Has anyone bought that Chandos LP release of the London Symphony? https://www.chandos.net/details06.asp?CNumber=ABRD 9902 I don't know if it is a misprint but one side lasting 37 minutes seems to be incredibly optimistic. I baulk even at LPs with sides much over around 28 minutes.
He did not tackle Mahler until fairly late in his career because he did not think he was ready for those works when he was younger (according to his biography) ...
Now playing CD2 - Works by Chopin, Debussy and a few others from the following box for a first listen ...
Epic LC 3455, released 1958. Recorded in Severance Hall, 10/25-26/57. Producer: Howard H. Scott. First released in stereo on a Sony Masterworks Heritage CD in 1997.
From a contemporary classical composer, these three works were composed in the last few years. It is on a Naxos American Classics disc issued in 2015. Aaron Jay Kernis: Three Flavors [piano concerto] Two Movements [violin and piano] Superstar Etude No. 3 [piano] Andrew Russo, piano James Ehnes, violin Albany Symphony Orchestra David Alan Miller, conductor I think I will be returning to hear this again.
I've met David Alan Miller (conductor for Albany Symphony Orchestra)... very nice guy. I was in my early 20s and would've been much more at home at a Phish show than a symphony concert, but I ended up backstage at the ASO nonetheless. Shook hands with my buddy and I and seemed legitimately interested in our thoughts on the performance. From what I've gathered since, it seems he's a pretty big proponent of contemporary classical, which is fitting because classical music needs people like this if its going to continue to grow.
Epic LC 3433, released 1958. Also issued in stereo as BC 1023. Recorded by Philips, 12/2-4/57 & released by them in Europe. I have the recordings in stereo in a 2005 Decca Original Masters box.
I'm doing some comparative listening and will report back in a bit. His playing is very deliberate; he's not trying to be flashy.
This recording is a tad dry....like someone sucked out the resonances from the environment...Its a pity!
Michel Bernstein could be all over the place as an engineer. Of course, the room they recorded in is doubtless the primary factor for the end result. Remember, the same producer/engineer who recorded this also recorded Hopkinson Smith's Ennemond Gualtier CD, a miracle of audio production.
Now: Beethoven: Piano Trios 1-2, Op.1/1-2 - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Itzhak Perlman and Lynn Harrell - Beethoven: The Complete Piano Trios - 4 CDs, EMI; disc 1