What NEW discs/music are you adding to your collection?

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:48 am

A Christmas present to myself....

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:51 am

Fergus wrote:A Christmas present to myself....

I once gave Skrowaczewski a ride to the airport

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 10:56 am

josé echenique wrote:I once gave Skrowaczewski a ride to the airport

Only on CMG could you read a comment like that!

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:04 am

josé echenique wrote:
Fergus wrote:A Christmas present to myself....

I once gave Skrowaczewski a ride to the airport

And did you had a very interesting conversation Pepe?

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:39 pm

oh, Fergus is going to love me for this!

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 2:50 pm

Jared wrote:

oh, Fergus is going to love me for this!

I could have swore blind that you already had JEG's recordings of the Passions and Mass.

Either way, that will be a great addition to your collection

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:02 pm

bombasticDarren wrote:
Jared wrote:

oh, Fergus is going to love me for this!
I could have swore blind that you already had JEG's recordings of the Passions and Mass.

Either way, that will be a great addition to your collection

I do. Follow my thinking for a moment. That is a limited edition 22CD box set which is now out of print and going for over £100 on Amazon, if you can now find one. Mine was a fraction of that second hand (?!) on ebay. This set includes all his first (admittedly incomplete) traversal of Cantatas, which if I'd had collected separately would now cost me a small fortune. If I put the Passion CDs on ebay in the New Year along with a couple of Cantata disks, I *should* recoup approx 2/3 of the cost of this set back, gaining about 10/11 new CDs of Canatas in the process, which will cost considerably less than £2 a disk and also take up less shelf space.

Do you like my thinking, or do you think I'm nuts?

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:05 pm

Jared wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:
Jared wrote:

oh, Fergus is going to love me for this!
I could have swore blind that you already had JEG's recordings of the Passions and Mass.

Either way, that will be a great addition to your collection
I do. Follow my thinking for a moment. That is a limited edition 22CD box set which is now out of print and going for over £100 on Amazon, if you can now find one. Mine was a fraction of that second hand (?!) on ebay. This set includes all his first (admittedly incomplete) traversal of Cantatas, which if I'd had collected separately would now cost me a small fortune. If I put the Passion CDs on ebay in the New Year along with a couple of Cantata disks, I *should* recoup approx 2/3 of the cost of this set back, gaining about 10/11 new CDs of Canatas in the process, which will cost considerably less than £2 a disk and also take up less shelf space.

Do you like my thinking, or do you think I'm nuts?

I admire the amount of thought you have put into the purchase Jared. I'll leave it at that.

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:12 pm

bombasticDarren wrote:I admire the amount of thought you have put into the purchase Jared. I'll leave it at that.

phew... I'm relieved about that, because in the New Year, I'm likely to try something similar with the Angela Hewitt complete Bach piano works. If I play my cards right and wait for the price to dip sufficiently, I should gain about 7 disks of great new music for around a tenner...

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:19 pm

Jared wrote: Do you like my thinking, or do you think I'm nuts?

Yep, I think you are nuts....but not for buying the Gardiner box set (shrewd move)....I just think you are nuts

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:21 pm

This was the first disc of Charpentier’s music that I bought and it still remains a seasonal favourite; with gorgeous singing and beautiful instrumental textures. The Noels are very melodious and lilt along at a lively pace, in a dance like fashion; a lovely recording.

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:22 pm

^^^ well, let me post my 3000th post on CMG (for the 2nd time around!

) by thanking you for said reassurance...

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:35 pm

Jared wrote:^^^ well, let me post my 3000th post on CMG (for the 2nd time around! ) by thanking you for said reassurance...

My pleasure my friend....enjoy the Gardiner

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:37 pm

Fergus wrote:
josé echenique wrote:
Fergus wrote:A Christmas present to myself....

I once gave Skrowaczewski a ride to the airport
And did you had a very interesting conversation Pepe?

He came to conduct our National Symphony in 1977 or 78. My brother was second conductor of the orchestra at the time. And immediately after his last concert he had to take a flight to Germany.
Well, the driver that was supposed to take him to the airport never showed up, so my brother asked me to take him to the airport because he had an afternoon rehearsal. And so there goes little Pepe (I was 17) with the then little known Skrowaczewski to the airport. I remember him as a very nice man. I honestly don´t remember much about what we talked about but there was definitely some Mahler, since he came to conduct Mahler´s Seventh in a complete Mahler cycle that also included Eduardo Mata, chief conductor of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional at the time, Erich Leinsdorf, Maurice Abravanel and another little known conductor that was to become in the next decade a celebrity: Klaus Tennstedt.

ContrapunctusIX · Post by **ContrapunctusIX** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:39 am

Sibelius: Complete Symphonies
Utah Symphony & Maurice Abravanel
Musical Concepts

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:54 am

I don't really feel like I have broken my 'rule' here. In total this only set me back £2.84!

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:11 am

bombasticDarren wrote:

I don't really feel like I have broken my 'rule' here. In total this only set me back £2.84!

shan't believe anything you say in future about tightening the purse strings, Mr Rose..

however if you were wishing to loosen them a little further, you might also consider this marvellous set:

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:48 am

bombasticDarren wrote:

I don't really feel like I have broken my 'rule' here. In total this only set me back £2.84!

Whatever you say Darren

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 2:09 pm

^^ I am happy to disappoint you both in this instance

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 2:03 pm

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 5:21 pm

Chalkperson · Post by **Chalkperson** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:59 pm

Fergus wrote:

That certainly looks like a minimal Sleeve, love all the white space...

