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[Que]

I went scavanging at German Medimops - I hope "sehr gut" means that the items look half decent.

     

Q

[AnthonyAthletic]

Que,

Hope they deliver your goodies. 

I ordered this from them last week:

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They sent two of these:

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I got my money refunded, and they said "keep the Bob Dylan cds"

Never really sat down and listened to Dylan before    Not bad for a freebie.

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Maazel's Schubert cycle (the Unfinished is numbered 7 and the Great C major 8, so they are all there); Nielsen 2 & 3 conducted by Colin Davis; and marches and waltzes by Julius Fučík (1872-1916), including Winterstürme which david johnson posted recently, Neumann conducting the Czech Phil.






Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

   

[jlaurson]

Listen What the Cat Dragged In:


J. Brahms
Piano Concertos Nos. 23 & 25
Rudi Buchbinder, Nick Harnoncourt
and the Concentus Musicus Wien Band
Sony
German link - UK link

Tinkle, tinkle, little star. The star being Paul McNulty's 1792 Anton Walter copy. (How did ECM's former press person become executive producer on this one? Hmmm.)

...and, somewhat inexplicably (cat's got her wires crossed, no doubt), this:

Leo Brouwer
Beatlerianas
Carlos Barbosa-Lima & The Havana String Quartet
Zoho
German link - UK link
Performing a Suite of seven Beatles song arrangements in versions for guitar and string quartet.
Apparently a re-working of "From Yesterday to Penny Lane" which has been tackled by various guitarists, including Ichiro Suzuki, Göran Söllscher (w/bandoneon, for DG!), Flavio Cucchi, Jerry Creedon, Rey Guerra, Tuomas Ollila (Ondine), Guy Lukowski...

Oh... and it's been out with String Quintet, "Trout style", too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f1LndVgfAo

So it's not new in any way, but heck, maybe it's not so far off my beat, after all.

[Mirror Image]

Read a Hurwitz review on this recording. Apparently, he doesn't think much of it. Do you own the other ones in this Nielsen series, Sarge? Would you recommend them? I only own the recording with Symphonies 4 & 5 and the performances didn't really click for me.

[jlaurson]

Read a Hurwitz review on this recording. Apparently, he doesn't think much of it. Do you own the other ones in this Nielsen series, Sarge? Would you recommend them? I only own the recording with Symphonies 4 & 5 and the performances didn't really click for me.

I've got them, for what it's worth, and although I found them enjoyable, I wasn't consistently wowed. In fact, on several occasions, there was a distinct lack of 'clickage'. But then there's no one cycle (neither Blomstedt nor Bernstein, to take two rather disparate approaches that have their fans) that does.

[Mirror Image]

I've got them, for what it's worth, and although I found them enjoyable, I wasn't consistently wowed. In fact, on several occasions, there was a distinct lack of 'clickage'. But then there's no one cycle (neither Blomstedt nor Bernstein, to take two rather disparate approaches that have their fans) that does.

Thanks, Jens. I like Bernstein, Chung, and Schonwandt. Blomstedt's (Decca) is good but I've found myself listening to less and less over the years.

[jlaurson]

Thanks, Jens. I like Bernstein, Chung, and Schonwandt. Blomstedt's (Decca) is good but I've found myself listening to less and less over the years.

I don't have Chung... but Schonwandt is one, upon reflection, that I might pick if it had to be a complete cycle by one conductor. But then it's been too long since I've listened to those recordings to really compare to the others. After a while one merely remembers a memory of an impression, not the thing itself.

[Mirror Image]

I don't have Chung... but Schonwandt is one, upon reflection, that I might pick if it had to be a complete cycle by one conductor. But then it's been too long since I've listened to those recordings to really compare to the others. After a while one merely remembers only a memory of an impression, not the thing itself.

Chung's 3rd continues to get praised to the hills and I agree it's an excellent performance. I like his 5th a lot as well. Schonwandt is like the Haitink of Nielsen, it's not fussy, it's a middle-of-the-road approach that works well and he had the Danish National Radio Symphony and great audio quality from Dacapo, so this also helped.

[jut1972]

Arrived recently, following fafner and springrite's posts:
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Also arrived today for my birthday 
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[Sergeant Rock]

Read a Hurwitz review on this recording. Apparently, he doesn't think much of it. Do you own the other ones in this Nielsen series, Sarge? Would you recommend them? I only own the recording with Symphonies 4 & 5 and the performances didn't really click for me.

