Spinning Today (Classical version)

[Gordon Steadman]

Yes, it's fascinating to hear Ansermet's 9th, so much going on in the different musical parts that (not being a score reader) I hadn't realised before!
But I wouldn't want to be without large scale performances that raise the roof and sweep the listener away!
Based on recent listening, if I had to restrain myself to two 9ths they would probably be Ansermet and Abbado.

Agh......score reading!!! As we have just got a piano, trying to remember all those lessons from my childhood is straining the old brain. I used to be able to sight read and happily follow a score. Now it's all just a jumble of notes again. Back to scales and slomo for a while

[Barry]

Now that we are into the Prom season (courtesy of the BBC and Quad (FM4)), I haven't been playing much classical music but I have been listening to a lot of it.

[dougmon]

Perhaps my favorite harpsichord recording. The Japanese import is very fine-sounding.

[jandl100]

LP -

Wonderful performances of the 3 standard violin concertos, the 3 transcriptions are interesting, too.

Cassette -

Superb, in its rather old fashioned way.

Cassette -

Excellent, too. Anton Nanut, one of my favourite conductors.

[Ingrid]

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[daytona600]

Borodin Symphonies 2 & 3 by Ernest Ansermet & L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
ORG 45rpm - Wow !!

[jandl100]

and Bliss continues his seemingly inexorable rise in my estimation ...

[jandl100]

-- very good.


--- Coo, I loved this. Quirky but interesting.


--- Wow, this is Heifetz when in his youth (1941) - a zillion miles from the way he played later in life, for his stereo recordings.
I find his stereo works cold, aloof, emotionless, bored.
But this Elgar from 1941 is just brimming with emotion and obvious affection for the work. Stunning. Not a bad recording, either, mine is on LP -- also available remastered on Naxos.

[daytona600]

[jandl100]

Inspired by a certain current thread ....


-- cassette


-- also on cassette.

Don't try telling me these aren't hifi quality!