Just arrived on 2 perfect condition, virtually unplayed factory r:r tapes:
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Just arrived on 2 perfect condition, virtually unplayed factory r:r tapes:
Did you ever receive the Albeniz, Chris? If so, what do you think of it?
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Yes indeed I did Martin. It's excellent & I'm grateful for you alerting me to it, thanks.Originally Posted by MartinT
I've been playing it a lot since it arrived.
Glad about that. It's always good when both the music and recording are top notch
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Of late ....
Walton 1st symphony. Bryden Thomson and the LPO on a Chandos CD. Very very fine performance - not as exciting as Previn on RCA, but then who is? - and a blazingly full sound quality, but never unnaturally harsh or strident. Chandos at its best.
Bruckner 5th Symphony. Rozhdestvensky conducts the 'State Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture' on a Russian Revelation CD. Weird recording ... it starts in mono for the first few minutes then switches to stereo. Sound quality veers between slightly to very harsh in the loud bits and beautifully tonally full in the quieter bits.
Interpretation is inspired in places then reverts to the humdrum and slack for a while.
A bit of a mixed bag this one, but I wouldn't part with it!
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Oh dear. You started me off with this one Jerry! Just played the Thompson, and it's a very good performance & recording. As you say, not quite up to the 1966 Previn: he managed a feat no-one else has quite mastered of keeping the first movement impetus going while observing all the rall. and accel. markings. His performance has a bounce, almost a swagger in parts, that everyone else misses. The Chandos sound, I find, does obscure some detail in the wash, but is infinitely preferable to clinical, spot-lit recordings. I did have an off-air recording on cassette years ago with Thompson and a BBC orchestra which WAS, just about, on a par with Previn, though.Of late ....
Walton 1st symphony. Bryden Thomson and the LPO on a Chandos CD. Very very fine performance - not as exciting as Previn on RCA, but then who is? - and a blazingly full sound quality, but never unnaturally harsh or strident. Chandos at its best.
As I said this started me off - on a Walton 1 recording hunt. Owen Arwel Hughes on BIS with the Lille Orchestra gets a strangely underwhelming recording (unusual for BIS), but it does match the performance. Handley on EMI gets a very spacious and clear sound, more detail than Chandos, but not quite as "listenable-to" as a sound.
I'm now on Haitink's Mahlerian-epic EMI recording. This has to be one of the best orchestral recordings I have. Spacious, warm, clear and with a terrific impact when needed. Now, if only you could transpose Previn's performance into this recording . . .
I've a few to go - Boughton with the New Haven Symphony, Fremaux and the Philharmonia, Ashkenazy/RPO, and the list goes on. Good job I'm not obsessive about this, or anything . .
(It's also a good job I work from home a lot and this morning had a mind-numbing task to do - modifying website image metadata - that I've been postponing for a long time . .)
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Yeah - Walton 1 - I listened to Handley / Royal Liverpool Phil on ASV CD the other day. It's "OK" and so is the recording. Nothing very special though - it's now on eBay for sale!
Fremaux is excellent - well worth digging out, but once again not quite as involving as Previn / LSO ... much better recording, though.
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Yes, the Handley/RLPO was an under-rehearsed Enigma disc (originally). Handley's remake with the Bournemouth Symphony on EMI was in a different league.
William Boughton and the New Haven Symphony make a good job of it. I believe Yale now houses the Walton archive and we can expect more Walton recordings from New Haven.
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Jerry, when's your next charity haul gonna be? I'm wanting to add more (quality music) to my collection of classical music, and it's been ages since your last one....
I've got a nice big space ready for all that Shossy you're gunna be sending me!
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