Past Purchases (CLOSED)

[Que]

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Yes, I listen to Richter - in Schumann he is phenomenal.

Q

[Coopmv]

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Yes, I listen to Richter - in Schumann he is phenomenal.

Q

This is an excellent recording IMO and is in my music library ...

[Uncle Connie]

  An impulse purchase......... On the spur of a moment I clickedbthe BUY button on this:

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  Well?

  marvin

Can't argue, what I've heard from that set is quite good.  A month or so ago I did my own impulse purchase, of a different set


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mostly because I've long had a soft spot for the excellent work Maag did over the years with admittedly second-rate orchestras:  Making them really shine.  And except for the Lobgesang, which I dislike as music and which Maag cannot save for me, I'm happy with my choice indeed.  But I'd be happy with Dohnanyi as well.  As far as I can tell, unless you want two sets, flip a coin.

[Brian]

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Yes, I listen to Richter - in Schumann he is phenomenal.

Q

That's a great disc.

[madaboutmahler]

Yay! I have some money again so can finally purchase some more cds! Made a nice purchase today, but will be making another tommorow hopefully so shall post both together.

[Uncle Connie]

Yay! I have some money again so can finally purchase some more cds! Made a nice purchase today, but will be making another tommorow hopefully so shall post both together.

But then we don't get to enjoy two separate postings!  This reduces our vicarious pleasure with your good fortune.  Please try to think of us more in these pages.... 

[Uncle Connie]

Today's purchase by me, and a request for some help if anyone can:




A bit off the beaten path these days, the Weber Masses (this is the earlier of them) have long attracted me but I haven't had recordings in years.  Now I've got one at least; the other will follow later.

But if you look at the listing for this one you'll notice that the performers are not given in any detail.  And I cannot find any source that gives that information, anywhere.  Would anybody happen to have any ideas about this, or have a clue how to find out?  Clearly, this download is not taken from an actual CD.  Hint:  I think maybe this comes from an old LP, because the soprano has a very distinctive approach to the first Offertory and I could swear that's exactly what I'm hearing here.  But let's be fair; I haven't heard the LP in twenty years.  So - ideas, O Ye Forum Denizens?

Nice music, by the way.  But it's not "From Freischütz" any more than Haydn's Creation Mass is "From the Creation" - there are just a couple of melodic ideas in common. 

[jlaurson]

Today's purchase by me, and a request for some help if anyone can:

A bit off the beaten path these days, the Weber Masses (this is the earlier of them) have long attracted me but I haven't had recordings in years.  Now I've got one at least; the other will follow later.

But if you look at the listing for this one you'll notice that the performers are not given in any detail.  And I cannot find any source that gives that information, anywhere.  Would anybody happen to have any ideas about this, or have a clue how to find out?  Clearly, this download is not taken from an actual CD.  Hint:  I think maybe this comes from an old LP, because the soprano has a very distinctive approach to the first Offertory and I could swear that's exactly what I'm hearing here.  But let's be fair; I haven't heard the LP in twenty years.  So - ideas, O Ye Forum Denizens?

Nice music, by the way.  But it's not "From Freischütz" any more than Haydn's Creation Mass is "From the Creation" - there are just a couple of melodic ideas in common.

That's the same release (1963 recording?) that once made it onto a Koch-Schwann release with both masses... this one, the First, with Maria Taborsky (your distinct soprano), Gerda Kink, Hermann Poellmann, Hans Huber, conducted by Ernst Ehret.

I think.

[TheGSMoeller]

Some of my favorite music performed by Phantasm. Been enjoying their Gibbons disc on Spotify, time to get the real thing.

[Uncle Connie]

That's the same release (1963 recording?) that once made it onto a Koch-Schwann release with both masses... this one, the First, with Maria Taborsky (your distinct soprano), Gerda Kink, Hermann Poellmann, Hans Huber, conducted by Ernst Ehret.

I think.

THANK YOU - and I think you're right, you triggered one more memory.  Maria Taborsky (also billed as Maria Taborsky-Richter) was hardly a household name but, the two or three times I ran into her on LPs, had an unusual timbre that stood out starkly and was as distinctive in it own way as, say, Maria Callas's  was in hers.  (The two are not otherwise comparable however.)

Well, armed with that, there is a used copy of the Koch-Schwann release on sale for an horrendous price on Amazon UK, and from that description  I can fill in the last detail or two and go enjoy my Mass again.  Thanks again, amigo. 


