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  • Bryn
    Banned
    • Mar 2007
    • 24688

    Originally posted by Pianorak View Post
    Well, deserving of a spin? Catching my Katchen soon!
    See update to #7049, do not hesitate. I now hear some occasional pre-echo in the April 1949 recording of the Brahms Op. 24, recorded one day before my first birthday.

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    • Parry1912
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 963

      Originally posted by MickyD View Post
      Has anyone already got the big Rachmaninov box? I am rather tempted...go on, urge me a little more!
      I've not got the box but I do have (just about?) all of the excellent Ashkenazy recordings featured. I especially recommend his superb recording of The Bells.
      Del boy: “Get in, get out, don’t look back. That’s my motto!”

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      • Dave2002
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 18008

        Originally posted by Bryn View Post
        See update to #7049, do not hesitate. I now hear some occasional pre-echo in the April 1949 recording of the Brahms Op. 24, recorded one day before my first birthday.
        I am hesitating, as I have most of the pieces already in recordings - though not by Katchen.
        OTOH there are a few which may be of interest, and if bought separately would cost almost as much as this box at the current price - for examples the Brahms cello and violin sonatas.

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        • Pianorak
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 3127

          Originally posted by Bryn View Post
          See update to #7049, do not hesitate. I now hear some occasional pre-echo in the April 1949 recording of the Brahms Op. 24, recorded one day before my first birthday.
          Thanks, Bryn. Mine's due 30 Oct/3 Nov.
          My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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          • gurnemanz
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 7379

            Niche repertoire maybe but Lieder fans may well be interested in this Membran Othmar Schoeck Complete Songs box on 12 CDs , well-priced at £37 and re-issued from well-received and long-deleted recordings from the Swiss label Jecklin. I've just ordered from jpc.

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            • cloughie
              Full Member
              • Dec 2011
              • 22110

              ...and a good Katch too, his Mozart is a better listen than Annerose's!
              Last edited by cloughie; 25-10-17, 18:41.

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              • teamsaint
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 25190

                Originally posted by gurnemanz View Post
                Niche repertoire maybe but Lieder fans may well be interested in this Membran Othmar Schoeck Complete Songs box on 12 CDs , well-priced at £37 and re-issued from well-received and long-deleted recordings from the Swiss label Jecklin. I've just ordered from jpc.
                i'm sure you'll have a lot of fun with that, Gurney.

                I'm tempted at that price,but I think I have too much else on my shelves that needs my attention first.

                Defenitely a good prod to investigate Schoecks work further though as I don't know much more than the 2 SQs, which are excellent.
                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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                • LeMartinPecheur
                  Full Member
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 4717

                  Originally posted by Parry1912 View Post
                  I've not got the box but I do have (just about?) all of the excellent Ashkenazy recordings featured. I especially recommend his superb recording of The Bells.
                  First CD I bought, well before I actually bought a player!
                  I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!

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                  • MickyD
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 4744

                    Originally posted by LeMartinPecheur View Post
                    First CD I bought, well before I actually bought a player!
                    Thanks for that...still thinking about getting the big Rachmaninov set. It's just shelf space that's the problem!

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                    • Cockney Sparrow
                      Full Member
                      • Jan 2014
                      • 2280

                      I'd been waiting for a competitive price on the Rachmaninov complete works set since it came out, since there is some inevitable duplication etc. Nowadays I am trying to resist box sets, and then this offer came along......
                      Well, I'm lucky enough to have an mp3 recording of the extensive review of the set on CD Review in late 2014 (which alerted me to the set):
                      With Andrew McGregor. Including Building a Library: Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia.

                      Almost uniform appreciation of the performances on this set from the likes of Ashkenazy, Soderstrom, Previn, Argerch, Richter.........it goes on. Listening again to this last night moved me to press the button.....

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                      • mathias broucek
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 1303

                        Just had the dreaded "We're still trying to obtain the item(s)" email for the Richter / Carnegie Hall

                        Not too upset as I have a lot of Richter already, much of it in better sound this (based on reviews) but I do feel it's not right to advertise and then not deliver!

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                        • vinteuil
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 12765

                          Originally posted by mathias broucek View Post
                          Just had the dreaded "We're still trying to obtain the item(s)" email for the Richter / Carnegie Hall

                          Not too upset as I have a lot of Richter already, much of it in better sound this (based on reviews) but I do feel it's not right to advertise and then not deliver!
                          ... I received yesterday the Richter / Carnegie (ordered 11 May) for £4.76 & p+p



                          - but you shd be aware that they also surface in the larger 18 CD 'complete album' collection -





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                          • PJPJ
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1461

                            Originally posted by PJPJ View Post
                            Well spotted - just ordered, thank you!
                            ...and just delivered shortly after 2pm. That is really quite speedy service.

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                            • jpegasus
                              Full Member
                              • May 2017
                              • 20

                              Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                              - but you shd be aware that they also surface in the larger 18 CD 'complete album' collection -
                              Richter at Carnegie Hall box received here on Wednesday.

                              There are two CDs in the Carnegie Hall set (discs 10 and 11, an all-Beethoven programme given on 23 December 1960) not in the Complete Album Collection.

                              But why couldn't this recital have been released separately? It could even have been £4.76.
                              Last edited by jpegasus; 27-10-17, 14:14.

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                              • mathias broucek
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 1303

                                Oddly Amazon is now saying dispatched. Happy ending

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