Spinning Today (Classical version)

[dantheman91]

Julian Bream - Baroque Guitar

Vinyl

1966 US Pressing RCA Victor Red Seal.

Plays Beautifully and Sounds

[Gordon Steadman]

Julian Bream - Baroque Guitar

Vinyl

1966 US Pressing RCA Victor Red Seal.

Plays Beautifully and Sounds

I have the UK pressing dated 1975. It was one of my favourite recordings musically although, strangely, Bream is not my favourite guitarist for Baroque music (thats Brabec) However, I have yet to manage to clean it properly after the damn Discostat left residue all over the LP. Even after I rinsed it off afterwards. Pretty annoyed.

[dantheman91]

I have the UK pressing dated 1975. It was one of my favourite recordings musically although, strangely, Bream is not my favourite guitarist for Baroque music (thats Brabec) However, I have yet to manage to clean it properly after the damn Discostat left residue all over the LP. Even after I rinsed it off afterwards. Pretty annoyed.

Hi Gorden

I picked this up from the tip this morning a long with a load of other classical LP's and a few others just chucked in a skip ready for land fill there no consideration for what the LP's are to collectors so i dig them a a full bag full and more and just went on my merry way. The problem is i DON'T see the point of chucking perfectly good records away but i cannot being to imagine the stuff i have missed due to the inconsideration of IDIOTS oh its a skip i will just put it in there .

[Gordon Steadman]

Hi Gorden
I picked this up from the tip this morning a long with a load of other classical LP's and a few others just chucked in a skip ready for land fill

It is after all, outmoded technology and only fit for landfill. So says my brother. Actually, thats not true any more as he came out here for the first time a little while ago and the sound of the records astonished him. He had only heard CDs since they came out - he dumped all his LPs at once. Told me afterwards - cheers.

He was, before he retired, an electronics engineer who was one of the team leaders on the blue streak rocket. He should know eh?

I'm sure wonderful gems are chucked every day. Such is progress?

[dantheman91]

It is after all, outmoded technology and only fit for landfill. So says my brother. Actually, thats not true any more as he came out here for the first time a little while ago and the sound of the records astonished him. He had only heard CDs since they came out - he dumped all his LPs at once. Told me afterwards - cheers.

He was, before he retired, an electronics engineer who was one of the team leaders on the blue streak rocket. He should know eh?

I'm sure wonderful gems are chucked every day. Such is progress?

Hi

it used to be a different story years ago when my dad was co owner of a a record shop most of the stuff in the shop was at the time from the tip but that was years & years ago and we are not so lucky no but the odd gems do come up. Maybe i'm stuck in the past but those days were good also the HI-FI we used to pick up was . Sad no longer allowed to sell electrical gear

[dantheman91]

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[jandl100]

My goodness, I have never heard such a dynamic and powerful recording of this marvellous symphony.
Dynamic changes (and there are a lot of them in Bruckner) are hairpin sharp and pin-you-to-the-wall abrupt.
Brass is raucous and thrilling.
Cor.

[Marco]

Popped into my local record shop in Wrexham today (Moonlight Records), and purloined the following... First off, from the 1950s, three rather nice (minty) vintage Decca FFRR 10" records, which I always find sound wonderful, (all £1 each):

Strauss - Rawicz and Landauer playing Johann Strauss. The Blue Danube/Tik-tak/Tales from the Vienna Woods.

Tchaikovsky - Casse-Noisette. Opus 71 'The Nutcracker', with L'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, conducted by Anatole Fistoulari.





Grieg - Holberg Suite, with The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Karl Munchinger.


Also the following standard 12" albums (all £1 each):

Grieg - Piano Concerto in A Minor, with The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anatole Fistoulari. Falla - Nights in the Gardens of Spain, with The New Symphony Orchestra of London, conducted by Enrique Jorda, on Decca FFRR (orange Label), from 1956.

Debussy - "La Mer", Three Symphonic Pictures. Ravel - "Daphnis et Chloé" Suite No2, "La Valse", with The Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, on Pye Golden Guinea Collector Series Records, from 1964.

Vaughan Williams - A London Symphony (revised version, Symphony No2), with The Hallé Orchestra, conducted by Sir John Barbirolli, on Pye Golden Guinea Collector Series Records, from 1958.

Beethoven - Symphony No.9 in D Minor 'Choral', with Wilma Lipp (soprano), Elizabeth Hoengen (alto), Julius Patzak (tenor), Otto Wiener (bass), and The Pro Musica Symphony Orchestra Vienna, conducted by Jascha Horenstein, on Vox Records (produced in Vienna), from 1958.

Rimsky-Korakov - Scheherazade Symphonic Suite OP.35, with L'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire de Paris, conducted by Ernest Ansermet, on Decca FFRR (orange Label), from 1964.

Holst - The Planets, with The London Symphony Orchestra (with chorus of female voices), conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, on Decca FFRR (orange Label), from 1965.

Bach - Toccata Adagio and Fugue. Handel - Basso Ostinato. Mendelssohn - Variations "Vater Unser im Himmelreich". Krizhanovsky - Largo (Dies Irae). Driffill - Toccata. Featuring Feike Asma playing organ. Recorded in St John's Church, Gouda, on Philips Microgroove Records, from 1959.

Sibelius - Karelia Overture. King Christian II-Suite. The Bard/Festivo, with The Scottish National Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Gibson, on EMI Records, from 1967.

...and this digitally recorded choral album, from 1986 (identical, as shown below):





Not a bad wee haul for the princely sum of £12!

Marco.

[MartinT]

My goodness, I have never heard such a dynamic and powerful recording of this marvellous symphony.
Dynamic changes (and there are a lot of them in Bruckner) are hairpin sharp and pin-you-to-the-wall abrupt.
Brass is raucous and thrilling.

I didn't think you had an SACD player, Jerry. Or were you playing the CD layer?

[jandl100]

I didn't think you had an SACD player, Jerry. Or were you playing the CD layer?

CD layer, Martin.

I've had a few SACD players, but they just annoyed me!