SLIGHT EDIT TO ABOVE:  I went back to the UK listing (£25!!!!  No thanks) and realized that it is the same performance I once knew as an LP, but not quite:  The Offertory is missing!  The original LP had the Mass (J.224) and the Offertory (J.226) and one more work, NOT the second Mass (that would have exceeded one LP) - maybe it was the second Offertory (J.250), which is what I got on my download.  Koch obviously reissued from an older source, rather than recorded their own.  Whatever, doesn't matter, but all the more reason not to invest in a pricey CD that's "incomplete" but "settle" instead for a cheap download. 

[listener]

I have the Weber Masses as a 2-lp set Schwann AMS 708-709, with a different group on Mass 2  "Jubel"-Messse
Schwann   AMS 708/9   2   Weber, Carl Maria v      op. 76   Mass 2 in G "Jubel"   Stoklassa, Gertraut   Kagel, Habs   Bader, Roland   Stuttgart Philharmonia O.   Stuttgart Philharm Voc Ens

[Coopmv]

Some of my favorite music performed by Phantasm. Been enjoying their Gibbons disc on Spotify, time to get the real thing.

I have both recordings by Phantasm as well.  Great stuffs for sure ...

[Coopmv]

Just placed the last order for this weekend on the following new EMI SACD's with Amazon ...

 

[TheGSMoeller]

I have both recordings by Phantasm as well.  Great stuffs for sure ...

Good to hear 

I really love the sound quality, very close and intimate.

[Coopmv]

Good to hear 

I really love the sound quality, very close and intimate.

I am into early music but these recordings offer a non-vocal perspective in early music, which I really enjoy.

[marvinbrown]

Can't argue, what I've heard from that set is quite good.  A month or so ago I did my own impulse purchase, of a different set


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mostly because I've long had a soft spot for the excellent work Maag did over the years with admittedly second-rate orchestras:  Making them really shine.  And except for the Lobgesang, which I dislike as music and which Maag cannot save for me, I'm happy with my choice indeed.  But I'd be happy with Dohnanyi as well.  As far as I can tell, unless you want two sets, flip a coin.

  I have not seen this recording during my searches of Mendelssohn's symphonies.  The only other contender that I came across is the Abbado set. 

  I decided rather hastily to buy the Dohnanyi set because of the  cantata included in that  set and no other reason.  Like I said an impulse purchase......... I just hope it pays off!

  marvin

[Uncle Connie]

I have the Weber Masses as a 2-lp set Schwann AMS 708-709, with a different group on Mass 2  "Jubel"-Messse
Schwann   AMS 708/9   2   Weber, Carl Maria v      op. 76   Mass 2 in G "Jubel"   Stoklassa, Gertraut   Kagel, Habs   Bader, Roland   Stuttgart Philharmonia O.   Stuttgart Philharm Voc Ens

You said LPs?  Well, then, Schwann was issuing them in that format; and that must have been what I owned, and remembered solely the soprano's rather edgy voice, beautifully phrased but always, ALWAYS right on the edge of being not quite on pitch, and yet she is....  Anyway, the CD reissue of your two LPs, now combined as one and excluding the two Offertoriums that are (presumably) on your LP of J.224, is the one that I mentioned as being available for a huge sum in Britain.  Now discontinued.  And as they haven't made the Jubelmesse half of your set available for download, I'll go get the much newer version that I do see available, conducted by the excellent Helmuth Froschauer and including also Schumann's very late Missa sacra (which I didn't even know existed).

Last note on this:  I doubt I will, but I'd really like to live long enough to hear a recording of Weber's third mass, which is actually the first to be written (at age 15), catalogue J. Anh. 8.  In 1802 when he wrote it, Weber was just out of studies with Michael Haydn; I'd love to hear how much of the old man's influence actually stuck.  But, Weber is mostly passe these days, so I suspect I'll be disappointed.

[Todd]

Plumped for Stewart Goodyear's complete LvB cycle.  I needed a new one.

[TheGSMoeller]

I am into early music but these recordings offer a non-vocal perspective in early music, which I really enjoy.

For more instrumental music, I would suggest the keyboard music from William Byrd, truly marvelous.

[Conor71]

This set arrived today - I am looking forward to hearing it and will hopefully start on the first Discs this evening!