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[The new erato]

Quoting Bono is just weird....

[TheGSMoeller]

Quoting Bono is just weird....

I thought it was a Where's Waldo quote.

[Karl Henning]

I do not deny that, now and again, I post something weird.

[TheGSMoeller]

I do not deny that, now and again, I post something weird.

Keep Karl Weird. 

[Brian]

Nice review, and fair. I agree with your comment about Skrow's finale, but I do greatly appreciate the overall relation of the four movements from this performance.
Also, the Tinter will be purchased within days, sampled it on Spotify along with the Skrow, and similar with most from Tintner I think very highly of it.
My problem is in searching for my perfect 7th, I think I've found it for every other Bruckner symphony, but the 7th.

What are your perfect [the other ones]? All I've got is Celi's EMI Sixth.

[TheGSMoeller]

What are your perfect [the other ones]? All I've got is Celi's EMI Sixth.

3rd - Vanska/BBCS, Inbal/Frankfurt (original version)
4th - Dohnanyi/Cleveland, Nagano/BSOO (original version)
5th - Harnoncourt/VP
6th - Nagano/DSOB
7th - have always considered Chailly to the best, not necessarily a personal fav
8th - Wand/Berlin
9th - Barenboim/Berlin

While doing this I realized my taste for Bruckner has changed slightly in the past several years, due to the expansive surveying of recordings I've been doing. The hardest to pick for me is the 6th, which I own more recordings of than any other symphony, and I honestly could pick 3-4, depending on if I wanted broad (Eschenbach) middle of the road (Blomstedt/SFO) or wacky (Norrington/Stuttgart), but I've been listening to Nagano's more than others the past year.

[Karl Henning]

. . . which I own more recordings of than any other symphony, and I honestly could pick 3-4 . . . .

That's my Shostakovich Fourth boat, all right . . . .

[Brian]

the 6th, which I own more recordings of than any other symphony,

Do I detect a springtime blind listening game... 

[springrite]

Do I detect a springtime blind listening game... 

This will cause blindness much faster than the other thing mom warned you about...

[Sergeant Rock]

What are your perfect [the other ones]? All I've got is Celi's EMI Sixth.

You didn't ask (me) but I can't resist lists 

00 - Tintner/Royal Scottish National
  0 - Blunier/Beethoven O Bonn
  1 - Maazel/SOBR (1877 Nowak)
  1 - Wand/Köln (1891 Bruckner)
  2 - Barenboim/Berlin
  3 - Celibidache/Munich
  4 - Karajan/Berlin (EMI)
  5 - Dohnányi/Cleveland
  6 - Klemperer/Philharmonia (with a special nod to Norrington)
  7 - Chailly/RSO Berlin
  8 - Maazel/SOBR or Berlin Phil
  9 - Guilini/Vienna and Haitink/Concertgebouw


Sarge

[TheGSMoeller]

Do I detect a springtime blind listening game... 

There could be, I would do one after the Brahms if there was interest.

[HIPster]

Just arrived, 2014's first BRO order:

Garrido and Ensemble Elyma:

*Listening to this right now and wow! this is a fantastic recording.  A must-buy if you like the music of Monteverdi and his contemporaries. . .

EDIT: thanks for the cover support! 

Along these lines, this one from Apollo and Pan:
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This well-received Schutz recording:
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My first recording by the group Cinquecento:
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[TheGSMoeller]

Bruckner/Tintner...


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[springrite]

Just ordered Holmboe Concerti CD... Too many people praising it for me to ignore any longer...

[Karl Henning]

This doesn't quite belong here . . . but definitely does not belong in the "Purchases (non-classical)" thread.

Landed yesterday:

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[Lisztianwagner]

Just ordered:

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[Sergeant Rock]

Just ordered:
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Just the other day my finger was poised over the buy button on that...but then I backed off. Still thinking about it though...moreso now that I see you've grabbed it.

Sarge

[North Star]

This doesn't quite belong here . . . but definitely does not belong in the “Purchases (non-classical)” thread.

Landed yesterday:

But     classic ≠ classical

[Lisztianwagner]

Just the other day my finger was poised over the buy button on that...but then I backed off. Still thinking about it though...moreso now that I see you've grabbed it.

Sarge

Why, aren't you convinced by Karajan as Haydn interpreter? As a matter of fact, despite having a rather eclectic style, he was definitely at his best in Romantic composers, especially the German/Austrian ones, Tchaikovsky and Sibelius; with Baroque music, Haydn and Mozart instead, his sound is very beautiful, clear and refined, but sometimes also a bit artificial and spick and span.

[HIPster]

Extreme price-drop necessitated this purchase from Amazon 

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