List of all the BBC Music Magazine CDs?

David Royko

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Jul 5, 2006, 12:01:35 PM7/5/06

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Can anyone point me to a listing/discography of all the CDs that have
come with the BBC Music Magazine?

Dave Royko

William Sommerwerck

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Jul 5, 2006, 7:15:32 PM7/5/06

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You can see the contents of the CDs, but only for those back issues still
available.

http://www.bbcmusicmagazine.com/backissues.asp

The Beeb probably has no motivation to list the contents of unavailable
recordings.

I have a complete set of all the mags (including special issues) and all the
CDs (ditto). If someone were willing to pay me (!!!) I'd gladly make up a
list. But there's close to 200 disks...

Raymond Hall

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Jul 5, 2006, 9:36:57 PM7/5/06

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"William Sommerwerck" <gizzle...@comcast.net> wrote in message
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Strange coincidence that only this morning I picked up from the local
newsagent, the CD (Vol14, No7) containing Brahms 1st symphony, the Schumann
overture Faust, and a work by Hanns Eisler, for $1. One other way I also get
PC software for next to nothing, as they sell all the PC magazine CDs for $1
once the issue has been replaced by the new magazine.

Are the BBC Music magazine contents worth reading? And what gems have been
attached to the mags as far as CDs are concerned?

Ray H
Taree

david...@aol.com

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Jul 5, 2006, 9:43:25 PM7/5/06

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Raymond Hall wrote:

> Are the BBC Music magazine contents worth reading?

Not in my experience.

> And what gems have been
> attached to the mags as far as CDs are concerned?

I would imagine it's hit or miss, but the one BBC Music Magazine CD I
have - it was attached to v. II, no. 10 - includes a magnificently sung
Liederkreis, Op. 39, with the peerless Ian Partridge. His wife (?),
Jennifer Partridge, is not quite the last word in Schumann pianists,
but she's a vast improvement over such accompanists with
Lieder-accompanist-itis as Dalton Baldwin and the even more mannered
Irwin Gage. (I can't remember what I thought of the Kerner songs, Op.
35, with Thomas Hemsley and Paul Hamburger included on the same CD, if,
indeed, I ever listened to them. Maybe I should.)

-david gable

Jerry

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Jul 6, 2006, 12:16:51 AM7/6/06

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There have been many fine CDs worth seeking out.

The gem (in my view) is the Bartok Bluebeard's Castle
(Vol. 2 No. 2) in an excellent English translation that
adds tremendously to the appreciation of this
magnificent work.

There have been other English-language Bluebeards,
including the Ormandy/Philadelphia for Columbia
(never issued on CD as far as I know) and a newly
released edition in the Chandos Opera in English
series (though I haven't heard that one yet).

Don Petter

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Jul 6, 2006, 2:54:11 AM7/6/06

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I also have a complete CD set, up to date until a month or two ago,
with the exception of one issue. (I won't say which, or the market
price might get inflated.) Since they have all been bought in charity
shops, I don't have the magazines. Like William, I am not inclined to
make a list without some incentive!

It may help other hunters to know that the numbering of the main
series (BBCMM) went as follows:

101-142
43-100
201-26?... (recent issues)

There have been various issues outside the main numbering, such as
BBCMMMT, for a Melvyn Tan item, BBCRRB 1 for a Richard Rodney Bennett
one, etc

Don.

alanwa...@aol.com

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Jul 6, 2006, 3:02:42 AM7/6/06

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david...@aol.com wrote:
> Raymond Hall wrote:
>
> > Are the BBC Music magazine contents worth reading?
>
> Not in my experience.
>
> > And what gems have been
> > attached to the mags as far as CDs are concerned?
>
> I would imagine it's hit or miss, but the one BBC Music Magazine CD I
> have - it was attached to v. II, no. 10 - includes a magnificently sung
> Liederkreis, Op. 39, with the peerless Ian Partridge. His wife (?),
> Jennifer Partridge, is not quite the last word in Schumann pianists,
> but she's a vast improvement over such accompanists with
> Lieder-accompanist-itis as Dalton Baldwin and the even more mannered
> Irwin Gage.
>

> -david gable

Jennifer is Ian's sister.

