Purchases Today

[Mirror Image]

Broke down and bought this from ArkivMusic.  Probably overpaid

Considering it's an ArkivCD and not an original, you certainly did.

[Daverz]

Considering it's an ArkivCD and not an original, you certainly did.

ArkivCDs include notes and have the same data as the CD.  I wish they were cheaper, but there's no reason to pay more for an "original" if your interest is the music.

[Octave]

contra Hurwitzer


Haydn by Hogwood (Decca Italia, 32cd)

I got mine through Amazon IT for $72 including shipping to N. America; it's the best deal I could find.  I listened to a bunch of samples and I think I will love it, we'll see.  Thanks to GMG Haydnistas for some honest discussion of this series and its rivals.

also, in this tradition,

[asin]B000L42J7C[/asin]
Pettersson: COMPLETE SYMPHONIES (CPO, 12cd)

I scored a very cheap used "like new" copy, so in I go.

[marvinbrown]

  A MASSIVE order for me today!  To commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Verdi's birth I pulled the trigger on this wonderful boxset from Decca!  I am familiar with 17 of Verdi's operas- there are a dozen or so that I do not know. I have recordings of I Vespri Siciliani that are in poor mp3 quality and my Otello Chung with Domingo is scratched so for £127 from amazon delivered I said I have got to get my hands on this set:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDoldFID4s

  marvin

[mc ukrneal]

  A MASSIVE order for me today!  To commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Verdi's birth I pulled the trigger on this wonderful boxset from Decca!  I am familiar with 17 of Verdi's operas- there are a dozen or so that I do not know. I have recordings of I Vespri Siciliani that are in poor mp3 quality and my Otello Chung with Domingo is scratched so for £127 from amazon delivered I said I have got to get my hands on this set:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDoldFID4s

  marvin

I really don't think you will regret it. There are some wonderful treasures there.

[marvinbrown]

I really don't think you will regret it. There are some wonderful treasures there.

  Thank you mc ukrneal  .  I was debating for a few weeks whether to get this set and when I saw the performances it was too good to be true.  The Chung Otello is IMHO definitive, all the early operas by Gardelli are the best on the market for those operas, the Karajan Aida with Tebaldi is highly recommended and I love Guillini's Rigoletto. Over the years I have been "beefing" up my Verdi collection but this set at that price, with those recordings was just too good to pass up!
 

  marvin

[Octave]

[asin]B000063733[/asin]
Schoenberg by Jacobs

[asin]B0083D9MXM[/asin]
Stoki in Stereo
I think the Ives record included here was in The Wire [magazine's] '100 Greatest Recordings of All Time List' or something similar.  Not sure why that Ives recording.....

[Gurn Blanston]

contra Hurwitzer


Haydn by Hogwood (Decca Italia, 32cd)

I got mine through Amazon IT for $72 including shipping to N. America; it's the best deal I could find.  I listened to a bunch of samples and I think I will love it, we'll see.  Thanks to GMG Haydnistas for some honest discussion of this series and its rivals.

Octave, I agree, you are gonna love that box. And for the price, you couldn't have done better. Damn, I'm jealous all over again!   

[Gurn Blanston]

ASIN's are back! 

Just arrived in today's mail:

[asin]B00000IXTC[/asin]

That Herreweghe is a great choice; some of the best singing, both choral and soloist, of any 9th I've heard. The playing is no slouch either!

[Karl Henning]

contra Hurwitzer


Haydn by Hogwood (Decca Italia, 32cd)

I got mine through Amazon IT for $72 including shipping to N. America; it's the best deal I could find.  I listened to a bunch of samples and I think I will love it, we'll see.  Thanks to GMG Haydnistas for some honest discussion of this series and its rivals.

And thanks back to you for this: I've just pulled that very same trigger.

[Octave]

And thanks back to you for this: I've just pulled that very same trigger.

Haha, it's terrible isn't it.  GMG is like a Narcotics Anonymous meeting but for pushers.  With habits.

As for that Beethoven #9 #9 #9 by Herreweghe/Champs Elysee (pictured above):

That Herreweghe is a great choice; some of the best singing, both choral and soloist, of any 9th I've heard. The playing is no slouch either!

I have to say I really like it too.  I got it as part of that LUMIERES box set and I found it really exciting.  I have a hard time rating it because I listened to a clutch of exceptional #9s in a short space of time: that Herreweghe, the slow Bohm, Fricsay's, Furtwangler's Lucerne 1954 [?...the sacd on Tahra].  My plan was to compare recordings, which I don't often do, but it kind of backfired.  The experience was too much.

[Opus106]

And for the price, you couldn't have done better. Damn, I'm jealous all over again!   

I'm hoping that you haven't visited the SDCB thread... you know, just to avoid a double whammy for today.

[Karl Henning]

Oh, that wicked, wicked Nav . . . .

[Karl Henning]

I just don't see this being any temptation for our Gurn, though . . . .

; )

[HIPster]

That Herreweghe is a great choice; some of the best singing, both choral and soloist, of any 9th I've heard. The playing is no slouch either!

Thanks Gurn!

I am very satisfied with this version.  Have listened to it twice now and am very happy with the overall performance. 

It really came down to 2 options: this Herreweghe vs. The American Bach Soloists version - I opted for the former and couldn't be more pleased. 

Some of your (and others) thoughts in the LVB Symphony #9 thread helped me in my process, Gurn.  Many thanks.

[Que]

  A MASSIVE order for me today!  To commemorate the 200th Anniversary of Verdi's birth I pulled the trigger on this wonderful boxset from Decca!  I am familiar with 17 of Verdi's operas- there are a dozen or so that I do not know. I have recordings of I Vespri Siciliani that are in poor mp3 quality and my Otello Chung with Domingo is scratched so for £127 from amazon delivered I said I have got to get my hands on this set:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDoldFID4s

  marvin

"including....detailed synopses"  = (I guess) NO libretti?? Shame on DECCA! Too cheap to include a CD-R..

Q

[kishnevi]

Thumbs up on that one.

[HIPster]

Those all look spectacular, Greg!

Enjoy.

[marvinbrown]

"including....detailed synopses"  = (I guess) NO libretti?? Shame on DECCA! Too cheap to include a CD-R..

Q

  <sigh>  true no libretti just a detailed synopsis per track but Que what can I do ??. 

[Sammy]

Bach - Leipzig Cantatas/Herreweghe/PHI
Beethoven - Missa Solemnis/Herreweghe/PHI
Dvorak - St. Qts./Vol. 1/Vogler Qt./CPO/2cds
Strauss - Four Last Songs etc./Lisa Larsson/MDG
Weinberg - Syms. 8 & 19/Naxos/2cds