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Tony Watson
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« Reply #90 on: 16:54:32, 14-10-2007 »
In the HMV shop in Chester this morning, I bought the complete Mahler symphonies for £15 and the complete Sibelius symphonies for £10, all conducted by Rattle, for the simple reason that they were there and they were cheap. I don't know how well I will like them but it will be interesting to find out.
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« Reply #91 on: 11:44:49, 18-10-2007 »
Quote from: Tony Watson on 16:54:32, 14-10-2007
In the HMV shop in Chester this morning, I bought the complete Mahler symphonies for £15 and the complete Sibelius symphonies for £10, all conducted by Rattle, for the simple reason that they were there and they were cheap. I don't know how well I will like them but it will be interesting to find out.
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« Reply #92 on: 15:06:21, 28-10-2007 »
Not so much look what I've bought as look what I'm thinking of buying:



Has anyone heard these - and if so what are they like.


As far as the Rattle reissues are concerned, the Mahler cycle is a bargain (though rather patchy). I must confess to having found the Sibelius deathly dull, but on the other hand, I know people who love it.

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« Reply #93 on: 15:21:28, 28-10-2007 »


Miele S 380 (red)

1800 Watt

129 euros

Also bought a box of dust bags, naturally:



Cool
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« Reply #94 on: 14:58:57, 29-10-2007 »
pim,

A performance of a work by Hoffnung in the offing, perchance?

Tommo
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« Reply #95 on: 15:46:33, 29-10-2007 »
Quote from: thompson1780 on 14:58:57, 29-10-2007
pim,

A performance of a work by Hoffnung in the offing, perchance?

We could perform Malcolm Arnold's Grand, Grand Overture, Tommo, but for that we'd need three vacuum cleaners, not to mention a full orchestra and an organ. Wink

Speaking of Hoffnung, I recently bought this lovely little book:



Look, there's a picture of Roger Wright in it:



Cool
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Tony Watson
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« Reply #96 on: 16:01:36, 04-01-2008 »
In the Oxfam bookshop this morning I bought a copy of the full score of Der Rosenkavalier for £3 and in very good condition. It's in large format but at the front it says it's for private study only, so I shan't be conducting it just yet. Actually, there were two such copies in the shop, so I don't know where they'd got those from.
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« Reply #97 on: 17:13:19, 04-01-2008 »
Just ordered off Amazon O Magnum Mystereum by Morten Lauridsen with other choral works of his
Heard this on Late Junction this week and its really beautiful in the Arvo Part style  Smiley
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« Reply #98 on: 20:00:51, 08-01-2008 »
- Weren't you gone for a while there, Ollie?
- Yep. Indeed I was.
- And didn't you send off a message at something past 7 in the morning your time before you slipped away?
- I tend not to remember what I've done at something past 7 in the morning regardless of from which direction I experience the said time of day.
- Now I seem to remember another time when you disappeared for a while after an early morning message.
- Oh. That.
- Yes. That.
- That.
- That time you went shopping, did not you?
- I can hardly deny it...
- Well, you could.
- OK. No I didn't!
- Yes, you did.
- Yes, I did.
- And this time? Have you been shopping for instruments again?
- No, actually.
- No?
- No.
- ...ah. One instrument then?
- Got me there. Yes.
- And what have we got this time?
- "We seem to have the devil's own luck."
- That's enough Britten For All Occasions. Out with it. Picture please.



- Oh dear. You didn't get both of them?
- No, that's front and back views of the same thing.
- And what is it?
- It's a basson di chalumeau.
- Used for what?
- Continuo parts in a few Viennese operas at the beginning of the eighteenth century.
- Apart from that, much been written for it?
- Nothing whatsoever.
- Right. Well. As long as you're sure.
- Oh, I'm sure all right.
- Yes. We know.
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« Reply #99 on: 20:04:04, 08-01-2008 »
PLEA FOR HELP:

Calling all conductors - write some repertoire for this thing quick...... Wink

Tommo
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« Reply #100 on: 20:07:08, 08-01-2008 »
Is that an "authentic" mouthpiece?  It looks ever so slightly like black plastic in the photo - not sure how available that would have been in early 18th century Vienna...
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« Reply #101 on: 20:15:40, 08-01-2008 »
Ollie
 Cheesy

Congrats! Now, don't you think this little, er, 'habit' of yours ought to cease forthwith?  Shocked
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« Reply #102 on: 20:47:34, 08-01-2008 »
Quote from: oliver sudden on 20:00:51, 08-01-2008



Ollie, congratulations. Just for completion

1. Dimensions please, how long in centimetres

2. Will we get a soundclip to hear?

John W
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« Reply #103 on: 21:04:10, 08-01-2008 »
Quote from: John W on 20:47:34, 08-01-2008
Quote from: oliver sudden on 20:00:51, 08-01-2008



Ollie, congratulations. Just for completion

1. Dimensions please, how long in centimetres

2. Will we get a soundclip to hear?

John W

"centimetres", what they? I know metres and millimetres, but I don't think those other things are recognised in polite company.
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« Reply #104 on: 21:25:55, 08-01-2008 »
Quote from: Bryn on 21:04:10, 08-01-2008



"centimetres", what they? I know metres and millimetres, but I don't think those other things are recognised in polite company.

 Smiley Bryn,

I chose centimetres because I expect to get a nice handleable number. Like, Ollie can say 72 centimetres rather than 0.72 metres or 720 millimetres  Tongue

Well, being 'bassoon' I'm expecting something more than a foot long  Cheesy
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