Listenin' to Classical Music and Conversation

Recorded 6/1-7/58, Grünwaldkirche, Berlin. Producers: Peter Andry & Christfried Bickenbach. Engineer: Horst Lindner. Originally released on Electrola in Germany, HMV in the U.K. and Capitol in the U.S. As usual, Kempe does a fine job with Strauss.

 

In the CD player:

 

With my coffee this beautiful morning.

 

Another excellent performance.

 

A mini-sampler of works conducted by Alexander Melik-Pashaev, one of my favorite Russian conductors.

 

CD.

 

First listen to new arrival "Angelo Notari - Prime musiche nuove, 1613" performed by The Consort Of Musicke on Musica Oscura.

Emma Kirkby, Evelyn Tubb (sopranos)
Joseph Cornwell, Andrew King (tenors)
David Thomas (bass)

 

A few weeks ago i was visiting a sort of thriftstore and stumbled across 2 old classical records, for 1 euro a piece i could not resist.


And the second one was Beethoven symphony no.7 Berlin Philharmonic conductor Paul van Kempen on Philips minigroove from 1954
Beethoven* / Paul van Kempen, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra* - Symphony No. 7 In A Major Opus 92

When i listen to classical music i mostly listen to symphonies from Mahler, Nielsen , Bruckner.

So i was glad i also found 2x LP Kubelik /Mahler symphonies 1 & 4.
Mahler*, Rafael Kubelik, Elsie Morison, Symphonie-Orchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Symphonies 1 & 4

 

Listened to this today. It's one of about twenty-five vinyl albums that I have picked up on eBay during the lockdown period from an ebay seller who was selling them off at four for a tenner, including postage. Most of the discs were Turnabouts and Philips, and recordings of slightly more obscure music in the main. I know that Brilliant have reissued some of the Turnabout recordings in large boxed sets in recent years, but I'd certainly be first in line for a CD mega-box reissuing the original turnabout albums with original artwork, not least because much of their repertoire hasn't turned up in the other 50CD boxed sets from the major labels. Talking of original artwork, this one wasn't Turnabout's best effort!

 

CD 2. Symphonies 2 & 6.

 

Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat, Op. 83 from this set:

 

Now playing the 5th from this set:

 

On the turntable...mastered by Robert Ludwig, so the sound is as magnificent as the performance.

 

The artwork caught my eye - Victor Reinganum, British, 1907-1995. Here are others on the Discogs site

 

Thanks. For this. He seems to have done quite a few for Decca/London in the early 1950s.

 

Glazunov
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
Viktor Tretiakov (violin)
The Moscow Symphony Radio Orchestra
Vladimir Fedoseyev

 

On the turntable:

 

I doubt you would ever see a Turnabout box...Turnabout was a subsidiary of Vox, and, at least in the beginning, and through most of its later releases, the catalog consisted of recordings licensed from smaller European labels, much as Nonesuch did in their early years. I don't think Turnabout did much original recording, though I may be wrong...some of their last releases may have been, I just can't recall. (I managed record stores from 1970-80...)

 

On the turntable:

 

Glazunov
The Seasons, Op. 67
USSR Radio & State TV Symphony Orch.
Boris Khaikin

 

She's an excellent pianist and is wonderfully recorded (DSD256).



(Back cover is from the CD version.)

 

Symphony no. 3

 

would be interesting to compare with this

 

This is a recent programme of 90% classical music curated by the environmental/ natural history broadcasting legend that is David Attenborough. Quite varied, eg from Hildegard von Bingen to John Cage through JS Bach. Not sure though if it’s available outside the UK, where it’s available free until early June.

Mindful Mix - A special edition of the Mindful Mix with David Attenborough - BBC Sounds