Latest Purchases

Just put in an order for these:

This is now on its way. I am very excited.

my very latest purchase

My Robert Craft Complete Columbia Album Collection arrived.

Not normally a Tchaikovsky nut[cracker] (sorry bad pun) but I recently found an album of nutcracker highlights I purchased at a yardsale years back. I was surprised how much i enjoyed it. This gave me the itch to find the full thing, and the price of this set (7 discs for a little over $20) was reasonable enough to peak my curiosity. So, will be spinning these.

My most recent JPC bargains arrived yesterday.





Various composers: The Queen of Instruments Volume 1 - Baroque organ works (Various, Hänssler, 6 CD's)


Paul Hindemith: String Quartets Volume 1-3 (Amar Quartet, Naxos, 3 CD's)





Domenico Scarlatti: Sonatas on organ (Vincent Boucher, Atma)





Robert Schumann, Hugo Wolf, Gustav Mahler: Song cycles (Christoph Prégardien, Michael Gees, Hänssler, 2 CD's)
A dozen CD's to add to the collection for under 20 euro total.

Just purchased a bigass 70+ disc lot on ebay. I just finished sorting through it and deciding what I'm keeping vs what's going to the thriftshop.

Including:
2 Lohengrins, a 5 disc gotterrdammerung, bernstein performing la boheme, another la boheme and many others.

Ugh, just realized I'm gonna be busy ripping these for months



Pics are of the stuff I'm keeping

I definitely didn't need this 1970s set of Schoenberg from the London Sinfonietta. I suspect I bought it for reasons of nostalgia - I find 1970s 'stuff' appealing simply because I grew up then - and because it is on vinyl, reinforcing the nostalgia. I have seen it recommended once or twice though and look forward to listening and indulging my seemingly endless appetite for Schoenberg now.

MartinDB said:

I definitely didn't need this 1970s set of Schoenberg from the London Sinfonietta. I suspect I bought it for reasons of nostalgia - I find 1970s 'stuff' appealing simply because I grew up then - and because it is on vinyl, reinforcing the nostalgia. I have seen it recommended once or twice though and look forward to listening and indulging my seemingly endless appetite for Schoenberg now.

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70s vinyl sounds better than most 80s CDs

I have these Schoenberg sets from the 60s: I'm unsure why I didn't get volume II ( it was a long time ago !)
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Picked these 3 up for a grand total $14 dollars Cdn at a local record shop.

My recent purchases which arrived yesterday and this morning at time of posting:


Adolphe Adam’s Orfa - by Dario Salvi & the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra. I sampled this via streaming and quickly added this to my order. Although I have seen only a little ballet, I have heard and enjoy a surprising amount of music for the medium.

Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Legends and Tapiola by Leif Segerstam & the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. This has been on my wish list for a longtime. I really enjoyed Segerstam’s Sibelius works on Naxos and I didn’t have all of the works which form the Lemminkäinen Legends. I have listened to this disc several times since it arrived and I’m really enjoying this.

Schubert’s 8 Symphonies by Karl Böhm & the Berliner Philharmoniker. I had been resistant to Böhm outside of the Opera House for a long time following a 2-disc set of Mozart’s Symphonies. I just did not get on with them and got rid of the discs. Recently, I gave his Beethoven Cycle on DG a listen and to my surprise I enjoyed it enough that it survived my thinning out of Beethoven Symphony Cycles.

Recently I have been streaming his Schubert Symphonies and I have grown to really enjoy these too - enough to buy the set. It doesn’t displace Günter Wand’s RCA Cycle or Abbado’s Chamber Orchestra of Europe Cycle as my favourites but it has made a very strong impression and I am enjoying listening to Böhm’s interpretations.