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I thought I had lost this CD....But after a few weeks found it!!

 

My Lili Kraus box is not for sale either.

 

Just picked up and currently enjoying.

 

I was listening to the 4th disc of Fergus-Thompson's Debussy and I continue to enjoy it. He has a fine way of interpreting the more difficult Etudes also.

 

I was given Robert Shaw's Bach Mass in b, a 2-CD box by my wife's mother over ten years ago but have yet to give it a first listen ...

 

Now enjoying the first 10 sonatas by Haydn from the above set.

 

How do you like Buchbinder so far? I added this box to my collection a few years ago ...

 

I really like it. It was dirt cheap too.

 

1976 reissue of LSC-2725, first issued in 1965. Recorded 4/23-24/64. Producer: Richard Mohr. Engineer: Anthony Salvatore. Good performances & sound except for the loud passages at the end of "Coq" where it gets quite distorted. I'd like to hear the original LP & a CD issue, if there has been one.

 

I have his Beethoven Piano Sonatas box as well ...

 

Now playing:
Franz Schubert – Late String Quartets: CD 2 – String Quartet in G major, D 887, Quartet Movement in C minor, D 703
— Emerson String Quartet (Deutsche Grammophon)

 

I was sharing with a friend of mine these works recently, they are superb.

 

At the time I was telling to a friend of mine about Bach, I did recall to these great concertos by Vivaldi:

 

Thanks Mr Bear!!!

Great Curzon.

Clifford Curzon
Schumann: Fantasie; Kinderszenen
Schubert: Wanderer-Fantasie
Decca, 2000

 

This post is another reminder of why I need more Vivaldi on my shelf. I those trumpets!

 

Some 20 years ago no cd was cheap around here (even though the Essential Classics weren't full-price cd's)... I still do have some of those 'Classics' but can't really say whether I have listened them much in 21st century. In the early 90's they sure were a simple way to expand the digital classics library.

 

For me, there's some 50 cd's too much. I mean it. I've noticed that already some 12 or 15 cd's set is pretty much enough for me. The problem is that I play the new discs as background music in order to hear that there's no problems with them. So, say, two long evenings with either the Beaux Arts Trio or with the Wiener Philh. (or with Mahler, for that matter) is just too much too soon. I develope an aversion that might last for few weeks, or for few years. That I just don't want.

However, the contents of the BAT box I truly would have like individual records or as twofers!

 

Abbey Road, in early 90's. Sure, not classical art music, but one heck of a classical record.

 

Now playing:
Joseph Haydn – Piano Sonata in C major Hob.XVI:50
Robert Schumann – Three Novelettes Op.21 - Nos.1, 2 & 8
— Sviatoslav Richter At Carnegie Hall (Columbia—Sony Classical)

 

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Now: Beethoven: Piano Trios 4, Op.11; 5-6, Op.70/1-2; 9, WoO38 - Beaux Arts Trio - Complete Philips Recordings - 60 CDs, Decca; CD 17. Recorded in 1964.