Purchases Today

[TheGSMoeller]

I'll have let 71 dB answer this question. I've got to go to work....

Wouldn't want there to be an Easter firing. 
And it stinks, I'm working today also. 

[jut1972]

I wouldn't worry too much about the impedance if you are using the phones with your home hifi, its when you are using your mobile / ipod that it can become an issue.  Even then a cheap headphone amp can work miracles.

I have a few pairs of phones, Sennheiser 650's for the home hifi, Goldring noise cancelling's for when I'm on holiday and my mobile on the move using spotify and a cheap pair of senns just in case. 

Mirror image's comment on not spending more than $200 is completely understandable and where I was a few years back, it all depends on your budget, the overall price of the rest of your hifi, how often you use them etc, but if you can afford them look at this way, if you have hundreds of CDs, buying an improved pair of headphones is like getting ALL your CDs remastered.    The 650's are the best bit of hifi I own.

[TheGSMoeller]

I wouldn't worry too much about the impedance if you are using the phones with your home hifi, its when you are using your mobile / ipod that it can become an issue.  Even then a cheap headphone amp can work miracles.

I have a few pairs of phones, Sennheiser 650's for the home hifi, Goldring noise cancelling's for when I'm on holiday and my mobile on the move using spotify and a cheap pair of senns just in case. 

Mirror image's comment on not spending more than $200 is completely understandable and where I was a few years back, it all depends on your budget, the overall price of the rest of your hifi, how often you use them etc, but if you can afford them look at this way, if you have hundreds of CDs, buying an improved pair of headphones is like getting ALL your CDs remastered.    The 650's are the best bit of hifi I own.

Great post! Thanks for the info, friend. 

[jut1972]

no bother, hope it helps 

[Octave]

Dreadful GMG.  Cursed, viral GMG.  Two more impulse buys, which....must.....stop.  But a deal is a deal.  And a third that has languished beneath second-thoughts for quite a while, but which I decided to nab while it could be had for less than $20 (and of course it might resurface again and again and again, being EMI). 

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Hindemith: HARMONIE

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Tartini by Banchini

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Jean by John
(actually, it almost looks like this set has not undergone multiple reissues since its release in....2000?)

[Coopmv]

Nice, so you like these pretty good? I wonder what the frequency response is a pair like these? I've heard noise-cancelling headphones have a poor soundstage, is this true?

They sound pretty good to me.  I tend to listen to music through these active-noise cancelling headphones while I am riding the commuter train.  I am a headphone junkie, as I have no fewer than 8 pairs of headphones of various types at my house.  Electrostatic is the only type of headphones I do not have ...

[kishnevi]

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Tartini by Banchini

That gets the Smith seal of approval.  Nicely themed selection of works excellently performed.
When you receive it, it will look bulky enough to be a 2 or 3 CD set, but it's only a single CD with with booklet, but production values were apparently a bit higher for this one than average even by Zig Zag's standards.

[jlaurson]

Dreadful GMG.  Cursed, viral GMG.  Two more impulse buys, which....must.....stop.  But a deal is a deal.  And a third that has languished beneath second-thoughts for quite a while, but which I decided to nab while it could be had for less than $20 (and of course it might resurface again and again and again, being EMI). 


J. Sibelius
The Symphonies
The British Bulldog / Hallé Orchestra
EMI
German link - UK link

Jean by John
(actually, it almost looks like this set has not undergone multiple reissues since its release in....2000?)

Yep... still the one same ol' box. Must have made enough, back then, to last for two lifetimes.

However, if you want help in restraint: Barbirolli, for all its charms, is decidedly NON-essential.

A Survey of Sibelius Cycles

Recommended, yes... but only in a weird "you already have three, four other cycles" kind of way. Be strong!

Or: support the classical economy! Indulge!

[TheGSMoeller]

Yep... still the one same ol' box. Must have made enough, back then, to last for two lifetimes.

However, if you want help in restraint: Barbirolli, for all its charms, is decidedly NON-essential.

A Survey of Sibelius Cycles

Recommended, yes... but only in a weird "you already have three, four other cycles" kind of way. Be strong!

Or: support the classical economy! Indulge!

Ironic, I was planning on indulging myself into a few Sibelius cycles within the next few days. Now your survey might come into play. 

[Octave]

Re: the Tartini/Banchini: thanks Jeffrey; I think someone else said that the Tartini had a nicely designed package.  I wonder if those interested in the Tartini should not wait on it; Amazon still had some affordable copies, but Presto did not list it at all, even with a ZigZag sale currently on, and in the past when I asked them about missing ZigZag titles, I was told those titles were OOP.  FYI, if 'information' it be.

