New daily deal at eclassical!

[Bob Stern]

Today's Rach sym 2 with Gergiev & LSO is excellent.

 

Since eClassical permits buying individual tracks, you might also consider the Supplica track from the Rouse album.  It's an elegiac mood piece sort of like Barber's Adagio for Strings except with a wide variety of orchestral timbres.  It doesn’t really go anywhere, but it's pretty.  The frequently changing instrumental combinations are the main interest.  (The other two pieces are the polar opposite: raucous.)

 

Vanska's Mahler is terrible IMO.  He underplays all the contrasts between sections, instead limiting his expression to micromanaging articulation changes.

[AnotherSpin]

8 hours ago, Musicophile said:

I’d definitely need a blue pill then. Or maybe I should start with a couple of drams of a good single malt. 

 

Then you don't need to do anything. The blue one comes by default.

[austinpop]

9 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

Then you don't need to do anything. The blue one comes by default.

 

Blue is the placebo arm. This pandemic has made us all experts on RCTs. 

[austinpop]

Tough Mahler crowd here!

 

Today's Isabelle Faust's Mozart violin concertos is a nice collection, if you need one more set.

[Bob Stern]

Today's Mendelssohn by the Escher String Quartet is excellent and powerful.  

 

Also superbly recorded.  BIS recordings seem to be more full bodied lately.

[semente]

Today's deal is a nice recording:

 

https://www.eclassical.com/conductors/bakels-kees/rimsky-korsakov-the-snow-maiden.html

[semente]

I am really enjoying today’s daily deal:

 

 

https://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis/yevgeny-sudbin-plays-liszt-ravel-saint-saens-1.html

[semente]

Some good symphonic Sibelius today:

 

 

https://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis/sibelius-the-seven-symphonies-1.html

[semente]

Another bundle worth getting:

 

https://www.eclassical.com/pages/daily-deal.html?cache=purge

 

[rando]

Having previously posted a screenshot of the hilarity arising when an album featuring his ex-wife and the man for whom she chose to bear numerous children came up as the Daily Deal. 

 

The sap newly bled pours out of this soliloquy with no slighter levels of personal conflict.  Yesterday he proudly recounted the exuberant nature with which he pursued a fling with female artist he was recording.  In the all to numerous and regretfully wild years predating his current marriage.  😘😅😘😅

 

[Bob Stern]

Shostakovich violin concertos 1 & 2 are today's 1/2 price special, with Frank Peter Zimmermann violin, and Alan Gilbert conducting the NDR Elbphilharmonie.  Zimmermann is wonderfully subtle and poignant.

 

The SQ is wonderful too, apparently recorded by the orchestra's engineers instead of BIS, which is a plus: transparent but smooth, without BIS's screechy treble.  My only criticism is that the soloist is unnaturally prominent relative to the orchestra, which doesn’t bother me in this case because it allows me to focus on Zimmermann's subtlety.

[Axiom05]

9 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

transparent but smooth, without BIS's screechy treble.

Wow, I've never encountered that and I have many BIS recordings dating back to the early days of CD. Many of their early CD's were mastered with preemphasis so this must be corrected for. For SQ, BIS is among my favorite labels.

[AnotherSpin]

9 hours ago, Bob Stern said:

[...] BIS's screechy treble.  [...]

I like BIS recordings, sounds fine. Maybe something worng with your sound set settings?

[rando]

[danadam]

11 hours ago, rando said:

 

I've just sent them information, that their credit card processor doesn't work with uBlock Origin adblocker.

[PAP]

On 4/6/2021 at 8:38 PM, semente said:

I am really enjoying today’s daily deal:

 

 

https://www.eclassical.com/labels/bis/yevgeny-sudbin-plays-liszt-ravel-saint-saens-1.html

This album is a real pleasure. It is top on my Sunday morning list. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

[rando]

On 1/1/2022 at 7:59 PM, danadam said:

 

I've just sent them information, that their credit card processor doesn't work with uBlock Origin adblocker.

 

I don't understand the issue.  Three clicks to disable it temporarily on a secure trusted site or at best a few minutes to figure out what list is producing the conflict.  

 

AV produce false positives.  Every single security program does.    

[danadam]

13 hours ago, rando said:

I don't understand the issue.  Three clicks to disable it temporarily

Sure, once you know what the problem is. A spinner spinning forever does not convey that information too well.