Thread: Latest Purchases

Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde

Aw thanks. But I'm getting it for my birthday haha.

Oh you thought I meant the Ligeti boxed set? For once my friend you are mistaken...

I was talking about this!

Beethoven op.132.
Those harmonies during the second movement!
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Originally Posted by Lenfer

Oh you thought I meant the Ligeti boxed set? For once my friend you are mistaken...

I was talking about this!

Why you little.......

Just got home with Bela Bartok's and Zoltan Kodaly's Concerto for Orchestra by the LSO under Burgos.

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Glenn Gould - Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier



Martha Argerich & Gidon Kremer - Live in Berlin

in today's mail, just now:

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and

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Traetta is said to be the link between Rameau and Gluck (thence to Mozart, Weber and Wagner!). That linkage may seem strange - Italian/Bohemian/Germanic, but Gluck was well-acquainted with the French Tragedies lyriques. I'll be writing about them on Current Listening after I've had a chance to hear them completely.

Those quartets and quintets by Dvorak are a big step towards the completion of my collection of what I consider the essential works of the pre-WWII classical music canon. I still need a bit more Haydn, Handel, Bruckner, Donizetti, Rossini, Stravinsky, but I'm getting really doggone close.

The second one there is Boult's EMI (he did one for Decca as well, earlier, I believe) recordings of VW's 3rd & 5th symphonies. Looking forward to those a lot. I decided not to get the complete box.



Hummel by Hough. I've been listening to more Weber lately, and this is another step into that late classical, early romantic world. I need to listen again to the Hummel works I've already got, piano concertos recorded by other pianists.



A couple from Hamelin. The Godowsky is a bit of an impulse buy in some sense. So many people rave about it, but somehow I wasn't believing the hype... until I saw it in the store. I passed over it perhaps a dozen times. Today my curiosity got the better of me. The Reger, on the other hand, is something I've long intended to buy, and never found it in a shop. Saw it for the first time today, and grabbed it immediately.

I haven't purchased it yet, but I do plan to do so in the next few days.

This disc of Czech Horn Concertos. Cheap disc for 5 dollars that I don't want to pass up.

Originally Posted by Cnote11

I haven't purchased it yet, but I do plan to do so in the next few days.

This disc of Czech Horn Concertos. Cheap disc for 5 dollars that I don't want to pass up.

Certainly looks worthwhile.

I hate those images with the bars at the top and bottom. It's easy enough to photoshop it into a square, but it's a lot easier just to have the square imagine in the first stinking place.

Anyway, Schnittke is probably the only major composer of the past 50 years or so whose music I've heard, but haven't been impressed with. So I try again.

Really don't know why I got that Castelnuovo-Tedesco, but I think I'll like it. I do like classical guitar.



My first (and probably going to be my only) CD of Adam's Giselle. Get the DVD.

I seem to be among the most enthusiastic fans of Bruch's great 1st violin concerto, but I've rarely explored much else of his music. I have the clarinet/viola disk from... is it Apex?... and quite a few recordings of his works for violin and orchestra, an octet on Naxos. I think I need to devote an afternoon or two to this somewhat obscure guy.



You look at that Godar and you say, why in the world did you buy this? I don't know either, yet. I do have a pretty good relationship with ECM, so I'm optimistic about it. We'll see.

Originally Posted by Cnote11

I haven't purchased it yet, but I do plan to do so in the next few days.

This disc of Czech Horn Concertos. Cheap disc for 5 dollars that I don't want to pass up.

I like it a lot.

Originally Posted by science

I like it a lot.

Yes, well, you were my inspiration for this purchase after all! Thanks again for the recommendation.

Spanish Piano Music : Albéniz, De Falla, Granados (6 cd's box set)

I nearly bought that myself, or just a volume of it, once. I still would like it.

I just bought this for 99 cents. 120 Bach MP3s, of which I have recordings already of some of this stuff, but I saw no harm.



http://www.amazon.com/Big-Bach-Set/dp/B007MS6D1I/