The "CD Haul" thread

[Jongpil Yun]

Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Horowitz performing)

• "Appasionata" Sonata in F Minor
• "Moonlight" Sonata in C# Minor
• "Waldstein" Sonata in C Major

Alfred Brendel Plays Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, vol III

• Contains Piano Sonatas 1, 25, 5, 6, 9, 10, 13, 14, and 15

Beethoven Complete Piano Concertos (Brendel on Piano and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra)

• Piano Concertos 1-5
• Fantasy for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra in C Minor

JS Bach Solo & Double Violin Concertos (Manze, 1st violin, Podger, 2nd violin)

• Concerto in D minor for two violins
• Concerto in A minor for violin
• Concerto in E major for violin
• Concerto in D minor for two violins

Bach: Violin Concertos (Perlman, 1st violin, Zukerman, 2nd violin)

• Violin Concerto in E major
• Violin Concerto in G minor
• Violin Concerto in A minor
• Concerto in D minor for two violins

Bach: Sonatas & Partitas (Perlman, violin)

• Sonata No. 1 in G minor
• Sonata No. 1 in B minor (not a typo)
• Sonata No. 2 in A minor
• Partita No. 2 in D minor
• Sonata No. 3 in C major
• Partita No. 3 in E major

10 CDs in total

Picked up a metric shit tonne of books today too. Half of them dealing with org. chem

Some day I'm going to buy Leslie Howard's performances of the entire body of Liszt's work (world record for largest recording project undertaken by a solo artist) and fill several fucking pages of this thread with it. Bitches.

 

[MerlinTKD]

You rock

 

[ChaplainMoses]

I just got Fear My Thought's newest one, Vulcanis. Its a pretty good cd, but I know I won't be listening to it for too long cause each song sounds the same to me.

 

[atimoc]

Amorphis - Silent Waters:
*Great CD, can't decide if it's better than Eclipse
Ayreon - 01011001:
*Bloody fantastic. Buy it!
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down:
*Katatonia's best, in my opinion
Opeth - Still Life:
*Already worth buying for The Moor, everything else is added bonus
Spock's Beard - Octane:
*Since Neal left the band they haven't been the same, but there are some good tracks
Strapping Young Lad - The New Black
*OK, not as good as City though

 

[Slayer89]

I just bought All That Remains' "The Fall of Ideals" last night at the Chimaira+ATR show.

 

[Jongpil Yun]

Don't know if it counts as a haul, but I found two CDs while cleaning my room today

Mozart Piano Concertos (Barenboim)

• Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major
• Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major
• Twelve Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, maman', or as you probably know it, "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" (same melody, different words in French)

Brahms: Violin Concerto (Menuhin, violin)

• Violin Concerto in D
• Academic Festival Overture
• Variations on a theme by Haydn ('St Anthony Chorale')
• Wiegenlied (Lullaby)
• Hungarian Dances 1 & 5

I really don't remember buying these. Maybe they're my mom's?

 

[Jongpil Yun]

Liszt: 10 Hungarian Rhapsodies (Cziffra, piano)

• Hungarian Rhapsodies 2, 6, 8, 9, 10-15.

Bizet: Carmen - pretty self explanatory

Shostakovich: Complete Concertos

• Violin concerto No. 1 in A minor
• Violin Concerto No. 2 in C# minor
• Cello Concerto No. 1
• Cello Concerto No. 2
• Concerto for piano, trumpet, and strings in C minor
• Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major

By the way, the dudes at Borders are complete assholes. Think I'm a shoplifter or something.

 

[Michael]

Steve Vai - The 7th Song

also just bought this shirt.

 

[Jongpil Yun]

Mozart - Don Giovanni

Wagner - Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Great Scenes)

• Das Rheingold - Einzug der Gotter in Walhall (fuck the umlauts)
• Die Walkure - Walkurenritt
• Die Walkure - Feuerzauber
• Siegfried - Schmiedelied
• Siegfried - Waldweben
• Gotterdammerung - Trauermarsch
• Gotterdammerung - Brunnhildes SchluBgesang

Fuckin' German. Why so many non-latin characters

 

[Michael]

Just bought these from Drache713.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
God Forbid - Determination

 

[technomancer]

Ordered:

The Asylum - Closer to the Evil
Testament - The Ritual
Tool - Undertow
Marc Rizzo - Colossal Myopia
Marc Rizzo - Ultimate Devotion

 

[Jongpil Yun]

Just bought these from Drache713.

Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime

 

[Jongpil Yun]

Necrophagist - Epitaph (A hard copy, finally)

Bach's Cello Suites No. 1, 4, and 5 (EMI Classics) (Rostropovich, cello)

• Cello Suite No. 1 in G major
• Cello Suite No. 4 in Eb major
• Cello Suite No. 5 in C minor

Bach's Goldberg Variations (Sony Classical Legacy) (Glenn Gould, piano)

• 1955 version of the variations, by a young Gould (38'26)
• 1981 version of the variations, by an older Gould (51'14)
• Bonus: Glenn Gould discusses his performances with Tim Page
• Bonus: Studio outtakes from the 1955 recording session

Two Violin Concertos (Sony Classical) (Hillary Hahn, violin)

• Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor
• Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor

Horowitz plays Scriabin (BMG classical) (Vladimir Horowitz, piano)

• Sonata No. 5 (atonal)
• Preludes, a shit ton of them
• Sonata No. 3 in F# minor
• Etudes (Op. 8 No. 7) (Op. 42 No. 5) (Op. 8 No. 12)
• Scriabin has way too many preludes and the numbering for them is awkward...

Chopin: Nocturnes (complete) (Deutsche Grammophon) (Daniel Barenboim, piano)

• 3 Nocturnes, Op. 9
• 3 Nocturnes, Op. 15
• 2 Nocturnes, Op. 27
• 2 Nocturnes, Op. 32
• 2 Nocturnes, Op. 37
• 2 Nocturnes, Op. 48
• 2 Nocturnes, Op. 55
• 2 Nocturnes, Op. 62
• Nocturne in C minor, posthumous, Op. 72
• Nocturne in C# minor (1830, posthumous)
• Nocturne in C minor (1837, posthumous)
• The CD's track listings are written in French, with the French solfege and everything. I'm not quite sure how they work

So, I need to get a bigger iPod, because I'm now right at 26gb, out of 27 usable gb of storage on my current one

 

[MerlinTKD]

^ :shock:

Damn dude, you got the GOOD stuff! Gould, Rostropovich, Horowitz, and Barenboim?? Daaamn... making me feel bad... I've got some Steve Reich around here somewhere, and a Russian sampler by some Eastern European orchestra, that's about it


Okay, here's my new ones:

(various artists) - Strait Up
- Been wanting this for years, finally found a copy today! I'm stoked! Yes, I like Snot and numetal, bite me

God Forbid - Determination
- Kick ass! I have a new band to collect, no question! Really like the Coyle bros. tone, which is surprising since I generally don't like EMG's. Good stuff on this disc!

Bodysoil - (self-titled)
- Local band... actually, I think a band of very young teenagers. They go through every metal cliche, I couldn't listen past the third tune. On the other hand, I give them kudos for putting a 10 song CD of original music out, complete with liner notes, lyrics, art, the whole deal. I can't listen to it, but I don't regret buying it!

 

[ire_works]

Brail Drill - Apoclyptic Feasting
Behemoth - The Aposasy
Open Eyes Elysia - Optophobia: Lamenting The Sphere

 

[Jongpil Yun]

Yo-Yo Ma used to be my favorite cellist until I really sat down and compared his and Rostropovich's versions of some of the same pieces. Man, that old fucker could play. Not only that, but two of my favorite cello pieces (Shostakovich's first and second cello concertos) were actually written for him.

His version of the prelude of to Bach's Cello Suite No. 1 is just so fucking incredible it makes me want to cry.

 

[Slayer89]

My latest purchases ....

Amorphis - Eclipse
Bayside - The Walking Wounded
Chimaira - Self-titled
The Punisher Soundtrack (Mainly bought for the Ben Moody, Atomship, and Mark Collie tracks)

 

[abyssalservant]

Album of the year right there. That is Devin's masterpiece hands down.

I hate/hated Synchestra >.< Boring and unappealing.
*waits to be told that it's artsy and he doesn't understand it*


