Just returned from my early evening walk and listened to the following CD from my Rimsky-Korsakov collection ...
This work is a bit out of character for Hungaroton since it tends to mostly record works by Central/Eastern European composers though it recorded a few Beethoven and Handel works as well ...
This was the last Dvorak CD box I acquired. My very first Dvorak box is the following Kubelik LP box I bought thirty-some years ago ...
First listen to CD 8 from "Lili Kraus - The Complete Parlophone, Ducretet-Thomson & Discophiles Français Recordings" on Erato. Mozart: Sonatas Nos. 22, 24-28 With Willi Boskovsky (violin)
Another sampler, this one with 18 short tracks. BMG Special Products, 1998. Other "Modern Composers" include Faure, Humperdinck, Debussy, Holst, Elgar & Ravel. Don Jackson conducts the LSO & London Philharmonic. Recorded at Abbey Road Studios & C-T-S Studios by David Hunt. Produced by Paul Whitehead for Iliad, Inc. Remixed in Nashville by Hollis Halford & Bob Wright at Iliad. This is actually good listening, all mellow relaxation.
That 1960 recording of the Schumann concerto by Fleisher and Szell is one of my favorites of this work. On vinyl, I've never heard the original Epic LP, but picked up the Odyssey remastering/re-release in the late '70s and was happy with that for many years. Looking at it today, I'm surprised at how much ring wear the jacket now shows , but I test played the record and it sounds fine. CBS remastered the recording again in 1983 from the original master tapes, using some process called "New Dolby - 4," and reissued it as part of their "Masterworks Portrait" series. I don't have any idea what "Dolby-4" is or how much that process was responsible for results, but the sonics were improved over the Odyssey release. In particular, the Cleveland Orchestra sounds fuller and more dynamic, with the piano better balanced against the orchestra. And the jacket has held up a lot better, too!
You appear to be a major fan of Szell and Cleveland. How about Maazel and Cleveland? IIRC, Maazel was the immediate successor to Szell at Cleveland ...
1918-1933 Nikolai Sokoloff 1933-1943 Arthur Rodzinski 1943-1944 Erich Leinsdorf 1946-1970 George Szell 1970-1972 Pierre Boulez 1972-1982 Lorin Maazel 1984-2002 Christoph von Dohnányi from 2002 Franz Welser-Möst
Now playing CD1 from the following Weissenberg RCA box, which @DeepFloyd11 has convinced me to acquire for a second listen on my big rig ...
Given his long tenure at the Cleveland, Szell probably molded Cleveland in his image like Karajan did at the BPO ...
Now playing the following CD from my Shosty collection for a second listen ... BTW, how is Munchner Philharmoniker? I am not that familiar with this orchestra in the City of BMW ...
The Münchner Philharmoniker was Sergiu's Celibidache's orchestra between 1979 and 1996. List of principal conductors (includes a few famous names): 1893-1895 Hans Winderstein 1895-1897 Hermann Zumpe 1897-1898 Ferdinand Löwe 1898-1905 Felix Weingartner 1905-1908 Georg Schnéevoigt 1908-1914 Ferdinand Löwe 1919-1920 Hans Pfitzner 1920-1938 Siegmund von Hausegger 1938-1944 Oswald Kabasta 1945-1948 Hans Rosbaud 1949-1966 Fritz Rieger 1967-1976 Rudolf Kempe 1979-1996 Sergiu Celibidache 1999-2004 James Levine 2004-2011 Christian Thielemann 2012-2014 Lorin Maazel from 2015 Valery Gergiev
