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Hmm. The Flagello I enjoyed, and he is on my 'want more' list - the Rosner I can live without!
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Hmm. The Flagello I enjoyed, and he is on my 'want more' list - the Rosner I can live without!
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Just the Prelude in B major Op.16-1 is worth the entire session. A miraculous disc.
Just acquired a mint copy of this:
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- and very splendid it sounds too :D
Brahms
Concerto in D Major for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 77
Szigeti, violin
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Ormandy, cond.
Columbia Masterworks ML 4015 (mono / deep groove)
I love these old thick as a brick microgroove platters. According to the Ronpenndorf website (where I lifted a pic of a similar pressing, below) this disc was probably pre 1950! 63 years later, having been made decades before I was born, I can still throw it on my TT and enjoy the music. I love that! :D
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It's very good.
It's simply fabulous. My favourite performance of the Gloria.Quote:
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Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major, Op. 6
Tretyakov, violin
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra
Yarvy, cond.
(vinyl)
Recently oiked out a much-neglected Music For Pleasure LP of Tchaikovsky (Nutcracker suite) and Mendelssohn (Midsummer Nights Dream suite). I was surprised to find it played by the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin as that fact had never registered with me.
Doing a bit of digging I found it was from a 1957 US-only Capitol disc. The MFP disc (undated) hails from the days when it was a Paul Hamlyn company, and the pressing quality would put many modern-day releases to shame.
With sparkling performances in Capitol's "Full-dimensional sound" this was a happy find. The recording is wide rather than deep, and more like a "pit orchestra" sound than the typical concert-hall.
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Kind of a 'thick' sound, but listenable, and very fine performances.
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AbFab! :thumbsup: - superb in every way.
Both the above on LP. :)
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Lovely music - not very demanding, just melodious and nice to listen to. :)
I was listening to another version of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto (with Oistrakh) just the other day. Quite liked it. :)Quote:
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from the time when Andy Preview had a bit of get-up-and-go, that also saw his blistering Walton 1 :)
Ah, yes - Andrew Preview - I remember it well ---
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Wyn Morris is a much underrated conductor, imo.
His Beethoven cycle -including the 10th! - is excellent.
The 5th here is quite fast and very energetic and propulsive. And he gets a massive sound out of the LSO.
Very fine indeed. :)
Fabulous to see that again - it had tears rolling down my cheeks! :o :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by morris_minor
Comic genius! Morecambe & Wise weren't bad either . . .:eyebrows:Quote:
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Listening as I type, on LP via my luvvly Shure V15iii, for the 2nd time on the trot - the symphony is superb. Walton's 1st doesn't have it all its own way by any means!
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"...about that much..." :lol:
I've never heard Tennstedt's Bruckner, Jerry, but in view of his excellent Mahler cycle I can believe it's good.
Playing now ....
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Guitar solo - rather good!
Surely a contender for the slowest and most boring Beethoven's 5th symphony recording ever --->
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:zzz:
Not exactly the Carlos Kleiber, then?
:lol: - no, not exactly.
Not that slow always = boring.
But it does in this case.
-- I'm sure I felt my brains trickling out of my ears half way through the 2nd movement! But that might have been a dream as I probably fell asleep during the 1st movement.
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Hmm.
Rave reviews on Amazon.
But it all seems a bit mechanical and matter of fact to me - where's the emotion that surely lies at the heart of this music? :scratch:
I've tried various discs from the set a few times now and it always leaves me cold.
... next stop eBay!! :eyebrows:
I hate when that happens. I did the same thing with the Faure Requiem with Terfel and Bartoli on DG, which got rave reviews. Horrible, passionless performance.
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Magnificent performance and recording.
Will join the Telarc Mackerras CD on my shelves. Both are wonderful!
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A very pleasant evening was spent with a son of Johann Sebastian. :)
Eeeeeeek! Is that Blackadder?Quote:
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Eclectic listening today so I need to change threads to post the latest LP to hit the platter.
A chance buy as I haven't updated my classical wants list for some considerable time (albeit CDs); I could remember having some Couperin on there but not the exact albums.
Regardless the Harmonia Mundi recordings that I have are always enjoyable so at £2 in excellent condition I am not going to complain.
