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

[Jonathan]

Waiting for Draeseke complete piano music and Raff symphonic interludes (double CD on Sterling)

[pastoralguy]

I'm waiting on the complete Beethoven Symphonies with Nickolaus Harnoncourt conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. I'm presenting a 2.5 hour lecture in honour of this conductor on 26 May and want to play some excerpts from these symphonies which were widely praised at the time of their release.

Question please: which one is the best out of all of them? I'm needing some expert advice.

No contest.

The Pastoral!

[pastoralguy]

I've ordered the new Tchaikovsky Pathetique from Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra which comes out in late June. I'm sure it'll be worth waiting for.

[Tetrachord]

No contest.

The Pastoral!

Thanks so much!! I can't wait; it's coming from Amazon UK as the recordings were not available through the USA - except second hand. Go figure.

[Alison]

Also awaiting delivery of a Beethoven symphonies set, but Rattle and the Berliners, rather than Harnoncourt and COE.

Get a good deal somewhere Nethersage?

[Bryn]

Get a good deal somewhere Nethersage?

Not particularly. I ordered direct. The set just has to be an improvement on the EMI Vienna survey, and hopefully a major improvement at that.

[gurnemanz]

Just ordered this recent well-priced 10 disc Elisabeth Grümmer compilation. Can't wait to receive and dig in, especially having checked out Alan Blyth enthusing.

[Beef Oven!]

Bruckner 8 & 9 NDR Sinfonieorchester, Gunda Wand. Recorded live in Lubeck Cathedral. Japanese import. Some forumista's have have pointed to this B8 as a good 'en and people on here are never wrong about these things.

Bruckner 5, BPO Gunter Wand. Japanese import. Thought I had this already, but I can find no trace of it, must've been in a different life.

Bruckner 7, BPO Gunter Wand. I have relied on GW's Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonia Rochester complete cycle, and only ever bought his BPO 4, 8 & 9. I would highly recommend this RCA earlier set very strongly, performance, demonstration sound quality and very low price.

Bruckner 7, VPO Carlo Maria Giulini. DG Japanese import.

[EdgeleyRob]

Heirs and Rebels (remastered 78 recordings by Vaughan Williams and Holst).

http://www.rvwsociety.com/notes/heirs_notes/heirs_notes.html

[Tetrachord]

No contest.

The Pastoral!

I'm listening to the 6th right now and, though a little on the slow side for me, it's bloody gorgeous!!

My lecture on Harnoncourt is on Tuesday 26th and what an absolute pleasure listening to a huge number of his recordings; oh, he's so much missed!!

[Alison]

I'm listening to the 6th right now and, though a little on the slow side for me, it's bloody gorgeous!!

My lecture on Harnoncourt is on Tuesday 26th and what an absolute pleasure listening to a huge number of his recordings; oh, he's so much missed!!

Perhaps a list of your featured recordings could be posted Tetra?

Slightly surprised you didn't have the LvB set already!

[Tetrachord]

Perhaps a list of your featured recordings could be posted Tetra?

Slightly surprised you didn't have the LvB set already!

No, I didn't have the symphonies as a 'set'. I have individual performances of 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7 and 9 - the only symphonies of LvB that I really love. In short, I'm not enamoured with 4 and 8!! And I have three versions of the 9. I didn't know about the Harnoncourt/CEO set until I started researching for my lecture!! I just don't buy 'sets' of anything, apart from the late Mozart symphonies by Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Mackerras.

I'll post a list of the recordings I'm using for the Harnoncourt tribute lecture as soon as I've finished writing it. I co-convene a Music Appreciation group with a retired PhD who is a pianist and we have about half a dozen really savvy people amongst a group of about 35 people with varying degrees of musical knowledge - from some to none!! Last Thursday we had a cathedral organist (he'd once played at Nostre Dame in Paris!) who gave us a potted history of that instrument and he demonstrated on a digital organ, which did sound rather better than I thought. (He's taking his choral group to the UK in June and they're singing in some famous cathedrals.) I learned something I never knew before: organists must be first class improvisers and they improvise during the communion and other parts of the church service!!! That'll explain why I never recognize the pieces!!!

[Petrushka]

Impending birthday three weeks on Sunday so for myself I've ordered the Scribendum set of 'The Art of Svetlanov':https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C07V3...I30F64CI7LCI0S

I've got the two Shostakovich 7 recordings already but all else is new to me. Ignore the mentally retarded 'review' on Amazon.

Might get 'The Art of Jascha Horenstein' as well despite already having his Mahler 3. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00WJ5JG...I1YDEGBC569H3Z

[Beef Oven!]

Just a very small selection of the CDs I’ve ordered this week. I am going on a self-enforced CD-buying ban from Monday

I’m not harming anybody. My friends spend much more on going to football matches. Mrs Oven wastes money on things like food, family holidays, housing, clothes, the children’s university fees etc

[Cockney Sparrow]

Don't know about you, but receipt of such items, certainly in any quantity, often gives a reading on the tensionometer of marital harmony in my household. (Amazon locker is very useful - but their prices are uncompetitive so often; there doesn't seem to be an alternative for non Amazon (or marketplace purchases that don't qualify for their locker).

This accounts for my enthusiasm for the Naxos Music Library (thread in Reference section). Except that when I really like the recording, I'll buy the CD - its quite possible a label can decide to withdraw from the streaming service.