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Rimsky's Capriccio espagnol (Danon)
Sweelinck variations (Biggs)
Debussy's La Damoiselle elue (Toscanini)
Beethoven's Piano Conc. #4 (Brendel/Wallberg)

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As for myself, I've always kept a safe distance from Furtwangler. Why? First and foremost, his repertoire is stodgy--boring prospect, having to hear yet another work by the second and third Bs, or Wagner, and Bruckner. I wouldn't show interest till he puts in a few Italian masters, or Russian, or Sc...

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Roy Harris' Third......Bernstein 1

Baffling, isn't it, how you can't focus your listening during an afternoon hearing a Haydn piano sonata, a Mozart sonata, Bach's Chromatic Fantasy & Fugue, that the only thing to get your full attention is the Harris Third?

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pianist HANS BARTH (1897-1956) If you have a tolerance for 78s, surface noise & all..... I first came across this pianist from ages back, while poking through the book & record archive while working in the A/V department at the University of Oregon 30 years ago. Was only able to find one disc in al...

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No Brahms?

BOO! HISS!

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Cortot, in 1947, doing Beethoven's First Concerto. He was 70 that year, and at that time his technique hadn't quite reached the unbearable level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMFzRixYmc0

He released a nice Kinderszenen that year.

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The three Brahms symphonies that Monteux never did commercially:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWvmG4mMxw0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNG8xaO9rBg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZQo-EqTp-M

AMAZING tempo changes in the First.

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Here's a review of the NSO concert I attended in '99 when still living in Seattle:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/ ... cee2f0465/

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I have to spend more quality time with the Sixth...it's the one most obscure for me.

Would love to get my hands on the Tauno Hannikainen set. It never was released in the US.

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Golden Years of the National Symphony Orchestra: Stories and Photographs of Musicians and Maestros by Joanne Haroutounian (Author), William Haroutounian (Photographer) I had put away $20 a month for Amazon's preorder for the brand new history of the NSO—in my parlance, that’s OUR National Symphony ...

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Beethoven's First and Seventh (Koussevitzky)

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Well, I've conceded that 20 bucks, minus postage, is the best deal I'll be able to get on this 8-LP set---one I've waited 40 years to get--
https://www.discogs.com/Eduard-van-Bein ... e/11726796

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Just finished Cortot's mid-50s Munich performance of Chopin's Second Sonata....this was a couple of years after his 1953 commercial release. Be sure to adjust your unbearableness scale accordingly. Last night, I heard the Franck D Minor played by Rodzinski in 1937 with The NBC Symphony, several week...

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Schumann's Piano Concerto (Sauer/Mengelberg)
Chopin's Piano Concerto #1 (Rosenthal/Weissmann)

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Bartok’s Kossuth & 4 Pieces for Orch ………..Joo, LSO (Sefel 5005) Bartok’s Suite #1 ………………Joo, LSO (Sefel 5006) Grofe’s Hudson River Suite, misc. pieces………..Kostelanetz (Columbia CL-763) Blomdahl Sym. #3, Ehrling; Nielsen Sym. #6, Westerberg…………(Turnabout TVS-34318) Danish Theatre Music—over.’s by Wey...

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These past couple nights I've been doing a symposium of a few mono era pianists doing Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit . There's Michelangeli-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTxX2WYYblo Doyen, who did the first complete recording-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_sjZb0UfrI and Francois-- https://www.y...

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Spinning a bunch of my Sorcerer's Apprentice recordings nowadays, it popped into my mind to respin Enrique Jorda's first record of it, Decca ffrr, mid-40s. It manages to pip the remake he did, just rereleased on that Decca 2CD set. This first recording was considered formidable competition against o...

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I've been listening to my vast library of performances of Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice . I was delighted to come across a late-50s recording by Hans Jurgen-Walther, a performance I was weaned on as a kid.....amazing to finally hear the master tape in stereo, without compression. Not terribly virtuos...

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Casadesus doing Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, backed by Celibidache and Wiener Symphoniker:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vINHROsjg

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I dig out this performance on rare occasions....it's to hear Horowitz crash & burn on the end of the Schumann Toccata. I counted about half a dozen tape splices in one little area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_QY4Sa0aYw

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I'd love to reinstate the Dvorak into my library. I had the Richmond reissue--two copies. It was one of the opportunities for Decca to flaunt its 'ffrr' sound. One perturbing goof in one of the pressings is the end of the slow movement. After those ethereal high D-flat chords in the violins, there's...

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The list in my previous post above was really meant for what new items I've added to my collection.

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Been doing just fine lo these past twenty years with my second pair of Koss Pro4 AA's. Might have to fork over for a third set, though, as my cord's got a short in it and I can't solder. That was the original pair of Koss's I bought years ago. So, just remember that if they ever break, Koss will re...

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Mozart Piano Conc.’s #15 & 17………………Casadesus, Szell (Columbia MS-7245) ‘100 Men & a Perfectionist’ – Szell, Cleve. Orch. (Columbia SOG-5) Haydn Sym.’s #89 & 90………………Somogyi, Wiener Sym. ( Westminster WST-17043) Schumann’s Sym. #3……………..Toscanini (RCA LM-2048) Bizet’s Sym. In C…………….Allain, PCO (Remi...

