If you love the Brahms Violin Concerto like I do, you owe it to yourself to get a copy of the Krebbers / Haitink recording on vinyl - staggering performance and reference sound quality !!
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If you love the Brahms Violin Concerto like I do, you owe it to yourself to get a copy of the Krebbers / Haitink recording on vinyl - staggering performance and reference sound quality !!
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Popped into the local charity shop in Wrexham and picked up these minty albums on vinyl:
Mozart - Symphony "Haffner" & "Prague", German Dances, with the Prague Chamber Orchestra (without conductor), on Supraphon, from 1967.
Mozart - Concerto in A Major for Clarinet and Orchestra (Gervase de Peyer, Clarinet)/Concerto in B Flat Major for Bassoon and Orchestra (Henri Helaerts, Bassoon), with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Collins, on Decca FFRR, from 1967.
Mozart - Clarinet Conerto/Flute & Harp Concerto, with Alfred Prinz (clarinet), Werner Tripp (flute), Hubert Jellinek (harp), with The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Munchinger, on Decca Ace of Diamonds, from 1967.
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos.23 & 24, Clifford Curzon with The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Istvan Kertesz, on Decca FFSSm from 1968.
Also three double albums on Decca FFSS, from 1976, Favourite Operatic Choruses, Opera, and Operatic Duets, and two Pavarotti albums (on Decca).
All for just over a fiver!
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Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
The two Clarinet Concertos will be interesting to compare. Lovely music.
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I quite like most of this & it's a rather unusual choice for me - not what I'd call classical either, but it's orchestral, so I suppose it should go here:
Robert Fripp / Andrew Keeling / David Singleton. The Metropole Orkest conducted by Jan Stulen - 'The Wine of Silence'
New album of Fripp's guitar soundscapes, transcribed by Bert Lams of the California Guitar Trio, orchestrated by Andrew Keeling & performed by the Metropole Orkest. I don't go much on the two choral pieces but the rest of it is excellent .....actually I rarely go much on anything choral, but you might!
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into Magnum IA170 amplifier > Van Damme Blue 4mm cable > Mission 752 Freedom Floorstanders
Headphones: Audio Technica ATH-AD700 Open-back
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So far, this morning, on vinyl:
Beethoven - Symphony No.8. Overtures: Fidelio, Leonora, Nos. 1&2, with The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Karl Böhm and Clemens Krauss. On Decca Eclipse, from 1970.
Ketèlbey - In a Monestery Garden (and other Ketèlbey favourites). Stanford Robinson, conducting The New Symphony Orchestra of London with Chorus. On Decca Eclipse, from 1969.
Dvořák - Slavonic Dances, from op.46 and op.72, with The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Joseph Keilberth. On Telefunken, from 1958.
The sound quality on that last one, in particular, is awe-inspiring!!
Marco.
Main System
Turntable: Heavily-modified Technics SL-1210MK5G [Mike New bearing/ETP platter/Paul Hynes SR7 PSU & regulator mods]. Funk Firm APM Achromat with Nagaoka GL-601 Crystal Record Weight. Isonoe feet & boots. Ortofon RS-212D tonearm with Denon DL-103GL, in a Denon PCL-300 headshell, fitted with Funk Firm Houdini and Kondo SL-115 pure-silver cartridge leads.
Paul Hynes MC head amp/SR5 PSU. Also modded Lentek head amp and Denon AU-310 SUT.
Other Cartridges: Nippon Columbia (NOS 1987) Denon DL-103. USA-made Shure SC35C with NOS stylus. Goldring G820 with NOS stylus. Shure M55E with NOS stylus.
CD Player: Audiocom-modified Sony X-777ES/DAS-R1 DAC.
Tape Deck: Tandberg TCD 310, fully restored and recalibrated as new by RDE, plus upgraded with heads from the TCD-420a. Also with matching TM4 Norway microphones.
Preamps: Heavily-modified Croft Charisma-X. Power Amps: Tube Distinctions Copper Amp, fitted with Tungsol KT-150s. Quad 306.
Cables & Sundries: Mark Grant HDX1 interconnects and digital coaxial cable, plus Mark Grant 6mm UP-LCOFC Van Damme speaker cable. MCRU 'Ultimate' mains leads. Lehmann clone headphone amp with vintage Koss PRO-4AAA headphones.
Tube Distinctions digital noise filter. VPI HW16.5 record cleaning machine.
Speakers: Tannoy 15MGs in Lockwood cabinets with modified crossovers. 1967 Celestion Ditton 15.
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Some Arnold Bax today - Tintagel tone poem and the 4th Symphony. Chandos and Naxos CDs, resp.
Bax continues to grow on me - not that easy a listen, though.
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Was that Bryden Tomson's Ulster 4th?? Good performance! If you get into Bax Tod Handley's Chandos box is essential...IMO of courseOriginally Posted by jandl100
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Ah no - as specified, it was the Naxos 4th with Lloyd-Jones.Was that Bryden Tomson's Ulster 4th?? Good performance! If you get into Bax Tod Handley's Chandos box is essential...IMO of course
Any views on that series?
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Ah - I saw "Chandos" and jumped to the wrong conclusion.
The Naxos symphonies are a class act; very strong performances with excellent sound, at times a little more transparent and detailed than the nicely ripe sound Chandos give the BBCPO.
TBH only the real Bax nut would need to have both Handley and Lloyd-Jones. I'm totally biased as I had personal experience of singing in choirs under Handley, and his Guildford concerts gave me my classical music education (which explains a lot!). The Naxos set has a greater selection of other works by Bax, but the Chandos box has two interviews with Handley - one recorded - which are very illuminating. He does say he heard Lloyd-Jones' Bax, and learnt from it even. As a legacy to a depressingly underrated conductor the Chandos set is first class, but in terms of Bax either set gives you the full monty . . .
An LP to look out for is a Lyrita disc of Bax's 5th conducted by Raymond Leppard - totally outside his usual musical comfort zone, but very successful. This has been one of my most played records . . .
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