What CD, book, DVD etc are you waiting for?

[LMcD]

3 Schubert Symphonies / Schubert Trout Quintet / 2 Mozart Divertimenti / Beethoven Bagetelles - £8 and free postage from Music Magpie, whose used CDs have not disappointed thus far.

[Pulcinella]

3 Schubert Symphonies / Schubert Trout Quintet / 2 Mozart Divertimenti / Beethoven Bagetelles - £8 and free postage from Music Magpie, whose used CDs have not disappointed thus far.

I think it was Music Magpie I used once, and the box set stank to high heaven of cigarette smoke!
Passed it on and bought another, IIRC.
I felt that it would have been a bit churlish to return it.

[Pulcinella]

Stravinsky's Late Music, by Joseph Straus, mentioned by Joseph on the Stravinsky thread.

Should give me something to get my teeth into next month, as I can't see myself going back to volunteer work in the local primary school.

[Bryn]

Stravinsky's Late Music, by Joseph Straus, mentioned by Joseph on the Stravinsky thread.

Should give me something to get my teeth into next month, as I can't see myself going back to volunteer work in the local primary school.

Did you grab the one at £19.84? I tried but it disappered so I will have to wait the extra day or so for that at £19,83.

[Pulcinella]

Did you grab the one at £19.84? I tried but it disappered so I will have to wait the extra day or so for that at £19,83.

Indeed I did; not sure if it was the delivery time or the seller (CUP specialist: Academic Bookshop, Cambridge) that prompted me to spend that extra penny, though. I wasn't expecting it till Saturday.
Still plodding through Roman Vlad, so I mustn't get diverted.

[Joseph K]

Stravinsky's Late Music, by Joseph Straus, mentioned by Joseph on the Stravinsky thread.

Should give me something to get my teeth into next month, as I can't see myself going back to volunteer work in the local primary school.

He's a good writer - I have his Introduction to Post-Tonal Theory somewhere round here...

[EnemyoftheStoat]

In a mad moment I ordered the parts for Nielsen’s wind quintet - £9.98 inc p&p s/h. At that price it seemed worth having in the hope that I can round up the four required players from one or other of my orchestras.

[Pulcinella]

In a mad moment I ordered the parts for Nielsen’s wind quintet - £9.98 inc p&p s/h. At that price it seemed worth having in the hope that I can round up the four required players from one or other of my orchestras.

Good luck with that enterprise!
Hope you are able to get a group together to play it soon.

[Bryn]

Indeed I did; not sure if it was the delivery time or the seller (CUP specialist: Academic Bookshop, Cambridge) that prompted me to spend that extra penny, though. I wasn't expecting it till Saturday.
Still plodding through Roman Vlad, so I mustn't get diverted.

Mine arrived today. Pleased, so far, bar one minor niggle. My first attempt at using the index revealed an error. I wanted to check out mentions of Threni. The first given in the index is to page 28. However, that page bears no mention of Threni. Fortunately, the facing page, 29, does, towards the bottom. Careless index compilation or typo? I will not let the frown last too long.

[Pulcinella]

Mine arrived today. Pleased, so far, bar one minor niggle. My first attempt at using the index revealed an error. I wanted to check out mentions of Threni. The first given in the index is to page 28. However, that page bears no mention of Threni. Fortunately, the facing page, 29, does, towards the bottom. Careless index compilation or typo? I will not let the frown last too long.

I got confused by Septet I, until I realised that that meant the first movement (and that the n in 87n referred to a footnote).
Maybe the musical examples threw the pagination somehow after the index had been compiled.
A minor niggle though, as you say.

I'm still working through Vlad (alongside reading A suitable boy!) before I turn my attention to Straus. Vlad is pretty detailed on Threni, and I'm beginning to wonder if I really do need to know how clever the construction of the piece is before I start to like it more (which I hope I will). When I see tables in Straus headed such as 'Verticalization of rows of the rotational arrays' my head immediately starts hurting.

[Pulcinella]

Study score of Stravinsky's The Flood due to arrive this morning between 10:24 and 11:24, according to an email just received.

This means that of the pieces discussed in Straus' book Stravinsky's Late Music I will have scores of most of the more substantial works:
Cantata
Septet
Canticum Sacrum
Agon
Threni
Movements
The Flood
Requiem Canticles

PS: Arrived as promised, but it's another of those scores where the staves are printed only where the instrument/voice has something to do. I find them very hard to follow.

At least transposing instruments are written in C in the score.

[Richard Barrett]

PS: Arrived as promised, but it's another of those scores where the staves are printed only where the instrument/voice has something to do. I find them very hard to follow.

Whereas the opposite was the original intention... I agree with you though. You'll be pleased to hear that it's going out of fashion these days, largely because it's really fiddly to do in Sibelius!

At least transposing instruments are written in C in the score.

Heaven forfend!

[Pulcinella]

Just arrived (but listening will be delayed as partner is busy with business Zoom meetings, and I don't want to listen on headphones or disturb the meetings with singing):

Handel: Alceste, Comus
AAM/Hogwood

As recommended by MickyD on the new Handel thread.

[Bryn]

Just delivered, yet another set of Prokofiev Symphonies. This time the CPO/Kosler survey from the mid to late '70s and early 80s (remastered from analogue, not early digital, thankfully). Happy to find Kosler's Scythian Suite recording of 1973.

[cloughie]

Just delivered, yet another set of Prokofiev Symphonies. This time the CPO/Kosler survey from the mid to late '70s and early 80s (remastered from analogue, not early digital, thankfully). Happy to find Kosler's Scythian Suite recording of 1973.

Just received same through post this morning - at £12 good value but €5.90 for postage from France they can’t be a lot of profit for the seller but l’m looking forward to listening CPO in Prokofiev should be good.