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SQ 7 is one of my favourites...

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Yes that's the one!

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I had the Aulos Kondrashin set and passed it onto a friend when I picked up the latest Melodiya remastering. Although I had read that the later was a superior remastering I couldn't really detect a lot of difference. The Melodiya 'Pizza ' Box is however much easier to get hold of at a decent price a...

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From Abbado's Vienna cycle...

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Thanks Pepe.

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Thanks Pepe. What do you think of the Sawallisch Ring and Pappano's Tristan?

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Hello Jose Thank you for starting this post. I have neglected Wagner for many years but one day I was listening to a Stokowski CD which included the amazing prelude to Act III of Tristan and this lead me to focus more on picking up some recordings. I was wondering what your opinion was of Barenboim'...

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I've been collecting this composer lately. The set of 'Symphonic Minutes' is wonderful and should be more well known - it would make a great 'opener' at a concert.

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This is one of the best CDs Naxos ever released IMO. A Haydn sleeper...

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Wonderfully spirited performances - great sound too!
Yup...

The organ on the opening track sounds great. I hope that Podger continues with more Vivaldi for this label.

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Wonderfully spirited performances - great sound too!

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Has anyone heard this? Good reviews and I like the cover.

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Just ordered on pre-release. Apparently it has Neumann's 1970 analogue symphony cycle remastered for its first CD release.

Now someone can tell me that it's been available for years in Japan...

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I ordered it Sean even though I have a lot of the recordings already. I figured that I will sell the individual CDs I have at some stage and make most of the money back. Overall I find PH to have a more blended, smoother sound than many HIP performers and I look towards Koopman's recordings for a co...

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Bartok and HVK - full fat milk with double whipped cream... but I like it.

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Hi Matt I have been interested in the Sony set but am trying to find a more detailed track listing to see how many of the recordings I actually have. Let me know if you find one... By the way I recently picked up this 4 CD set of piano works played by Albert Ferber from Amazon UK. It's a beautiful c...

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Very HIP Haydn and Very Non-HIP Handel.

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One of my favourite artists. The Tchaikovsky concerto in that Brilliant set is wonderful. I am hoping that EMI release an ICON box set of his recordings.

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So many wonderful recordings. I often find myself turning to Schiff, Buchbinder and [surprisingly] Ashkenazy. Haskil is near essential IMO [but not complete] and Barenboim's No. 11 with the BPO is one of my favourite recordings of any piece of music. http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51C1fbi%2Br...

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Ozawa doesn't seem to get a lot of love around here but this is a superb Mahler 2nd IMO.

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Fergus wrote:
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I bought that one in 2011 and I really enjoyed it.

It's a great disc Fergus. I wasn't sure how I would like a HIP performance of these work but am very happy with them!

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Hope you continue getting better Darren. Have you picked up this one? Mine is hopefully arriving soon: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zX2OOOaiL._SL500_AA300_.jpg I, too, am curious aboit that set, I had it in my jpc basket and let it go. Finally arrived around a week ago - it's a superb se...

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Hope you continue getting better Darren. Have you picked up this one? Mine is hopefully arriving soon: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51zX2OOOaiL._SL500_AA300_.jpg I, too, am curious aboit that set, I had it in my jpc basket and let it go. Finally arrived around week ago - it's a superb set ...

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Symphony number three - one of my favourite Tchaikovsky sets [from an unexpected source].

The sound is a bit rough but a great performance.

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Selections from this fine set. Some of these recordings had been a tad hard of late to pick up till this box came along.

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Beethoven: Symphonies 7 & 9 New York Philharmonic & Bruno Walter United Archives http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tSRaap-uL._SL500_AA300_.jpg This disc was waiting for me when I arrived back home from NYC earlier today. Arthound, just some notes for you on the sound: I compared the 9th on th...

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ContrapunctusIX wrote:Beethoven: Symphonies (complete)
New York Philharmonic & Bruno Walter
United Archives

I have had my eye on this set - I think that United Archives have recently re-released it. Can you let us know how you get on with it...

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I note there is not a single work by Bela Bartok and not a single work of solo instrumental or chamber music. Lord of the Rings is? Really? This is just garbage. Bartok's 'Concerto for Orchestra' came in at number 42 well above the soundtrack for TLOTR at number 90. And while it is true that large ...

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Stupid? Pointless? Not even worth saying "stupid" and "pointless" about it? :D Merely silly. Any list that sets Shostakovich's 10th symphony side by side with Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto as #s 96 and 97need be read no further. It might be interesting to know how this weirdness was arrived at, but w...

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Mozart: Symphonies 40 & 41 New Philharmonia Orchestra & Carlo Maria Giulini Decca http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/ciu/2b/6b/fe9f4310fca0923e4f0b5010.L._AA300_.jpg How does this compare to his BPO recording of the same works CPIX? My guess is that the Decca set is brisker :wink: . Good to...

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bombasticDarren wrote:Sibelius - Symphony No.5 (Yoel Levi, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Telarc)

Levi is a fine conductor of Sibelius IMO.

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Hope you continue getting better Darren.

Have you picked up this one? Mine is hopefully arriving soon:

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