Your Latest CD/DVD/Download Purchase

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

As two threads are similar. I've merged them and slightly amended the title to include both.

[Curalach]

Last weeks CDs/SACDs as yet not listened to:

Martinu: Violin Concerto No 2 and Symphony No 1 - Lorenzo Gatto, National Orch of Belgium, Walter Weller (Fuga Libera)
JS Bach: Mass in B minor - BRSO, Giulini (Sony) a Bargains thread tip.
Schumann: Piano Concerto, Franck: Variations Symphoniques - Peter Katin, LSO, Goossens (Everest) a Bargains thread tip.
Gubaidulina: Fachwerk, Silenzio - Trondheim SO, Gimse (Naxos)
Mahler: Symphony No 1 - Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Honeck (Exton)
Wagner: Flying Dutchman - Steinberg (Naxos) another Bargains thread tip.

Last week's downloads:
All with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Peter Oundjian:

Mahler: Symphony No 4
Bruckner: Symphony No 4
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 4 and No 5
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Mussorgsky: Pictures
Holst: Planets
Shostakovich: Symphony No 7 "Leningrad"

[umslopogaas]

I collect LPs, so dont often buy CDs, but I did recently order the 3 CD set of Harrison Birtwistle's 'The Mask of Orpheus'. I even listened to the whole thing in one sitting, which is an aural experience that I can only describe as bracing. Perhaps not a good place to start if you want to interest someone in opera, and not something I'd play every night, but undoubtedly worth a try. And many thanks to a member of this forum - I think it was Ferneyhoughgeliebte - for providing the details (NMC D050).

I lent it to the local hifi man, who ordered it for me and he recorded it. However, I think he bottled out, apparently (I didnt know this) you can record without playing the music out loud so when I asked him what he thought of it, he said he hadnt heard it yet. His wife, who works in the shop with him, said she goes off and has a bath when he plays "weird stuff" and I told her to make sure the hot tank was full, it might be a long soak.

[Ferretfancy]

I've always been interested in Mercury Living Presence recordings, which were an essential part of my hi-fi diet back in the early 60s, and I've been chasing up out of the way ones in an effort to own the whole lot. I've just bought the bumper box which fills a few gaps, and I've also searched for more. This week I received one of the Hanson conducted discs, one that is not included in the box, and that's an E-R SO recording of Chadwick and MacDowell. The latter's 2nd Suite is very pictorial, not top drawer, but charming.

[Richard Tarleton]

CDs of lute music by father and son John and Robert Johnson, both on Naxos. The John Johnson CD, imaginatively titled "Lute Music", is played by Christopher Wilson with some duets with Shirley Rumsey - worth it to hear the music of Queen Elizabeth's favourite lutenist, on whose death in 1594 Dowland applied for but did not get the top job. The Robert Johnson CD "The Prince's Almain" is played by the superlative Nigel North and recorded in Canada by Naxos's producer team of Norbert Kraft and Bonnie Silver who have overseen so many great lute and guitar projects. Not for nothing is Nigel North Julian Bream's favourite lutenist - this is a very classy performance, following on from his complete Dowland for Naxos.

[amateur51]

Last but by no means least, the other recent purchase which I have banged on about in various places on this Forum is the magical performance of Stravinsky's 'Firebird' by Les Siècles under François-Xavier Roth http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B..._d_i00_details

A recent recommendable recording of Fauré's Requiem, perchance Calibs?

[Nick Armstrong]

A recent recommendable recording of Fauré's Requiem, perchance Calibs?

A purchase from last year but evergreen, ammy: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Faure-Requie...2694627&sr=1-1

[DublinJimbo]

Turina: Chamber Music
The Nash Ensemble (new release from Hyperion — lossless download)

Clementi: Piano Caprices & Variations
Howard Shelley (Hyperion — lossless download)

Rautavaara: Cello Concerto No. 2; Percussion Concerto; Modificata
Truls Mork, Colin Currie, Helsinki Philharmonic / John Storgards (Ondine — 24/96 download)

[Petrushka]

A couple of 'Bargains' thread tips: Wagner's Flying Dutchman (Steinberg) and Stravinsky's Rite and Petrushka LSO/Goosens - both for 1p!!!

Took delivery yesterday of the live 1939 Ma Vlast Czech PO/Talich - astounding stuff! http://www.amazon.co.uk/Smetana-Vlas...2695829&sr=1-1

On order: Cruising towards my 60th version of Mahler 2 with the Dresden Staatskapelle/Bernard Haitink. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...2695912&sr=1-1

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A couple of 'Bargains' thread tips: Wagner's Flying Dutchman (Steinberg) and Stravinsky's Rite and Petrushka LSO/Goosens - both for 1p!!!

But presumably the carriage is astronomical

On order: Cruising towards my 60th version of Mahler 2 with the Dresden Staatskapelle/Bernard Haitink.

Just which work do you have the most recordings of???

[Petrushka]

But presumably the carriage is astronomical

Just which work do you have the most recordings of???

The postage charges were £1.26 in both cases, EA.

The two works I have most recordings of are Mahler 2 and Beethoven 9. I haven't had a stock check lately but M2 is definitely over 55 while LvB9 is around 50.

[L'enfer]

Hélène Grimaud - Reflection
B000C5RRL8



Martha Argerich - The Collection 2: Concerto Recordings
ASIN: B002DZX94Y



Sonia Wieder-Atherton - Jewish Songs
ASIN: B003A05TKI

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just bought the April BBC Music Mag with the Cardinall's Musick's Tallis & Byrd CD.

[Richard Tarleton]

More Weiss

Just arrived today - vol 11 in Robert Barto's Naxos Weiss Lute Sonatas series.

[Pabmusic]

Today's arrival - Turina and Debussy (it wasn't the Debussy that I was after): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Turina...3113125&sr=8-4