Purchases Today

[Wanderer]

Have you heard The Wasps per chance? I've been curious about this one for a few years.

Just the odd movement now and then on one of those streaming services, but it's been some time. It's been on the wishlist for ages (and that cover always seems to put me off).

[The new erato]

Ordered these two little buggers:

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[asin]B00YTATRU6[/asin]

[Sergeant Rock]

Continuing my quest to find the perfect Sinfonia (BWV 826), this arrived this morning: Bach Partitas 1, 2 & 6 played by Edna Stern.

Edna Stern's 2005 Bach recital on the Zig-Zag Territories label represented an unabashedly Romantic and ravishingly pianistic attitude to this composer that has long passed into history. Few modern pianists can pull off such an approach, but Stern's sincerity, conviction, and masterful control of the concert grand was both disarming and mesmerizing. The same can be said about her First, Second, and Sixth Partitas. --Classics Today




Sarge

[The new erato]

Continuing my quest to find the perfect Sinfonia (BWV 826), this arrived this morning: Bach Partitas 1, 2 & 6 played by Edna Stern.

Edna Stern's 2005 Bach recital on the Zig-Zag Territories label represented an unabashedly Romantic and ravishingly pianistic attitude to this composer that has long passed into history. Few modern pianists can pull off such an approach, but Stern's sincerity, conviction, and masterful control of the concert grand was both disarming and mesmerizing. The same can be said about her First, Second, and Sixth Partitas. --Classics Today




Sarge

10/10 in classicstoday.com

[king ubu]

couple o' recent arrivals:

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[asin]B009VD97GA[/asin]
[asin]B00KV190HC[/asin]
[asin]B008DK3Q96[/asin]
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[asin]B005FMQBG0[/asin]

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the last one was so cheap it, I actually got it for the Bach (Minkowski doing the mass in b minor) and the Allegri discs, the other two I already have (and will pass on, I guess)

[listener]

bought yesterday, post delayed by switch to replacement computer
lots of SIBELIUS:  Swanwhite - complete incidental music  The Lizard op. 8 incidental music
Turku Philharmonic, Segerstam, cond.
                             Violin Concerto  3 Humoresques
                    ADES: Violin Concerto
Augustin Hadelich, violin     Royal Liverpool Phil.    Hannu Lintu, cond.
Hadelich is a favourite here , I've heard the Sibelius and it was magnificent, have booked for him playing Tchaikowsky in January (paired with Zemlinsky's The Mermaid makes it a god programme)

[GuybrushThreepwood]

What I bought yesterday, based on adding to the wish list what I found in this forum and Classicstoday during October. Wife is going to kill me AGAIN due the lack of physical space.

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Last purchase of the month:

[mc ukrneal]

Last purchase of the month:

October or November?  

[GuybrushThreepwood]

Hopefully first quarter of November.

[marvinbrown]

     Just bought this, used, but in excellent condition:

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    I have heard so much about this set, from DEFINITIVE to BRASH.  The 4th symphony seems to be the highlight although many claim the entire set is worth its weight in gold.  Can't wait to start listening tonight.

  Gotta get back to work.

  marvin


     

 

 

[ritter]

More Florent Schmitt coming my way:

Some unkonwn (to me) piano music...


...and loads of 2-piano stuff, including a  version of La Tregédie de Salomé (with oboe ad lib., substituting for the female voice in the orginal ballet)...

So, Schmitt's Salomé exists as the original full-length ballet (which our fellow GMGer NikF was listening to some moments ago  ), as an orchetsral suite--widely known--, as a solo piano version, and a as piano duet  I wouldn't be surprosed if a reduction by the composer himself for ocarina and bongos surfaced one of these days...

And looking for stuff by Cristóbal Halffter, I located this CD of him conducting a work by a composer, Francesco Hoch,  I've never even heard of. It piqued my curiosity:

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Hoch, born in Lugano (Switzerland) in 1943, studied with Franco Donatoni. Later he attended courses in Darmstadt (Karlheinz Stockhausen and György Ligeti) and in Padua (with Sylvano Bussotti). That's about all I've been able to find out about him 

[Brian]

purchase pics

What is disc 2 with the landscape painting?

Maybe you bought the Berglund string serenades after seeing my post - but just in case you didn't see the post, it contains a cool story about the making of the disc!

[aligreto]

     Just bought this, used, but in excellent condition:

    [asin]B000IONEZG[/asin]

    I have heard so much about this set, from DEFINITIVE to BRASH.  The 4th symphony seems to be the highlight although many claim the entire set is worth its weight in gold.  Can't wait to start listening tonight.

  Gotta get back to work.

  marvin


 

I am one of those who love this set. I have had mine for many years and still listen to and enjoy it. Hope that you enjoy it.

[aligreto]

[kishnevi]

[Mirror Image]

Great box set, Jeffrey. Enjoy!

[kishnevi]

Great box set, Jeffrey. Enjoy!

You are one of several people here who think highly of that set.

[North Star]

Two superb choices there, Jeffrey!

[king ubu]

more library building ... went for those naïve Vivaldi "boxes" that are really just a few single releases with cardboard wrapped around 'em ... this first one arrived yesterday:

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also these:

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[asin]B003UW6WEI[/asin]

and some new ones:

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and a fairly new one:

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