Spinning Today (Classical version)

[MartinT]

What do you think of the comments I make about my listening experiences?

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.

[jandl100]

..... The same goes for the main What are you listening to right now thread.

What do you mean "main" thread? THIS is the main thread now!

[jandl100]

Re: Amazon Market Place ...

Nope. I did a composer and performer search, and then listed them by lowest price to highest. Bought a couple of things for .01 plus the $2.98 shipping, including Rostopovich doing Bach cello suites 2, 4, and 5.

Yup, that's it. You've got it sussed.

One thing I can't figure out is how the UK-based sellers can ship to the US and only charge the same $2.98 shipping when some of the CDs they're selling are less than a dollar.

Yes, I know, baffling, isn't it!
Perhaps it all works out for them OK over a large number of sales, across the price spectrum?

[MartinT]

What do you mean "main" thread? THIS is the main thread now!

[Chops]

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.

Chopin Waltzes, Stephen Hough, Hyperion. CD quality. Nice recording. Great interpretation/technique.

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.

[MartinT]

Fone

Welcome, Chris!

Great label, Fone. I bought some Vivaldi concertos on that label on SACD and thought the recording was excellent.

[morris_minor]

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 ().

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

[MartinT]

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.

[Gromit]

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.

[Marco]

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.