Purchases Today

[Brian]

I do very much like Daniel Hope's Mendelssohn!

I dropped $56 on 20 CDs from Presto - bless Sony/RCA and their far-too-cheap box sets:


Byron Janis: Complete RCA Album Collection


Itzhak Perlman: Concertos, Sonatas and more...

[Sergeant Rock]

Arrived this morning: Zinman's Mahler cycle. Partially recommended by Jeffrey Smith.




Sarge

[North Star]

45 € from Amazon Spain, including VAT and delivery.

[jlaurson]

Listen What the Cat Dragged In:


W.G. Mozart
Piano Concertos Nos.24 & 27
Alessio Bax
Southbank Sinfonia / Simon Over
Signum Classics
German link - UK link
If you listen closely, there are plenty instances to take issue with orchestral details that are less than inspired, heavy handed... yet the further you get away from it, the more clearly emerges a very engaging, spirited account that is much more fun than the sour-puss Harnoncourt/Buchbinder concerto recording that came out recently.


W.G. Mozart & others
Requiem
and its Realizations
Cleobury / Choir of the Kings College
Academy of Ancient Music
Gilchrist, Purves, C.Rice, Manahan Thomas
KGS 02
German link - UK link
With bits & pieces of realizations by Richard Maunder, Robert Levin, Franz Beyer, Duncan Druce, and Michael Finnissy
With an audio documentary by Cliff Eisen.

The documentary is great; the recording of the Suessmayr version of the Requiem is good enough but not the main point.


R. Vaughan Williams
Symphonies
Boult I
Decca
German link - UK link

Had to get that, by all accounts, so I did... for a ridiculously low price from Kraut-Amazon. Krautmazon!

[Sergeant Rock]

Had to get that....

Yes, it's the keystone to a solid VW collection.

Sarge

[Brian]

Krautmazon!

Krautmazon: the only reliable defense vs. Krav Maga.

[jlaurson]

Krautmazon: the only reliable defense vs. Krav Maga.

The other way around. Krav Maga was invented as the only reliable defense against Krautmazons!

[Karl Henning]

45 € from Amazon Spain, including VAT and delivery.

(* pounds the table *)

[Mirror Image]

Listen What the Cat Dragged In:



R. Vaughan Williams
Symphonies
Boult I
Decca
German link - UK link

Had to get that, by all accounts, so I did... for a ridiculously low price from Kraut-Amazon. Krautmazon!

Excellent cycle, Jens! I hope you enjoy it. As Sarge pointed out, it is a keystone to an RVW collection.

[Wakefield]

All this big-box thing is quite sick... but irresistible... to me.   

[jut1972]

The other way around. Krav Maga was invented as the only reliable defense against Krautmazons!

pounds the table (into splinters)

[jut1972]

All this big-box thing is quite sick... but irresistible... to me.   

Absolutely beautifully presented set it has to be said...

[Papy Oli]

A couple of bits ordered today :

[North Star]

A couple of bits ordered today :

Very nice, Olivier! The Langgaard disc is superb, and all Fischer-Dieskau Schubert recordings I've heard have been exemplary.


Thread duty:
Aimard's Ligeti Études  & Musica Ricercata disc arrived today.

[Papy Oli]

Very nice, Olivier! The Langgaard disc is superb, and all Fischer-Dieskau Schubert recordings I've heard have been exemplary.

Hi Karlo
It did sound good indeed ! I have listened so many times to the Amazon samples of the 21-CD boxset of DFD/Schubert lieder (which include the above) just to try and make my mind up whether I needed the whole lot or not  Decided eventually that 3-CD set was sufficient (I already own one "best-of" CD with DFD for the non-cycles lieder).

Langgaard is a new composer to me and this got high praises.

[North Star]

Hi Karlo
It did sound good indeed ! I have listened so many times to the Amazon samples of the 21-CD boxset of DFD/Schubert lieder (which include the above) just to try and make my mind up whether I needed the whole lot or not  Decided eventually that 3-CD set was sufficient (I already own one "best-of" CD with DFD for the non-cycles lieder).

Langgaard is a new composer to me and this got high praises.

Those three cycles are some of the greatest works by Schubert, definitely wise to get them all. Lots of great individual songs, too, but it would probably be overkill to have them all sung by one singer.

I didn't have any Langgaard either, although had heard MotS and some symphonies from Youtube before buying that disc. Some day I'll get Dausgaard's box of the symphonies, too.

[HIPster]

Langgaard is a new composer to me and this got high praises.

Eagerly awaiting your thoughts on it Olivier!  That disc is pretty high on my list right now as well.

Enjoy!

[jlaurson]

Hi Karlo
It did sound good indeed ! I have listened so many times to the Amazon samples of the 21-CD boxset of DFD/Schubert lieder (which include the above) just to try and make my mind up whether I needed the whole lot or not  Decided eventually that 3-CD set was sufficient (I already own one "best-of" CD with DFD for the non-cycles lieder).

Langgaard is a new composer to me and this got high praises.

Langgaard is fabulous. If that doesn't tickle your fancy all that much, though, give one of his Symphonies (1st or 2nd) a try 1st: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2008/12/best-recordings-of-2008.html (All: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-recordings-of-2009-2.html), or his ridiculously gorgeous short pieces for Violin and Piano.

[Wakefield]

Absolutely beautifully presented set it has to be said...

Yes, it looks very beautifully presented. I have the gorgeous Sony editions of Horowitz and Rubinstein and I hope this one will be even better. 

P.S.: When I say "better", naturally I'm talking about the external presentation.

[jut1972]

arrived today..
Arvo Part Adams Lament and Fur Alina
Max Richter Vivaldi recomposed

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008U0FI7M/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000024HL1/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008A1TIOK/ref=oh_details_o03_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1

The ASIN link isn't available any more?