Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #22)

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A great disc.

 

I have the same works by Janos Starker on RCA Red seal, which some consider to be of better performance ...

 

Perhaps you have a better way to avoid accidentally buying duplicates with this software. When you have a few thousand CD's, you do not always remember you already have something that catches your attention at the moment ...

 

I presume this has much better sound than those released on RCA Red Seal ...

 

Now playing the following CD, which arrived last week for a first listen ...

 

That would depend who did the mastering on RCA. I know Marston did a lot of work for them.

Seth Winner did the one I have. (I always picture him cooking up bacon and eggs at full heat while doing his mastering)

 

Sounds like he cooks up some sizzlingly hot recording ...

 

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Bach
Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV565*
Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major BWV564
Passacaglia and Fugue in c minor BWV582
Toccata and Fugue in d minor BWV538
Peter Hurford
at the organ in Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, Toronto
*at the organ in Ratzeburg Cathedral, West Germany
1979-1981

 

I like the playing style of Peter Hurford and have his Bach Complete Organ Works in 5 volumes, i.e. the original release ...

 

I played that again yesterday.
Another EXCELLENT one I recently purchased!!

 

Herreweghe started out as an understudy to Harnoncourt and Leonhardt back in the late 1950's when the HIP movement first began in continental Europe but I did not really follow him until about 2 years ago. I now have most of his Bach choral works in my collection ...

 

The problem is, nobody would consider it to be of better sonics...

 

Well, I consider better performance to be a more important attribute.

 

Now playing the following CD, another new acquisition that arrived last week for a first listen ...

 

Good day, George! AND WATCH YOUR BACK!

 

Are you looking for that Karajan Symphony Edition set?

 

Actually, I WAS looking for it, but there's too much redundancy here repertoire-wise (I had had most, if not all, of these symphonies in different and often better renditions even before acquiring the competing Bernstein set), so I would probably get it only under $50. More obscure music awaits.

 

I actually already had most of the recordings in that set before I bought the set. I just wanted to get the Complete Bruckner Symphonies, which by themselves would have cost more than this set. To be sure, I did not get a detailed booklet on the original Karajan's Bruckner set, but that is life. I also get the Karajan 77 Beethoven cycle, which I only have on LP. All in all, I am quite happy with the set given the price I paid ...

 

We are 130 posts from thread #23 ...

 

And 2129 posts from thread #25. There's some time left for moderators to choose a Nice Jubilee Give-away.

 

Any chance of catching up with the '.. something vinyl' thread? Where is that thread now?

 

Probably yes, if that "something" isn't by Beatles...

 

It is pretty amazing that with fewer than 20 regular participants, we have managed to put out 23,000 posts in how long now, 3 years?

 

And these "fewer than 20 regular participants" mostly made the Archive's Stickys (accompanied only by The Beatles).