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I find them useful, Jerry. I also try to make comment on what I'm listening to. These days, if I don't think what I'm listening to is of interest (or I've posted about it before), I don't bother. The same goes for the main What are you listening to right now thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
:scratch: What do you mean "main" thread? THIS is the main thread now! :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Re: Amazon Market Place ...
Yup, that's it. You've got it sussed. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by JJack
Yes, I know, baffling, isn't it! :scratch:Quote:
Originally Posted by JJack
Perhaps it all works out for them OK over a large number of sales, across the price spectrum?
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Originally Posted by jandl100
Put this on the wrong (Spinning Today) list I guess yesterday. Sorry, I'm new to the forum.
Vivaldi Four Seasons from Linn Records, Avison Ensemble, 96khz/24bit. I love the performance and the clarity of the recording/hi-Rez.
http://www.linnrecords.com/img/album/larger/ckd-365.jpg
Chopin Waltzes, Stephen Hough, Hyperion. CD quality. Nice recording. Great interpretation/technique.
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg
Pergolesi concerts and follies ..., Fone (96khz/24bit download from Linn). I really like the reverberant acoustic, which isn't to everyone's taste. Some great tunes and plenty of detail for those who like it listening to the hi-Rez recording.
http://www.linnrecords.com/img/album...r/sacd-066.jpg
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Originally Posted by Chops
Great label, Fone. I bought some Vivaldi concertos on that label on SACD and thought the recording was excellent.
Er, slightly OT, but can Shostakovich aficionados give me their opinions of complete cycles of Sh. symphonies, please?
I have a number collected piecemeal over the years, but feel the full set is "needed" now (:eyebrows:).
Petrenko/RLPO on Naxos seems to be getting some good notices. Then there's Barshai, and of course Kondrashin on Melodiya (though that would mean doubling nos. 4 & 8).
Ideally more than one set is required, but I'd like to start with a good allrounder.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Bob
I would say Previn but I don't think he recorded them all and they're not available as a set as far as I know.
Haitink recorded a very good cycle.
Hi Bob,
As a broad sweep of choice I always keep coming back to the Haitink LPO/Concertgebouw set - there's not a duffer amongst them and as a woodwind player, the C'gebouw have just about the finest woodwind sound I've heard. :)
Technically, all of the discs are superb - the 15th is especially so, recorded in analogue at the Kingsway Hall.
The 11th is epic...and then some, and along with RVW 3 & 6 possibly my favourite symphony of all time. Awesome.
I was in Oxfam in Liverpool today, and picked up the following (all minty vinyl):
Das Lied von der Erde, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, James King, with the Vienna Philharmonic (conducted by Leonard Bernstein) on Decca Jubilee, from 1977 - Mahler.
Aus der Neuen Welt (From the New World), Symphonie Nr.9 (5) op.95, with the Berliner Philharmoniler, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan, on Deutsche Grammophon, from 1964 - Dvořák.
'Three Cantatas': Cantata Misericordium, Rejoice in the Lamb - Festival Cantata, Cantata Academica, with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Benjamin Britten, on Decca FFSS, from 1974 - Britten.
Paukenmesse (Mass in Time of War). Choir of St John's College Cambridge, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-fields (Stephen Cleobury - organ), leader Neville Marriner. Director: George Guest, on Decca Argo, from 1970 - Hadyn.
I shall write a thesis on them later, for Jerry... ;)
Marco.