Thread: Latest Purchases

Originally Posted by Sonata

Have you had a listen to the Debussy set yet? I've been keen on him lately and was contemplating getting a set of his music. Are these his complete works, or no? I suppose it doesn't matter. 18 discs is quite a lot of music to listen to.

I've not had A chance yet as it only arrived yesterday, but I'll let you know. I've not heard much Debussy as I've said, so thought it was a good price to pick up a lot of his work

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With some money I got as an early birthday preset from my grandparents, I ordered the following today:

I'm a bit of a Mendelssohn nut and this was on sale at deepdiscounts.com for 32 bucks, free shipping.

@ CoAG - I really enjoy that Ligeti opera. Ought to be more popular.

The Maw is of course new to me, and I look forward to it. Heard good things.

The Fauré I have by Ma et. al., and I like it, but in general I love Fauré's music, so I suspect I'll have much warmer feelings about these works if I try other recordings. This'll be my second try. I love Domus doing Fauré's quintets. Phenomenal music, phenomenal recording.



The Zelenka mass promises to be extraordinary. Unless I'm disappointed, I'll be pushing it in the recommendations project soon. If you haven't heard of it, but have any interest in Baroque choral music, look it up, read what the people say, and I'll bet it'll be one of your next purchases.

L'estro armonico must be the most famous stuff by Vivaldi that I don't already have. I'm a fan of Biondi in Vivaldi though, never heard anything I didn't really enjoy.



Some odds and ends from Debussy that I look forward to.

If you have any interest in the Perahia Bach, do not get it as I have done, in separate disks. There is a box set. I am absolutely mad about Perahia's other disk of Bach concerti, so I really look forward to this one too.

Really can't say why I got this. Of course it should be good.

That's my last normal purchase of the day. The next three are opera highlight disks, but I'll post the album covers of the recordings of the full operas from which the highlights have been selected, because as far as I can tell the highlight albums I've purchased are only available in South Korea, and only at the particular store where I shop, and it all has something to do with some local scholar....




My new policy on opera recordings - trying to save myself some cash - is that I get the full operas on DVDs and on CD only buy highlights. Exceptions only for things that aren't available on DVD and extremely famous old classic recordings.

Originally Posted by science

My new policy on opera recordings - trying to save myself some cash - is that I get the full operas on DVDs and on CD only buy highlights. Exceptions only for things that aren't available on DVD and extremely famous old classic recordings.

I prefer buying CDs as there is more chance that I would listen to a CD than watch a DVD. Opera DVDs of course are better than CDs because you get the visuals as well as the audio.

Originally Posted by science

@ CoAG - I really enjoy that Ligeti opera. Ought to be more popular.

I've heard parts of it on YouTube and read a fair bit about it. Very wacky indeed! Should be more popular, I agree.

Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde

I prefer buying CDs as there is more chance that I would listen to a CD than watch a DVD. Opera DVDs of course are better than CDs because you get the visuals as well as the audio.

Another good thing about DVDs is there's a better chance you'll be able to share them with people. Relatively normal people will agree to sit through an opera on DVD, provided there's pizza or wine or something. But not many will sit there and listen to an opera without visuals.

Originally Posted by science

Another good thing about DVDs is there's a better chance you'll be able to share them with people. Relatively normal people will agree to sit through an opera on DVD, provided there's pizza or wine or something. But not many will sit there and listen to an opera without visuals.

The only people I can share operas with are my parents. And then again when they do agree to watch an opera with me they either take out their iPhones and go on whatever social network that they have or they fall asleep.

Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde

The only people I can share operas with are my parents. And then again when they do agree to watch an opera with me they either take out their iPhones and go on whatever social network that they have or they fall asleep.

That's ok. I fall asleep during operas too, sometimes.

Originally Posted by science

That's ok. I fall asleep during operas too, sometimes.

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Originally Posted by ComposerOfAvantGarde