what was the last cd you bought?

 Ah, I don't really need that much help.  I often forget to post here as sadly if I did I wouldn't have time for anything else.  The New Year is coming and always an opportune time to quite cold turkey and slow down (for a day or two maybe ?)

Recent acquisitions, including Hooker'N Heat. 

Never a great fan of Canned Heat here, but this unedited set with the master of the blues is an absolute classic.

1. Hooker'N Heat - Canned Heat & John Lee Hooker
2. Lachenmann : Nun/Notturno (Kairos)
3. Pierre Gerard - Architect (Senufo)
4. Deepchord Dc7-Dc16 (3CD, remaster of original LPs)
5. Rank Ensemble / Solmund Nystabakk; Elena Kakaliagou; - Papilio Noblei (Leo)
6. Jim Denley, Kim Myhr, Ingar Zach [Mural] - Tempera (CΟNV)
7. Tim Olive - Airs / Dominion Mills (845 Audio)
8. Ichiko Aoba - 0 (Zero, Japanese wander girl)
9. Tom Arthurs, Miles Perkin, Yorgos Dimitriadis - 'Chats with the real McCoy' (Creative Sources)
10. Eventless Plot - 'Structures' (Creative Sources)
11. Aleph-1 pdis [Japan CD]
12. Centrafrique: Chants de Chasse, d'Amour et de Moquerie (Ocora)
13. Dennis Johnson - November (IH)
14. Lufth - Distanz Und Nahe (Octaf)
15. Richard Ginns - In Float (Cotton Goods)
16. Keith Rowe, Anthony Taillard, Emmanuel Leduc, Julien Ottavi - A Quartet For Guitars (Mikroton)

OK. I just downloaded it in hi-res. I'll concede that the physical product looks like it is much cooler.

Mahler's 5th would be too romantic for Klemperer is my guess.

The 1st is rather garish but I came to like it. There are a lot of elements in his first symphony that gets repeated later on. 

How did you do with his Bruckener's 9th?

Steve,

I have the CD pictured above, but it's a four song promo disc, essentially an EP. So I just wanted to confirm your version contains the full LP of songs. I no longer buy many CDs but agree, for the price, this would be a nice buy.

How did you do with his Bruckener's 9th?

Dear Kuma,

The first two movements are glorious, and not so different to Bruno Walter's recording on Sony-US Columbia. 

Where the revelation came for me was the slow last movement, where the level of concentration is other-Worldly. Pointless to try to analyse just what is being achieved, but it has musical greatness written all over it. At the end one could not conceive of an Allegro Finale adding anything at all. 

ATB from George

Upon George J's recommendation.

Dear Haim,

I am guessing that the Saint Anne Prelude and Fugue [BWV 552, arr, Busoni] is on this. One of my desert Island discs, and possibly my favourite Bach performance of all! Also the very early recording of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, which is transcendental in my view.

Music making that remains strangely timeless in spite of being done a long time ago!

ATB from George

Renaissance music by a largely forgotten composer. Why, you may ask? Well, since discovering Gesualdo, I've found the Renaissance brought forth a wealth of truly excellent and virtually unknown music, so I'm looking forward to further discovering this corner. This is essentially a blind purchase but The Brabant Ensemble includes members of Stile Antico, one of today's foremost renaissance singing groups, so I should be in good hands.

EJ

To complement my three piano versions of these suites. 

Abbado conducting Haydn's delightful Sinfonia Concertante (coupled with The Miracle) on a 1987 DG CD.

Bought just now from the local Oxfam shop:

alt-J | An Awesome Wave

Bonnie Prince Billy: A Singer's Grave A Sea of Tongues

As is BPB's style these days released without any advance publicity or promotion. This is a re-working of songs from a previous album (Wolfroy Goes To Town) which may seem a bit unpromising but actually it is great. The songs come alive in different ways with a more active band and complex musical arrangements and I probably prefer it to the originals. Like all the best BPB it is also just that little bit 'odd' too.

One of my favourite artists. Always interesting.

Bruce

Arrived just now - Pink Floyd's The Endless River deluxe Blu-ray and CD

George,

I found the set, not the sweeping or romantic rendition but as usual he tells the story in calm and collected 3rd person narrative. This is a somewhat barren and desolate gray 1st movement with at times jarring sound of brass scaring the hell out of me. Enlightening Adagio. Pity that the recording quality isn't doing justice for its splended grandeur detached from this world. Very long final movement but it's all justified to build the story. Very detailed and well spaced. Poignant unsettling ending.

I agree that the Klempere's 9th is one of those rendition that does not require the final movement get get the strong lasting impact. 

Arrived today from Amazon. At £5.99 for the 4 CD set, it would be rude not to.

I thought that I had this, a search proved that it was here no more; now ordered.

Thanks to Amazon's delivery driver being unable to get access to the "security entrance" of my house, my front door is about 25 feet from the kerb and the only security is the doors themselves.

So my 2 x CD version did not arrive, they promise delivery on Tuesday. 3rd failure of Amazon prime  for "next day delivery", did get an extra month for complaining though.

Recommended on the forum yesterday by MDS and Tony2011 (amongst others) I had to give this a try,

Hi Joe,

Apologies for my late reply but I have only just now seen your comment! Yes I can confirm it contains the full track list, 15 in all. From what I have read the 1999 (non re-mastered version in 2012) is the one to go for and the one I bought. Currently £1.68 in the UK used.:

1. Yellow Submarine

2. Hey Bulldog

3. Eleanor Rigby

4. Love You To

5. All Together Now

6. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds

7. Think For Yourself

8. Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

9. With A Little Help From My Friends

10. Baby You're A Rich Man

11. Only A Northern Song

12. All You Need Is Love

13. When I'm Sixty Four

14. Nowhere Man

15. It's All Too Much

That did not read very well! To confirm the 1999 CD is the one you want not the 2012 re-master.

Steve