Classical Corner Classical Music Corner (thread #53)

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by George P, Jan 11, 2014.

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  1. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    Another 10-cent LP: London CS 6382, released 5/64. Recorded 10/7,8,11/63, Sofiensaal, Vienna. Producer: Erik Smith.
    Engineer: Jack Law. Mastering: Ted Burkett. Not as impressive as the Ansermet, but good.
     
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  2. Scott Wheeler

    Scott Wheeler Forum Resident

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    I'm sure it sounds great but that is a British pressed London
     
  3. cournot

    cournot New Member

    I found London to be very hit or miss with many being noisy and pop ridden. However, using a VPI record cleaning machine I found would make it possible to clean up many (thought not most) American recordings, especially from the early 60s.
     
  4. sgb

    sgb Senior Member

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    Very interesting. EMI pressed some of the noisiest records I've ever bought.

    Let's get back to the pretty album jackets, please.
     
  5. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    Surfaces, not too bad, mastering could be better but doubt the performances could be. Ives' Holidays Symphony, NYPO, Bernstein on an early 70's Columbia pressing:

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  6. zmic

    zmic Forum Resident

    obligatory response:

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  7. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident



    Well, I finally got around to cleaning it and it is in really good shape with just a very occasional click to be heard. The recording sounds a bit bright, which may be due to the venue and the mastering/engineering. But sadly, like many older recordings, none of that information is provided, just liner notes about the composer.
     
  8. sgb

    sgb Senior Member

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    I have been thinking about buying this very record, inasmuch as the original vinyl is easier to find and usually cheaper than digital versions. Some say this is the best performance of the Schubert 9th ever recorded. Your thoughts on the performance, please.
     
  9. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident


    Sure thing. Typical, in a good way, Klemperer style. Very detailed, slightly slower tempos as usual for him.

    I enjoyed it and will probably try to listen to it at least once a week.
     
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  10. vanhooserd

    vanhooserd Senior Member

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    I have a lot of those London LPs pressed in Britain & they are the are most consistently enjoyable-sounding records in my collection.
     
  11. Scott Wheeler

    Scott Wheeler Forum Resident

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    yeah, they were one of the best kept secrets in audio and classical music. I have a couple hundred of them myself and rarely paid more than 5 bucks for one. Sometimes as little as 50 cents
     
  12. john greenwood

    john greenwood Senior Member

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    The Schubert 9th is a work where I favor more energetic performances. (Toscanini/Philadelphia was my imprint.) So I probably wouldn't care for Klemperer in this instance.
     
  13. ibanez_ax

    ibanez_ax Forum Resident


    Before listening, I was expecting the Scherzo to drag. To me that's not case even with the slower tempo, but I can see where it wouldn't be to everybody's taste.
     
  14. John S

    John S Forum Resident

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    That pic takes me back to my vinyl days....TD 160 with a Shure V15 Type IV
    Certainly not the peak of audiophilia, but good enough for this ole po'boy.

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  15. Scott Wheeler

    Scott Wheeler Forum Resident

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    I saw Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the audience at the Murray Perahia recital last night.
     
  16. 5-String

    5-String μηδὲν ἄγαν

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    How was the concert?
     
  17. Scott Wheeler

    Scott Wheeler Forum Resident

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    It was very good. Particularly his Schumann and Schubert encore
     
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  18. bluemooze

    bluemooze Senior Member

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    Big time Emma Kirkby fan here. I think I've got at least 95% of everything she's ever recorded; been collecting her since the 80's.

    But this isn't about Emma.

    I'd like some help acquiring some Montserrat Figueras recordings. I have and love two albums by her - "The Voice Of Emotion" and "Lux Feminae." I plan on buying more but I don't see as many recordings of her as a solo artist as I think there should be. So I'm wondering if anyone could guide me to Jordi Savall recordings on which she's featured. Many thanks in advance.

    P.S. If you've not heard Emma or Montserrat, and if female vocals are your idea of ear candy, then give them a listen. (Probably preaching to the choir here :rolleyes:) Emma was my gateway to classical vocal music. Before I heard her on the radio one night driving home from work, I had an image of classical music females as screaming divas. But I've learned differently since then.
     
  19. John S

    John S Forum Resident

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    Didn't Perahia have a serious hand problem at one point?
     
  20. Scott Wheeler

    Scott Wheeler Forum Resident

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    I don't know. I did notice a few issues with his mechanics. Pianissimo was something he seemed to struggle a bit with and his hands did visibly shake a tad during those passages.
     
  21. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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    I have many recordings by Emma Kirkby as well, though most of them were also recorded with the AAM. I have most if not all Savall's recordings but do not know how many recordings by Montserrat Figueras I actually have ...
     
  22. coopmv

    coopmv Newton 1/30/2001 - 8/31/2011

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  23. drh

    drh Talking Machine

    Paid one of my rare visits to Dale Music (a celebrated, at least locally, sheet music store in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland) yesterday and heard some sad news: a developer has bought the entire block where Dale is located and plans to tear everything down to build condos. Dale has been in that location for something like 60 years. The owner is now in her 70s and understandably does not plan to start over in another location. To give an idea of what's being lost, the clerk asked me what I wanted, and as soon as I told him he immediately could tell me (a) where it would be if they had it, (b) what different editions were available, and (c) that they were probably out of stock of the one that I preferred. Which, alas, proved to be true.

    Having heard what's in the works for that area, I took time to step over to a used CD/LP store a few doors down, my first visit to such an establishment in God knows when. Picked up, among three or four other LPs, a recording of Mozart violin stas. with George Szell, of all people, at the keyboard. Nice bargain at 10 cents. But, of course, that store is doomed, too, at that location, although it at least has other branches in the area.

    I'd forgotten what fun, even in haste, browsing the bins of a physical record store looking for treasures can be. Thrift stores, oddly, just don't have quite that same "feel" even though objectively one is doing much the same thing.
     
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  24. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    After you've been around a screaming diva or two you get used to it. :whistle:

    Montserrat Figueras, Emma Kirkby, Cecilia Bartoli, 'Judy' Nelson, all the antithesis of 'Screaming Divas'. Case in point, Susie Rode Morris, vocalist for Ensemble Alcatraz, very big voice for 'Early Music' [way bigger than Ms. Bartoli's]. Her main career being the 'Sue' in Donsuemor, specialists in madeleines. Susie has a matching personality, one of the sweetest people in the world:

    http://www.donsuemor.com/about/history/

    And in any case, many of the early 'Astree' CDs of Jordi Savall/Montserrat Figueras focused on time and tegion, particularly obscure [but beautiful] vocal music from Spain. El Cant de la Sibil-la [now on SACD].comes to mind. If you go to the Amazon page you will find a lot of Jordi Savall CDs with Monserrat Figueras that are not listed as 'Monserrat Figueras' recordings. I say explore via that route, there's a lot of collections of that nature.
     
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  25. Robin L

    Robin L Musical Omnivore

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    Was it the Odyssey reissue of the Mozart Piano Qts? Owned that one several times.
     
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