I love watching musicians at work so enjoy the visual albums in the Classical Live section of Apple Music. Boris Giltburg has been working through recording Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas, I enjoyed watching this new release of no. 30.
This, like all the HSQ records I've heard, including the one with Sinatra, is very good. Pianist Aller was the brother of cellist Eleanor Aller Slatkin, wife of Felix and mother of Leonard. Recorded 1/27-29/53, Hollywood. Producer: Robert E. Myers. Engineer: John Palladino. Palladino was with Capitol for years & engineered one of my favorite rock albums, Happy Trails by Quicksilver Messenger Service. From HSQ to QMS.
On the turntable, Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 2, 6, & 8, performed by Zino Francescatti and Robert Casadesus. From this Columbia Masterworks 4-LP box set. Undated, but I added a note at some point that says the recordings were made in 1959 & 1961 in Paris.
On the turntable, record 1 from "Musicke Of Sundrie Kindes - An Introduction to Renaissance Secular Music 1480-1620" performed by The Consort Of Musicke directed by Anthony Rooley on L'Oiseau-Lyre. Featuring: Emma Kirkby - soprano John York Skinner - countertenor Kevin Smith - countertenor Martyn Hill - tenor Paul Elliot - tenor David Thomas - bass Side 1: Ars Perfecta (An Internationally Unified Language C. 1500) - Three Generations Of Flemish Composers, Centered Around Josquin Des Prés Side 2: The Fruits Of Love (The 'Frottola' And The Rebirth Of Music In An Italian Style) - Courts Of Lorenzo De' Medici (Florence) & Isabella D'Este (Mantua) Were Centers Of A Flowering Of Music
More of the Brendel box earlier today. Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31, No. 3 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 19 in G minor, Op. 49, No. 1 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 31 in A flat major, Op. 110 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111 Beethoven: Andante in F major, WoO 57, "Andante favori"
On the turntable, "The Worcester Fragments" performed by the Soloists & Chorus of the Accademia Monteverdiana led by Denis Stevens on Nonesuch. 1975
1956 reissue of ML 4472, first issued 3/52. Recorded 2/21/51, Columbia 30th Street Studio, NYC. In this case Columbia used a new catalog number as well as cover, probably because they issued all four of Bruno's Brahms Symphony recordings as ML 5124 through ML 5127.
Get the Chicago and Los Angeles boxes too. The big box (that had all the stuff) is OOP but these are still in print and Vienna + Chicago + Los Angeles gives you 90% of what was in the big box.
On the turntable, record 1 from "The Flowering Of Renaissance Polyphony" performed by Pro Cantione Antiqua, the Early Music Consort Of London and The London Cornett And Sackbut Ensemble all directed by Bruno Turner on Archiv. Dunstable/Dufay/Binchois/Busnois
On the turntable, record 2 from "Schutz - Kleine Geistliche Konzerte, Book II (1639)" performed by the Westphalian Choral Ensemble conducted by Welhelm Ehmann on Nonesuch. 1974