Enemite - The Necrolatry
Awesome! Black ritual ambient from China - excellent use of ethnic elements, deranged ranting . . . Highly recommended, if you can find a copy.
Caina - Mourner
Another excellent one. The first time I heard this, I was floored by the raw emotion in much of the album. Actually, some of the others on this list I bought from Andy of Caina when he needed gear money . . . Highly recommended.
Anathema - Eternity
Well-loved album, but I was disappointed. I was introduced to Anathema through A Natural Disaster, and I found especially the vocal performance on Eternity to be far too rock-oriented for my taste - none of the fragile emotion that I'd heard in the more recent Anathema.
Grand Belial's Key - Judobeast Assassination
Mostly a vaguely amusing album. Fairly straightforward black metal (with of course the anti-JudeoChristian/anti-homosexual rantings you'd expect in GBK), but with a few artistic surprises. Overall not bad.
Abandon - In Reality We Suffer
Excellent, sparse Swedish sludge band. Was some of my main listening for a bit - the only reason it isn't now is that I haven't put it on this computer yet. I really like the emotionally draining quality . . . distinctive sound, as well, without being wildly out there. Definitely recommended. Well, I like it anyway.
In Mourning - Shrouded Divine
On a semi-recommendation from Jon Rosenthal of Bergtagen. Pretty well-crafted. Clearly influenced by Opeth and such - much better-produced than a lot of the stuff I listen to, and that may be why it strikes me as a bit poppy. If you like Opeth's heavy stuff, especially the better-produced stuff, check this out. It's about two months old now.
Actually, oddly, there're vocal moments that remind me of GBK. And some unsurprising (in their presence) post-rock/post-metal segments.
Pat Metheny - :Rarum IX - Pat Metheny Selected Recordings ECM
A "best of," which I almost always avoid like the plague. Some good playing, and such. It's got that much lighter feel and semi-juvenile "in the mind, not the heart" tone I hear from a number of the more "musician-oriented" artists. The song "Phase Dance" gives me an urge to retrack the basslines with something better, and "New Chatauqua"'s bright, strummy sound tends to get on my nerves. Some of the playing (especially Jaco's) is tasty and inspirational.
Ulver - Perdition City
Excellent. Love the "pop" vocal bits. Love the electronic beats. Love the atmosphere. LOVE Rolf-Erik Nystrom's innovative saxophone playing. Highly recommended if you're not completely stuck in the metal mindset.
Rolf-Erik Nystrom - 4Live performance
Not strictly a CD. Downloadable here: Internet Archive: Details: Rolf Eric Nystrom @ 4live- Shanghai, China. Features the aforementioned Norwegian saxophone player executing interesting maneuvers at a venue in Shanghai. Percussive elements, melodic elements, overall tasty music and interesting sax playing. Would have liked more musical context for some of it. The real highlight was guestwork/collaboration on one track with legendary Chinese noise act Torturing Nurse.

I've probably dug up some other interesting stuff recently, but that's what comes to mind.

Comment: I was so neat and concise at first! That got derailed . . .

A couple more:
Animus - Poems for the Aching, Swords for the Infuriated
Ok. Really raw solo-projecty black metal. More ambient, rather than blasty. Decent atmosphere, to which the poor production actually really adds something, as much as I'm usually not a fan of super-raw production. Good listening, in a strange way. Released by our friends Ars Magna. Israeli, according to Metal Archives.
Lifelover - Erotik
Love this album! Took a bit for me to be comfortable with it. Deliberately out-of-tune singing shows up . . . slow, simple, melodic guitars, a range of sounds. Depressive in an engaging way (unlike depressive BM, sorry Wedard fans). Wish I had it on hand to listen to right now.
Ephel Duath - RePhormula It's ok. I'm not a huge fan of the atmosphere - it's oddly, in the most obvious, direct way, like Dimmu-meets-Berzerker, but jolting and progressive. Heavy use of electronics, very tight production and rhythm. Actually, some of the riffs remind me of the feel of some of the tremolo-bowed bits in The Imperial March. Good if you want to feel slightly mentally imbalanced.
Falkenbach - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty (and others)
Also got Heralding the Fireblade and another with an incomprehensible title (I'm linguistically challenged! Help!). Ok Nefna . . . is definitely my favorite of the lot. Strong melodies, excellent feel. Sweeps you up in the larger motion of your raiding brothers. A must for anyone into "viking" metal (which doesn't include me.) Recommended for others as well.

I really should stop for now. Or start a review site. Not sure which.

Oh, and a recording of Berg's Wozzeck.
And some Stockhausen: Gruppen, Punkte, and Stimmung. Stimmung is my least favorite, voices only. Interesting ideas though. What I really want is a recording of the Klavierstucke stuff . . . much sexier. Best Stockhausen I've heard yet.
OH! And I got Aphex Twin - Drukqs! Excellent stuff, very nice range of different sounds and feels. Looking forward to picking up some more.
And Brian Eno's Music for Airports and Music for Films. Music for Films is ok, decent tunes I suppose. Music for Airports is much-preferred by the me. Very tasty. Soothing, disconnects you from distress and emotion just enough to be pleasant. Definitely recommended.

 

[MerlinTKD]

Doh, did this once (edit: twice! damn iTunes... ), then the PC locked up. Short version follows:


Protest the Hero - Fortress
Awesome... so glad I read about them this morning!

Ill Nino - Enigma
Best album of their career, great songwriting, excellent production - the percussion is always heard, no matter what else is going on.

Best Buy didn't have obZen, have to wait til next week and pick it up at the local indie store.

 

[Holy Katana]

John Coltrane - My Favorite Things
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame