Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 7:15 pm
My first delivery of 2015!
Oh very nice Fergus, I hope that that will make a great start to your New Year's listening, enjoy.fergus wrote:My first delivery of 2015!
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Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 8:43 pm
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 9:20 pm
Thank you Seán. I opened my recent Fidelio thread with the statement that I had read good things about this performance so I was always going to buy it along with other recommendations that came up. Lenny usually puts on a good show so I am looking forward to hearing it.Seán wrote:Oh very nice Fergus, I hope that that will make a great start to your New Year's listening, enjoy.fergus wrote:
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 11:37 pm
Another version of Dvorak's Violin Concerto has just been added to my collection....
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 6:34 pm
Very nice Fergus.
I am intent on getting 2015 off to a great musical start:
I do pay attention to Pepe.
I am intent on getting 2015 off to a great musical start:
I do pay attention to Pepe.
it cost me less than ¢40.00Jose Echenique wrote:Well Seán, this is what yours truly thinks:
As for the Mozart Gardiner cycle, there are unfortunately ups and downs. The Idomeneo, Abduction, Clemenza di Tito and Don Giovanni are glorious, among the finest Mozart opera recordings ever which is saying quite something. But unfortunately the Marriage of Figaro is ruined by a dull Cherubino who is made (by Gardiner!!!!) to do some unmusical things that are ever harder to take with repeated listenings. The Susanna and Countess are rather pale too, a great pity, because it could have been a great recording, but even more infuriating is Gardiner´s choice for Sarastro in The Magic Flute, he hired a hideous singer (Harry Peeters) to sing what George Bernard Shaw described as the only music fit to be put in the mouth of God. The Pamina, infuriatingly because she deserved to be in a far better recording, is exquisite.
On the other hand he has the finest Konstanze ever for Abduction (Luba Orgonasova), and a Callas-like performance from Julia Varady as Vitellia in Clemenza di Tito, that is quite simply, to die for. The Cosí fan Tutte is fine, with a young and ardent cast, but Cherubino and Sarastro are much too important in their operas to ignore them.
So, if the price is right, go for the Gardiner
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2015 9:40 pm
Seán wrote:
I am intent on getting 2015 off to a great musical start:
That looks like a very good start indeed Seán; I hope that you enjoy the set.
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:35 pm
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 2:32 pm
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:30 pm
I have bought the Haitink versions of the Liszt Tone Poems....
....really looking forward to hearing this set.
....really looking forward to hearing this set.
Re: Recent Purchases
Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:40 pm
Congratulations on your different purchases Fergus you have certainly got 2015 off to an exciting start. I have read very good reports of the Haitink set, enjoyfergus wrote:I have bought the Haitink versions of the Liszt Tone Poems....
....really looking forward to hearing this set.