Yesterday coincidentally I played the EMI UK LP of the Jochum Brahms Symphony 1 w/ London Phil. I was very pleasantly surprised by it when I first got it and it has stayed in my collection. Good sonics and an original Quadraphonic recording FWIW.
I have it too. It has been reissued with different sleeves, this is mine: Buxtehude organ music is a must-have in a collection, and this box by Spang-Hanssen is a very good version.
Old DG mono recordings. Never been able to enjoy them, the mono sound is too dense for my brain to make out what's going on in the orchestra. A pity.
Listening to "Suso In Italia Bella" performed by La Reverdie on Arcana. Music in the Courts and Cloisters of Northern Italy
I also have the following box by Walter Kraft, a pretty old-fashioned performance that is not as lively as the box by Spang-Hanssen ...
I am generally not a big fan for mono orchestral recordings since the sound could be a bit thin though I am perfectly at home with piano recordings on Naxos Historical ...
I'm a huge fan of mono When I find mono reissues of records I already own in fake/rechanneled stereo, I always buy them in mono. When I really want to listen to Beethoven's Ninth, for example, my favorite is Furtwängler 1942 (both versions)!
Never heard this Szell's Third, but it should be good. Cleveland has always been a great, powerful orchestra. I listen Beethoven's Third too, but my version for tonight is Furtwängler 1944 (his War Time recordings are incredible) from this box:
Szell's Eroica is all that and a bag of chips. (U.S. English slang). Szell + Cleveland = Greatness. I forgot to mention it yesterday, but Szell's Dvorak 8 is a revelation.
It doesn't exist luckily I spoke in general. Fake stereo was common in pop/rock (but sometimes also in Jazz) records around 1967. Some albums I bought in mono mix reissues are the first 2 by The Doors, the first by Procol Harum and the first by Genesis.
While I have not even removed the shrinkwrap from my Szell Complete Columbia Recordings box, I am wondering if the Beethoven Symphonies in that box are better remastered than the following box I bought a few years ago ...
No doubt the recording dates are correct, but the record itself is probably from the mid-40s. Also, as mentioned, the recordings were made & first issued by Victor. It became RCA Victor after being purchased by RCA in 1929.
Issued 11/71. Recorded 10/28-30/70, St. John's, Smith Square, London. Producer: Michael Bremner. Engineers: Stanley Goodall, Dan Gosling & John Dunkerley. Very satisfying. The Sinfonia concertante features Alan Loveday (violin) & Stephen Shingles (viola).
Correct on all counts. Also, it's neither Italian nor an LP. 1940s vinyl pressing from original metal parts, recorded and pressed in the USA. Sold for $2.50 back in the day and still worth about the same!
Different company, same fine results. Issued 1980. Recorded 1/2-5/79 & 6/21-23/79, St. John's, Smith Square. Featured players include violinists Iona Brown & Hugh Bean.
Beethoven wrote the 32 piano sonatas, Einstein's theory of general relativity turned Newtonian gravity on its head, in my life time? Maybe the apoptotic bullet for cancer. Paused at Op. 14/2 with the Lucchesini while I catch up with Eric Heidsieck. I played all the Op. 10 sonatas today, these are simply exceptional interpretations; thoroughly individual but not pretentious. No single way to characterize this cycle without being too verbose, they're just interpretations that bring so much out of the scores. And now listening to the Op. 4 Organ Concertos by Handel
Now playing CD32 - Mozart Piano Sonatas Nos 10 - 11 and Adagio in b Minor from the following box for a first listen ...
