I have been having a conversation on the board with t-p about the CDs we would love to hear.

My wish-list at MDT grows faster than I buy, this is what is currently on there:



Biber Rosary Sonatas - Manze/Egarr   Harmonia Mundi

Rameau Zoroastre Les Arts Fl./ Christie   Erato

Mozart Exultate Jubilate! etc. Sampson/Kings Consort  Hyperion

Britten 3 Divertimenti/Str. Quartet Tchaikovsky Str. Quartet no.1  Brodsky Quartet   

Strauss Four last songs Popp/Tennstedt   EMI

Haydn Seven Last Words from the Cross*  Shchoenberg choir/Harnoncourt  Teldec

 * ("THATS IT I'LL NEVER VOTE LABOUR AGAIN!")

* sorry, my little joke!

Arias for Senesino   Scholl/Dantone   Decca

Vivaldi Concerti per Violoncello  Coin/Antonini  Naive

Brahms Cello Sonatas Wispelwey/Lazic   Channel classics

Geminiani Concerti Grossi  AAm/Manze   Harmonia Mundi


R3 CD review is a great source of inspiration, plus I am often seduced by reviews in the weekend papers & BBC Music magazine.



How about you and what you are longing for...?

x Jan x

At this moment I only have two CDs on my list, but this is changing as I speak because I just read Janthefan post and  BobbyZ. I already want some CDs from their lists to be on my list.
My two recordings are:
1. Buxtehude Geistliche Kantaten that I think Aaron Cassidy posted (if I find it again I correct my spelling).
2. Rachmaninoff opera Francesca Da Rimini that Anna posted on the other board.

I will add to my list shortly, no doubts.
3. Taneev chamber works
4.

I put my score wish list too: Alkan; Quasi Faust, Esope - Barcarolle
Chagrier Habanera, Pieces Pittoresques (scherzo-valse)
Duet pieces (set based on Tristan) Collections published by Dover

 Stockhausen's Klavierstuck V or Klavierstuck IX.

5.     
Kabeláč's passacaglia and other piano pieces. May be orchestral music too.
 Feldman ( Peters Edition). Kagel's An Tasten or A Deux Mains (the former published by Universal, the latter by Peter
 Lachenmann's Wiegenmusik.
 Berio called Six Encores
 Finnissy's Gershwin Arrangements

PURCELL
Fantazia No.3 (in 4 parts)
Hesperion XX
ASTREE E 8536 Tr 7"?

John Ogden two CDs
Curzon

Brahms - Ein deutsches Requiem, Op 45
http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//0927483102.htm   Sinding violin sonatas

Would love to hear or have this particular recording which uses the English version of the text which Haydn sanctioned for the London premiere:

it's well overdue a reissue, this one.
i'd watch out on austrailian decca for it, they're quite good at filling gaps in the market.

Worth every penny that you end up spending on it, let me assure you - though do bear in mind that it's on Hyperion, not Chandos...

Best,

Alistair

Hmm. Certainly seems like a bargain. But no Sibelius? No Bruckner? And yet... Clementi? Borodin?! (Ok, I quite like the mode-ish Borodin 2nd.) I'd want to hear from the recordings gurus out there first.

If you ask me (and I know you didn't) the two to go for are the Kondrashin studio one with Arthur Eisen (it's in the Kondrashin box set, available but hard to find in a fantastic remastering on Aulos; you can find it more easily in the recent Melodiya reissue but I don't know what that remastering is like)



and the Kondrashin live one with Vitaly Gromadsky (I'm led to believe that this is of the second performance but I see the notes don't actually say that).



The live one you'll have to search online for - I have it in a series put out by the Moscow Conservatorium SMC CD 0018 and it also seems to be on Russian Disc.

Although, oo look, I seem to have ordered two copies by mistake once upon a time...