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  • cloughie
    Full Member
    • Dec 2011
    • 22115

    Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
    Meant to reply to this. You're a brave fellow Ferney. Good luck. Personally I'd have gone for the EMI big Box, ( well I did actually £10.99 and some classic recordings). Anyway, let us know what you are listening to. Might be fun for a few of us to do the same operas and compare notes. Quite a few of the discs in my Verdi box are,I have to say, still unlistened to........

    Anyway, My Barbirolli Sibelius box turned up.

    All good on the practical side of things, so, what with fixing the Dyson already this week, I'm tempted to get the O.U. BSc Mechanical Engineering brochure ordered up.......

    Oh yes, the Finlandia sounded excellent.......
    JB's Pohjola's Daughter is an absolute cracker! Talking of the price of the EMI box above are you trying to make ferney verde with envy?

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    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
      Gone fishin'
      • Sep 2011
      • 30163

      Originally posted by cloughie View Post
      Talking of the price of the EMI box above are you trying to make ferney verde with envy?
      Oh, very good, Bbm!
      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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      • Stanley Stewart
        Late Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 1071

        A handsome box set, Maria Callas 'Live', remastered recordings, 1949-1964;
        42CD set + 3 Maria Callas in Concert; Paris 1958, Hamburg 1959 & 1962 &
        London 1962 & 1964, Blu-Ray discs. Tested La Traviata for sound quality and listened with growing pleasure. My only caveat is that the 200+page booklet, lavishly
        illustrated but with miniscule print. However, I do have the 1988 hardback edition of
        John Ardoin's, Callas at Juilliard, The Master Classes, as an alternative guide. Now look forward
        to many listening sessions in the months to come, usually with that little something extra -
        the tingle factor!

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        • vinteuil
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12793

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          ... following resurgent expressions of enthusiasm for Gissing elsewhere on these boards (french frank et al: ) - have ordered :

          "London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England : The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist - 1887-1902" ed Pierre Coustillas, Harvester Press 1978.

          To discover the real Ed: Reardon....


          .

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          • Conchis
            Banned
            • Jun 2014
            • 2396

            Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
            .

            ... following resurgent expressions of enthusiasm for Gissing elsewhere on these boards (french frank et al: ) - have ordered :

            "London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England : The Diary of George Gissing, Novelist - 1887-1902" ed Pierre Coustillas, Harvester Press 1978.

            To discover the real Ed: Reardon....


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            Did you pick up a cheap copy? That book is known to be pricey!

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            • Pianorak
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 3127

              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
              No Don Carlos in the box, I notice ...
              in which case I wouldn't waste my time, valuable or otherwise.
              My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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              • vinteuil
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 12793

                Originally posted by Conchis View Post
                Did you pick up a cheap copy? That book is known to be pricey!
                ... I got an ex-library copy for some £20. All the other copies I looked at on-line were indeed at eye-watering prices.



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                Last edited by vinteuil; 12-10-17, 17:14.

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                • Pulcinella
                  Host
                  • Feb 2014
                  • 10890

                  Looking forward to getting the Bacewicz String quartets as a 'hand me down' from a friend who received them as his 'free gift' for taking out a Gramophone subscription; he's pleased to have been able to have heard them, but doesn't think he wants to keep them in his collection, so they might be heading my way instead of to the charity shop.

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                  • Alison
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 6455

                    I fancied taking a punt on John Pickard's Fifth. Three sets of timpani not exactly a deterrent for this listener and the presence of Mr Brabbins at the helm more or less sealed the deal.

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                    • pastoralguy
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 7738

                      The new Dvorak cd from the Paavel Haas Quartet on Supraphone. I think they're an outstanding group and I much enjoyed what I heard on Record Review last week when Andrew played a snippet.

                      Also, the new Schubert Trout Quintet from Anne-Sophie Mutter and her backing group. This is for Mrs P.G for Christmas since it's one of her favourite works as is Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet played by the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra under Semyon Bychkov.

                      Hopefully, these will arrive soon.

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                      • MrGongGong
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 18357

                        This arrived last week
                        Beautiful hardcover coffee table books with tips, tricks, and inspiration for your music studio and gear. Titles: PUSH TURN MOVE - PATCH & TWEAK - PEDAL CRUSH - PATCH & TWEAK with Moog - SYNTH GEMS 1 - INSPIRE THE MUSIC - PATCH & TWEAK with KORG.

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                        • Beef Oven!
                          Ex-member
                          • Sep 2013
                          • 18147

                          Originally posted by Alison View Post
                          I fancied taking a punt on John Pickard's Fifth. Three sets of timpani not exactly a deterrent for this listener and the presence of Mr Brabbins at the helm more or less sealed the deal.
                          I bought that in June on a Hi-Res download from eClassical. Not got my ears around it properly, yet.

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                          • teamsaint
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 25195

                            Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
                            Looking forward to getting the Bacewicz String quartets as a 'hand me down' from a friend who received them as his 'free gift' for taking out a Gramophone subscription; he's pleased to have been able to have heard them, but doesn't think he wants to keep them in his collection, so they might be heading my way instead of to the charity shop.
                            Originally posted by Alison View Post
                            I fancied taking a punt on John Pickard's Fifth. Three sets of timpani not exactly a deterrent for this listener and the presence of Mr Brabbins at the helm more or less sealed the deal.
                            Be interested to hear your thoughts, Alison.

                            Or Beefy's, when he can be bothered to listen to it.

                            I was waiting for that silly price Richter box, but it arrived this morning.
                            At least it was here when I got home from my hols.

                            Edit : I have no idea why my quote of Alison's post picked up Pulcers' post as well.

                            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                              Edit : I have no idea why my quote of Alison's post picked up Pulcers' post as well.

                              Nor have I - did you mean to reply with it at some point and then changed your mind? (Just look at Pulcie's post - is there a tick in the grey band at the bottom right? If not, it's probably just the Russian mafia hacking into your computer to steal all you data and money. Nothing to worry about.)
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25195

                                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                                Nor have I - did you mean to reply with it at some point and then changed your mind? (Just look at Pulcie's post - is there a tick in the grey band at the bottom right? If not, it's probably just the Russian mafia hacking into your computer to steal all you data and money. Nothing to worry about.)
                                Odd isn't it ? I can only think I made a glancing contact with Pulcers' post , and somehow included it. I'm pretty certain there wasn't some abandoned reply lurking on my hard drive. And no grey band tick either.
                                Very much in "he couldn't do that again if he tried" territory !

                                As for the russian mafia, if they get in , they can have my overdraft with pleasure.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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