Downloaded via iTunes today:

Bach: Orchestral Suites

Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings (thank you again, Chambernut & Hawk )

All performed by Capella Istropolitana on the Naxos label. The other day I also ordered their recording of Bach's Musical Offering via Amazon-- it will be in later next week.

~josh

A great buy.

I just got Mahler's complete symphonies (Leonard Bernstein conducting) for a Christmas present. I have got to listen to that. Also bought Brahms' A German Requiem and listened to it (Otto Klemperer, Fischer-Dieskau, Schwartzkopf). It's gorgeous.

Damn, iTunes is dangerous!

Downloaded today:

Capella Istropolitana's recording of Bach's Mass in B minor (I confess I've not heard it in its entirety)

A neat arrangement of Bach's Goldberg Variations for two oboes, English horn and bassoon by the Homecoming Woodwind Ensemble (its very "woody" sounding)-- listening to this right now.

AND yesterday (with a gift card I received for Christmas) I downloaded:

A bunch of Erik Satie (the Sarabandes, Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes and a few other piano pieces as performed by Jean-Yves Thibaudet (I feel he gets the tempo about right)

and a couple pieces of late pieces of Morton Feldman: For Bunita Marcus and his Violin and String Quartet

and Gorecki's Third Symphony (with Dawn Upshaw-- I used to own this years ago & I've missed it)

I may have downloaded a couple other odds & ends too. OK-- between this and some other recent purchases, I am set for the next several weeks! *whew!*

~josh

p.s. And I forgot to mention all the Takemitsu CDs I got for Christmas too!

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Last night I downloaded one more thing unexpectedly-- and well worth it... Its Bach's Sonatas & Partitas for solo violin... performed on cello by Vito Paternoster (Vito "Ourfather"?)

I've already got Rachel Podger's recording of this on violin (and Gidon Kremer's ECM recording too, though I was not happy with that recording), but this makes an interesting supplement to Bach's awesome cello suites.

The Chaconne from the 2nd partita is excellent!

~josh

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I have just now purchased Beethoven's 9th and 5th violin sonatas with perlman and ashkenazy. i am listening to it now, this is my first exposure to violin sonatas and i like what i hear (so far the first 2 movments of kreutzer, the 9th)

This CD is a sonic jewel. The Organ Symphony has fiery intensity, complemented by the impressionistic La Mer and Escales. And at a bargain price, too!

Just purchased "Eleven String Baroque" by Goran Sollscher
Tremendous recording. Well worth adding to your Guitar collections

Handel's Judas Maccabeus (McGegan/Harmonia Mundi) and Biber's Rosary sonatas (Ensemble Cordaria, Brilliant Classics)

The famous "See the conqu'ring hero comes" http://www.box.net/shared/rfvsc6hsks

And from the oratorio, "Sing unto God" http://www.box.net/shared/a1gesmj0oc

Earlier this week off of iTunes I purchased
Enescu: Symphony No. 3-Romanian Rhaspody No. 1
Franck: La Chasseur Maudit-Psyche Psyche is definitely a forgotten masterpiece. Highly recommend!
Gorecki: Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka-Harpsichord Concerto-Good Night (Requiem for Soprano, Alto Flute, 3 Tam-Tams, and piano
Kancheli: Abi Ne Viderem-Morning Prayers-Evening Prayers Highly recommend! I also recommend Exil, one of the most haunting, sad pieces of music I have ever heard.
Pettersson: Symphonies No 8 and 10
Roussel: Symphonies No. 2-4-Ballets
Schnittke: Symphony No. 8- Gogol Suite
Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 2

It's very easy to spend money you don't have on iTunes

Just purchased and am currently listening to
Artur Rubinstein; Vol. 26 of the Rubinstein Collection with Chopin's 19 Nocturnes, 3 Etudes, and more

The music seems really familiar even though to the best of my knowledge I have never heard it before

I just got back from buying Sibelius' complete symphonies, Lorin Maazel conducting. Sounds great!

Check out his Finlandia.

D'Arcangelo? Daniels? Ciofi? Genaux?

This CD looks truly wonderful! I MUST BUY :O

Some new CDs after the longest gap (yet) without a purchase.




Phew! I feel SO relieved now. Previously, every time I was at the store, I knew well that I REALLY needed this in my collection, but without a bottomless wallet full of money I used to choose some other CD over this one since I got to listen to these symphonies quite often. I decided to end this debate with myself today and bought it. So now it's 4 down (5,6,7 and 9) and 5 to go.

And finally some chamber music...



Yet another CD that has been on the wishlist for quite sometime.

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Navneeth

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