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  • PJPJ
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 1461

    Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
    I am not quite sure how today's keyboard players schedule Scarlatti's sonatas for public performance - if indeed they ever do. Only a few players seems to play them. I think some choose 3 or 4 in a sequence, perhaps with a key relation, and maybe starting with a fairly strong, moderate speed opening sonata, then having a slower one to form a kind of "slow movement" (in a more conventional 18th/19th Century sense of sonata) then choose one or two other sonatas, perhaps a bit quicker to function as "scherzo" and "finale". Otherwise simply listening to a whole bundle of Scarlatti sonatas seems to be a slightly odd experience - though not necessarily unpleasant.
    I was just doing some file housekeeping and noticed Ben Grosvenor opened his WH concert in 2011 with a couple Kk 96 and Kk 434. They do crop up especially as openers.

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    • Stunsworth
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 1553

      Originally posted by mathias broucek View Post
      Qobuz has the Decca baroque box (50 CDs split between two 25 CD sets) for 2 x £11 or so

      Listen to unlimited or download Baroque Era Vol.1 by Various Artists in Hi-Res quality on Qobuz. Subscription from £10.83/month.


      Listen to Various Artists in unlimited on Qobuz and buy the albums in Hi-Res 24-Bit for an unequalled sound quality. Subscription from £10.83/month


      Search for "Baroque Era"
      Thanks for that, I'd been looking for that box - I'd assumed it would be a L'Oiseau Lyre release rather than a Decca one.
      Steve

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      • Don Petter

        Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
        I am not quite sure how today's keyboard players schedule Scarlatti's sonatas for public performance - if indeed they ever do. Only a few players seems to play them. I think some choose 3 or 4 in a sequence, perhaps with a key relation, and maybe starting with a fairly strong, moderate speed opening sonata, then having a slower one to form a kind of "slow movement" (in a more conventional 18th/19th Century sense of sonata) then choose one or two other sonatas, perhaps a bit quicker to function as "scherzo" and "finale". Otherwise simply listening to a whole bundle of Scarlatti sonatas seems to be a slightly odd experience - though not necessarily unpleasant.
        Do they not still usually perform them in their Kirkpatrick pairs?

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        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
          Gone fishin'
          • Sep 2011
          • 30163

          Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
          I thought, I sought, I bought (very little thought involved)
          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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          • Dave2002
            Full Member
            • Dec 2010
            • 18008

            Originally posted by Don Petter View Post
            Do they not still usually perform them in their Kirkpatrick pairs?
            Not necessarily - see this programme for example - http://ocms-music.org.uk/concerts-20...-grynyuk-piano

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            • hafod
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 740

              I was astonished to discover that the Pricenoia site for comparing prices across all Amazon stores is shutting down - killed by Amazon. Pricenoia has put out a statement.
              Pricenoia new blog for the new version of the site! :D Follow us on Twitter...

              Amazon really knows how to irritate its customers - in my case to the point of using it much less. Every cloud has a silver lining though, as I can now make serious inroads into unplayed purchases without simultaneously adding to the pile. Well, not very much.

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              • AmpH
                Guest
                • Feb 2012
                • 1318

                I use the Firefox add-on ' Pricenoia - Compare Amazon Prices 0.83 ' which automatically loads a graphical price comparison when you bring up a specific item ( where comparative prices on other Amazon sites are available ) on the Am UK site. This still seems to be working ok, but in view of the above will presumably be canned in due course, which would be a pity as it is very usefull.

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                • Barbirollians
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 11661

                  That pair of sonatas Lipatti recorded I can never hear played by anyone else without thinking he is beyond compare.

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                  • hafod
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 740

                    Volume 2 of Sony's Bernstein Edition - Concertos and Orchestral works (ASIN: B00LL4U1TE), has just dropped in price to £60.81 for 80 discs on AmUK. Release date is October 27. Full contents here:

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                    • Bryn
                      Banned
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 24688

                      Originally posted by hafod View Post
                      Volume 2 of Sony's Bernstein Edition - Concertos and Orchestral works (ASIN: B00LL4U1TE), has just dropped in price to £60.81 for 80 discs on AmUK. Release date is October 27. Full contents here:
                      http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-Bernste...sin=B00LL4U1TE
                      There seems to be some confusion on the amazon.co.uk site. There it is claimed there are but 60 CDs:

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                      • Pianorak
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3127

                        Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                        It looks as if this is from the complete Ring Cycle - one of the very best on record, but you can get the whole cycle for about thirty quid:
                        http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ring-Nibelun...gner+ring+bohm
                        Just listened to Act 1 of Walkuere. Boehm and orchestra brilliant -and the remastering couldn't be better. Reading up on Leonie Rysanek as Sieglinde in wiki: . . . the role in which she was most revered. . . was Sieglinde in Die Walküre. Hmmm.
                        My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                        • verismissimo
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 2957

                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          I thought, I sought, I bought.


                          It looks as if this is from the complete Ring Cycle - one of the very best on record, but you can get the whole cycle for about thirty quid:


                          ... and, for a real bargain, it's also included in this set of all the major Wagner operas:


                          ... one of those boxes that works out at just over £1 per disc. Makes the tenner for four CDs seem extortionate!
                          As ferney indicates, for about £35 you get ten operas across 33 CDs, all from Bayreuth, and including the Bohm Ring.



                          That's about a fiver for the extra six operas!

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                          • Petrushka
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 12229

                            Originally posted by verismissimo View Post
                            As ferney indicates, for about £35 you get ten operas across 33 CDs, all from Bayreuth, and including the Bohm Ring.



                            That's about a fiver for the extra six operas!
                            When I think of all the money I spent on the original CD issues of the Böhm Ring in 1986.....:
                            "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
                              Just listened to Act 1 of Walkuere. Boehm and orchestra brilliant -and the remastering couldn't be better.
                              Last edited by ferneyhoughgeliebte; 09-09-14, 08:25.
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                                Gone fishin'
                                • Sep 2011
                                • 30163

                                Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
                                When I think of all the money I spent on the original CD issues of the Böhm Ring in 1986.....:
                                Yerrrs; but you have had nearly thirty years joy from them whilst the rest of us waited for the price to come down
                                [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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