Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #29)

No, it's been on my list for a couple years, waiting for one to pop up at Amoeba for cheap. Like everything else, eventually it will come. Finally came upon Kovacevich's Beethoven Sonatas cycle for $25 minty last month, been seeking that for about the same amount of time.

Have you heard this? I was pleasantly surprised. Hough takes all repeats and yet my interest and attention never flagged in 43 minutes and 37 seconds. That's not usually the case with Schubert's late Piano Sonatas, which can meander and become unwieldy in lesser hands. I must have 7 or 8 Hough discs now, having picked them up for peanuts over the last few years, including Concertos sets by Rachmaninoff (SACD), Tchaikovsky, and Saint-Saens (Gramophone Recording of the Year 1996).

Now playing:

• Schubert: Piano Sonatas, B-flat major, D. 960 • A minor, D. 784 • C major, D 613 (unfinished) - Steven Hough [Hyperion 1999, Recorded in St. George's, Brandon Hill, Bristol, on 1 October 1997 (D. 784) and 4, 5 October 1998 (D. 960, D. 613), Recording engineers: Mike Hatch (D. 784) and Mike Clements (D. 960 and D. 613), Recording producer: Andrew Keener, Hough plays a Steinway and wrote the liner notes]

 

I haven't. I got his Rachmaninoff piano concertos and was very disappointed, so I haven't picked up more Hough.

 

Spotify has the live set (or at least some of it).

 

Thanks!

I had to re-install Windows recently and lost all my Spotify stuff. When I went back to try and use the links sent via email it said I needed a Facebook asccount to join.

 

George, I love your new avatar.

 

Thanks!

 

I set up a Facebook account years ago in order to explore it. I decided I wasn't interested, but instead of cancelling (which I gather is not so simple) I simple turned off or privatized every feature.

 

Good idea!

This arrived today:




Claudio Arrau – First release
CD 1 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op. 106 “Hammerklavier” | op. 13 “Pathétique”
CD 2 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight” | op. 57 “Appassionata” | op. 81a “Les Adieux” Chopin: Fantaisie op. 49


Alicia de Larrocha – First release on CD
CD 3 Turina: Danzas fantásticas | Preludios op. 80 | Recuerdos de la antigua España | Partita op. 57
Granados: Escenas románticas
CD 4 Granados: Goyescas | El pelele Mompou: Impresiones íntimas


Raymond Lewenthal – First release on CD
CD 5 Scriabin: 24 Préludes op. 11 | 5 Préludes op. 74 | Fantasia op. 28 | Vers la flamme
Encores by Saint-Saëns/Godowsky | Mendelssohn/Liszt | Rachmaninov/Lewenthal
CD 6 Toccatas by Schumann | Alkan | Czerny | Della Ciaia | J. S. Bach | Prokofiev | Debussy | Ravel
Zhelobinsky | Lewenthal | Menotti Encores by Rubinstein | Massenet | Schubert/Liszt | Debussy | Liszt


Benno Moiseiwitsch – First release on CD
CD 7 Schumann: Carnaval | Kreisleriana | Kinderszenen | Arabeske
CD 8 Mussorgsky/Moiseiwitsch: Pictures at an Exhibition Beethoven: Piano Sonatas op. 27 no. 2 “Moonlight” | op. 81a “Les Adieux” | Andante favori Schumann: Vogel als Prophet | Romance op. 28 no. 2


Egon Petri – First release on CD
CD 9 Liszt: Paraphrases and Transcriptions from Mendelssohn | Gounod | Beethoven Liszt/Busoni: Mephisto Waltz no. 1 | “Figaro” Fantasy Busoni: Fantasia contrappuntistica
CD 10 Busoni | Petri: Transcriptions from Bach & Buxtehude


PACKAGING
The capbox cover is based on one of the original Westminster LP covers, and the 32-page colour booklet replicates several of the original LP covers
Deutsche Grammophon 10cds 4779527

 

First CD release?! Hmph! Ah well. Thanks for the heads up. Is it only available in the set?

Sweet.

 

Yes.

This is the best price I could find. http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/DG/4779527

 

Now playing Shostakovich's 2nd piano trio from the above CD.

 

It's in this 2008 30CD EMI box as well, IINM. Was one of my $7 steals during last year's importcds.com 'accidental' sale, everlasting thx to drh!!

 

So DG lied, eh?

 

I misread his post.

 

Oh, OK.

 

$7 for 30 CDs - did I just read that right??

 

Yes, I bought like 40-something EMI boxes, including the Karajan megaboxes, for less than $600 last year. Forum member drh pointed out a pricing anomaly on the Jacqueline du Pre box at importcds.com, so I ran a search on all EMI boxes and sure enough it was a major accident that affected nearly all multi-disc EMI classical product. Did not hesitate, the error was corrected within a few days, but not before two big orders were placed (pic of first shipment below).

 

Wow.

 

nice.the days when i could spend hundreds of dollars on an order are long
gone,but it sure was fun-not that i ever got that sweet a deal!

 

two more from the tape bag.the Telemann originated on the Seon label.
the ballet music by Delibes & Gounod conducted by Roberto Benzi is on
Philips from 1964.did i really pay $2.99 back in 1994?

 

You're very welcome--glad to have been an agent for, er, good in the community. I didn't buy as many sets as you did; in the end, everything that I ordered came through except the Cziffra box. No crying here, though, as I got a bunch, and only within the last month or six weeks did I finally finish copying all of them to hard drive. "Inspired" by that experience, since then I've finally broken down and copied a complete box of Reger chamber music and a collection of historical R. Strauss that had awaited my attention for a long, long time.

 

I left out a critical fact: it just happened that the week drh publicized the 'accidental sale' I sold a rare 45 RPM 7" single on eBay for $475+. I bought it in 1993 for $3. So....you do the math, haha.

 

i don't have the heart to do the math....envy,envy,envy.but then again you had to let something go....

 

it wasn't nothin', i hadn't listened to it in about 15 years. I never would have gone on such a splurge if I hadn't had that Monopoly money to play with. Already sold some of the sets on Amazon, too.