Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[TheGSMoeller]

Finally getting the Litton/Ives 4th, continue to read positive comments on this recording, the Poulenc I already own in MP3 format but love it so much I needed a hard copy, and finally more Rameau, this time keyboard works performed on piano by Angela Hewitt.

[Mirror Image]

Just bought:

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This is Boulez's second performance of Schoenberg's Pellas und Melisande on record. His first was with the CSO in an excellent performance.

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning, a couple of Planets: Mehta and the NY Phil recommended by GSMoeller ("mainly for the ultra nasty low brass section") and Boult/LPO recommended by everyone in the world with the sole exception of mc urkneal 




Sarge

[eyeresist]

Boult/LPO recommended by everyone in the world with the sole exception of mc urkneal 

He's not the only one   I think it's good, but have heard better. A bit too "grand old man" for my taste.

[TheGSMoeller]

Arrived this morning, a couple of Planets: Mehta and the NY Phil recommended by GSMoeller ("mainly for the ultra nasty low brass section")...
Sarge

Yes! This is the only recording where Saturn gives me chills, frighteningly powerful. And the tuba is very present throughout the entire disc, along with the solid horns and massive wall of t-bones, that's how I like my Planets.

Mehta and NYP also have a Sibelius 2nd and a Mahler 5th on Teldec recorded around the same time, very similar sound, wouldn't consider it lyrical but a very strong and direct quality.

[Karl Henning]

You did not mention this one, but I like the companion piece as well.

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Thanks for the alert! I don't believe I have heard any choral music by, well, any south-of-the-border composer.

[marvinbrown]

  I haven't bought much during the past couple of weeks, and I still have that Haydn Complete Symphonies cycle (Fischer) to get started on.  That said I was intrigued by this very obscure opera from Richard Strauss so I decided to take the plunge after I read that it was a hommage to Richard Wagner.

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  marvin

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Ordered this one, a very cheap reissue on Brilliant, originally on Chandos.

[Elgarian]

Boult/LPO recommended by everyone in the world with the sole exception of mc urkneal 

To reiterate (though I know you've already understood what I'm after, Sarge): my recommendation of it is not because it's better than others ('better' means so many different things to different folks), but because of what I can only describe as an impression of Total Command over what's going on; as if there's a lifetime of knowledge of the music being brought to a powerful focus in this recording: the Boult distinctive vision of The Planets, nailed once and for all. In particular, Boult's Uranus is delivered with shattering certainty.

[Karl Henning]

This box shoots a different Boult, I am guessing . . . as the orchestra seems to be the New Philharmonia.

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[Sergeant Rock]

This box shoots a different Boult, I am guessing . . . as the orchestra seems to be the New Philharmonia.

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"Boult recorded this work no less than five times, three alone for EMI and once for Decca and once for Westminster. Each version of the work is distinctive and well worth hearing but it is his final EMI recording from 1979 [with the LPO] in late analogue sound that has been the favorite of most critics. It is certainly his best recorded and probably best played performance (although the BBC Symphony in Boult's EMI 1944 recording plays quite stunningly) but I have always found this New Philharmonia recording from 1966 to be the most magical of all Boult's Planets..." MusicWeb

[Karl Henning]

That's great to read, Sarge . . . and I am chafing, as I don't know where I've stuck that box . . . so I've rather wished to hear that performance, but cain't, no-how.

[kishnevi]

That's great to read, Sarge . . . and I am chafing, as I don't know where I've stuck that box . . . so I've rather wished to hear that performance, but cain't, no-how.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who can't remember in which stack or on which shelf I put it.  I probably have one or the other of those performances, but I don't remember where it is either (it's the one on EMI's cheap 20th Century Composer double CD series).    And that's my only performance of the Planets, too.  Maybe I should go digging through the Planets thread for ideas on another one.

Meanwhile,  just placed an order with Prestoclassical.  New releases,  and ordered them mostly on the basis of the performers, although Schmelzer is totally new to me.

[Leon]

Purchased previously from am AMP seller, but only arrived yesterday:

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This box has been praised a-plenty by several folks on GMG and after sampling from it,  here and there, last night - not undeservedly.

[Opus106]

Though not a SDCB, for a new release from HM, it's currently a bargain at Amazon UK. (For those who haven't bought it, anyway. )

[classicalgeek]

Landed Monday, from Tim (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,20436.0.html)

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Looking forward to delving into these new (to me) Beethoven cycles, nos. 60 and 61 in my collection .  The Maag has especially intrigued me for a while...

[The new erato]

Meanwhile,  just placed an order with Prestoclassical.  New releases,  and ordered them mostly on the basis of the performers, although Schmelzer is totally new to me.

That Diabelli got a great writeup in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalcdreviews/9243712/Beethoven-Diabelli-Variations-CD-review.html

[Mirror Image]

Just bought these two recordings that have been on my to buy list since their release:

[Brian]

Just bought these two recordings that have been on my to buy list since their release:

Those are enormous cover images! How'd you find them? I want to use that site's cover scan gallery to stock my iTunes library...

[Mirror Image]

Those are enormous cover images! How'd you find them? I want to use that site's cover scan gallery to stock my iTunes library...

I just went to Google images and typed in the name of the recordings.