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Originally posted by MickyD View PostI think it was worth a punt, Rob - they seem to be newish recordings on old instruments. I'd be interested to know what you think of the set.
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The Decca composite box of HIPP Haydn symphonies (Hogwood, Bruggen, Dantone) now £39.65 for 35 CDs here, which seems like quite a bargain to me. As I only have two of the performances already (the BBC MM CD of Hogwood's 76 and 77), I have ordered it as a Christmas present to myself.
I have the Fischer complete set, but fewer than half of the symphonies in HIPP performances (a mix of Kuijken, Goodman and Minkowski), so am really looking forward to immersing myself in this set over the festive period.
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Originally posted by Rolmill View PostThe Decca composite box of HIPP Haydn symphonies (Hogwood, Bruggen, Dantone) now £39.65 for 35 CDs here, which seems like quite a bargain to me. As I only have two of the performances already (the BBC MM CD of Hogwood's 76 and 77), I have ordered it as a Christmas present to myself.
I have the Fischer complete set, but fewer than half of the symphonies in HIPP performances (a mix of Kuijken, Goodman and Minkowski), so am really looking forward to immersing myself in this set over the festive period.
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I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
Mike
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Originally posted by mikealdren View PostIt's a very wide ranging mix, not quite sure who the target audience would really be for such a box. That said, it's a very well chosen set, some excellent stuff in there. I just seem to have a lot of it.
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I think I must be the target audience !!I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by teamsaint View Postthanks Mike. Yes its certainly a wide ranging mix. A couple of duplicates for me, but plenty that I think look interesting enough to be worth the outlay.
I think I must be the target audience !!
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The Advent offers on Downloads have started on eclassical. Four titles offered at 50% discount each day - BIS but also other labels. They bill it as for Hi-Res recordings, but for those of us who can't hear the difference, there is a lower price for CD quality.
Download Classical Music in lossless High Resolution FLAC & MP3 formats, and learn about Classical Music. Refund Policy, No DRM protection and pricing is per second.
On that page is the link to the daily deal, which I check most days. Apart from the chance of the saving offered, I rather like the comments on the recording - for example today's (Sibelius - Orchestral Songs (Cat no:BIS-270 CD) :
A tumultuous recording, this. Should have been conducted by a (later) famous Finnish conductor, but his agency kept everyone in suspense until the last possible moment and then tried to blackmail us into conditions that were wholly unjustifiable for a debutant - much more than any established conductor. All this against the conductor's wishes - he really wanted to do this production. Such was the power of certain megalomaniac agents! So his teacher, the world-famous teacher Jorma Panula, very kindly stepped in and did a great job of this, Sibelius's orchestral songs with Mari Anne Häggander and the great Jorma Hynninen as soloists, all together with the Gothenburg SO. But I didn't have many nails left at the time!
I've kept a note of some of albums offered in the past on the Daily Deal:
Örhängen (Earrings):
This is the internationally famous STAR, Elisabeth Söderström, letting her hair down, singing Swedish popular songs and ballads with a lot of friends (even I get to sing background in it...). I must share a story with you. So here is one of the world's most famous sopranos coming to my attic to record. What shall I cook? What would her requirements be? How should she be treated? I was quite worried. Well, very early (about 6.30 a.m.) the telephone goes off (I thought, here comes a cancellation). Hi, it's Elisabeth. - Y-y-y-eees? -Well, I wondered, if I could borrow your kitchen. - Eeeeh?????? - You see, I figured, we'll be there all day, several days, a lot of guys and me, so I figured that I'll cook for you in the breaks, so we don't have to waste time by driving somewhere. Would that be all right? // Well, that's Lizzie for you. What a wonderful person she was! So warm and full of life. And you can hear it here!
Paul Kletzki - Symphony No.3 In memoriam:
Also this is one of the hidden treasures and main discoveries in the BIS catalogue. After a long detective work, well described in the booklet, the 3rd Symphony by famed conductor Paul Kletzki was discovered/found, and Thomas Sanderling and the faithful Norrköping SO went to work. The symphony, which deals with the painful happenings in WW2, is a truly gripping work of some 45 minutes. As a filler there's another World Première Recording, the Flute Concertino with Sharon Bezaly as a soloist. An important release that has not achieved the importance it should have
Jón Leifs - Hekla and other orchestral works
Another crash-bang-wham from Iceland's possibly foremost composer, Jón Leifs. Here is the infamous Hekla that tries to depict a volcano eruption with a symphony orchestra with - sit down - THIRTY-FIVE (yes, 35!) percussionists in addition to the normal orchestra. Free earplugs were distributed to the orchestra prior to the recording and I remember the ashen grey faces of the Producer and Engineer, when they came home. But it is interesting music, very much in Jón's style, and also recommended for testing of equipment...
Last edited by Cockney Sparrow; 01-12-16, 09:25.
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