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- Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:43 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Grumiaux box
- Replies: 12
- Views: 155
Re: Grumiaux box
Szeryng was a beautiful player who certainly deserved a higher reputation. But the congnoscenti knew. Yes he was good (I heard him several times) but I tend to agree with Perlman's oft quoted view that 'yes that was good, I wonder who it was - oh Szeryng'. Somhow it's all very well done but there's...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:38 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past
- Replies: 7
- Views: 96
Re: Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past
Try telling the Scots! Me, I suppose we should be claiming reparations from the Romans!
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 1:13 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past
- Replies: 7
- Views: 96
Re: Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past
The passage of time makes things harder. This doesn't mean that we should forget the holocaust or slavery but equally, we can't reinvent the past and we need to move on. This was brought home to me recently when someone referred to continued reference by the Scottish and Welsh to England's early con...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:21 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past
- Replies: 7
- Views: 96
Re: Rare Violin Tests Germany’s Commitment to Atone for Its Nazi Past
As time passes, it's getting very difficult. If a violinist, say a professional player, had bought the violin, quite innocently and with no knowledge about its Nazi past, they would probably not be able to afford to pay back the price and would lose the 'tool of their trade'. They are surely chasing...
- Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:14 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Grumiaux box
- Replies: 12
- Views: 155
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:58 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Remembering pianist Jean Casadesus, Jan. 20
- Replies: 7
- Views: 366
Re: Remembering pianist Jean Casadesus, Jan. 20
and it was Henri's brother, Marius, who wrote the 'Mozart Adelaide' concerto that Menuhin premiered and recorded as Mozart.
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 12:47 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Grumiaux box
- Replies: 12
- Views: 155
Re: Grumiaux box
Hi Barney and Rob,
apparently it contains ALL his Philips recordings including multiple recordings of, for example, the Bruch No.1, Lalo symphony espagnole, Beethoven concerto etc. It also contains the Mozart adagio and rondo with Colin Davis that have never made it to CD previously.
apparently it contains ALL his Philips recordings including multiple recordings of, for example, the Bruch No.1, Lalo symphony espagnole, Beethoven concerto etc. It also contains the Mozart adagio and rondo with Colin Davis that have never made it to CD previously.
- Mon Jan 25, 2021 5:36 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Grumiaux box
- Replies: 12
- Views: 155
Grumiaux box
Gramophone say there will be a complete Grumiaux Philips box (on Decca!) to mark his centenary (Mar 21st).
One of my all time favourite players and I will be very tempted by this 74 CD set although I already have so many of the recordings.
One of my all time favourite players and I will be very tempted by this 74 CD set although I already have so many of the recordings.
- Mon Jan 18, 2021 4:07 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: LPs are now outsellng CDs
- Replies: 17
- Views: 4185
Re: LPs are now outsellng CDs
In my demise, I have told the Mrs. to order some dumpsters and get rid of everything. What do you think of that??? I don't think this is the answer, here are a few reasons: 1. It's not a green solution, as a minimum the plastic should be re-cycled but really the LPs and CDs should go to a new home ...
- Tue Jan 12, 2021 8:36 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Orchestral Music of Andrzej Panufnik
- Replies: 13
- Views: 929
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 1:14 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Why isn't VOLODOS recording more these days?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 212
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 12:44 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Another Attack on Western Music from the Woke
- Replies: 43
- Views: 1085
Re: Another Attack on Western Music from the Woke
I, too, am surprised and disappointed to see such a review. These attitudes are much less prevalent, hopefully, than they were, but they are still around. (I have commented on reviews of the Emerson Quartet in Gramophone that make sneering references to "New York" that barely avoid crossing the lin...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 12:25 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Isaac Stern 75-CD Analogue Edition - Sony
- Replies: 6
- Views: 174
Re: Isaac Stern 75-CD Analogue Edition - Sony
Interestingly the next pieces on my list would have been the Sextets and the Dutilleux/Maxwell Davies coupling. His Bartok and Prokofiev are good but there is so much competition nowadays and, even when they were new, I always preferred Oistrakh's Prokofiev. Indeed despite the awful sound, I can nev...
- Sun Jan 10, 2021 3:59 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Isaac Stern 75-CD Analogue Edition - Sony
- Replies: 6
- Views: 174
Re: Isaac Stern 75-CD Analogue Edition - Sony
I'm not too keen on Stern, I heard him live a couple of times in the early 1970s and neither occasion was very memorable. It's never a good sign when I have more LPs of a performer than CDs and only the Barber violin concerto, Bloch Baal Shem and the Beethoven Archduke trio count as special to me. O...
- Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:30 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: New cd of Korngold chamber music
- Replies: 8
- Views: 386
Re: New cd of Korngold chamber music
Many thanks for this, I'm listening to the Op.1 trio and it's well worth it, an amazing work for a 13 year old.
- Sun Dec 27, 2020 5:03 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 1710 Amati Violin Stolen in Los Angeles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 412
Re: 1710 Amati Violin Stolen in Los Angeles
I told my wife that the violin should have belonged to a professional musician who would have played it regularly, described Weinstein as "a parasite," and said that it was karma that it had been stolen. Perhaps that was a bit harsh, but those violins should be in the hands of musicians who know wh...
- Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:39 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 1710 Amati Violin Stolen in Los Angeles
- Replies: 10
- Views: 412
Re: 1710 Amati Violin Stolen in Los Angeles
Agreed, a friend had a valuable cello stolen from his car. I have several reson for never leaving my (much less valuable) violin in the car: The car itself may be stolen The violin may be stolen by idiots not really knowing what it is (rectangular case) The violin isn't insured for theft from an una...
- Thu Dec 17, 2020 3:52 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Glazunov
- Replies: 11
- Views: 450
Re: Glazunov
The violin concerto is a long term favourite of mine. There are two Heifetz versions and they are both excellent. For sheer virtuosity, Oistrakh is even better but the recording is sadly what you might expect from the USSR in 1947. None of the later recordings I have compares with the excitement of ...
- Sun Dec 06, 2020 4:25 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Midori is Recording Again!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1789
Re: Midori is Recording Again!
Add a few more to Rach3's list ignoring violinists who wrote several (or many concerti)
Goldmark, Glazunov, Korngold, Moeran, Nielsen, Richard Strauss, Walton
Bruch, Haydn, Saint Saens, Lalo, Szymanowski, Wieniawski
My CD catalogue includes violin concerti by 187 composers.
Goldmark, Glazunov, Korngold, Moeran, Nielsen, Richard Strauss, Walton
Bruch, Haydn, Saint Saens, Lalo, Szymanowski, Wieniawski
My CD catalogue includes violin concerti by 187 composers.
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 1:07 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Midori is Recording Again!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1789
Re: Midori is Recording Again!
I have a Philips 2 CD set of Grumiaux concertos, serial 442 287-2, that contains a Grumiaux/ Haitink/ Concertgebouw recording of the Beethoven VC, as well as Brahms' Romance No. 2, op.50. These were recorded in May of 1960. Try searching for "Favourite Violin Concertos", the title of the CD set. In...
- Fri Dec 04, 2020 12:57 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Midori is Recording Again!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1789
Re: Midori is Recording Again!
Mike, I have the Janine Jansen, and shamefully I am not sure I have ever played it. I got it in a 50-CD set of Decca Sound. I don't have the Mullova, a soloist I respect. I've got the Pat Kop, but it's just a little idiosyncratic for me. I thought I had the Tetzlaff, but I was mixing him up with Th...
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 12:51 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Midori is Recording Again!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1789
Re: Midori is Recording Again!
Ah yes, I see. Shame really, I'd love to hear Grumiaux with Haitink.
- Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:01 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Midori is Recording Again!
- Replies: 41
- Views: 1789
Re: Midori is Recording Again!
Then if you haven't heard Grumiaux you must do so. Aristocratically classical is precisely t he description. He was my father's favourite violinist, and in turn has become mine, though I can safely say I enjoy dozens of accounts of the Beethoven. I have 36 performances in my catalogue - Lance proba...
- Thu Oct 01, 2020 2:42 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions
- Replies: 6
- Views: 811
Re: Musicians on How to Bring Racial Equity to Auditions
Yes Barney, the problems is the same in the UK but I'm not sure that the problems lies with orchestras, it starts much earlier than that. I suspect that there are not many black musicians coming for audition in the first place. We need to get more black kids learning instruments in schools and colle...
- Sun Aug 30, 2020 2:27 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Shostakovich's "The Bedbug"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 325
Re: Shostakovich's "The Bedbug"
Coincidentally, listened it to the first time on Friday too. It's fun isn't it?
- Fri Aug 14, 2020 3:47 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Paul Lewis - Beethoven Sonata #2
- Replies: 7
- Views: 692
Re: Paul Lewis - Beethoven Sonata #2
Interestingly he has already said that he would like to re-record the 4th concerto.
