Past Purchases (CLOSED)

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Just bought:



How these two sets slipped through the cracks I have no idea, but I'm glad I got them now.

[TheGSMoeller]

That top Hickox disc is chock full of good stuff, John.

[Mirror Image]

That top Hickox disc is chock full of good stuff, John.

Yeah, a lot of it I've heard before in other performances, but I have not heard Old King Cole yet, so this will definitely be new to me.

[SonicMan46]

Fourth, Bill! (I can quit anytime . . . .) Borodins, Emersons, Fitzwilliams, and now Mandelrings . . . .

Karl - enjoy!     Just a few days left in the month for the Shosty SQ listening thread -    Dave

[The new erato]

The dangers of posting from a smartphone....

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Bought some goodies from the Lyrita label:

[PaulR]

Impulse buy:

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Impulse buy:

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Thumbs up! I bought this one too. Yesterday I believe.

[kishnevi]

So? Everyone agrees that Ray prefers 427 over 626.


Are there many people who don't think the Great Mass (and if you ask me, even the Coronation Mass) are more sophisticated than the Requiem?
I'm not saying "more catchy"... and in fact, it might be the salacious, even crude, certainly shameless elements of the Requiem that make it so damn attractive.

The Requiem is to the Great Mass what the Magic Flute is to Don Giovanni. Roughly. 

There are those of us who think Zauberflote is superior to Don G.   
But I would vote for the Coronation Mass as superior to both the "Great Mass" and the Requiem.

Yes indeed. I posted a follow up commentary - which now seems mysteriously missing - saying that the only reason I bought it was that I had despaired of ever seeing a first class HIP recording of Semele. The type of singing which I expect to hear on this set is not something I gladly suffer in baroque music, but we'll see.

I have a PI recording of Semele: the Early Opera Company on Chandos's sublabel of Chaconne.  Very serviceable, although I'm not sure if it would meet your criteria of "first class".

Thread duty:
last night, as I came home 'round the midnight hour from work,  I found a package from Amazon France and a package from Amazon Spain on my doorstep.  The French parcel was shipped more than a week after the Spanish one, and both arrived earlier than I expected (not til next week in my expectations).
So now I have the Karajan Ring cycle (Ring no. 5), the Aeolian SQ complete Haydn SQ cycle (my first for that, despite having most of them in one performance or another), a 250th anniversary box from EMI of Muti conducting Cherubini's masses, with some secular tidbits thrown in from Marriner/ASMF; and an EMI box of Yehudi Menuhin playing a wide variety of concertos (quite literally from Vivaldi to Bartok), of which I have two or three CDs already ( the Bartok, Mendelssohn/Bruch and Bach entries) but none of the rest.  The Beethoven performance is not the Furtwangler which I expected, but another one with Silvestri

[listener]

SCHUBERT  1822 - 1823
London Schubert Chorale and a batch of soloists
Graham Johnson, piano
HANDEL 16 Organ Concertos
London Philharmonic Orch.   /Boult, cond.
E. Power Biggs, organ   "Great Packington"
SCHOENFIELD: Four Preludes for piano and orch.   Four Souvenirs for violin and piano
Café Music for Piano Trio
Prague Philharmonia.  Joanna Falletta, cond.
Andrew Russo, piano    James Ehnes, violin   Edward Arron, cello   
from Sikoras post-Christmas clearance at about $5.00 each

[TheGSMoeller]

Haven't been this excited over a purchase in a while, the Jacobs Seasons and Magic Flute are two I've been wanting for years. And the Brahms has come highly acclaimed (thanks to a few GMGrs).

[TheGSMoeller]

SCHOENFIELD: Four Preludes for piano and orch.   Four Souvenirs for violin and piano
Café Music for Piano Trio
Prague Philharmonia.  Joanna Falletta, cond.
Andrew Russo, piano    James Ehnes, violin   Edward Arron, cello   
from Sikoras post-Christmas clearance at about $5.00 each

I'm a huge fan of Schoenfield, listener, it's nice to see his music make it on another post other than mine. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this disc and music.

[listener]

I'm a huge fan of Schoenfield, listener, it's nice to see his music make it on another post other than mine. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this disc and music.

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I have a Argo disc with the trumpet concerto (Vaudeville) and Klezmer Rondos, and the Naxos one of choral music so I look forward to playing the new one.
LPs today: a couple of Louisville O.   - an elderly mono with TANSMAN Capriccio, BOROWSKI The Mirror, and DAHL The Tower of St. Barbara, and a stereo one with HOVHANESS Arak the Healer, SCULTHORPE   Sun Music III, and WIDDOES Morning Music
and a British pressing of  RUBINSTEIN music for piano 4-hands: the Sonata in D op,89  and 2 pieces from op. 50
played by Markham and Broadway.

[The new erato]

I have a PI recording of Semele: the Early Opera Company on Chandos's sublabel of Chaconne.  Very serviceable, although I'm not sure if it would meet your criteria of "first class".

I know about that, and its very mixed reviews (serviceable seem spot on), combined with Chandos' usual high price (and my limited enthusiam for the Parthenope with the same forces), made me give it a miss. But the DG is also only a stopgap for me, until somebody realizes that this is one major Handel work in dire need of a new recording with top HIP forces.

[Lisztianwagner]

Just bought:

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[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Savall's Mozart Requiem; some Sturm und Drang from Quebec; baroque trumpet concertos, including Vivaldi RV 537; and the soundtrack to Game of Thrones.





Sarge

[The new erato]

I'm sure that Capriccio cover also need to be crossposted in another thread containing the word ...worst... in the title.

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm sure that Capriccio cover also need to be crossposted in another thread containing the word ...worst... in the title.

Almost every Güttler cover qualifies.

Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

I may have just reached double-figures with "Farewell" recordings, plus an additional No.39 never hurts. Interesting contrast with the Yun Chamber Symphony, a composer completely new to me.

[Willoughby earl of Itacarius]

Yun is a fine composer and highly appreciated by me!