Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Wrapping up the evening with some light Mozart. The Posthorn Serenade, K.320, and the Serenata Notturna, K.239. Karl Böhm / Berlin Philharmonic.
DG, German, 1971.

 

Finishing the last couple of discs in this set.

 

Sounds like a SH.tv classified sale to me!

 

Bernstein's movie soundtracks?

 

That is a great version.

 

There won't be one, I'm in the Netherlands and I stopped selling on SH.tv (and eBay) since Dutch international shipping rates went through the roof.

 

CD from John Lill's 1970s ASV cycle re-released on Brilliant Classics.

 

Michael Finnissy: chamber works

 

Lisa Streich (b. 1985): orchestral and ensemble works

 

Damn, I was hoping for a cheap Japanese mono set of Backhaus Beethoven!

Per the long-ago thread, I've turned into the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonata collector. In the USA, you can get sets on eBay for $10 US. For example, I just bought the complete Gerard Willems Beethoven sonatas and concertos: 12 discs for $12 shipped. Just the clamshell boxes the discs are housed in cost more than that when new. Last week I got the Pollinni complete set for even less. It's crazy right now.

 

I listened to both of these excellent releases this morning:


Copland: Appalachian Spring & other works. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra / DG.


Schoenberg: Chamber Symphonies & Verklärte Nacht. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra / DG.

 

I appreciate the critical opinion on sound quality. It’s helpful in purchases.

 

I got some great music today. The five classical releases in more detail:

Wagner - Parsifal: The legendary Solti recording. First german CD pressing from 1986, complete with the booklet and the outer box.

Mahler - The Symphonies: Solti recordings with the CSO. Complete with the booklet. First edition from 1996.

Shostakovich - Symphonies No. 7 & 11: Paavo Berglund conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Mahler - Symphony No. 2: I have heard this rendition by Pierre Boulez prior, so that's why I took it with me today. A fantastic disc!

Dutilleux - Tout un monde lointain/L'arbre des songes/3 strophes sur le nom de Sacher: Got this mostly for L'arbre. I'd never ever seen this release before, so it was a no-brainer.

Got those five together with the three non-classical albums on the right half of the photo at a total of ten bucks. Gonna be a fantastic musical weekend

 

CD 5. Vaughan Williams.

 

Listening to "Suso In Italia Bella" performed by La Reverdie on Arcana.

Music in the Courts and Cloisters of Northern Italy

 

Coming Soon on SACD from Analogue Productions:

I am so excited about this recording. I have been waiting 20 years for this to appear on SACD. Hopefully, it will be the first of many. I would also like to see the following on SACD:

 

The Cosmos Quartet
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Just returned from my 50 min, 3 mile early evening walk and listened to the following CD ...

 

Scheduled for release in July, István Kertész in Vienna - 20 CDs, Decca:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/istvan-kertesz-in-vienna/hnum/9127480?lang=en

 

On your wish list?

I only have his Dvorak box and the Dvorak 9th single ...