Music in your Christmas stocking - what did you get ?

[Barbirollians]

What CDs,LPs or downloads were in your Christmas sticking this year and have you had a chance to play them yet ?

It was a relief to be free of Christmas music today and listen to Tamas Vasary playing Rachmaninov - the Christmas box I am looking forward to however is the Clara Haskil edition .

[EdgeleyRob]

Some Gordon Jacob cds inc symphonies 1 & 2.
Malcolm Sargent & John Ogdon icon boxes.
I've not had much time for music over Christmas but I have listened to a big chunk of the John Ogdon set today.

[richardfinegold]

I ordered a couple of CDs of discs that I burned to I tunes and lost somehow in cyberspace . 2 Shostakovich albums, one being Karajan in the 10th with the BPO, the other being LB and the CSO in 1 and 7. Good to hear them again and I now am using the Blusound Platfirm.

[Petrushka]

My major boxed set was the 29 CD Complete Argo Recordings of the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. Lots of treasure here.

Also, 20 CD set of Günter Wand the Radio Recordings, 10 CD set of Romantic Symphonies and Overtures with Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia.

Also a few single CDs culled from my Wish List including Beethoven with Tennstedt and the LPO, Beethoven Emperor with Nelson Freire and Chailly/Gewandhaus, Trumpet concertos from Birtwistle, PMD and Michael Watkins, Hardenberger/BBCPO/Howarth, and finally Perlman/BBCSO/Rozhdestvensky playing Prokofiev Violin Concertos.

63 CDs in total so barely scratched the surface so far.

[BBMmk2]

Quite a few! Also sheet music. Tomorrow shall be my dancing day and songs from Shakespear's plays and from Shakespear's times.

[soileduk]

…er, none at all.

[teamsaint]

apart from CDs, I also received

Winterreisse, Moll/ Garben on Vinyl, also Tangerine Dream Ricochet on vinyl.
long time since I got vinyl for Xmas.

[Petrushka]

…er, none at all.

What I do is buy myself a couple of boxed sets and a few single CDs and ask a family member to put them away sight unseen until Christmas morning. The Amazon wish list is a godsend for family and friends to get others plus books thus retaining the element of surprise. Done this for several years now.

[Ferretfancy]

I asked for no presents this year, especially not CDs as I have so many that I need to thin them out a little, and I'm slowly doing this. It felt a little strange not getting any, but I enjoyed it when my partner opened his parcel containing Mary beard's SPQR.

[Old Grumpy]

Arianna Savall, Peter Udland Johansen - Il viaggio d'Amore

A delightful collection, brought to my attention by Andrew Macregor on CD Review earlier this month.

Agree - Amazon wish list is a very useful facility - this went straight onto mine when I heard it on R3.


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[Stanley Stewart]

Final postal delivery on Christmas eve brought the most extraordinary collection of the year: a 30CD set, Carl Nielsen On Record - Vintage and other Historical Recordings. Flimsy cardboard box and tiresome miniscule print but persistence reveals a genuine treasure trove and so many dip-in treats for several months to come.

Same delivery also brought Simon Callow's update biography on the career of Orson Welles - One Man Band- fortuitous as it traverses the era of my national service in the 1950s when I first made acquaintance with the great charlatan's presence as Othello at the St James's Theatre with Peter Finch as Iago. The stillness and magnetic presence of Welles still vivid in my memory.

[Bryn]

Ordered on Boxing Day, delivered this morning: Greenaway/Robino Goltzius & the Pelican Company [Blu-ray], Cage Complete Works for Flute - Vol. 1 [Naxos CD], Adams City Noir and Saxophone Concerto [Nonesuch CD].

[pastoralguy]

I did very well for CDs this Christmas. (Mind you, I don't ask for anything else...)

Some of what I received I've posted on the 'What are you listening to now' thread but I still have these delights to look forward to.

Cecilia Bartoli's St. Petersburg album.

Bach. 'Cello Suites. David Watkin.

The Jerusalem Quartet. A 3 disc package that includes Scubert, Schumann and Brahms.

Bach. Music for violin & Voice. Hilary Hahn, Matthias Goerne and Christine Schaffer.

Brahms. String Quartets nos. 1 & 3. Artemis Quartet

Rachmaninov and Chopin's 'Cello Sonatas. Alisha Weilerstein & Inon Barnatan.

A 20 cd set of Maria Joao Pires's solo piano recordings.

Pretty fabby...

[jayne lee wilson]

Best presents are the ones you give yourself - music from the one you love, as Woody Allen almost said....

Aulis Sallinen: Symphonies 1-8, Concertos, etc. Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Norrkoping SO/Ari Rasilainen. CPO CDs 2011.

Nielsen: Symphonies 1-6. Frankfurt RSO/Paavo Jarvi. 24/44.1 WAV files, RCA 2015.

[Bryn]

Best presents are the ones you give yourself - music from the one you love, as Woody Allen almost said....

Aulis Sallinen: Symphonies 1-8, Concertos, etc. Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz/Norrkoping SO/Ari Rasilainen. CPO CDs 2011.

Nielsen: Symphonies 1-6. Frankfurt RSO/Paavo Jarvi. 24/44.1 WAV files, RCA 2015.

I ordered the CDs option of the latter earlier today.