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Beethoven's Ninth (Ansermet)
Horowitz's 'Historic Return' of '65

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Lalo's Symphony in g and Rapsodie norwegienne (Sebastian)

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Stravinsky's Petrushka (Danon)

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Ravel played by Freitas-Branco, on Westminster. https://www.discogs.com/Maurice-Ravel-Orchestre-Du-Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre-Des-Champs-Elys%C3%A9es-Conducted-By-Pedro-de-Freitas-Branco-Ravel/master/1182953 Even today, as close to the real stuff as one's likely to get. I got a rather well-ground in dust cop...

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Interesting. Grew up with Pennario & Rubinstein. Have heard most of the others under discussion, but IIRC, I liked Abduraimov above the other contemporaries I've heard. Must revisit to be sure. Met Pennario during the 1980's when he stayed at the club for a concert he was giving. A gentleman, of co...

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Bartok's Cantata Profana (Ferencsik....from the centennial Hungaraton complete edition)https://www.discogs.com/Bart%C3%B3k-B%C3%A9la-Conducted-By-Antal-Dor%C3%A1ti-J%C3%A1nos-Ferencsik-Andr%C3%A1s-K%C3%B3rodi-Cantata-Profana-Five-Hunga/release/2314884 ....also Gershwin's Concerto in F (Sanroma/Fiedl...

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Breaking in a new stylus with some unplayed vinyl:

Beethoven's Piano Sonatas #4, #19 & #28 (Brendel 1)
Mendelssohn's Piano Conc. #1 (Cliburn/Leinsdorf)
Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (Reiner)
Wagner's Gotterdammerung Immolation Scene (Farrell/Munch)

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This set's resided in my collection for years--

https://www.discogs.com/Paul-Dukas-Kath ... er/1339674

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https://www.discogs.com/Van-Dyke-Parks- ... ster/87422

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A couple of hours ago I pulled out this 1984 Warner release, which I hadn't heard in 35 years, Van Dyke Parks' Jump! Upon release it sold in only limited quantities, though it's been available on CD many years. Why it hasn't gone down as a classic of American musical theatre is a mystery, but the li...

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Another album I've been able to reinstate into my library, this set of historical recordings of Beethoven songs--

https://www.discogs.com/Peter-Anders-2- ... se/8946232

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Really, Belle, as a member of the community, I find your moniker quite offensive!

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It just popped back into my mind--and hasn't yet been mentioned in this thread--that Ormandy has been called by numerous soloists "the prince of accompanists". It's a specialized skill, not bestowed upon every single major conductor. Ormandy was the one who gave instrumentalists all the room in the ...

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Schumann's Piano Quintet, played by Jesus Maria Sanroma, with Shapiro, Shumsky, Gingold, & Primrose

An ideal chamber work, done by an ideal team.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaX4ovTxQb4 Being in a masochistic mood the other night, I decided I'd hear Cortot's 1953 rendition of Schumann's Etudes symphoniques . I'd heard all of the few recordings he did that year, and I'm surprised how accurate most of it was....not so the finale, tho'. I'll...

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Several nights ago I had a re-hearing of the Ernest Bour recording of Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges . Last time I sort-of grudgingly gave this one the edge over my long-time favorite, Ansermet. I'd long considered Bour's strong point as one of the greatest phonographic achievements of its time ...

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I'm generally not too enthusiastic over Ormandy/Phila recordings...I think the engineers went overboard to produce this "Philadelphia Sound" idea....lush, rich, strings, with the woodwinds and brass recessed a bit...also - Ormandy's method of recording, imo, robs the music of the flow, the drama th...

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Roussel's Le festin d'aragniee (Leibowitz)
A movement of an unfinished piano trio of Grieg
Rochberg's Sym. #2 (Torkanowsky)

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I'm about to unbox a 5-LP set on the Bis label, chronicling the Gothenburg Symphony's early history, before Neeme put them on the map once and for all: https://www.discogs.com/Gothenburg-Symphony-Orchestra-Recordings-1930-1978-with-music-by-Alfv%C3%A9n-Stenhammar-Nielsen-Petterss/release/8749269 For...

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From a '74 spoof of My Fair Lady , 'my fair laddie,' where the sex roles are reversed, with a feminist (caricature of Steinem) lays out her master plan to make a champion womanizer (Burt Reynolds) into a subservient househusband. Sung to the tune of 'Wouldn't it be Loverly'-- All I want is a child t...

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I promised myself I'd smear in as many Jacobs parodies as I've always had gurgling through my mind. Here's a satire of "O Little Town of Bethlehem." O little Bank AmeriCard You bring me-e Christmas cheer; Without your clout, I'd have no doubt No gifts I'd give this year. Your credit line alllows me ...

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I'm rather ticked this news was never noted more widely:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/arts ... -dead.html

Surely you New Yorkers would've heard of this man!

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Both sides of this deLarrocha LP--
https://www.discogs.com/Alicia-De-Larro ... er/1154977

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St-Saens' 'Organ' Symphony (Toscanini)
Hungerford doing some of Beethoven's early--WoO--piano pieces

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Jeez, Belle!

Ain'tcha got any more good music posts?

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