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Ants, I think Frank Sinatra is one of the sexiest men alive. Oh. What's that you say? He died when I was 18? Damn, looks like I left it too late.  <sob>  Hmm, looks a bit too much like the Scottish guy out of Desperate Housewives there ... |
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« Reply #136 on: 21:52:07, 16-01-2008 » |
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« Reply #137 on: 17:51:53, 21-01-2008 » |
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A bit of a spending spree of late (now I'm feeling better again - it's so nice to feel well again): Schutz-Beuthen - Symphony no.5 Kapustin - Piano Works (Stephen Osborne on Hyperion) Saint-saens - Orchestral works (including Le Foi which I have been looking for for years) Kiel - Piano Quartets Melcer - Piano Concerti Haydn - Piano Sonatas (Marc-Andre Hamelin) Chopin - Preludes (Sokolov) Piano Quintets: Hummel/Dussek/Onslow And probably another one which I've forgotten about as well...  |
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« Reply #138 on: 18:03:26, 21-01-2008 » |
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Glad you are feeling better now Jonathan  Interesting list, two names I do not know are Melcer and Kapustin, I'll have a look for them later on this evening. |
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« Reply #139 on: 23:58:41, 21-01-2008 » |
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I ordered a CD from a marketplace seller at amazon.de, principally for, er, concrete reasons, of "sounds of the Arctic", being particularly interested in the sounds of icebergs breaking up and so forth. Imagine then my disconfiture when the long-awaited package arrived today but instead contained an Esperanto Pronunciation Guide CD. (You couldn't make this up, could you?) I can't make up my mind whether to send it back or break open the seal and have a listen, I mean in its way it could be just as useful. What foxed me though was that it's part of a series called Reise (travel) Know-How.  I once bought an LP of "Harry Secombe Sings the Best of Opera Volume II" (or something along those lines) from a flea market in Rochester for 50p (we had been challenged to buy something cheesy and/or tasteless for £1, so this along with "Jonathan Jones' Honky-Tonk Piano Party" (again, my memory may be failing me here - the article in question is still in Durham) had been my offering). Imagine my disquiet upon taking the record out of the sleeve a month later to sample it only to discover that it was an album by Demis Roussos! Honky-Tonk Piano Party is particularly good by the way. I recommend it to all on 3. |
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« Reply #140 on: 00:49:48, 22-01-2008 » |
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The full score of Ruddigore came in the post today. £120 from OUP with lots of detailed notes (I love going through details) about the autograph score, performing practice and all the music that was cut from the opening night. It's a handsome volume too. Worth every penny.
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« Reply #141 on: 17:26:36, 22-01-2008 » |
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i haven't shopped at hmv online and amazon for years and, thanks to Opilec advising me to look again at the prices, it looks like my wife is going to be fairly angry at me on a regular basis from now on.
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« Reply #142 on: 20:09:15, 22-01-2008 » |
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The full score of Ruddigore came in the post today. £120 from OUP with lots of detailed notes (I love going through details) about the autograph score, performing practice and all the music that was cut from the opening night. It's a handsome volume too. Worth every penny.
Originally Ruddygore? i haven't shopped at hmv online and amazon for years and, thanks to Opilec advising me to look again at the prices, it looks like my wife is going to be fairly angry at me on a regular basis from now on.
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« Reply #143 on: 22:29:57, 22-01-2008 » |
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(thinks: So that's why I've been invited round on Saturday -- so tonybob's missus can be angry at me instead! ) god man, you don't think i've told her that i'm going to *buy* anything, do you? tsk. |
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« Reply #144 on: 19:53:43, 24-01-2008 » |
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The full score of Ruddigore came in the post today. £120 from OUP with lots of detailed notes (I love going through details) about the autograph score, performing practice and all the music that was cut from the opening night. It's a handsome volume too. Worth every penny.
Originally Ruddygore? Quite so. But it's interesting to note that the in the original New York run, which began after the spelling was altered in England to take note of Victorian sensibilities, it was called Ruddygore throughout. |
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« Reply #145 on: 14:37:04, 25-01-2008 » |
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Not just bought, but bought a couple of weeks ago from a neighbour, about 100 for £8 I probably won't listen to half of them as they are very popular works that I have already, either duplicate or by other orchestras, so why did I bother other than the Kraus opera, nothing very unusual  |
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« Reply #147 on: 18:00:03, 25-01-2008 » |
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Thank you oppy, my actions have been justified! |
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« Reply #148 on: 17:46:52, 26-01-2008 » |
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Well, 3 of the CDs have arrived (Haydn, Melcer & Hummel etc.) although HMV say the Schutz-Beuthen may be a while...
The Haydn is excellent, btw...
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« Reply #149 on: 22:39:48, 28-01-2008 » |
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This should really be on a thread entitled "Look at what my sister bought me!":  A modest but very nice machine with a better spec than my desktop PC, which it will probably now replace. |
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