Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

I have been wondering about such a box but with close to 100 CD recordings by Marriner and an unknown number in my LP collection, the number of duplicates will be too overwhelming ...

On a different note, I have noticed the Firkusny upcoming box is not even listed on Amazon US. Is this a copyrights issue again?

 

Possibly, I don't know. I asked Presto and they told me there were no restrictions on this set and they could sell it and ship anywhere.

 

For a moment I thought this was Boris Johnson...

 

Wow, five years after they released that skimpy 28 CD Argo Years box.

 

I saw it on Presto and will probably order it from them ...

 

ASMIF/Marriner made many more recordings with Philips than with Argo and I have many recordings already on LP but my CD collection no doubt has outnumbered my LP's at this point ...

 

I tried to google to find out where BoJo and his family lived in my town when he was a young teen but no luck for far. I suppose internet info goes only so far ...

 

Now playing CD1 from the following twofer from my Chopin collection ...

 

Do you have a link? I can't locate by ASIN.

 

60 is still a skimpy box.

 

Not sure if Marriner/ASMIF have made many more recordings than 28 with Argo. Back in the day, things did not move at the speed of the internet like today ...

 

I bought the Clear or Cloudy set on DG first, which proved to be a fine introduction to Ligeti's music as it contains both chamber and orchestral works. But for anyone wanting to cover all the bases, the 9 CD Sony set along with the 5 disc Ligeti Project on Teldec pretty much covers it.

 

Now playing CD1 from the following trio from my Handel collection ...

 

Listening to BRAHMS’ Symphony No. 4 as played by Wilhelm Furtwängler and his BPO in December 1943 in the Alte Philharmonie Berlin.

FLAC rip from the 22-SACD set “The Radio Recordings 1939-1945” on Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings, BPHR 180181.

I think I'm slowly starting to realise what this Furtwängler hype is all about...

 

Any cannon shots in the background?

 

I believe actual cannons had been phased out by then. Not unless one was playing Tchaikovsky, of course.

 

Howitzer?

IIRC, I read somewhere cannon shots could be heard in the background of some Furtwangler's wartime recordings ...

 

Stravinsky: Octet; Dumbarton Oaks; Symphony in C; Symphony in Three Movements
Philharmonia Orchestra; Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble; Orchestra of St. Luke's
Robert Craft, conductor
Naxos

 

Not cannon shots. Anti-aircraft guns.

And it wasn't Furtwängler, it was Walter Gieseking under Arthur Rother, in 1944 stereo. You can “hear the war” at 5:48.

 

Spinning-

 

I return to Farrenc's music more than just about any other composer I've discovered through the excellent CPO label. She had a greater gift for melody and composition than most "unknown" or "undiscovered" composers. Primephonic.

 

I like the Third the most. All are good though.

 

I also love her chamber music.

 

Any audible ambient stereo effects? I wonder what they were thinking...

 

As I already told you, @J.A.W., they are barely noticeable.