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[Beef Oven!]

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....)...

Bryn warned me 18 months ago, I didn't learn then!

Hopefully there's a D.A. branch in my area that I can join.

And you're a bad influence ............

[jayne lee wilson]

Bryn warned me 18 months ago, I didn't learn then!

Hopefully there's a D.A. branch in my area that I can join.

And you're a bad influence ............

"De la Musique avant toute chose...."

[MickyD]

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

Don’t do ‘urban’ out west!

[Dave2002]

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?

I assume that 5/6 means 5 or 6 not actually four fifths. Similarly for 4/5. Do you really spend (say) £1250-£1500 per annum on downloads?

Beats my spending on CDs by quite a big margin, though I might spend that and more on going to live performances (theatre, opera, concerts) some years.

[Beef Oven!]

I assume that 5/6 means 5 or 6 not actually four fifths. Similarly for 4/5. Do you really spend (say) £1250-£1500 per annum on downloads?

Beats my spending on CDs by quite a big margin, though I might spend that and more on going to live performances (theatre, opera, concerts) some years.

I'm cured. I will be buying no more than 2 music downloads per month from now on. If super-bargains come along in any format, then I'll augment my purchases, ad hoc.

[vinteuil]

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... this will be a good one :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07JZB1VWN

Sadly it will massively duplicate what I already have, so I will probably miss out on this.


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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... this will be a good one :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07JZB1VWN

Sadly it will massively duplicate what I already have, so I will probably miss out on this.

And for anyone who missed out on JEGger's Philips Berlioz recordings, they have been collected into a handy 9 disc (8 CDs + 1 DVD) box due to be released in a couple of weeks:

https://www.europadisc.co.uk/classical/140499/Berlioz_Rediscovered_(CD_+_DVD).htm

... mostly ORR, but I think that the Lyon Opera recordings (IIRC, Faust) is/are also included - which I believe means that the "Berlioz on Period Instruments" tagline isn't entirely accurate?

The River People think it isn't due out until March:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlioz-Rediscovered-John-Eliot-Gardiner/dp/B07KLCVYZ5

(the two quid price difference is offset by Europadisc's P&P policy)

[vinteuil]

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... 2019 will be the 150th anniversary of Berlioz's death [1803-1869], so I expect we'll get a fair amount of repackaged goodies this year.

A few years back I went through a big Berlioz phase - including a pilgrimage to his birthplace at La Côte Saint-André - I think I'm ready for another immersion...

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[cloughie]

Fantastique! I think we are in for a ‘Hector’ of a year! I will probably add to my Munchbox!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... 2019 will be the 150th anniversary of Berlioz's death [1803-1869], so I expect we'll get a fair amount of repackaged goodies this year.
A few years back I went through a big Berlioz phase - including a pilgrimage to his birthplace at La Côte Saint-André - I think I'm ready for another immersion...

- he remains one of my especial favourites. I'll use the sesic ... sequic ... sesquin ... the anniversary to revist not just the Music, but also the Barzun and Cairns biographies ... and the Memoirs and Evenings in the Orchestra, too. Happy Days!

[vinteuil]

- he remains one of my especial favourites. I'll use the sesic ... sequic ... sesquin ... the anniversary to revist not just the Music, but also the Barzun and Cairns biographies ... and the Memoirs and Evenings in the Orchestra, too. Happy Days!

... also, I hope, - les Grotesques de la Musique :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1235232441

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https://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=30053426361&searchurl=tn%3Dgrotesques%26sortby%3D17%26an%3Dberlioz&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title7

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[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

... also, I hope, - les Grotesques de la Musique

I had completely forgotten about that book! Manyt thanks, indeed, vinty; 'though I'll probably invest in the English edition:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Musical-Madhouse-Eastman-Studies-Paperback/dp/B00YDJM1L0

[vinteuil]

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... one has to feel for a conductor who can write after the experience with a particular orchestra which felt that they had -

"Le droit de jouer en fa dans une symphonie en ré "




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[Cockney Sparrow]

In case it hasn't been mentioned on these boards yet, there are performances of Damnation of Faust (Elder; 10 Feb) and Béatrice and Bénédict (Ludovic Morlot; 16 Feb) at the Bridgwater Hall. I need to visit a relative in Manchester and would like to try the Hall, and really enjoy Berlioz.

[Bryn]

Coming soon, a new recording of Shostakovich's 2 piano version of his 4th Symphony. I reckon it will have to be pretty special to challenge that on Chandos, from Rustem Hayroudinoff and Colin Stone: