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I thought, I sought, I bought.Originally posted by Dave2002 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:I'm not sure if this Wagner 4CD set of Götterdämmerung conducted by Böhm is a good buy - http://www.selections.com/wagner-got...cds-11093.html for £10.99.
I think I have that, or a similar version, as a download.
... 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!
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I think that Bayreuth set is the one I have the downloads of. One problem with that though, is getting the tracks in order, but it was quite cheap.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post... 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!
Also, that's not the set which has now been issued on Blu Ray - which ff (=ferret ...) has mentioned as being very good.
Anyway, I thought I'd point it out. Even at around £2.50p per disc someone else may find it a good buy.
There's also an older set by Furtwängler for £34 - http://www.selections.com/wagner-the...cle-14cds.html
I'm guessing the sound quality might put some people off.Comment
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
That set is a tenner cheaper from the River peopleThere's also an older set by Furtwängler for £34 - http://www.selections.com/wagner-the...cle-14cds.html
I'm guessing the sound quality might put some people off.
... and there's another pressing of this same Rome recording (I presume with inferior sound to the Warner version) for £15:
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Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
That set is a tenner cheaper from the River people
... and there's another pressing of this same Rome recording (I presume with inferior sound to the Warner version) for £15:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Ring-...ng+furtwangler
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Seems like a really good bargain - a lot of good reviews.Originally posted by Conchis View Post
I think one of the links in msg 4804 is not relevant/correct.Comment
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Lobbocks! Duly corrected.Originally posted by Dave2002 View Post
Incidentally, reading the Amazon customers' reviews, it seems that the Membran set I linked to is the LP-size box format. The more usual CD box size is a little more expensive:
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I suspect it's unrealistic to expect really good sound from any of these sets. According to the reviews, the Pristine set remastering might be the best - there is some information here - http://www.pristineclassical.com/paco057-cd.html There is a clip of the Pristine remastering accessible - which sounds acceptable - though Pristine have produced what they call Ambient Stereo. Really doesn't sound too bad though, and there are only a few points at which the congestion becomes slightly objectionable. There are comments in the article about the problems with some of the other remastered versions - but the links to the relevant clips no longer work, so it may be harder to sample the sound from those.Originally posted by Conchis View Post
There is another version by Furtwängler which dates from 1950 with the Milan La Scala orchestra etc., and that is available on Classical Music Mobile as a download - 4 x mp3 files for 1 Euro each - which is not a lot.
There are preview clips, which suggest that the sound quality is acceptable, though probably not as good as the Pristine/Rome version.
The Pristine set costs considerably more than either the 1950 La Scala CMM downloads, or the Documents/Rome set.
At current prices the CMM and the Documents set can be bought for less than £20 (taking the large box format - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wagner-Ring-...ng+furtwangler), so could definitely be of interest to anyone interested in hearing how Furtwängler tackled these works.
The first of the customer reviews on Amazon hints at reasons why the Rome version is prefereble to the La Scala version, but if anyone wants that for 4 Euros it is a very cheap option.
Here is a list of recordings including other composers works by Furtwängler issued at CMM - http://www.classicalmusicmobile.com/..._search=SearchLast edited by Dave2002; 02-09-14, 04:49.Comment
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not sure i have seen this set of complete Scarlatti Sonatas at this kind of price. £10 inc P and P.
Its the compressed MP3 Cd edition.
any good?I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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I have to say I find the Lester Scarlatti extremely dull. For works that shd sparkle with life, wit, brilliance he - to my ears - produces music that is so plodding that I find it hard to listen to.
There are amazingly cheap Scarlattis out there - Belder, Scott Ross - my recommendation wd be to go there instead ...Comment
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THanks Vinny.Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
Frankly, I would be amazed if anybody gets through recording that lot and keeps them fresh and exciting !!I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
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I've had the Scott Ross set for aeons teams and it's full of wonderful performances. If you like Scarlatti on the piano there's always a double-CD set from PletnevOriginally posted by teamsaint View Post
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Pace yourOriginally posted by amateur51 View PostIf you like Scarlatti on the piano there's always a double-CD set from Pletnev
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Scarlatti-Ke...rlatti+pletnev it's a lovely set.
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I thought, I sought, I bought (very little thought involved)Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
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I see that vint has given this the thumbs down. OTOH it's only around £10. I have that, as well as the Ross and Belder sets. Lester doesn't seem to have such a light touch, or maybe he just has more "serious" sounding instruments.Originally posted by teamsaint View Postnot sure i have seen this set of complete Scarlatti Sonatas at this kind of price. £10 inc P and P.
Its the compressed MP3 Cd edition.
any good?
I am only just getting a vague understanding of Scarlatti's sonatas, which are generally short single movement works, and not in the form of later sonatas, such as those by Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven. My understanding is that they are mostly perhaps in binary form - effectively AA BB - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_form
This page - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Scarlatti contains this section:
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 seem 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.Other distinctive attributes of Scarlatti's style are the following:
* The influence of Iberian (Portuguese and Spanish) folk music. An example is Scarlatti's use of the Phrygian mode and other tonal inflections more or less alien to European art music. Many of Scarlatti's figurations and dissonances are suggestive of the guitar.
* A formal device in which each half of a sonata leads to a pivotal point, which the Scarlatti scholar Ralph Kirkpatrick termed "the crux", and which is sometimes underlined by a pause or fermata. Before the crux, Scarlatti sonatas often contain their main thematic variety, and after the crux the music makes more use of repetitive figurations as it modulates away from the home key (in the first half) or back to the home key (in the second half).Last edited by Dave2002; 03-09-14, 05:23.Comment
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