

[jlaurson]

Listen what the Cat Dragged In


C.Debussy, T.Adès, M.Ravel, B.Britten/R.Stevenson
"Darknesse Visible"
Suite Bergamasque, Darknesse,
Fantasy on Peter Grimes, La valse,
Gaspard de la nuit
Inon Barnatan
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German link, UK link



F.Schubert, T.Adès, L.v.Beethoven
"Perspectives 1"
Beethoven Cycle with Garnish
PS in a, D537, PS opp. 31/2 ("Tempest") & 111, Darknesse
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German link, UK link