[Octave]

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AL AYRE ESPAGNOL EDITION (DHM, 8cd)
Hat-tip Que/Erato

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Beethoven Vln Cto by Zehetmair/Brüggen
I'm sorry I have forgotten who to thank here...a couple of you, from an old conversation.
New copies of the budget reissue are selling for less than $5 (not incl. shipping) on Amazon US-MP, FYI.

[North Star]

That Zehetmair/Brüggen LVB VC is absolutely wonderful, Octave! HIP with the Schneiderhan transcription of the piano concerto version's cadenza.

[Brian]

Beethoven Vln Cto by Zehetmair/Brüggen
I'm sorry I have forgotten who to thank here...a couple of you, from an old conversation.
New copies of the budget reissue are selling for less than $5 (not incl. shipping) on Amazon US-MP, FYI.

I know when I complained that I didn't like the Beethoven Violin Concerto and had never found a recording I could bear, Sergeant Rock said to get Zehetmair and that was when I became an enthusiast for this. I can listen to Faust/Abbado too, now, but this is to me and several others the performance.

[kishnevi]

Re: the Tartini/Banchini: thanks Jeffrey; I think someone else said that the Tartini had a nicely designed package.  I wonder if those interested in the Tartini should not wait on it; Amazon still had some affordable copies, but Presto did not list it at all, even with a ZigZag sale currently on, and in the past when I asked them about missing ZigZag titles, I was told those titles were OOP.  FYI, if 'information' it be.

Let me put it this way: I got that Tartini CD from Borders when my local Borders had a relatively large classical section in-store.  Probably seven or eight years ago.

And count me among the enthusiasts for the Zehetmair/Bruggen.

Thread duty:
ordered this over the weekend, along with a cleanup of my wishlist at Arkivmusic.

This will fill a big gap in my collection, since I have practically none of the works included in this set in any recording--only one cello suite played by Slava (unlike the companion orchestral works set, of which I have most in other forms).

Also ordered:
Guido's Four Seasons, Jarvi's Atterberg, Queyras playing Britten's Cello Suites and a selection of non operatic Rossini (the latter two apparently being new re-issues from Harmonia Mundi)

[Octave]

That Zehetmair/Brüggen LVB VC is absolutely wonderful, Octave! HIP with the Schneiderhan transcription of the piano concerto version's cadenza.

Ah, that's interesting; I didn't know that about the cadenza.  Schneiderhan's famous recording of the triple concerto (w/Fricsay et al) was important to me just a couple years ago when I started to get wild for the tradition and repertoire-revisitiation; I was thinking of getting his (Schneiderhan's) DG Beethoven VC just very recently, but I thought maybe I should chill out on classic recordings of that particular work, so as not to overdo it.  I am still interested in finding Menuhin/Furtwangler's Berlin (?) 1947 account that Music & Arts issued once upon a time; I might have to resort to an 'ArkivCD(R)' for that if I want it legally.

I know when I complained that I didn't like the Beethoven Violin Concerto and had never found a recording I could bear, Sergeant Rock said to get Zehetmair and that was when I became an enthusiast for this. I can listen to Faust/Abbado too, now, but this is to me and several others the performance.

I sometimes wonder if I only avoid aversion to certain pieces (or recordings) because I am not paying close-enough attention; I'm pretty sure that isn't entirely true, because ~equally-literate listeners still get into fisticuffs over these kinds of details, but I am a little worried I'm accumulating too many recordings too quickly.  I reply on a  mix of community (veterans') opinions as a kind of "projected taste".  It is also possible that I will become disgusted with all this music and listen to nothing but Black Flag by the time I reach my 50s, though I am not counting on that.  En'sh'allah!

[Octave]

Also ordered:
Guido's Four Seasons, Jarvi's Atterberg, Queyras playing Britten's Cello Suites and a selection of non operatic Rossini (the latter two apparently being new re-issues from Harmonia Mundi)

Queyras doing Britten is automatically super interesting for me.  I really like those pieces a lot!  I think of them as 'sub-aquatic', but you'll please not ask me to try explain this impression.

[TheGSMoeller]

Queyras doing Britten is automatically super interesting for me.  I really like those pieces a lot!  I think of them as 'sub-aquatic', but you'll please not ask me to try explain this impression.

+1
Truls Mork also has a good recording of the Britten suites.

[kishnevi]

+1
Truls Mork also has a good recording of the Britten suites.

The Mork is part of the EMI box set.

[Fafner]

Arrivals today:

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[Papy Oli]

Ordered the Martinon / Debussy-Ravel boxset today after a slight drop to the £16 mark.

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