1 Grande Valse Brillante, Op. 18 4:50 2 Fantasie Impromptu, Op. 66 4:49 3 Nocturne In E Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2 4:00 4 Waltz In A Minor, Op. 34 No. 2 4:33 5 Mazurka In D Major, Op. 33 No. 2 2:06 6 Scherzo In B Flat Minor/D Flat Major, Op. 31 9:50 7 Waltz In A Flat Major, Op. 69 No. 1 3:57 8 Nocturne In F Sharp Major, Op. 15 No. 2 3:48 9 Waltz In B Minor, Op. 69 No. 2 3:42 10 Ballade In G Minor, Op. 23 9:46 11 Mazurka In B Flat Major, Op. 7 No. 1 1:49 12 Waltz In G Flat Major, Op. 70 No. 1 2:08 13 Nocturne In B Major, Op. 32, No. 1 5:06 14 Polonaise In A Flat Major, Op. 53 Released (I'm almost certain) in the 1980s. This and a similar compilation of Arrau performance were my first two Chopin CDs. (I guess his preferences changed. )
You can't go wrong with Ashy Chopin compared with the 'other' pianist who also turned conductor whose name starts with a 'b'. Below is the box I have ...
Spotify Premium. Louise Farrenc: Piano Quintet No.1 In A Minor, Op.30 Piano Quintet No.2 In E, Op.31 The Schubert Ensemble of London
Almost right, this/your compilation CD was released in 1990, but the recordings are from the early eighties. The CD I posted was a reissue of a 1983 CD compilation with recordings from the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Now playing. Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suites no. 1 op. 46 and no.2 op. 55. conductor Mark Ermler* Royal Philharmonic Orchestra From a doubleCd Edvard Grieg from Brilliant Classics, a Thriftshop found a few months ago. * This is the first time i listen to a recording of the, to me unknown, conductor Mark Ermler.
Listening to "D'Amor Ragionando - Ballades du neo-Stilnovo en Italie 1380-1415" performed by Mala Punica on Arcana.
On the turntable: One of ten new LPs I found on a thrift store run yesterday on my way back home from my two-month studio-sitting gig in the East Bay. I've found recordings on the Crossroads label to be uniformly good--likewise the Prague Chamber Orchestra. The Prague Chamber Orchestra – Baroque Works For Chamber Orchestra Crossroads – 22 16 0158
CD11 NIELSEN Symphony No, 2, Op. 16 "The Four Temperaments" Symphony No. 3, Op. 27 "Sinfonia Espansiva" San Francisco Symphony Herbert Blomstedt recorded in Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco
On the turntable: From the thrift store yesterday Antonio Vivaldi, Teresa Berganza, English Chamber Orchestra, Antoni Ros-Marbà – Psalm 126 ∙ Two Motets HNH Records – HNH 4012
Yes, thx…love it! It took me quite awhile to hunt ‘er down. I just pre-ordered the Mono SACD. That should be a good one.
Now playing CD4 from the following box for a second listen ... Schumann Piano Concerto in A Minor - Karajan and the Philharmonia Mozart Piano Concerto No. 21 - Karajan and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra
On the turntable: New from the thrift store yesterday Paganini - Shlomo Mintz – 24 Capricci Per Violino Solo Op.1 Deutsche Grammophon – 2532 042
On the turntable: More from the thrift store yesterday. Haydn / Yo-Yo Ma ■ Wynton Marsalis ■ Cho-Liang Lin – Three Favorite Concertos Label: CBS Masterworks – M 39310
More for the thrift store yesterday. I already had a copy of this, and this one has one spot that looks questionable, but the cover is pristine. If the record is noisy, I'll swap this cover out with the other one. Béla Bartók, Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony – Concerto For Orchestra RCA Victrola – VICS-1110
Beethoven "Diabelli" Variations Opus-120 Performed in Historical Tuning (Susan Halligan with Paul List)
A co-worker had the first five notes of that album as an alert on his phone. It went off as I was walking by. I said "Ah, Coltrane." "I can't believe you knew that!"
And now I have unearthed a compilation which I have not played in quite some time. It is pretty obscure-issued by “Historic Recordings”, which may be from Austria-the CDs say Austro Mechana. No address in the booklet either. But in any event it has an amazing array of excerpts from Soviet era opera recordings on 4 generous CDs. A wonderful resource if you are interested or curious( and if you can find it). The notes say it does not include singers who came of age after WW2 because “they were sufficiently known by their recordings in the west”. Probably debatable and by that logic why include Vishnevskaya who made her Bolshoi debut around 1953 and who was one of the best known opera singers outside of the USSR-but I quibble-a welcome resource nevertheless for fans of Soviet era Russian opera. Of course the notes should have used the Stalin era as the criterion which would make more sense regarding selection. In my example Vishnevskaya started at the time Stalin left the planet( more or less). Edit: my research has revealed that the producer of the compilation was Juergen E Schmidt( the founder of Preiser records).
