Don't have it and just checked its contents - I'm sure it's a nice box, but it has lots of 4-hand piano, which is not my cup of tea. I also have some of the other CDs, on EMI.
Now playing: Gabriel Fauré - Mélodies / Lieder - Elly Ameling, Gérard Souzay, Dalton Baldwin - recorded 1970-1974 CD 1 of this wonderful set:
Now playing: Vagn Holmboe - Brass Concertos - Håkan Hardenberger, Christian Lindberg, Jens Bjørn-Larsen, Aalborg SO, Owain Arwel Hughes - recorded 1996
Just finished listening through these two LPs for the first time. Excellent set. Really good performances, nicely recorded. It's great to have all these Poulenc sonatas together in one place. Recommended. Francis Poulenc – Sonatas EMI – EMSP 553
While I have this excellent BC box, I am still trying to figure out the origins of these EMI recordings. I do have the following Ameling EMI Icon box but it has only one Faure CD ...
There is this 5 LP set from 1974: Gabriel Fauré, Gérard Souzay • Elly Ameling, Dalton Baldwin – Mélodies (1974, Vinyl)
Now playing: Bob Zimmerman - String Quartet - Schoenberg Quartet - recorded 2008 On CD 1 from this set:
You don't know what you are missing. In particular, Brahms wrote piano transcriptions (for 2 pianos) of his work that I find to be revelations. I never really understood his work fully until I heard these transcriptions. The Martha Argerich/Alexandre Rabinovitch recording of the Sonata In F minor (Piano Quintet) is one these transcriptions: (Naxos) Brahms piano series:
MS 7277, issued 1969. Producer: John McClure. Engineers: Jack Lattig & John Johnson. Apparently this is the same John Johnson who mastered the original mono Mercury Living Presence LPs. I couldn't find the recording date & location. Pleasant Early American music by Billings (1746-1800). 1970s pressing.
In all likelihood the recording of Beethoven's 6th by Steinberg on the Command Classics label is a different recording than the one he did of the same piece for EMI. There is also a series of Steinberg conducted Beethoven recordings on DG (which are most likely different recordings than the Command Classics and EMI ones):
Does anyone know if Hurwitz ever reviewed recordings of Schubert Piano Sonatas on his Youtube Channel? The list of Youtube vids on his channel is getting so long, that I find it dauting wading through them all looking for a particular video. I would love a Search Engine just for his vids.
On the turntable: Trying some of the early music again.... Guillaume Dufay, Johannes Brassart, Hugo De Lantins, Richard De Loqueville, John Dunstable, Gilles Binchois, Solage, Johannes Simon De Haspre, Johannes Cesaris, Francescus Andrieu, Nicolaus Grenon, Arnold de Lantins, Robert Norton – Und Seine Zeit . And His Time . Et Son Temps Das Alte Werk – 6.35257 ER
I believe those "DG" recordings are the Command recordings. Command was bought by ABC-Paramount, which was bought by MCA ,which was bought by Universal, which also owns DG.
I believe the PSO went through its golden age when Steinberg was the conductor there. Pittsburgh was also much more important to the US economy then ...
Same sequence, Westminster > ABC-Paramount > MCA > Universal. Then Universal puts it under DG, which is now actually under Decca in the Universal Music organization.
If you go to his channel page on a computer/laptop browser, you can search just his channel using the magnifying glass icon on the right of the ABOUT button Looks like he's mainly done orchestral works by Schubert so far.
Spinning now, CD 5 from the Amadeus Quartet complete DG box: K 593 recorded in 1957, stereo. Coupled with the Quintet in G minor K 516, 1951 mono.
