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

[Bryn]

Please do advise on sound quality .. But a mandatory purchase in any case

In my green wheelie bin when I got back this evening (highly apposite, given the score's chequered history). Not had time to listen yet but I have ripped the opening track and checked its spectrum. Not even the slightest hint of a 19kHz peak, which bodes well. Apart from in the car, I will not have a chance to listen until Friday evening.

Strange presentation of the 3 CDs. The overall thickness of the jewel case is that of a standerd single disc one. There is a hinged tray with a hub on each side and the third hub is integral to the back, as in a slim jewel case. The comprehensive booklet is separate and the both triple jewel case and booklet are housed in a card slip-case.

[Beef Oven!]

Sibelius - Symphonies 1-7
Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, Paavo Berglund. Finlandia.

Happy Jayne!!??

[jayne lee wilson]

Sibelius - Symphonies 1-7
Chamber Orchestra Of Europe, Paavo Berglund. Finlandia.

Happy Jayne!!??

Ooh.. watch out, you're in for a few shocks...

If you can bear to look before it comes, AA's very balanced (don't worry, very positive too!) review is in Gramophone for 10/98... I don't agree with his comments about the 5th (I loved it), I only have mixed feelings about No.3, but for different reasons...!

[Beef Oven!]

Ooh.. watch out, you're in for a few shocks...

Nothing (in music, or much else) shocks me

[jayne lee wilson]

Nothing (in music, or much else) shocks me

Yeah well, club of 2 at least...

[Beef Oven!]

Ooh.. watch out, you're in for a few shocks...

If you can bear to look before it comes, AA's very balanced (don't worry, very positive too!) review is in Gramophone for 10/98... I don't agree with his comments about the 5th (I loved it), I only have mixed feelings about No.3, but for different reasons...!

You couldn't provide a link, could you? Save me go looking.

[jayne lee wilson]

You couldn't provide a link, could you? Save me go looking.

You can't link to the archive itself (members only, sir ) but you'll probably find it with a sharp tag in Google..."Andrew Achenbach, OCT 98 or similar etc..."

[Beef Oven!]

You can't link to the archive itself (members only, sir ) but you'll probably find it with a sharp tag in Google..."Andrew Achenbach, OCT 98 or similar etc..."

Gonna listen to some Neil Young - enjoy your evening

[LeMartinPecheur]

This bargain box of Hanns Eisler http://www.amazon.co.uk/Hanns-Eisler...eywords=eisler

Not expensive at Amazon's price but surely an absolute steal on Marketplace new at £14.50 + P&P for 10 CDs. I share the reviewer's belief that Eisler is a grossly underrated great composer, for all sizes of composition from song miniatures to the part-vocal Deutsche Symphonie. I'm looking forward especially to finding out what the box contains of Gisela May. She is quite a cabaret singer in a very wide repertoire, but particularly treasurable IMHO in Brecht settings by Weill, Eisler and others.

I happened to snap up this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Die-May-Gise...rds=Gisela+may at a vastly lower price than £95 thanks to a steer from someone on the forum I think

[BBMmk2]

Paavo Berglund's 1972 cycle of Sibelius's cycle with the BSO arrived today, along with the full orchestral score from Dover Publications of Holst's Planets suite.

[teamsaint]

I'm not, but anybody waiting for this baby?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-James-Levine/dp/B00TQ8VSD0/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427544491&sr=1-2&keywords=holst+box+set

Beefy?

( i am assuming the tax dodgers offer some sort of price drop guarantee.
Pity there isnt a " double the difference if you find it cheaper elsewhere" type deal.)

[Beef Oven!]

I'm not, but anybody waiting for this baby?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-James-Levine/dp/B00TQ8VSD0/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427544491&sr=1-2&keywords=holst+box+set

Beefy?

( i am assuming the tax dodgers offer some sort of price drop guarantee.
Pity there isnt a " double the difference if you find it cheaper elsewhere" type deal.)

No worries. Go ahead and pre-order it now, teamsaint. You'll be guaranteed the lower price if it comes down between now and dispatch.

[LeMartinPecheur]

I'm not, but anybody waiting for this baby?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Art-James-Levine/dp/B00TQ8VSD0/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1427544491&sr=1-2&keywords=holst+box+set

Beefy?

( i am assuming the tax dodgers offer some sort of price drop guarantee.
Pity there isnt a " double the difference if you find it cheaper elsewhere" type deal.)

An absolute steal at just £520-odd per disc...

...but I think I'll stick out for a Marketplace copy

(Or I would if I were keener on Mr Levine....)

[teamsaint]

No worries. Go ahead and pre-order it now, teamsaint. You'll be guaranteed the lower price if it comes down between now and dispatch.

Phew, thanks for reassuring me there, Beefy.
Small print is so tedious.

[Maclintick]

Awaiting delivery of Hyperion's set of Tippett piano sonatas & concerto played by Steven Osborne. Loved the all-too-infrequently-performed concerto ever since I heard David Wilde play it live many years ago. I suspect I should also have the Oggie/Colin Davis version as well, but was tempted by acquiring all MT's piano pieces in one hit, and the likelihood that the more modern Osborne/Brabbins would have superior sound. There's an invigorating spring-like quality to much of Tippett's music, e.g that 1st sonata, that I find very appealing.