Kind regards,
Alan M. Watkins

Eric Grunin

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Jul 6, 2006, 3:19:54 AM7/6/06

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Raymond Hall wrote:
>
> Are the BBC Music magazine contents worth reading? And what gems have been
> attached to the mags as far as CDs are concerned?
>

I subscribed for a few years, near the beginning of the run, and liked
many of the discs; but haven't done enough of a close comparison with
the competition to make recommendations.

Except for the Eroica, of course:

1) One issue featured the 1939 Toscanini Eroica. This is of course
something everyone interested in the piece should hear, but it's
available on many other labels.

2) The Kovachevich Eroica is fine, a typical 'modern' performance, but
not worth going out of your way for.

Regards,
Eric Grunin
www.grunin.com/eroica

William Sommerwerck

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Jul 6, 2006, 6:45:18 AM7/6/06

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> Only this morning I picked up from the local newsagent,
> the CD (14:7) containing Brahms 1st symphony...

It's an interesting performance... Rather dark, even morbid. Certainly worth
hearing at least once.

> Are the BBC Music magazine contents worth reading?

I think so. Buy you'd have to look at a few issues and decide for yourself.

johnde...@googlemail.com

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Mar 18, 2018, 11:40:36 AM3/18/18

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Very late but here is one
www.knowledgewise.co.uk/music/bbcmm_cover_cds.xls

Bob Harper

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Mar 18, 2018, 5:41:24 PM3/18/18

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Link not working for me.

Bob Harper

Frank Berger

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Mar 18, 2018, 5:44:11 PM3/18/18

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Works for me.

Bob Harper

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Mar 18, 2018, 5:44:53 PM3/18/18

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Ha. Got it by going to the main site, www.knowledgewise.co.uk, then
pasting in the remainder of the address. Why the whole thing doesn't
work out of the box I have no idea.

Bob Harper

bobin...@gmail.com

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Jan 2, 2019, 12:26:32 PM1/2/19

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Just what I was looking for. Thanks.

Not a Dentist

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Jan 2, 2019, 4:31:58 PM1/2/19

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Wow! Just had to wait awhile for the file to load and launch Excel (a software I avoid whenever possible)... The list is indeed up to date with end of 2018 info. Lots of memories stirred just from reading the contents. My collection of the CDs trailed off some 7 or 8 years ago, but lots of swell stuff, including historic, and live-only BBC productions. Time to start watching for used offers, I guess!

D

bobin...@gmail.com

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Jan 2, 2019, 4:56:23 PM1/2/19

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bobin...@gmail.com

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Jan 2, 2019, 4:59:08 PM1/2/19

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Thanks for what must have been a painstaking job of compiling this information. I spent time today just going through this amazing collection. I first subscribed in 1993 and the March issue was my first. I missed two issues when they botched my subscription at some point. I love the wide variety of music. Most of them I'll never have time to listen to again. I review about 75 classical vocal recordings a year for a journal, and I try not to wonder what I will do with this vast repository of CDs. I'm pleased that a music conservatory has agreed to take them when the time comes.

weary flake

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Jan 2, 2019, 9:45:42 PM1/2/19

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What list are you talking about? There's two partial lists at discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/label/90812-BBC-Music-Magazine

https://www.discogs.com/label/769242-The-BBC-Music-Magazine-Collection

weary flake

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Jan 2, 2019, 9:54:18 PM1/2/19

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I can't figure out if the second smaller list of 85 items has anything
that's not in the first list of 355 items.

Frank Berger

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Jan 2, 2019, 11:55:29 PM1/2/19

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You must have missed this:

www.knowledgewise.co.uk/music/bbcmm_cover_cds.xls

199...@gmail.com

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Mar 22, 2020, 5:15:07 PM3/22/20

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Splendid!
Thank you.

davidk...@googlemail.com

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Mar 22, 2020, 7:21:37 PM3/22/20

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You can find a full list of the BBC Music Magazine CDs and links to the cover artwork of all of them at https://www.knowledgewise.co.uk/music/