Your Latest CD/DVD/Download Purchase

[Bryn]

Rather a lot, lately, but primus inter pares must be the two recent Hudderfield Contemorary Records CD featuring the Elision Ensemble, HCR02 and HCR03:

[johnb]

Oh, hellfire and damnation!

I'm so very tempted by the Suzuki Bach Cantata series.

Please, someone lock my credit card away.

[3rd Viennese School]

My last purchase was Richard Barratt's Negatives. Or Ellison. It's called one of those things. That was back in August ( Remember my "Death of a shop "Thread when they closed down the Royal Festival Hall classical CD Shop!)

Aint played it yet. Only mananged to get Schnittke symphony no.4 played.

Still. It WILL be played! Everytime Richard Barratt was on Hear and Now either the signal would go on my personal radio or I would fall over on the way home from the pub.
Hence why I bought the CD!
3Vs

[johnb]

Of course, Richard Barrett used to be a regular contributor to the old R3 MB before the 2007 upheaval!

[Bryn]

Still a contributor to r3ok.com, but you will have to work out what name he is using there for yourself.

[johnb]

I assume it isn't Veronika!

[vinteuil]

johnb - I know what you mean... but I succumbed when I found the amazingly cheap BIS offer ( "10 CDs for the price of 3" ) on the suzuki Bach in the recent ten-CD boxes (four boxes currently available). How can you NOT, at that price?? ....

[Bryn]

You assume correctly, john, but no further clues.

[johnb]

vinteuil,

That is the very same offer that I have finally succumbed to (still available at Presto and Amazon - ~£40 a box). Its worrying - recently I've been buying CDs as though there's no tomorrow. A form of retail therapy, I suppose!

I also picked up the Collard/Maazel Ravel Piano Concertos for £2.75+pp (new), the Wellesz Symphonies (both from the Amazon Marketplace), the raved about Tennstedt Mahler 2, and the Elias Quartet's Britten CD.

[Pianorak]

Quote Originally Posted by johnb View Post
. . . Cherkassky: Nimbus boxed set (it was at a bargain price, so I couldn't resist it). . .

I'll be very interested to see what you make of the Nimbus recordings. A lot has been made of the unhurried and long takes at the Wyastone Leys recording studios, but I find the acoustic ambience rather unsympathetic.
Cherkassky's “Complete HMV stereo recordings” on First Hand Records (FHR04) are a revelation, especially the Chopin Nocturne Op. 7/3.
“Shura Cherkassky” by Elizabeth Carr, who knew him from 1976 until his death, is a well-researched biography .

johnb: stop buying and sit down and listen to what you've bought!