Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Issued 1983. Recorded 12/8/81, Grote Zaal, Concertgebouw.

 

I really wanted to like this - however they seem to use "data compression" and "brickwall compression" interchangeably... or worse, mixed in the same concept...

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Now playing the following SACD from my Purcell collection ...

 

Am I right in my observation that Bernie seems to have much more hair in the much later photograph ?
Elton John comes to mind ?

 

On the turntable, record 1 from "Dufay - Complete Secular Music" performed by The Medieval Ensemble Of London led by Peter Davies and Timothy Davies on L'Oiseau-Lyre.

Featuring: Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), John Elwes (tenor), Paul Elliott (tenor), Paul Hillier (baritone), Michael George (baritone), Timothy Penrose (countertenor)

 

On the turntable, record 4 from "Gregorian Chant" performed by the Benedictine Abbey Munsterschwarzsach on Archiv.

 

On the turntable, record 1 from "Dowland - Third Booke of Songs 1603" performed by The Consort Of Musicke led by Anthony Rooley on L'Oiseau-Lyre.

Featuring:
(the lovely and talented) Emma Kirkby - soprano
John York Skinner - countertenor
Martyn Hill - tenor
David Thomas - bass

 

BBC Music Magazine CD.

 

On the turntable, record 1 from "Music Of The Gothic Era" by David Munrow and The Early Music Consort Of London on Archiv.

Notre Dame period: Organa

• Leonin
• Perotin

 

Now playing the following CD from my JS Bach collection ...

 

Now playing the following CD from my miscellaneous baroque collection ...

 

Now playing the following CD from my Purcell collection ...

 

Now listening to Dvorak: Symphony No.7 conducted by Pierre Monteux.



I'm assuming this LP cover (above) has a typo, as it lists Monteux conducting "The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra." Both the record label and the back of the jacket (shown below) list the "London Symphony Orchestra"--so, presumably, the LSO is correct. I bought this 1971 album new in 1972, so later copies may have corrected this.

 

Symphony #7. Great performance. Abbado/Berlin is still my favorite, but not by much.

 

No.28. I didn't care for his clipped phrasing in the second movement; otherwise, it was pretty good.

 

Now playing the following CD from my miscellaneous collection ...

 

The "Serioso" quartet from their complete Decca, Philips, DG box set

 

Now playing CD1 from the following box from my Beethoven collection ...

 

Now playing the following CD from my early music collection ...

 

Recorded 10/19-20/59, Kingsway Hall, London. Producer: Michael Bremner. Engineer: Kenneth Wilkinson. First issued as RCA Victor LSC-2489, 11/61. Rights later reverted to Decca/London. STS 15157 issued 12/71.

 

Two-LP set, issued 1980. Recorded 1965 & 1967, Cedernsaal, Schloss Kirchheim, Germany. First issued by Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.

 

Two-LP MHS set from 1978. Originally issued by Erato in 1978.

 

Issued 1981. Produced & engineered by David B. Hancock. Apparently a recording that originated with MHS.

 

Issued 1981. Recorded 7/79, Villa Simes-Piazzola sul Brenta, Italy, by Yolanta Skura for Erato.