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:43 pm

Chalkperson wrote:That certainly looks like a minimal Sleeve, love all the white space...

Minimalist to the last....let us see what the music is like....

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 2:43 pm

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 8:32 am

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 10:21 am

I think you'll agree, (Bach Cantatas notwithstanding) I've been rather restrained recently... however this arrived this morning, as I have been really rather intrigued to hear it...

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:43 pm

Jared wrote:I think you'll agree, (Bach Cantatas notwithstanding) I've been rather restrained recently...

Yes, and impressively so too

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Thu Dec 22, 2011 2:46 pm

bombasticDarren wrote:
Jared wrote:I think you'll agree, (Bach Cantatas notwithstanding) I've been rather restrained recently...
Yes, and impressively so too

a prime example of a vegetarian having gone 'cold turkey' before Christmas...

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:45 am

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Sun Dec 25, 2011 4:44 pm

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:31 am

Seán · Post by **Seán** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:41 am

bombasticDarren wrote:

I hope you like that Darren, Sawallisch's cycle on EMI put me off Brahms for years and it was Jared and Pepe who encouraged me to try Harnoncourt et al and I haven't looked back since.

Enjoy.

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 9:57 am

Seán wrote:I hope you like that Darren, Sawallisch's cycle on EMI put me off Brahms for years and it was Jared and Pepe who encouraged me to try Harnoncourt et al and I haven't looked back since.

No, I agree about the Sawallisch EMI set. I couldn't get on with it at all, but I heard good things about the ridiculousy cheap Philips cycle so though I would try it out. I have to say I have never truly taken to Harnoncourt's Brahms, even though I remain a critical fan of many of his recordings

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 10:00 am

^^ for the record I didn't recommend the Harnoncourt, but I have recently been enjoying this recommendation from Fergus, immensely...

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 2:14 pm

Jared wrote:^^ for the record I didn't recommend the Harnoncourt, but I have recently been enjoying this recommendation from Fergus, immensely...

What a wonderful cycle that is!! I am glad that quite a few members of CMG have realised this also

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 5:22 pm

One from Amazon's Bargain Basement

josé echenique · Post by **josé echenique** » Mon Dec 26, 2011 7:13 pm

For a Brahms cycle with a modern medium size orchestra this should also be considered, it´s very well conducted and magnificently played. In fact the COE orchestral performance surpasses Mackerras´Scottish Chamber Orchestra.

Though lately the Brahms I have been enjoying the most is with sumptuous symphony orchestras, namely 2 utterly extraordinary live Fourths, one with Giulini and the Concertgebouw part of Box 5 of the Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw years 1980-1990 and a recently released white hot Günter Wand/Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in the Profil label that should be investigated.

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:15 am

bombasticDarren wrote:One from Amazon's Bargain Basement

I'm down there myself so often rooting around, that I'm surprised we don't bump into each other...

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:28 am

Jared wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:One from Amazon's Bargain Basement
I'm down there myself so often rooting around, that I'm surprised we don't bump into each other...

Fun, isn't it?

Found another one...

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:40 am

bombasticDarren wrote:
Jared wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:One from Amazon's Bargain Basement
I'm down there myself so often rooting around, that I'm surprised we don't bump into each other...
Fun, isn't it?

Found another one...

how many disks do you own, which you haven't played yet?... I own 86. That's enough. No more until I've worked through (most of) them...

New Year's Resolution... listen to everything I have, before purchasing any more..

yeah, right...

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:48 am

Jared wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:
Jared wrote:
bombasticDarren wrote:One from Amazon's Bargain Basement
I'm down there myself so often rooting around, that I'm surprised we don't bump into each other...
Fun, isn't it?

Found another one...

how many disks do you own, which you haven't played yet?... I own 86. That's enough. No more until I've worked through (most of) them...

New Year's Resolution... listen to everything I have, before purchasing any more..

yeah, right...

In terms of individual discs (not boxed sets) I would say I am even with you, maybe a bit less in fact

As long as we enjoy it, hey?

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:04 am

Strict discipline is what is called for gentlemen

I only now have 9 individual CDs and 1 set unlistened to on my shelf

However, I ordered 6 CDs yesterday and will probably go again today

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 3:19 pm

Jared · Post by **Jared** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 3:54 pm

bombasticDarren wrote:

if and when you consider a 2nd Darren... this is electric:

arthound · Post by **arthound** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:22 pm

Seán wrote:
arthound wrote:Hope you continue getting better Darren.

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

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 and well priced at the moment through some online outlets.

arthound · Post by **arthound** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:26 pm

Chalkperson · Post by **Chalkperson** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:26 am

arthound wrote:
Seán wrote:
arthound wrote:Hope you continue getting better Darren.

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

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 and well priced at the moment through some online outlets.

That's a great set, I have all the individual discs, each one a winner...

arthound · Post by **arthound** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 9:00 pm

Chalkperson wrote:
arthound wrote:
Seán wrote:
arthound wrote:Hope you continue getting better Darren.

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

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 set and well priced at the moment through some online outlets.
That's a great set, I have all the individual discs, each one a winner...

I thought you would have these already Chalk - good to hear you enjoy them as well. I like the way the Brandenburgs and overtures are split up throughout the discs.

Fergus · Post by **Fergus** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 7:20 am

bombasticDarren · Post by **bombasticDarren** » Thu Dec 29, 2011 10:33 am

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