I got the price at the dump down to four for a pound today. Two CDs of Murray Perahia playing Mozart Piano concertos, Cecilia Bartoli in a song recital, and the EMI GROC recording of Heitor Villa-Lobos with Victoria de Los Angeles in Bachianas Brasileiras.
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That definitely sounds like an incentive to do that tedious task! :)Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostComment
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Yes it is,first time I've ever heard the whole album this eveningOriginally posted by Conchis View PostComment
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No idea why there was a copy of the Orfeo recording of Dantons Tod (Gottfried von Ahmein) in Barnados Alfreton today, but for 99p I thought it worth rescuing!Comment
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
The very same. I'm very amused by my 'senior moment'! :)
He also wrote an opera based on Eliot's Murder In The Cathedral, didn't he?Comment
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Oh yes! I'd forgotten that - both operas were broadcast (IIRC - no guarantees supplied with this offer) in the mid-70s. I can't remember them at all, nor do I think I've ever seen them scheduled since. It'll be interesting to see how you respond to them.Originally posted by Conchis View Post
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I occasionally buy CDs in charity shops without any obvious means of knowing who the performers are/were. A year or two back I bought a bunch, including some Russian orchestral music - some very odd performances, and another collection of piano music. I think on recollection there were 5 CDs in each box. Tonight I managed to get some details of one of the piano CDs - music by Chopin - by inserting it into my computer - normally it "lives" in my car. I have thought it was actually quite decent. It's called Simply Chopin and according to the database the Piano Sonata no 2 and the Barcarolle is played by Vladimir Tropp, Hélène Grimaud plays Ballade no 1, and Bruno Rigutto plays the Op 49 Fantaisie, and the Op 57 Berceuse. I had never heard of Vladimir Tropp nor of Bruno Rigutto before.
I don't know where the database gets its data from - but I suppose it's genuine. One of the orchestral CDs with Russian Music including Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, and Mussorgsky's Night on a Bare Mountain in very odd performances, seems to feature the Georgian SIMI Festival orchestra, with conductors Anzor Kinkladze and Vakhtang Kakhidze. Obscurity reigns!
Actually clicking on the Info panels in iTunes seems to suggest that the box(es) I bought contain 16 CDs, which I recall are divided into several categories. Some of the CDs are OK, and I didn't pay much for them.Comment
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More Barnardo's 3 for 99p cds
Vivaldi,4 Seasons,AAM Hogwood
Mahler,Das Lied von Der Erde,BBCMM,Runnicles Proms 2008
Beethoven 9,Classic FM,complete work,multi award winning recording (sez on the tin),Anima Eterna,Van ImmerseelComment
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I did not know that an Immerseel recording of the 9th had turned up on the CFM label. Who are the soloists? I ask because there are two recordings under his direction, one from Sony (which i find pretty dire) and a later one from Alpha/Zigzag/Outthere (which I hope is what you got).Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
[I have now found reference to the CFM disc at amazon.co.uk and see that it is indeed the later recording.]
and the one to avoid:
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Probably not for me I'm afraid, reviews suggest it is for period extremists. Clements says it is, "the strictest of historically informed accounts from specialist period bands. Jos van Immerseel's accounts are close to the historically purist extreme of that spectrum; his Belgian orchestra Anima Eterna is modestly sized... the pitch inflections in some of the woodwind solos are an acquired taste... there's something a bit too careful about it all, with a lack of sheer emotional clout in, for instance, the first movement of the Eroica, the finale of the Seventh Symphony, and through much of the Ninth. This is hardly Beethoven as a composer breaking free of the bounds of classicism, but much more someone with their feet still very much anchored in the 18th century."Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View Post
Still, at charity shop prices I'd probably give it a bash.Comment
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostI did not know that an Immerseel recording of the 9th had turned up on the CFM label. Who are the soloists? I ask because there are two recordings under his direction, one from Sony (which i find pretty dire) and a later one from Alpha/Zigzag/Outthere (which I hope is what you got).
[I have now found reference to the CFM disc at amazon.co.uk and see that it is indeed the later recording.]
and the one to avoid:
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Got to be worth 33p ! (even for just the 1st 3 movementsOriginally posted by Mal View PostProbably not for me I'm afraid, reviews suggest it is for period extremists. Clements says it is, "the strictest of historically informed accounts from specialist period bands. Jos van Immerseel's accounts are close to the historically purist extreme of that spectrum; his Belgian orchestra Anima Eterna is modestly sized... the pitch inflections in some of the woodwind solos are an acquired taste... there's something a bit too careful about it all, with a lack of sheer emotional clout in, for instance, the first movement of the Eroica, the finale of the Seventh Symphony, and through much of the Ninth. This is hardly Beethoven as a composer breaking free of the bounds of classicism, but much more someone with their feet still very much anchored in the 18th century."
Still, at charity shop prices I'd probably give it a bash.
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Today, in Thirsk:
Janacek: Cunning Little Vixen - Vaclav Neumann's 1958 (mono) recording on Supraphon, the first ever made of this opera. 2 discs for 75p.Comment
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I'd agree with that - and what's wrong with the strictest of historically informed accounts from period bands anyway?Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostGot to be worth 33p ! (even for just the 1st 3 movements)
Having said that, I did come to the conclusion after listening to many versions of the 9th a few decades ago that a couple (of "modern" orchestra conductors' recordings) stood out - Furtwãngler and Karajan. One of the middle Karajan vesrsions is really outstanding - not a digital recording - though even the last/later digital ones are pretty good. I came to that decision at a time when I was particularly averse to much of Karajan's output, so if anyone hasn't heard these versions they should. I'm not sure which period style recordings I'd recommend particularly.Comment
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