New Classical purchases

eisenach · Feb 27, 2015

Actus Tragicus by Gesulado Consort, Amsterdam on Etcetera.

Heard Komm Jesu Komm from the disc on Radio 3 CD Review on Saturday and ordered it on the strength of that. A lovely disc. Cantata 106, Komm Jesu, Komm, Cantata 125, all leavened with organ pieces. Some fine performances, with the Motet being the stand-out for me.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00P35206Y/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

(At that price, I didn't buy from Amazon; MDT were the cheapest.
http://www.mdt.co.uk/bach-actus-tragicus-bach-in-consort-pieter-jan-belder-etcetera.html)

mjw · Feb 27, 2015

eisenach
Is this music just choir and organ? Reason I ask is, for the first time in my life I recently attended Evensong at King's College, Cambridge and it was bloody lovely (and free) - barely lit (candles), no traffic noise and these beautiful sounds. It made me dig into the 70s LPs I have recorded at the same venue but I'm looking to try more.

Stunsworth · Feb 27, 2015

Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony by Petrenko and the Liverpool Phil on Naxos - hi res download from Qobuz.

Beethoven complete string quartets by the Tokyo String Quartet - bargain box of SACDs from Amazon.

Mozart Requim by Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan - hi res download from Qobuz.

eisenach · Feb 27, 2015

mjw said:
eisenach
Is this music just choir and organ?

No, the Cantatas and Motet use a (small) baroque-style orchestra. The sound-world is a bit different from King's; beautiful in another way !

tones · Feb 27, 2015

Currently working my way through these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0091JQH2Q/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

So far, very good.

Awaiting playing:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00MX51FHW/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Interesting to hear what she does with it. The art of fugue, never completed by Bach, has no specified instrumentation, so it's open season so far as that goes.

Tony L · Feb 27, 2015

Stunsworth said:
Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony by Petrenko and the Liverpool Phil on Naxos - hi res download from Qobuz.

I found that here: Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Box set, Hybrid SACD. An amazing deal, 8xSACD at under £25 - I've just ordered a copy!

PS May I ask that people please directly link to Amazon content where applicable as the link affiliation payments do help keep pfm/myself afloat!

mjw · Feb 27, 2015

Stunsworth said:
Shostakovich Leningrad Symphony by Petrenko and the Liverpool Phil on Naxos - hi res download from Qobuz.

Beethoven complete string quartets by the Tokyo String Quartet - bargain box of SACDs from Amazon.

Mozart Requim by Suzuki and Bach Collegium Japan - hi res download from Qobuz.

Can you put a link up for the Beethoven, please. I can only find a complete set in CD, not SACD.
Ta

OK, Tony's done it.

herb · Feb 27, 2015

Szymanowski box, Rattle

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0013D8JXI/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Rautavaara boxes

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002ED6VTA/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001OBBSR8/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

I have had no time to listen to them seriously yet though, just experimenting.

(Rautavaara Symphonies 5 and 6 playing now, great 'vertical' music - a good buy. Getting in the mood for Norrington Nite, RSNO at the Usher Hall at 7:30)

irons1965 · Feb 27, 2015

To replace a copy I had taken in a burglary a few years back...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000001GRT/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

davidjt · Feb 28, 2015

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005BZBY1I/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

I stumbled across this bargain box and couldn't resist it.

(Was actually looking for Malcolm Bilson and/or Paul Lewis after the R3 Building a Library review this morning: 96 pages just searching 'Schubert Piano Sonatas' (!)

Saturdays are becoming expensive lately.

Stunsworth · Feb 28, 2015

davidjt said:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B005BZBY1I/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

I stumbled across this bargain box and couldn't resist it.

(Was actually looking for Malcolm Bilson and/or Paul Lewis after the R3 Building a Library review this morning: 96 pages just searching 'Schubert Piano Sonatas' (!)

Saturdays are becoming expensive lately.

That's a great box, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

davidjt · Feb 28, 2015

Stunsworth said:
That's a great box, I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Thanks. I'm not familiar with some of the earlier music, so it'll be a fun learning curve, too.

windhoek · Feb 28, 2015

My last classical purchase was Mahler 2, conducted by Benjamin Zander (link). Although I already own a copy of the Zubin Mehta/Berlin PO SHM-SACD release, I bought Zander's to hear the Grammy Nominated (for Best Surround Sound Album) multichannel mix, albeit it in 4.0 as per my speaker setup. Fwiw, it lost out to Beyonce's eponymous album and counted Pink Floyd's The Division Bell among its competitors for the award, so even though it hasn't arrived yet, I'm hopeful the m/c mix will be more than perfunctory

droodzilla · Mar 1, 2015

Tony L said:
I found that here: Beethoven: Complete String Quartets Box set, Hybrid SACD. An amazing deal, 8xSACD at under £25 - I've just ordered a copy!

PS May I ask that people please directly link to Amazon content where applicable as the link affiliation payments do help keep pfm/myself afloat!

Very happy to find this at my local secondhand record shop yesterday - paid £15 for a nice minty copy

PsB · Mar 2, 2015

herb said:
Szymanowski box, Rattle

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0013D8JXI/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

Rautavaara boxes

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002ED6VTA/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001OBBSR8/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

I have had no time to listen to them seriously yet though, just experimenting.

(Rautavaara Symphonies 5 and 6 playing now, great 'vertical' music - a good buy. Getting in the mood for Norrington Nite, RSNO at the Usher Hall at 7:30)

If you like Rautavaara, have you tried this CD:
http://www.amazon.com/Clarinet-Concerto-Garden-Spaces-Rautavaara/dp/B0007Y0DCY/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1425317474&sr=8-6&keywords=rautavaara+cantus+arcticus

I like both the clarinet concerto and the Cantus Arcticus (which includes tapes of arctic geese and other large birds as an extra chorus)

herb · Mar 2, 2015

Thanks, I shall bear that CD in mind. I have been playing the Concerto box today and am really enjoying it, the Clarinet Concerto and Cantus Arcticus are included. Quite a find for me.

I have just ordered the Choral box

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00925TB4A/?tag=pinkfishmedia-21

PsB · Mar 2, 2015

Oops, yes; sorry I had not noticed them in the Concerto box.

Stunsworth · Mar 2, 2015

A couple of Karajan downloads from Qobuz over the weekend...

http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/ka...dio-masters-herbert-von-karajan/0825646244539

http://www.qobuz.com/fr-fr/album/ba...dio-masters-herbert-von-karajan/0825646244584

windhoek · Mar 3, 2015

I just ordered Mahler Symphony 1-9 Boxset by Abbado/ Lucerne FO for £23.68 delivered @ Amazon. I've got a few Mahler symphonies and this is a fairly cheap way to fill the gaps. Fwiw, it's been about £45 for six months, so now's the time to buy

Colin L · Mar 3, 2015

Just received Angela Hewitt's box-set of Bach's complete solo piano works. 15 CD's for 50 quid from Amazon. Plenty of listening in that lot..

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