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

[Bryn]

I used to have this version on tape, and listening to BaL on iPlayer just now made me realise that I needed it on CD to supplement the Sony Stravinsky recordings from the big box.

Having friends in Rome, I contemplated asking them to buy it for me and send over.
I also found used copies for less than $2.50 on Amazon.com, and wondered about asking friends in the US to do similarly.

But I then decided to splash out and get a new copy via Amazon.co.uk; it's still less than I'd spend going to see it!

An email from amazon.fr has announced that my order has been cancelled, the marketplace vendor asserting it to be out of stock, so it looks like the Presto Classical FLACs are the route to take.

[Pulcinella]

An email from amazon.fr has announced that my order has been cancelled, the marketplace vendor asserting it to be out of stock, so it looks like the Presto Classical FLACs are the route to take.

You mentioned that the FLACs came without the libretto.
I found this (perhaps you did too):

http://www.rodoni.ch/FENICE-VENEZIA/rakes_libretto.pdf

(I'll post the link on the BaL thread too.)

[Bryn]

You mentioned that the FLACs came without the libretto.
I found this (perhaps you did too):

http://www.rodoni.ch/FENICE-VENEZIA/rakes_libretto.pdf

(I'll post the link on the BaL thread too.)

Thanks for the link. Though I have copies of the libretto with other recordings a pdf is very handy.

[BBMmk2]

Debussy: Preludes Books 1 & 2. Pierre Laurent Aimard, piano.

[Pulcinella]

But I then decided to splash out and get a new copy via Amazon.co.uk; it's still less than I'd spend going to see it!

This rake made very speedy progress and arrived today!

[Beef Oven!]

Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991). One of the 'Turkish Five’ who pioneered western classical music in Turkey following Kemal Mustafa Ataturk’s cultural and constitutional reforms of the 1920s and 1930s.

String Quartets 1-4, Quatuor Danel. CPO. (2 CDs)

Quatuor Danel are a Franco-Belgian combo who have been artists-in-residence at the University of Manchester since 2005 and among many recordings, have recorded the entire string quartets of Mieczyslaw Weinberg

[ahinton]

Quatuor Danel are a Franco-Belgian combo who have been artists-in-residence at the University of Manchester since 2005 and among many recordings, have recorded the entire string quartets of Mieczyslaw Weinberg.

And very well they've done so - and what a treasure trove of previously largely ignored music that series is!

You might be interested to know that they also gave the first European performance of Sorabji's First Piano Quintet (with Frank Peters) in the Netherlands some years ago.

[Beef Oven!]

And another Ahmet Adnan Saygun CD of his piano music on Naxos (who I think spell his name correctly, a la Turk, with a t not a d).

[teamsaint]

interesting stuff Beefy, thanks for flagging up.

the first Quartet is also on this very interesting looking CD/Download..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-String-Quartet-Purcell-Saygun/dp/B01M35013Q/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1478776740&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=apple+hill+string+quartet

http://applehill.org/sneak-preview-new-apple-hill-string-quartet-cd/

available on Spotify.

would make a nice Xmas pressie if the CD actually exists.....

[Beef Oven!]

interesting stuff Beefy, thanks for flagging up.

the first Quartet is also on this very interesting looking CD/Download..

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Apple-String-Quartet-Purcell-Saygun/dp/B01M35013Q/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1478776740&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=apple+hill+string+quartet

http://applehill.org/sneak-preview-new-apple-hill-string-quartet-cd/

available on Spotify.

would make a nice Xmas pressie if the CD actually exists.....

Interesting. Thanks.

[Bryn]

and



Both have seen dispatched by MDT. There should be an attempt to deliver them on Monday (when I will not be in to accept) so i expect to pick up from the Royal Mail sorting office on Tuesday.

[Bryn]

I collected the Mozart and Sibelius sets today. Not even opened the Sibelius box yet but must issue a warning re. the Mozart Operas set. The housing system for the DVDs is a mess. The discs are simply slotted into slits in the glazed card multi-fold 'books' without further protection. Many were dislodged in transit. Also, at least one of the slits shows signs of tearing, thus further risking the security of the discs. You have been warned.

[BBMmk2]

You'll enjoy the Sibelius, Bryn!

MrsBBM has ordered me some Cds!! :)

Britten/Shosta VCs by James Ehnes
Pour passier la Melancolie. Andreas Staier
Heraclietus - The Bridge Quartet.

[Bryn]

You'll enjoy the Sibelius, Bryn!

Listening to Pohjola's Daughter now. Very different (much lighter shading) than my old benchmark Barbirolli Nixa recording. There is, for me, a strange set of instructions re. how to download the DSD, mp3, FLAC, WAV files from the Blu-ray disc. It only deals with transfer via a home network. However, not mentioned is that if one's computer has in integral (or external USB) Blu-ray reader or read/writer all that is required is to pop the disc in that an copy the files across to hard disc. No need for messing around with network connections. The surround sound options are a mix of 5.1 and 5.0. I have not checked but presume the LSO Live's producer's eventually woke up to the preference their target market has for full range speaker systems sans sub-woofer but could not be asked to go back and remix the 5.1s to 5.0.

[Beef Oven!]

Ordered this from Amazon this afternoon. Had asked ferney to pick me up a copy from the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, then saw that Amazon have it already (saves me waiting for ferney to come to Mecca - he lives outside the M25, you see).

I really enjoy Carl Rosman’s playing, and you can trust him to be exploring interesting and up to date compositions. Another positive is that there’s a Richard Barrett work on the CD. RB’s work has an interesting title, roughly translating to wicker-work (I think) which I’m sure has close relation to the structure/architecture of the music (will just have to wait for the CD to arrive and find out, unless RB passes this way and offers an explanation!).

Interesting record label blurb on the MDT website, where I’ve just found out you can get it too. ........ and Presto


CAERULEAN

Carl Rosman, clarinets
*Mark Knoop, Piano

01 Rebecca Saunders – Caerulean (2010-11) [bass clarinet] 18’44
02 Georges Aperghis – Damespiel (2011) [bass clarinet] 07’21
03 Aaron Cassidy – The wreck for former boundaries (2016) [B-flat clarinet] 09’32
04 Richard Barrett – Flechtwerk (2006) [A clarinet and piano*] 17’28
Chikako Morishita – Skin, Gelatine, Soot (2013) [bass clarinet]
05 I 04’22
06 II 04’01
07 III 02’20
08 IV 01’26
09 V 07’13
10 Mauricio Kagel – Elegie para clarinet solo (1956) 00’38
11 Mauricio Kagel – Pieza para clarinet solo (1957) 01’38