Jump the pond and I'll have the missus cook up something! :)Quote:
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Jump the pond and I'll have the missus cook up something! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Yesterday eve (once visiting friend had departed) ...
Stanford Clarinet Trio, nice & cheap on Naxos - lovely stuff. Stanford can be a bit bland, but this was nice - some very natural and lovely writing for the clarinet.
Elgar string quartet and piano quintet. Chandos CD. The piano quintet is a particularly fine piece, the string quartet I find a rather harder nut to crack.
Cyril Scott Violin sonata #1. Naxos. Interesting, & I think this will repay further listening.
Zowee :eek: - a mega haul of classical LPs from a local charity shop where I do some volunteer work yesterday.
... I'm the classical LP expert :eyebrows: ... so it's 1st dibs on everything! :whistle:
Took home about 30 and am checking them out for eBay sale / selling in shop / buying them myself ... it's tough work, but someone has to do it. :)
Will go back and pick up some more today.
All but one Minty so far.
So, to the point, yesterday's listening ....
Rachmaninov Piano Concerto #3 - Lazar Berman / Abbado / LSO on a 1977 CBS LP. I've not come across this recording before - fine performamce if somewhat light tonality in the CBS manner.
Bach - Well Tempered Clavier Bk 1 selections - Wilhelm Kempff DG LP. It's worth perservering with this - he sets off at a cracking pace, way too fast really. But once into the 2nd prelude and fugue he settles down a bit and the rest is pure unadulterated pleasure. No, not the choice for the original instrument gestapo - but hey, I'm happy enjoying both styles of music making! Very clean, pure and lucid - so maybe he's not far off current 'best practice' after all, albeit on a concert grand, but Kempff always had a light touch when needed.
Richard Strauss - 4 Last Songs / Schwarzkopf / Szell EMI LP. Surely one of the all time classic recordings. I find Schwarzy a bit affected and forced in places (this wouldn't be my fave interpretation of 4LS) but stunningly moving for the most part. I have a copy of this LP already, but this new one is totally Mint. :thumbsup:
Debussy Images & Estampes. Arrau is tinkling the ivories on a Philips LP. Wow - dreamland, man. :drool: Superb.
Granados Goyescas - de Larrocha on piano on original SXL Decca LP. It doesn't get better than this. :nono:
I'm buying that lot. :carrot:
Also listened to ...
Chopin 10 Mazurkas, Scherzo op. 31 Ballade op 23 & Prelude Op 45 - Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (aka the Prince of Kool!) on a DG LP. Hmmm ... the playing is a bit too cool for me, and the LP has a few clicks and light scratches. Nope.
William Byrd - Psalmes, Sonets & Songs 1588 on a L'Oiseau Lyre LP. Very nice, and a wonderful recording and pretty much Minty ... but once is enough! I reckon this might sell well on eBay.
Nice haul, Jerry! That's defo one of the benefits of working in a charity shop... Let me know if you get any Clarice Cliff pottery in, 'Bizarre' design, (we collect it)! ;)
Marco.
I have this on original EMI, too. I've never been persuaded by Schwarzkopf's performance despite all the adulation and Penguin rosettes etc. It's a bit straight laced for me. It'll take some performance to move me away from the Jessie Norman, which for me is the pinnacle of Four Last Songs and goes straight to the heart.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100
Ah yes, Jessye Norman. Not at all bad - although I haven't heard it decently for years. I want to get a copy of the LP - the CD digital mastering simply shrieks on every system I have heard it when the lass lets loose. :(
I have the original Philips CD:
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...and the 24/96 remaster:
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I have to say the original CD sounds very good and she never shrieks, even in *that* moment during Beim Schlafengehen when she takes the roof clean off the house.
Ok, I'm sold. I'm going to have to find a copy of this and check it out. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by MartinT
Yesterdays classical tunes ...
Vaughan Williams - Job & Wasps Overture. Boult / LPO. Everest recording from 1959, recently transferred to CD (AAD). Very good performance, and the early stereo recording is quite spectacular, if with overwide stereo spread and a touch of rawness in the treble.
Ravel Daphnis & Chloe Ballet. Maazel conducting the Cleveland Orch on a Decca LP. The recording is superb, although I struggle to maintain interest in the music!
Schubert piano impromptus D.899. Murray Perahia, CBS LP. I don't normally empathise with Perahia's playing, but this rather bowled me over - I heard things in the music that simply weren't apparent to me before. Mucho impressed!
I really like the Perahia Bach Goldberg Variations and Keyboard Concertos.Quote:
Originally Posted by jandl100