Bargains

[mathias broucek]

No, not just you . . .

Just had a quick response from 7digital, confirming the problem. They will get it corrected but are unable to say how long it might take. They offered the alternative of a different download of equal value but I have opted to wait.

It's now showing as unavailable which is good! I've known Qobuz to leave faulty stuff up for ages...

[Bryn]

A very nice box set which sadly doesn't work for me because of too much duplication. The box does contain the Juliette suite but not the fragments.

Since I saved the Belohlavek directed concert performance of Juliette, I managed to overlook the absence of the 3 Scenes from the Mackerras Janacek/Martinu box. The situation has now been rectified by the purchase, for £4.50 including p&p, if the Supraphon CD. I rejected the cheaper QOBUZ download (no booklet/libretto pdf). I have to admit that I had not grasped that the 3 Scenes was a Martinu work in its own right, not merely a few extracts compiled by another hand.

[Maclintick]

Charity shop temptations - Tchaik 1/ Leipzig Gewandhaus/Mazur for 99p -- Irresistible, but hilariously off-piste. Anyone interested in the vexed conundrum of how to transmogify Tchaikovsky into a simulacrum of Brahms need apply here.

Janáček -- Sinfonietta/Taras Bulba/VPO/Mackerras -- 99p -- excellently played & recorded alternative to vinyl classic Czech PO/Ančerl -- just lacks that wild folky element.

R.Strauss -- Don Quixote/Fournier/BPO/Karajan ( + Tod Und Verklärung similar vintage) -- 99p. Is there anything not to like here??

[Bryn]

. . . Janáček -- Sinfonietta/Taras Bulba/VPO/Mackerras -- 99p -- excellently played & recorded alternative to vinyl classic Czech PO/Ančerl -- just lacks that wild folky element. . . .

The WP/Mackerras Sinfonietta also has the Viola d'amore that the composer asked for.

[Maclintick]

Thanks, Bryn. From your reply I deduce that the viola d'amore is missing from the Czech PO/Ančerl.. ?

[Bryn]

Thanks, Bryn. From your reply I deduce that the viola d'amore is missing from the Czech PO/Ančerl.. ?

From what I recall, the WP/Mackerras was the first recording to restore the viola d'amore part. That said, I would not want to be without the Ancerl.

[alycidon]

Simulacrum? As a wordsmith I thought I knew them all but that is a new one for me. I did Latin as well, but never encountered that one. Thank you for extending my vocabulary.

[Bryn]

Simulacrum? As a wordsmith I thought I knew them all but that is a new one for me. I did Latin as well, but never encountered that one. Thank you for extending my vocabulary.

And a term which neither of the birthday boys would have been too happy to have had applied to either of them, of the other.

[Pulcinella]

Simulacrum? As a wordsmith I thought I knew them all but that is a new one for me. I did Latin as well, but never encountered that one. Thank you for extending my vocabulary.

And a term which neither of the birthday boys would have been too happy to have had applied to either of them, of the other.

A lovely word indeed, but my search abilities are not sufficiently good to see where it appeared and who the birthday boys are.
I think we should be told!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

See post #7924.

(Where, it seems, Johannes and Piotr are turned into cats!)

[Pulcinella]

See post #7924.

Missed that when scanning through recent posts.
Thought it would be in one of Bryn's, given that he'd responded!

[Pulcinella]

See post #7924.

(Where, it seems, Johannes and Piotr are turned into cats!)

[teamsaint]

EdgeleyRob shares their birthday IIRC.
But I may not......

[Maclintick]

See post #7924.

(Where, it seems, Johannes and Piotr are turned into cats!)

My grammatical faux-pas has fortunately not gone unheeded. More proof of transmoGGification here:




& here, though not of actual transmoggification, but close affinity, despite historical calumnies to the contrary...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/apr/12/highereducation.arts

[Edgy 2]

EdgeleyRob shares their birthday IIRC.
But I may not......

Yep 7th May,well remembered ts.