On the turntable: Gustav Mahler, Sir Adrian Boult, London Philharmonic Orchestra – Symphony No. 1 In D Major Everest – LPBR-6005
NP: Dvořák Symphony No. 1 In C Minor, "The Bells Of Zlonice", Op. (B 9) CzPO Neumann From this marvelous set -
Now playing: Ernst Krenek - String Quartets Nos. 3 & 7 - Sonare-Quartett - recorded 1988 CD2 of this set: Man! These are so great!
On the turntable: Antonio Barbosa, Wanda Wilkomirska – Dear Fritz : Fritz Kreisler Melodies Connoisseur Society – CS-2022
Franz von Suppé - 6 Overtures (Henry Krips, conductor) Apparently, the listed sequence is incorrect, and somebody took a ball point pen and corrected it on the back cover. Quite useful, actually.
On the turntable: Brahms - Van Cliburn / Fritz Reiner And Chicago Symphony Orchestra – Brahms Concerto No. 2 RCA Victor Red Seal – LSC-2581
On the turntable: Rimsky-Korsakov, London Symphony Orchestra, Igor Markevitch – Scheherazade Philips – 6570 148
Kubelik came out of retirement, I think, to do that one, a performance to celebrate Czechoslovakia's escape from the Soviet orbit. The recording makes an interesting bookend with his (mono) Mercury recording of the same cycle with the Chicago SO from the very early days of LP. That actually was not his first recording of music from Ma Vlast; he did The Moldau and From Bohemia's Meadows and Forests with the CzPO on 78s, issued in the United States as Victor set 523.
The "Vivaldi-Bach" is nothing of the sort, but it's wacky fun. The music started off life as a (I think violin) concerto by Prince Johann Ernst of Saxe-Weimar. Bach arranged it for solo organ, in which form it usually gets lumped in as one of his "concerti after Vivaldi," even though Vivaldi had nothing to do with it. Then, in the 19th c., one Keleman got hold of it and rearranged Bach's organ arrangement for 'cello and orchestra, and it's that score that we hear in this recording. I love the thing, even if it's just the sort of Romantic era Baroque-rehash that soothes puristic ears in the same way fingernails on a chalkboard do everyone else's. I suppose Janigro's rich, beautiful tone and ardent advocacy don't hurt. The "Boccherini" is another leaf from the same book, a pastiche put together by one Grutzmacher that for eons was treated as gospel. In fact, it cobbles together bits and pieces of several Boccherini concerti and rescores them in good 19th c. fashion. A fun record, and the Ernst-Bach-not-Vivaldi-Keleman thing is, I like to think, rather more than that, at least as presented here. The recording was issued in a number of guises. I guess the first probably was with this cover: That was released in both mono and stereo versions, the former being LM-2365. It also appeared as Victrola VICS 1354 and Camden VCCS 1433 (different prefix but same number as the one in the original posting).
Listening to "The Winged Lion" performed by the Palladian Ensemble on Linn. Pamela Thorby (recorders), Rachel Podger (violin), Susanna Heinrich (viola da gamba), William Carter (guitar, archlute, theorbo)
First listen to "Cipriano de Rore - Vieni, dolce Imeneo - Madrigali" performed by La Compagnia Del Madrigale on Glossa.
A disc already in residence at Chez Wugged Great cover ! I wonder which penguin played which instrument ?
Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 (conductor Eugen Jochum), cd same edition as the cassette pictured here
Bach: Goldbergs; Transcriptions; Partitas; etc. Maria Tipo, piano EMI A little more of a Romanticized approach than I prefer, but it's Bach - his music can withstand a lot. She's a good player though - even if her approach is more old-fashioned than one would expect to hear on a piano these days.
This Szell CFO could have been a top recommendation, if he didn't truncate the finale. To me, this irrevocably ruins an otherwise great performance. The Janacek is really good though!
He cut about a minute off. It doesn't make sense, even if it was truncated to fit all the material on a single record. 58 minutes is a bit long for an LP, but 59 minutes wouldn't have made much difference.
Currently playing this delightful recording from 1987 featuring Paul Meisen on flute playing Reger, Prokofiev and Reinecke:
