As someone who loves chamber music, I am very tempted by this :-
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Indeed - perhaps I should have put it on the Bargains thread.Originally posted by amateur51 View PostI agree Amph - a bargain
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There's no rule that I am aware of about double-posting, especially when it is as appropriate as in this case, AmpHOriginally posted by AmpH View Post
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Not one for me, though only because I got this:Originally posted by AmpH View Post
a couple of years ago, when it was just a little over a quarter of its current asking price on amazon.co.uk.
Mind you, if I had known the chamber only box was in the offing, I might have waited. It's his chamber work I find the most rewarding to listen to.Comment
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That is one of many box sets I wish I had bought at the time of issue ! ........ Harmonia Mundi , Messaien , the Chandos Walton box are amongst many others !Originally posted by Bryn View PostNot one for me, though only because I got this:
a couple of years ago, when it was just a little over a quarter of its current asking price on amazon.co.uk.
Mind you, if I had known the chamber only box was in the offing, I might have waited. It's his chamber work I find the most rewarding to listen to.Comment
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Agreed - very tempting even at the advertised cost of over £35 delivered. At £25.79 delivered I can assure you it is quite irresistible.Originally posted by AmpH View Post
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Steven Osborne's new album of Pictures at an Exhibition c/w Prokofiev's Sarcasms and Visions Fugitives.
Audition for yourself on this podcast from the BBC Music magazine's website. Gave my ageing Richter DG and BBC Legends discs a spin last night; for all their musical merits, sonically they are no match for this impressive newcomer.Last edited by Sir Velo; 19-03-13, 07:41.Comment
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That cover looks as if it came straight out of the old Everest art room.Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostSteven Osborne's new album of Pictures at an Exhibition c/w Prokofiev's Sarcasms and Visions Fugitives.
Audition for yourself on this podcast from the BBC Music magazine's website. Gave my ageing Richter DG and BBC Legends discs a spin last night; for all their musical merits, sonically they are no match for this impressive newcomer.Comment
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Shame no one ever uses the Hartmann pictures as cover art.Originally posted by Bryn View PostComment
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I'm not very sure that Viktor Hartmann's images would make many converts http://www.stmoroky.com/reviews/gall...s/hartmann.htmOriginally posted by Sir Velo View Post
Existing believers might be interested for a minute or two, but not much longer surely? And IIRC quite a lot of the pictures that inspired Mussorgsky are no longer in existence.I keep hitting the Escape key, but I'm still here!Comment
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I'd written a somewhat gushing post about
which the God of cyberspace clearly decided was rubbish so it disappeared somewhere in the upload. But, based on the 24/96 download replayed via my Meridian USB DAC, possibly the best orchestral recording I've heard in years (even better than the exceptionally good Andrew Litton Prokofiev 6th). The performance of the 4th (a work which has meant a great deal to me over the years) is even finer than Vanska's exceptionally fine Lahti recording. I have been listening to it repeatedly in the past few days. Vanska just seems to understand this troubling symphony better than anyone else.Comment
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This might be good - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Archiv-Produ...=pd_sim_m_h__1 I need to check out what's in the box. Some of those Archiv recordings are great.Comment
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... the archiv box might indeed be interesting. It (more than) covers my life-time - and the various currents of early music practice which have flourished in that period, which have been part of my life ever since I was conscious. But before investing I wd want to know a bit more about the contents!Comment
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