Listening to Bach Partitas on the turntable now, performed by Glenn Gould. Columbia Masterworks LP set issued in 1963.
Pierre Fournier is my favorite for the Bach Cello Suites. I have the original Made In West Germany DG double CD and it sounds great. Have never heard the remaster pictured.
Do you know how many times Glenn Gould recorded these works? Obviously, I have these works in that 80-CD Glenn Gould Original Jacket box. I also have them on a 2-LP CBS set pressed in the Netherlands. Then I bought a CD twofer.
I have Starker's Bach Cello Suites on both Mercury and RCA. I have heard from a number of folks who claim the RCA version has better sound ...
Not a whole lot of time for music listening today. Only heard the Linz from this fine set. photo upload
He recorded the six Bach Partitas only once (officially) for Columbia/CBS in several studio sessions: Partitas 5 & 6 in 1957 (in mono only). Partitas 1 & 2 in 1959. Partita 3 in 1962. Partita 4 in 1962-63. These were originally released on 3 separate albums, but the set I was playing today was a 1963 compilation gatefold where all six works were squeezed onto 2 LPs. (Less side changes. )
So his LP twofer I bought in the 80's was probably repackaged recordings and his 2-CD was remastered from the same recordings ...
Even on my Quads which don't have the greatest bass the Mercury recording sounds pretty much like live cello (bit too many irregularities in the Harbeth's response to get that feeling).
Who is Steven Isserlis? I don't need more Bach Cello Suites since I have about a dozen versions already ...
I wouldn't say that. I've read a few reviews of The Well Tempered Klavier (which I have) not on SHF, but elsewhere, I recall one review that was kind of negative but most seemed to praise it highly.
Yes, those are late-'80s repackaged editions of his late-'50s/early-'60s recordings, primarily intended for the European market. There should be some proviso on them stating "previously released" and identifying Partitas 5 & 6 as mono recordings. Gould rarely re-recorded anything.
The LP twofer has press quality rivaling that of Philips LP's cuz they were pressed in the Netherlands ...
Now playing Robert Schumann's "Impromptus on a Theme of Clara Wieck," Op.5 and "Davidsbündertänze," Op.6, performed by Charles Rosen. This is a 3-LP box set from Nonesuch Records titled "The Revolutionary Masterpieces," issued in 1984. Recorded for Nonesuch in 1983 by Klaas Posthuma Productions, Castricum, The Netherlands. Includes a 4-page insert with extensive notes by Charles Rosen.
Steven Isserlis is a fairly well-known (at least in classical circles in Europe) British cellist. Steven Isserlis - Wikipedia
Got a virus warning from the page with British accent and asking for money to help ridding of the virus so I shut it down ...
That's weird, no problem here with AllMusic. It lists a lot of Isserlis releases since 1985, so he was (and is) widely recorded.
47 albums on discogs and it's incomplete Steven Isserlis I have a handful of them an like what I have. I great release from last year is The Cello in Wartime