No, this is my first installment. I read the Hurwitzer's review but it didn't deter me. I'm a collector of Espansivas.

Thanks, Jens. I like Bernstein, Chung, and Schonwandt.

I don't have Chung... but Schonwandt is one, upon reflection, that I might pick if it had to be a complete cycle by one conductor.

Of the ten Nielsen cycles I own, Kuchar or Schmidt would be my pick for the desert island. I know Schonwandt is admired by many (not just you two) but it's one of my least favorites. I have Chung's Espansiva...and yes, it is really good. I should invest in the cycle, I suppose.

Sarge

[Fafner]

Arrived recently, following fafner and springrite's posts:

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Rossini - Overtures
Also arrived today for my birthday 

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Alex Ross - The Rest Is Noise

The Rossini just arrived here as well.
I plan to buy The Rest is Noise when I finish Hurwitz's book (Beethoven or Bust) and the Naxos book.

[jlaurson]

Of the ten Nielsen cycles I own, Kuchar or Schmidt would be my pick for the desert island. I know Schonwandt is admired by many (not just you two) but it's one of my least favorites. I have Chung's Espansiva...and yes, it is really good. I should invest in the cycle, I suppose.
Sarge

Kuchar and I have not yet clicked. Sounds even more like Martinu, in his hands, than with others.

[not edward]

I don't have Chung... but Schonwandt is one, upon reflection, that I might pick if it had to be a complete cycle by one conductor. But then it's been too long since I've listened to those recordings to really compare to the others. After a while one merely remembers a memory of an impression, not the thing itself.

I'm a bit in that direction with Schonwandt--every time I've pulled the recordings out I'm not disappointed, but they don't hang in the memory like, say, Bernstein's 3rd, Martinon's 4th, Bernstein's or Tuxen's 5th or Thomson's 6th (one of the real sleeper Nielsen recordings in my opinion). Perhaps it is in part that they're good mainstream interpretations--but I tend to often enjoy the superficially non-interventionist approach (many Kubelik and Ancerl recordings for example).

Which is all a rather awkward segue into a question I have: anyone heard the Kubelik 5th, and if so, how is it? I'd have bought it by now, I'm sure, if I didn't have every single one of the other recordings on that two-fer.

[jlaurson]

Which is all a rather awkward segue into a question I have: anyone heard the Kubelik 5th, and if so, how is it? I'd have bought it by now, I'm sure, if I didn't have every single one of the other recordings on that two-fer.

Yes... I thought it was very fine but not (not that Kubelik's the man for that) a "WOW-factor". I remember listening to it for the first time, not having looked at the booklet, and thinking: Hmmm... Blomstedt's EMI recording of the Fifth (which I assumed was in the twofer) is better than I thought it was. 

Anyone have the Salonen and find them special?

[Daverz]

Hard to resist at the MovieMars price.  Includes Paavo Berglund's recordings of Symphonies 5, 10 & 11, at least according to the Amazon France listing.

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http://www.amazon.fr/Chostakovitch-Concertos-Symphonies-Coffret-CD/dp/tracks/B000G1T4GO

[The new erato]

Ordered this historic performance:



Prague Symphony Orchestra
Václav Smetáček
The Royal Festival Hall, London
Recording: 6th March 1968

[kishnevi]

Arrived today:  Belder playing the Bach Partitas
                        Simone Stella playing the organ and harpsichord works of Bohm
                        Volume 19 of the Hobbit's Haydn, which has already received a hearing, resulting in a positive impression.  Either I'm getting used to Fey's style, or he's improving as the series goes on, or both.   At any rate, the prospect that I'll add on to the three installments of this series I already have in hand have increased considerably.

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[Octave]

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Grumiaux: FRENCH & BELGIAN VIOLIN SONATAS (Eloquence, 2cd)
AG on the cover, with his lips inexplicably dark, looking disturbingly like the Mystery Man from David Lynch's LOST HIGHWAY.

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Janácek by Palenicek

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Bach GOLDBERGs/TOCCATAS by Asperen [also available in a recent 6cd slimline box with his WTC, but I'd bought the WTC 4cd before that newer box came out]