Spinning Today (Classical version)

Guys, I've had a look at what I have and this is the data gleaned:

Symphony No. 2, digital recording 1982 [double vinyl, also on double CD]
Symphony No. 5 & 10 (Adagio), analogue recording 1979 [double vinyl]
Symphony No. 6, digital recording 1983 [double DMM vinyl]

According to the list on the back, Nos. 3 & 7 are recorded digitally. Nos. 4 and 8 are not mentioned so may be digital as they came later.

This may account for some of the variation in sound quality. I must say all mine sound good on vinyl, and the 2nd on vinyl is appreciably better than the CD.

My Tennstedt Mahler 3 CDs ---

---- Oops. :oops:

I don't have the standard original issues at all. :nono:

Here's what I have ...

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...pscae7470a.jpg

A Japanese re-issue using NRD - New Remastered Digital - on the "Angel Best 100" series.

So - is this the same as the original? I have no idea!! :lol:

It does sound stunning, though, imo.
.mus / Tom may be able to present some views on this in the near future.;)

Indeed, I shall be sure to report back ;)

Up today, this...

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3070378.JPG

A friend gave this to me, as he'd inherited it from a great-uncle - who'd been an opera singer - but he didn't have the means to play it :eek:

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3070387.JPG

They're in pristine condition though :)

This evening.

Symphony 9 then 10 from this set

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dsj700LNWy...e%2Bmahler.jpg

The 9th especially is fabulous.

Which orchestra is that, Jerry?

The set's a mixture of the Chicago SO, Philadelphia and London SO.

The 9th and 10th are with the Phillies, recorded 1979 and 1978/80, resp - my guess is that the Adagio from the 10th was recorded first.

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Originally Posted by jandl100

The 9th especially is fabulous.

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Thanks for the tip Jerry, enjoying it now :)

Popped into Oxfam in Liverpool today and purloined the following on minty second-hand vinyl:

Ravel – 'Daphnis & Chloe'. The Complete Ballet with The New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Boulez and Abraham Kaplan (chorus master), on CBS Masterworks, from 1975.


http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/2483/ravels.jpg


Mahler – Symphony No.4 in G Major, with Emmy Loose (soprano) and The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Paul Kletski, on HMV Concerts Classics Series, from 1958 (Stereo).


http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/7829/mahler4ss7.jpg


Purcell, Henry – 'Dido & Aeneas', with The St Anthony Singers English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Lewis, on London Records (Editions de L’Oiseau-Lyre), from 1962 (Stereo).


http://img801.imageshack.us/img801/9311/purcell.jpg


Dvořák – Concerto in A Minor for Violin and Orchestra/Romance in F Minor, with Isaac Stern (violin) and The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, on CBS Classics Records, from 1977.


http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7040/dvorak.jpg


Shostakovich – Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917' Festival Overture, with The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Georges Prêtre, on EMI Records, from 1963. I could only find an image for the mono version:


http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/833...ymphonyno1.jpg


Off to clean them now, and then listen! :)

Marco.

Nice haul, Marco! - but I think you'll find it's Mahler's 4th symphony, not the fifth. :)

Hi Jerry,

Yup - now edited :)

I'm trying to get images of the album covers, to post, but some of them are quite difficult to find...

Marco.