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Thanks - was looking at those

 

That is what you need. Has everything and is done very well. Cheap too.

 

Decided to try this one first as it was on sale:



Thanks for the input.

 

I'm looking forward to this one arriving. I have a couple of his CDs in other DG boxes and liked them a lot.

There is minimal crossover with this box; and as it only cost me around US $10 delivered it's looking like one of my better purchases in a while.

 

Now enjoying this new arrival:


Schumann: String Quartets. Emerson String Quartet. Pentatone

 

New Classical label: Legendary Archives is a new digital label devoted to releasing important historical recordings which are no longer in copyright. Many of these are being released for the first time.

Legendary Archives

 

Interesting! Note the releases are only as .mp3 streams or .mp3, FLAC, ALAC (Apple Lossless), AAC, Ogg Vorbis, WAV and AIFF downloads, not on physical media. The label encourages .mp3, saying of the other formats, "These options are, as we say in the interface, for “audiophiles and nerds.”"

 

Odd. You would expect anyone interested in this sort of material to be at least somewhat interested in sound quality.

And I wear my geek / nerd badge with pride

 

Didn't notice that. Just saw that it was a way to legally get some hard to find Classical recordings in lossless format and wanted to pass along the info.

 

Now enjoying this CD, which I found used this week for a great price. It was mastered by Doug Sax.

Edit - and now it's skipping. Oh well. . .

 

Bummer. Have you tried ripping it to your hard drive and then playing back that way? Sometimes EAC will manage to parse out a buggy disc that a CD player can't handle--or vice versa.

What are the Victor Herbert bits? I didn't know he wrote for violin and piano.

 

Thanks. I haven't tried, no. The sound and performance are less than I expected, so I may not bother.

I don't know the works myself and I am not at home to check, but I found this info on amazon:

1-3. Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
4. Kreisler: Who Can Tell? (from Apple Blossoms)
5. Miniature Viennese March (from Apple Blossoms)
6. Syncopation (from Apple Blossoms)
7-10. Dvorak: Sonatina in G major, Op. 100
11. Kreisler: Cavatina
12. Kreisler: Hungarian Dance in F minor
13. Herbert: A la valse

 

Now enjoying a first spin of this 2 SACD set.

I stated earlier than I am not an opera fan, but I can't resist snapping up these Living Stereo SACDs when I see them in the used bins.

 

More piano exploration. He has mixed reviews on the net, but with some interesting repertoire and at this price, seemed worth a listen:

 

Now enjoying a first spin of this CD, mastered by our host.

 

I enjoyed these 3 CDs quite a bit.
Beethoven: The Piano Concertos; Quintet for Piano and Winds.
Jean-Efflam Bavouzet
Swedish Chamber Orchestra
Chandos, 2020
CD/SACD

 

Op. 50 today, which I don't listen to very often.


Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 50. Quatuor Festetics, Arcana.

 

Enjoy the rich, lush, emotional performance on this CD!

 

Picked this up yesterday at a book store, spinning it now:


Mieczysław Horszowski: Works by Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, and Chopin. Wigmore Hall Live

 

I got to catch him live twice.

 

I love these live recital CDs. I think I have about 4.

 

With a first listen, this is my first sampling of the ambitious project 'The Vivaldi Edition'. I am impressed with the playing and the sound on this, Volume 63. Let's see how it wears with the original instruments sound.

Julien Chauvin, violin
Le Concert de la Loge
Vivaldi: Concerti per violino VIII 'il teatro'
Naive, 2019

 

Happy Thanksgiving to all here who celebrate it (US members, but those abroad are welcome to take an excuse to party!). I'm thinking it would be fun to play a few pieces that allude to thankfulness; here's the program I've worked out, mostly taken from 78s:

Allitsen: A Song of Thanksgiving (recorded by Anna Case for Edison)
Anon.: Wir Treten Zum Beten (Ancient Thanksgiving Hymn of the Netherlands, recorded by Richard Tauber for Columbia in an arrangement by von Kremser)
Beethoven: Pastoral Sym. (ends with "Thankful Feelings after the Storm") (Weingartner, maybe? plenty of choices)
Beethoven: op. 132 quartet (3d mvt. headed "Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Gottheit, in der lydischen Tonart") (Fine Arts Qtt., from the series I just dubbed)
Billings: An Anthem for Thanksgiving (I have two recordings, both on LP)
Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Act I -- Voce di donna o d'angelo (Thanks Unto Thee, Angelic Voice) (recorded for Columbia by Bruna Castagna)
Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani, Act V -- Merce, Duilette Amiche (Thanks, beloved companions) (recorded by Selma Kurz for HMV)
Wagner: Lohengrin, Act I -- Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan! (Thanks, My Trusty Swan!) (recorded by any number of tenors; I'll probably take Leo Slezak on Victor)

 

Great choices! A big nod on the Pastoral Symphony, I have most definitely been thankful for being back inside in some of those Houston "the sky opened up" type rainstorms.

David any favorites for Pastoral Symphony and Op. 132? I have had Pastoral Symphony back in my heavy rotation this last year after discovering Jochum's performances (Philips, EMI) and have been exploring more recordings I've never heard before.

 

Same to you, David (and all)!

Those are two of my favorite non-piano Beethoven works.