Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #67)

Hopkinson Smith is a tremendous virtuoso and I have a number of recordings by him ...

 

Now playing the following LP from my Dvorak collection. It is another London Phase 4 ...

 

The LP jacket has a matted surface, which is quite classy IMO ...

 

Same here. It's now already over 20 years of efforts but just impossible to say that I like Bruckner. Well, I don't even much respect his symphonies because he didn't respected the orchestra. ('There are some good moments but awful half-hours...') That simple-minded orckestrations he did, imho. It's just totally different with Mahler. But hey, he was a conductor, after all.

 

Another installment in this fine series. Superbly recorded, too.

 

Now playing the following LP from my Tchaikovsky collection. To be honest, I am no longer familiar with Gary Graffman bell even though I bought this LP some thirty years ago. I do not expect clean sound as it is a Columbia American pressing ...

 

Now playing the following LP from my Tchaikovsky collection ...

 

(CD Hänssler SCM 093.027.000) - simply superb brass playing by the Radio-Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart and Kurt Sanderling manages to unfold the unrestrained beauty of Bruckner`s Symphony 7 - this gives me some consolation on a rather sombre day......

 

Onto a new box, now playing CD1 - Cello Concertos by Elgar, Delius and Saint-Saens from the following box ...

 

Bruckner was much more than a conductor ...

 

Have this one, an unexpectedly beautiful rendering of the score.

 

You reminded me to give this one a listen, as it's been a while.

 

Those golden years when Bernard Haitink was the chief conductor of the then Concertgebouw ...

 

Now playing the following LP from my Rachmaninov collection ...

 

Symphonies No. 1 and 5 today. Wonderful performances and very good sound.

 

HvK never recorded these Mendelssohn works more than once for DG IIRC ...

 

In the disc player tonight….the CSO delivers it all on this one!!

 

I have been listening to the "Ein Heldenleben", an older recording, not great sound, but good performance...

 

OK...

 

He was too busy re-recording Beethoven cycles.

 

Indeed, no other conductors recorded 3 Beethoven cycles with one label, i.e. DG. Had he lived longer, he might have recorded another Beethoven cycle with Sony, as Akio Morita was visiting Karajan's home on the day the latter unexpectedly suffered a fatal cardiac arrest ...

 

Now playing CD3 - Here is the real deal: JS Bach Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba by Anner Bylsma and Bob van Asperen from the following box for a first listen ...

 

Instead of the usual keyboard instruments such as harpsichord or piano to go with the cello, van Asperen actually performed on a chamber organ ...

 

Yes. I especially like the Debussy and Shostakovich works.

 

Now playing CD4 - The Harpsichord in the Netherlands by Bob van Asperen from the following box for a first listen ...