Quote:   Long time no here :)   Just heard the Raumklang recording for the first time and was overwhelmed by what I heard.  A very good performance and the recorded sound itself extremely atmospheric and involving.  'One-point recording' with just one pair of microphones used in...

Quote: Originally Posted by Assorted I only found individual Naive label Vivaldi volumes on Amazon, so the "Complete Edition" is only as single albums? For now Remember some of Vivaldi's works (especially cantatas and operas) have not been performed or recorded yet! So...

mdt.co.uk crotchet.co.uk amazon.co.uk amazon.fr cdmail.fr alapage.fr abeillemusique.fr fnac.com jpc.de zweitausendeins.de ... for starters Also don't forget that amazon and ebay run two of the world's largest used cd stores.

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunnyears I have had notices sent up at Ebay for any number of recordings that I have been outbid on. I'm glad you are luckier than I!! I only wish I could remember everything I'd love to get and then check everyday, but I'm not that well organized (or...

Quote: Originally Posted by Assorted Now they need to release a Vivaldi Complete Works The expensive Naive label is doing that I think. And in small installments - just what the doc ordered.

Quote: Originally Posted by Assorted Yes I"m also curious. My only source of CDs is the A&B, Naxos and Arkivmusic :/ Perhaps you are opposed to the idea of ordering from oversea sources? I do it every once in a while if I have to. How about some tips from Bunny? She does know...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunnyears That's Gottfried von der Goltz's string quartet. I've some of his Haydn with the Freiburger Barockorchester so I know that his Haydn is excellent. Finding that album is going to be very difficult as it dates from more than 10 years ago...

John Holloway

Hilliard Ensemble

I agree that giving great music its due treatment shouldn't be equaled to taking time with it. The snappy performances by Appony Quartet of op. 33 (the recording is kind of hard to find now) are pure quickfire compared to the Mosaiques' measured efforts, and yet they are so good (check internet...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunnyears Chacun à son goût. De Gustibus non est disputandum, etc, etc, etc. Mozart himself would have thought so, too. Indeed a bit of character is hardly bad for his music. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...011200986.html

I have the Minkowski and prefer it to the Tafelmusik Actually it was I who first recommended the Minkowski disc here at headfi.

Which Karl Bohm? VPO1 or VPO2 (possibly more) ?

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunnyears Available at Amazon! It's a new release. I heard this in record stores before I left Taiwan. I was glad that I bought Minkowski's version instead. Maybe I was expecting something a bit more extraordinary for "old warhorses" like this pair...

Quote: Originally Posted by Bunnyears I have their Opus 64 and I'm looking to get as much as I can. Their Beethoven Opus 18 is also superb. Their Beethoven is not "a full set" either. So isn't their Boccherini. The only composer they have done full cycle is Mozart.