How did you know? Hahahahahaha. Maybe in the olden days on my parent's Phillips furniture stereo I would have stacked LPs to be played consecutively.
I used to hate those LP-boxes since I have never owned a record changer. For a 3-LP box, you have side 1 with side 6 (on the second side), side 2 with side 5 and side 3 with side 4 ... Make your head spin!
Issued 1976. Recorded by EMI Electrola, Germany. Producer: Gerd Berg. Engineer: Johann-Nickolaus Matthes. Interesting that EMI issued this here of the budget Angel label rather Angel.
How did you like it? That very recording was famously put down by Stravinsky himself (although it was later revealed that it was at least in part a fun PR stunt). What it lacks in intensity is in my opinion countered by a focus on the pastoral elements of the piece, which not many other conductors managed to bring to the fore to this extent. I personally find Karajan 1977 remake of this to be one of the most rewarding recordings of this. It keeps the pastoral feel while adding ferocity.
First listen to "The Garden of Zephirus" performed by Gothic Voices directed by Christopher Page on Helios. Courtly Songs Of The Early Fifteenth Century
First listen to "Bernd Alois Zimmermann - Violin Concerto / Photoptosis / Die Soldaten Vocal Symphony" performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra directed by Hannu Lintu on Ondine.
The sonics are quite boxy but this is an interesting albeit non-HIP performance from the 60s. The choir was clearly well trained but the female sopranos don't blend well with the lower voices. What I find good about it is the clear rhythmic pointing of the phrases and pleasant musical flow.
I love the Victrola set, the first complete set of the Beethoven sonatas I owned. Claude Frank was a great pianist, he studied with Schnabel. I saw him play the Emperor concerto with the Oregon Symphony in the '80s.
Listening to "Brahms / Stravinsky - Violin Concertos" performed by Hilary Hahn with the Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields led by Sir Neville Mariner on Sony.
