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[Keraulophone]

Sir Richard Hickox

Dyson Symphony in G well worth a listen.

[BBMmk2]

Dyson Symphony in G well worth a listen.

Have!!

[johnb]

After reading all the praise lavished on Haitink's Mahler Christmas Matinee DVD set I have finally succumbed and ordered it from a Dutch supplier.

(I must stop reading this forum before my bank manager sends round the heavies.)

[Bryn]

John, will you please advise where and how.

[johnb]

Bryn,

I had previously tried to find a supplier but to no avail.

This time round I found a few Dutch suppliers via:

http://www.beslist.nl/dvd-video/d0000140393/Mahler_Kerstmatinees.html

After ploughing through a few, using Google translator, I happened upon one that has an English language option and bought from there:

http://www.vanstockum.nl/dvds/dvd-muziek/koninklijk-concertgebouworkest---kerstmatinees-11675078/?utm_source=beslist&utm_medium=cpc-beslist&utm_campaign=beslist

The cost, including postage and packing, was 40 Euros.

[Bryn]

Many thanks John. Duly ordered. €40.14 seems a real bargain, too.

[Stanley Stewart]

johnb and Bryn - thanks for the lead and the initiative! - a DVD boxset devoutly to be wished. Order confirmed.

[Mr Pee]

I've just ordered Neeme Jarvi's set of Sibelius symphonies with the Gothenburg Symphony. It also includes the tone poems- 7 cds for 22.50 from Amazon. Seems too good a bargain to pass over!

(And I ordered next year's Top Gear Calendar for my study wall at the same time, but that's straying off topic a bit!)

[Barbirollians]

Pappano's new Rossini Stabat mater recording - I do not have anything to compare it with as I do not know the work but sounds terrific to me .

[LeMartinPecheur]

My latest is the Lasalle 4tet's 2nd Viennese School box, now about a tenner on Brilliant.

I have their Schoenberg 1st on LP, and know his second and the Bergs & Weberns tolerably well in other recordings. So it's S's 3rd and 4th that will be the major toughies to add to my collection. Heard the 4th once live - hope I enjoy it a bit more this time round

Actually the work I'm most looking forward to playing is the random Dvorak 4tet that has crept into the box. At least, that's where I mentally filed it when a friend who'd bought the LP box played it to me at Uni 30+ yrs ago. But for some reason it's labelled as Schoenberg's Quartet in D of 1897...

[Idamante]

Actually the work I'm most looking forward to playing is the random Dvorak 4tet that has crept into the box.

Speaking of Dvorak my last CD purchase was the Emerson Quartet 'Old World, New Worlds' (aka late Dvorak quartets). Bought in HMV along with Arcade Fire 'The Suburbs' and Robert Plant 'Band of Joy' :cool2:

[Roehre]

My latest is the Lasalle 4tet's 2nd Viennese School box, now about a tenner on Brilliant.

I have their Schoenberg 1st on LP....

LMP, Is that on DGG 2530.329, the 1973 single issue which was released at the same time as the 5LP-set which has now been "transformed" into "your" Brilliant-set?

[Bryn]

Roehre, that might depend somewhat on whether the 5 LP box included Verklärte Nacht and the String Trio. They are not in the Brilliant box as issued, though they are in mine since I already had them in a promotional issue, an adding their CD to the box saves space.

[Roehre]

The original 5LP box (1973, the original issue with an important paperback re String Quartets by Schönberg, Berg and Webern) consisted of 3 LPs with the 4 quartets nos.1-4 by Schönberg plus that "1897-Dvorak"-quartet in D of his, an LP with Berg's opus 3 and the Lyric Suite (the 5 mvts), and an LP with Webern's op.5, 9, 28 and the movement M.78 (on a motto by Böhme, 1905). Verklärte Nacht and the String Trio were much later recorded (1979??, and far less brilliantly received by the critics than the quartets)

[LeMartinPecheur]

LMP, Is that on DGG 2530.329, the 1973 single issue which was released at the same time as the 5LP-set which has now been "transformed" into "your" Brilliant-set?

Roehre, yes, that's the one.