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Hmm -- yet more from JS Bach's eldest son. And very fine it is, too!
He looks a bit of a lad, doesn't he! :eyebrows: -->
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A new addition to the good ladys' vinyl collection.
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Yo-Yo performs the Boccherini in his usual precise yet warm style and the recording would appear to do justice to this.
Quite a bright and lively J.C.Bach offering from Zukerman despite my unfamiliarity with this particular piece.
I do like the works of J.C.Bach and look forward to a couple more listens.
On the second side of the first LP of the 2LP set.
Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
The London Singers, L'Ensemble Orchestra de L'Oiseau-Lye
Anthony Lewis
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Unfamiliar performers (reading up on them now) but seems competent and engaging so far.
First side of LP 2 and Tenors William Herbert & Richard Lewis deliver a pretty convincing Audi Coelum.
The first LP left me feeling that the performance seemed a little too British but I'm beginning to believe it now.
Beethoven - Symphony No. 5, Kleiber, VPO, DG [cd]
Sometimes, the 5th and only the 5th is the exact perfect piece of music. It has to be the Kleiber, of course.
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yep, for pure visceral excitement and power it's difficult to beat Kleiber in LvB's 5th symphony!
Chez Jerry last night, the first 2 CDs of this fine set --
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Possibly not Gregorian Chant in the purest sense but an excellent CD nonetheless and one of my favourite choral albums.
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A superb Tchaik piano trio, probably the best I have heard.
The Shosty is a painfully intense piece, wracked with angst.
But not in this recording! -- it could have been written by Dvorak. Pretty, but pointless, imo.
This afternoon: the first Bliss LP I bought, back in the day - Music for Strings/Meditations on a theme by John Blow - CBSO/Rignold on Lyrita.
Great string playing from the pre-Rattle CBSO. The Meditations always made a big impact on me. You only get to hear Blow's stately theme at the end, and by the time it arrives it seems like an old friend, as the "variations" had thoroughly turned it inside-out in the preceding 25 minutes.
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Thanks, Bob - that Bliss Blow job (whoops! :D) sounds interesting.
I must confess I don't usually get on with Bliss's music, but with your advocacy and that of an Amazon reviewer, I'll give it a go.
I've just ordered this one.
That should be good Jerry (not that I've heard the Naxos disc . . ).
The other Variations are much later, and IMO not as "good" - but I may not have persevered enough with them. I was at the first performance of these, at the Fairfield Hall in Croydon. Odd concert: a very old Stokowski murdering a Tchaikovsky symphony, IIRC, and Tod Handley conducting the Bliss.
Jordi Savall leads an outstanding performance full of depth and character.
Credo is absolutely spectacular.
One of my favourite albums in any genre and a beautiful recording.
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It's quite rare that I venture Haydn-wards these days.
But I really enjoyed the Op20/4 string quartet from this CD.
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Very good live recording, too. Set back just a tad, I could 'see' the quartet on stage just left of centre. Lovely!
Oh goodness; that's the first CD I ever bought - and it's still one of my favourites! The te Deum especially has never been surpassed on disc.Quote:
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The whole album has a very natural feeling as if someone simply walked into the abbey and then recorded the monks as they went about their normal day singing prayers etc.
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Hey, this is good.
Previously I'd heard Schiff in Bach, Beethoven and Schubert and thought his style was kind of generic - he played all the music the same, regardless.
Having heard this disc, though, I realise that he plays everything as if it were Mozart.
That works well when it's Mozart he is actually playing. :lol:
I shall be investigating more of his Mozart. :)
--- very fine, energetic and lucid conducting from Sandor Vegh, too.
Breakfast and a little Dvorįk...
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An all vinyl listening sesh yesterday evening ....
I have the full set of John Lill's Beethoven piano sonatas on CD and I like them very much.
So I couldn't resist snaffling the 6 LP box set of half of them on minty vinyl for £2.99 in a mid-Wales charity shop. :drool:
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I played three of the LPs yesterday. Near mint and sounding great! :)
And bought (still cellophane sealed!) and played yesterday ....
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She's a babe. Oh, and I like her playing too!