At last, the Van Immerseel Mozart piano concerto cycle is being re-released by Channel Classics. Available for pre-order:
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A not unreasonable price, if a little more than I paid for its previous release.Originally posted by MickyD View PostComment
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... a very good price, I would say. I paid some £50 back in 2004.Originally posted by Bryn View Post
Bryn, as so often, was enviably lucky....
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Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
More canny than lucky, perhaps. I struck while the iron was hot on a 'pre-order' deal of its 2011(?) re-packaging.
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Is that set good? I like a lot of Immerseel's work. I suppose I could sample on Qobuz first - and if the price is good, then maybe a good idea to go for the pre-order price.Originally posted by MickyD View PostComment
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Looks interesting.....
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Most of the Immerseel Mozart Concerti are on Qobuz separately. Listening to No.18 (i), then the Brautigam/Willens, I found the latter a little fresher, livelier and with more light & shade of instrumental texture; Brautigam more individually characterful; and I preferred the smaller orchestra on BIS too. Only one concerto of course, but in direct comparison the larger-scale Eterna/Immerseel, while enjoyable, sounded just a shade generalised....Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 18-01-19, 04:06.Comment
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Recently I've been comparing Immerseel in the Mozart concerti with Malcolm Bilson/Gardiner and Viviana Sofronitsky/Korolak and (perhaps surprisingly) it's Sofronitsky who comes out on top, both for performance and recording.Originally posted by MickyD View PostComment
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For Haitink fans who can access a Blu Ray player, two boxes of note for release in early March:
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The price of the Bruckner box is quite a bit less in France so I guess that it will come down in the UK in due course. Their appearance has prompted me to order an Oppo clone for here in France. Although one sighs at Universal's seemingly endless recycling of its catalogue, earlier Blu Ray re-masterings (Karajan's Beethoven and Strauss, Kubelik's Mahler. Kempff's Schubert etc etc) have produced good results. Fingers crossed for Bernie!Comment
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I seem to recall that our friend Vinteuil was a fan of the Sofronitsky...I have yet to hear those recordings, but thanks for the tip. I already have Bilson, which I like a lot.Originally posted by verismissimo View PostComment
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Originally posted by MickyD View Post
A post that prompted me to order the set, and very fine it is, indeed.Comment
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Great news Dougs. You’ve made my day.Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostFor Haitink fans who can access a Blu Ray player, two boxes of note for release in early March:
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The price of the Bruckner box is quite a bit less in France so I guess that it will come down in the UK in due course. Their appearance has prompted me to order an Oppo clone for here in France. Although one sighs at Universal's seemingly endless recycling of its catalogue, earlier Blu Ray re-masterings (Karajan's Beethoven and Strauss, Kubelik's Mahler. Kempff's Schubert etc etc) have produced good results. Fingers crossed for Bernie!Comment
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Tempting, but I will await audio quality reviews. These are not my 'go to' recordings in their CD manifestation, but I will spin through them again before deciding one way or the other whether they entice sufficiently to get them all again on CD for the sake of two Blu-ray versions. Separate Blu-rays would be far more tempting, that's for sure, in my case.Originally posted by Alison View Post
Hmm. Perhaps someone here without a Blu-ray player will be tempted by the new CD transfers and put the Blu-rays up for grabs.
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https://www.amazon.fr/Bruckner-Berna...itink+Bruckner The Bruckner at least seems to be already available at am.fr at a lower price. There isn't much to stop anyone who wants it ordering it now.Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostFor Haitink fans who can access a Blu Ray player, two boxes of note for release in early March:
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The price of the Bruckner box is quite a bit less in France so I guess that it will come down in the UK in due course. Their appearance has prompted me to order an Oppo clone for here in France. Although one sighs at Universal's seemingly endless recycling of its catalogue, earlier Blu Ray re-masterings (Karajan's Beethoven and Strauss, Kubelik's Mahler. Kempff's Schubert etc etc) have produced good results. Fingers crossed for Bernie!
The price for the Mahler may be similar to the UK price - if postage is taken into account - https://www.amazon.fr/Mahler-Symphon...Haitink+MahlerComment
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Re. the forthcoming Haitink/Mahler Blu-ray, I wonder whether the 8th, and maybe the 5th, will be in 4 channel surround, as the Pentatone SACDs of those recording are.Comment
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Both the Bruckner and the Mahler are due to be released on March 1st - “paraîtra le 1 mars”, so definitely not yet available in France, which is where I’ve ordered it. And I think it exceedingly unlikely that they will be in anything other than 2 channel, although I would be delighted to be proved wrong.Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostComment
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