Spinning Today (Classical version)

[JJack]

Just ordered this Barbirolli 10-cd box set. I can't believe the treasures that are in here (many out of print) for a very reasonable price:
Mahler, Elgar, Sibelius, RVW, etc

[jandl100]

Just ordered this Barbirolli 10-cd box set. I can't believe the treasures that are in here (many out of print) for a very reasonable price:
Mahler, Elgar, Sibelius, RVW, etc

Ah yes, I got that one. For years I thought I didn't like Glorious John's conducting, so I decided to give him a proper try-out with this set.

Yup !! -- I still don't like his conducting!
.... You missed a bargain on ebay when I sold it on!

This afternoon:

Havergal Brian - Symphonies 10 and 21 (Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orchestra/James Loughran and Eric Pinkett), Unicorn LP RHS 313

It must be thirty years or more since this one got a play .

Amazing music, unlike any other composer, really.

Yeah, a bit of a Brian revival going on. Loads of his symphonies coming out cheaply on Naxos.

And there was his 1st Symphony - the gi-normous choral Gothic symphony - at the opening night of the Proms a year or so back. ... also available on an excellent Naxos 2 CD set.

[jandl100]

Of late ....

Vaughan Williams 2nd Symphony - Barbirolli / Halle EMI Eminence LP. Why do I find Barbirolli so boring? This up for sale soon on my charity sale thread!

Vivaldi flute concertos. William Bennett - EMI Eminence LP. Another from yesterdays's charity shop haul. Pleasant enough.

Beethoven 3rd symphony. Klemperer 1955 mono EMI LP. Zounds! - superb Beethoven conducting!

Dvorak 9th Symphony (New World). Rostropovich / LPO EMI Eminenece LP. A Russkie cellist conducting a Brit orchestra in a Bohemian's American-inspired music. . I'm surprised at how good this is! ... and the top-notch sound quality doesn't hurt at all.

Dussek - piano sonatas. Markus Becker on a CPO CD. Kind of Haydn'esque-going-on-Beethoven, I guess, which is a huge compliment from me. Very enjoyable.

Penderecki Violin Concerto #2 - Mutter / Previn - a live recording off radio on a Mini-disc. Difficult music at first listen, but this grows & grows!

[JJack]

Ah yes, I got that one. For years I thought I didn't like Glorious John's conducting, so I decided to give him a proper try-out with this set.

Yup !! -- I still don't like his conducting!
.... You missed a bargain on ebay when I sold it on!


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Oh no! Ah well, I really liked his Mahler 9 so I gave the box set a try for $35.

[MartinT]

His Mahler 9 is brilliant.

[jandl100]

Yes, Don't worry, Jack - it's just me & Barbirolli don't get on. He's music making is much loved by many!

[Barry]

Of late ....

Vaughan Williams 2nd Symphony - Barbirolli / Halle EMI Eminence LP. Why do I find Barbirolli so boring? This up for sale soon on my charity sale thread!

Vivaldi flute concertos. William Bennett - EMI Eminence LP. Another from yesterdays's charity shop haul. Pleasant enough.

Beethoven 3rd symphony. Klemperer 1955 mono EMI LP. Zounds! - superb Beethoven conducting!

Dvorak 9th Symphony (New World). Rostropovich / LPO EMI Eminenece LP. A Russkie cellist conducting a Brit orchestra in a Bohemian's American-inspired music. . I'm surprised at how good this is! ... and the top-notch sound quality doesn't hurt at all.

Dussek - piano sonatas. Markus Becker on a CPO CD. Kind of Haydn'esque-going-on-Beethoven, I guess, which is a huge compliment from me. Very enjoyable.

Penderecki Violin Concerto #2 - Mutter / Previn - a live recording off radio on a Mini-disc. Difficult music at first listen, but this grows & grows!

Klemperer's reading of the Beethoven 3rd? That's about as exciting as watching paint dry and takes about as much time! (Only my opinion of course.)



I've just been listening to

Rachmaninov - Symphony No.2 in E minor, Op.27 and his Fantasy for Orchestra, Op.7, "The Rock". CSR Symphony Orchestra, cond. Stephen Gunzenhauser. 1989 Naxos 8.550272

The only version I have, picked up cheap in a charity shop, I can't say it has made much impression on me, though I enjoyed the Fantasy.

Will need to listen to it again to be able to form a more positive opinion.

[morris_minor]

Of late ....

Vaughan Williams 2nd Symphony - Barbirolli / Halle EMI Eminence LP. Why do I find Barbirolli so boring? This up for sale soon on my charity sale thread!

At the risk of seeming cheeky could I "pre-order" this, please, Jerry? Unless you change your mind of course.

[keiths]

I picked up a 6 LP Barbirolli box-set from the local charity shop a while back. It's still in the 'to be cleaned' pile (big pile) - will get my arse in gear and try and get a couple of dozen or so LPs cleaned over the weekend.

[jandl100]

Klemperer's reading of the Beethoven 3rd? That's about as exciting as watching paint dry and takes about as much time! (Only my opinion of course.)

Nah - not imo - Klemps only got turgid as he got into old age, the mono Eroica I was listening to was recorded 1955 or earlier, and is quite a different proposition to his later stereo recordings.
... mind you, I've got a bit of a soft spot for those, too! - the best of them have a kind of granitic strength that doesn't sweep you off your feet but does enthrall with its purposeful inevitability. But yes, quite a bit of late Klemperer is way too stodgy for me as well.