Good morning and happy Tuesday. Schumann's Piano Concerto is definitely one that I can listen to very often. This morning I picked this great interpretation. On the TT....
Now listening to "Beethoven - Concerto No. 1/Bach - Concerto No. 5" performed by Glenn Gould with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra led by Vladimir Golschmann from the Sony box set.
Still on C Copland, A. Symphony #3, Music for a Great City 1990 RCA Red Seal RD 60149 Saint Louis S.O. cond. by the great Leonard Slatkin Another disc in the American Composers series and thank heavens they wrote such great compositions that can be ranked with contemporary British and European works. The recording-as I like it, a performance captured without lots of after the fact manipulation
First listen to "Verdi - Nabucco" performed by Teatro San Carlo Napoli led by Vittorio Gui on Warner. Featuring Maria Callas, Gino Bechi, Gino Sinimberghi and Luciano Neroni.
On the TT this morning. The album cover I have is quite warmer in tone than the image grabbed from discogs.
Glen Gould's 1955 Goldberg's Variations. Happy belated birthday. I meant to play it yesterday and got distracted with a variety of other things.
I found his "Mozart Piano Works" in a vinyl and CD shop in Strasbourg a couple of weeks ago. I'd never heard of him but it was three CDs for 10euros so I took a chance and I'm glad I did.
Disc 16 of the Mozart 225 The New Complete Edition set. This one features sonatas and variations from the following sets: K376 K359 K377 K380 K404 by Isabelle van Keulen and Ronald Brautigam
Copland, A. Symphony for Organ and Orchestra (*), Dance Symphony, Short Symphony ((#2) and Orchestral Variations. 1996 RCA Red Seal 09026 68292 2 Saint Louis S.O. cond. by the great Leonard Slatkin with on * Simon Preston on organ Another disc in the Acclaimed American Composers series RCA issued. The recording-as I like it, a performance captured without lots of after the fact manipulation and if you need to nudge that there volume control upward due to the very wide dynamic range, so be it!
Next up on TT. Working my way through the labels A-Z which is how my collection is sorted. By Label then Composer.
My mind is blown. Perusing through this Original Masters collection of mainly Schumann and Brahms mono solo recordings by Wilhelm Kempff, my eyes fell on the 5th disc, which is a bonus disc of sorts because it contains mostly Beethoven and some other tidbits. It's the "name" sonatas Moonlight, Appassionata and Pathétique that are on this disc. Since these are stereo recordings, I first assumed that they are the familiar stereo re-recordings from 1964/1965. Well, they are not. They are from 1960! And in my opinion, the recording quality is better than on the later re-recordings. There is a nice spatiality to the sound and a warmer tone. Plus, I really like the interpretations. The weird thing is, I wasn't aware of the existence of these recordings, and maybe many of you aren't either, since I only hear about Kempff's mono cycle and his stereo cycle, but not of these stray recordings in-between. Who knows what made him re-do them a few years later? To be fair, there are some clunkers in the faster movements, and that might just be the reason. But other than that, I really like the feel of these recordings. So, if you're a Kempff fan, you have to check them out. I think they came out on this early '60s LP:
