New releases

[Beef Oven!]

Armfuls of the shiny new stuff appearing on Qobuz already.....! Here's just a few I want to get my ears into...

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/brahms-ein-deutsches-requiem-op-45-live-daniel-reuss-orchestra-of-the-eighteenth-century-cappella-amsterdam/ofz6o0yuoee4a

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/xenakis-pleiades-decibells/elqy8nkfhdamb

(One for the Barrett!)

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/kyrill-kondrashin-edition-1937-1963-kirill-kondrashin/yx8zxglbb51gc

....oh and, those new Brautigam Mendelssohn Piano Concertos on BIS (mentioned earlier here), greyed out for so long, are finally available to stream at 24/96...
https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/album/me.../i6py910lvvtwc

The Xenakis is a must-listen, but I'm Luke warm at best about the rest.

I'm a bit pissed with Qobuz at the minute. They give Sublime members a hefty discount on the Hi-Res downloads. Why? My per annum purchases are around 4/5 times greater value than a yearly Sublime membership, yet there is no discount scheme for customers like me.

[Richard Barrett]

The Xenakis is very familiar to me, but straight into my Qobuz favourites for playing tomorrow went a disc of Sciarrino based around his La navigazione notturna for four pianos, which has to be worth listening to.

[cloughie]

I like the look of tho Kondrashin edition (on CD though). I saw him once, with the Concertgebouw, at the 1980 Proms.

[jayne lee wilson]

The Xenakis is a must-listen, but I'm Luke warm at best about the rest.

I'm a bit pissed with Qobuz at the minute. They give Sublime members a hefty discount on the Hi-Res downloads. Why? My per annum purchases are around 4/5 times greater value than a yearly Sublime membership, yet there is no discount scheme for customers like me.

Er... I think you might need to....do the math.......

A Brahms Requiem on Period Instruments/reduced chorus is pretty rare though (IIRC there's just the JEG otherwise, though there are HIPP-style ones like the startlingly hi-speed Niquet)... or do you not take to the work? I'll report back on it soon...

(Anyway, heard that Frankfurt Nielsen yet? See Listening thread re. No.6...)...

[Beef Oven!]

What's your point about math, Jayne? Checking my order history, I have bought around 300 downloads from qobuz since 2017 (12 months), ranging from sets like the Boulez Sony Edition through DG, BIS etc, to the cheaper Naxos. I think it's reasonable to put an average download price of £9.50. £2,800 per annum. How much is a Sublime membership?

Update: Sublime is £249 per annum. I spend 5/6 times more, not 4/5 times more per annum than Sublime membership - but that wasn't what you meant, was it?

Er... I think you might need to....do the math.......

A Brahms Requiem on Period Instruments/reduced chorus is pretty rare though (IIRC there's just the JEG otherwise, though there are HIPP-style ones like the startlingly hi-speed Niquet)... or do you not take to the work? I'll report back on it soon...

(Anyway, heard that Frankfurt Nielsen yet? See Listening thread re. No.6...)...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

What's your point about math, Jayne? Checking my order history, I have bought around 300 downloads from qobuz since 2017 (12 months), ranging from sets like the Boulez Sony Edition through DG, BIS etc, to the cheaper Naxos. I think it's reasonable to put an average download price of £9.50. £2,800 per annum. How much is a Sublime membership?

Update: Sublime is £249 per annum. I spend 5/6 times more, not 4/5 times more per annum than Sublime membership - but that wasn't what you meant, was it?

So, if there's a saving of £4 per download if you're a Sublime member, you would have saved £1200 on those 300 downloads - less the £249 membership fee, you would have saved over £900, if I've understood the system correctly?

[Beef Oven!]

So, if there's a saving of £4 per download if you're a Sublime member, you would have saved £1200 on those 300 downloads - less the £249 membership fee, you would have saved over £900, if I've understood the system correctly?

Thanks ferney, that's made me feel a whole lot better!

Bryn pointed out the sensible way through this to me 18 months ago, but I did not take his advice.

I think I need to join Sublime or get responsible about my music spend in general terms.

So lucky Mrs Oven does not look on this forum.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Happy to Help!

(You're right though - these "pay upfront for your loyalty cards" are ... well, annoying!)

[cloughie]

Er... I think you might need to....do the math.......

A Brahms Requiem on Period Instruments/reduced chorus is pretty rare though (IIRC there's just the JEG otherwise, though there are HIPP-style ones like the startlingly hi-speed Niquet)... or do you not take to the work? I'll report back on it soon...

(Anyway, heard that Frankfurt Nielsen yet? See Listening thread re. No.6...)...

Math so American - don’t we usually say maths?

[jayne lee wilson]

Math so American - don’t we usually say maths?

I-zink-eet-eez-vat-yu-Earthlings-call "an idiom"...

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=do%20the%20math

[Beef Oven!]

I-zink-eet-eez-vat-yu-Earthlings-call "an idiom"...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...o%20the%20math

But what was your point in the first place?

[cloughie]

I-zink-eet-eez-vat-yu-Earthlings-call "an idiom"...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/defi...o%20the%20math

Call it what you want, Jayne - it won’t catch on with me - prefer ‘do the sums’

Don’t do ‘urban’ out west!

[Bryn]

Call it what you want, Jayne - it won’t catch on with me - prefer ‘do the sums’

Don’t do ‘urban’ out west!

Tending more towards the urbane, eh?

[cloughie]

Tending more towards the urbane, eh?

Mebbe!

[jayne lee wilson]

But what was your point in the first place?

Financially? I thought fhg sorted it out with you already....(i.e., if you buy that many downloads and so frequently, subscribing to Qobuz Sublime+ is a no-brainer....)...

(And if you had it on Audirvana+....you'd have the Champagne de Selection of music services...)