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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20570

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

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    • 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"
      Last edited by Guest; 25-03-12, 16:43. Reason: Forgot about the "Dutchman".

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      • umslopogaas
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 1977

        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.

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        • Ferretfancy
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3487

          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.

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          • 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.

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            • amateur51

              Originally posted by Caliban View Post

              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?

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              • Nick Armstrong
                Host
                • Nov 2010
                • 26538

                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                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
                "...the isle is full of noises,
                Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                • DublinJimbo
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2011
                  • 1222

                  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)

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                  • Petrushka
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 12252

                    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
                    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                    • Eine Alpensinfonie
                      Host
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 20570

                      Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                      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???

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                      • Petrushka
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12252

                        Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
                        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.
                        "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                        • L'enfer



                          Hélène Grimaud - Reflection
                          B000C5RRL8




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




                          Sonia Wieder-Atherton - Jewish Songs
                          ASIN: B003A05TKI

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                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            Just bought the April BBC Music Mag with the Cardinall's Musick's Tallis & Byrd CD.
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                            • Richard Tarleton

                              More Weiss

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

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                              • Pabmusic
                                Full Member
                                • May 2011
                                • 5537

                                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

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