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:35 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ripping My Classical Music Collection
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2793
Re: Ripping My Classical Music Collection
Yes it was a lot of work but I started quite a few years ago when I had fewer disks!
Another benefit is that I rediscovered many disks I had forgotten.
Another benefit is that I rediscovered many disks I had forgotten.
- Mon Aug 10, 2020 4:57 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Ripping My Classical Music Collection
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2793
Re: Ripping My Classical Music Collection
I've put all my CDs onto computer and it has some major advantages and one disadvantage. For the techies, I built a low noise computer feeding a high quality DAC and the sound is superb, better than my (fairly high quality) CD player. I use my TV screen as the computer display. The advantages are: I...
- Tue May 12, 2020 2:35 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 125 people on CMG today, Mother's Day!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1865
Re: 125 people on CMG today, Mother's Day!
We have Mother's day (or mothering Sunday as it was traditionally called) and it's on the 4th Sunday in lent which was March 22nd this year.
- Mon May 11, 2020 2:48 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 125 people on CMG today, Mother's Day!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1865
Re: 125 people on CMG today, Mother's Day!
Were they all in the USA, it's not mother's day in the UK?
- Tue Apr 28, 2020 4:50 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Opera
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1930
Re: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Opera
I was that Rigoletto quartet that hooked me, Toscanini's amazing performance of the last act. Despite the recording quality it still hits the spot 50 years after I first heard it.
Mike
Mike
- Sun Apr 05, 2020 5:07 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Wigmore Hall closed till September
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1480
Re: Wigmore Hall closed till September
Our media in the UK cover Trump too but more under comedy than news.
- Thu Dec 05, 2019 4:06 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: A loss
- Replies: 54
- Views: 23523
Re: A loss
Very sad indeed, I never met or even communicated directly with him but, through this site, I benefited enormously from his encyclopedic knowledge and wonderful use of language.
- Mon Dec 02, 2019 10:38 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: How does it "streich" you that ...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2784
Re: How does it "streich" you that ...
How does it strike you that I would call RITA STREICH one of the finest coloratura sopranos of her time (perhaps even the best). [And, perhaps Galli-Curci before her.] Some might select others. For me, Streich had the whole package: wonderful sense of pitch, wide range of dynamics, opera, lieder, o...
- Fri Nov 01, 2019 3:13 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Gramophone
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3684
Re: Gramophone
They have more than one login point! I a login one for the back numbers of the magazine (https://reader.exacteditions.com/magazines/365/issues/), one for the forums (on their main website) and one for the website to access reviews. You may well have lost your access now by cancelling your subscripti...
- Tue Sep 24, 2019 3:11 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Family musicians performing together?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 22021
Re: Family musicians performing together?
Fischer-Dieskau and his wife, Júlia Várady
- Wed Sep 18, 2019 2:53 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Family musicians performing together?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 22021
Re: Family musicians performing together?
Dmitri, Maxim and Dmitri Jr. Shostakovich
- Sat Jul 13, 2019 12:06 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Aaron Rosand RIP
- Replies: 9
- Views: 5818
Re: Aaron Rosand RIP
Don't know about shoulder rests, but this passage caught my attention: His first recital came at age 9 and his debut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was a year later, according to a Curtis biography. His New York Philharmonic debut in 1960 with Leonard Bernstein was as soloist in that orchestra...
- Sun Jul 07, 2019 2:39 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Bruch violin concerto no conductor
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4478
Re: Bruch violin concerto no conductor
I have a DVD of Heifetz performing Bruch's Scottish Fantasy (IIRC) without a conductor, and it almost works, but not perfectly. There are times when Heifetz is playing and the tempo shifts when the orchestra sounds a bit tentative: not bad, but it would have been better with a baton-wielder at the ...
- Mon May 20, 2019 2:29 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Hillary Hahn plays Sibelius VC live
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5234
- Tue Apr 23, 2019 2:46 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: WQXR's " Essential" Dvorak recordings
- Replies: 8
- Views: 6356
Re: WQXR's " Essential" Dvorak recordings
With so many fine alternatives, it's hard to imagine how ASM's version of the violin concerto was chosen.
- Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:37 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Andre Previn 1929-2019 R.I.P.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8207
Re: Andre Previn 1929-2019 R.I.P.
For me, his two outstanding recordings are Rachmaninov Symphony No.2 (twice, the earlier one with cuts) and Walton Symphony No.1. Both are still arguably the best available. Looking at the other recordings I have of his conducting, it's interesting how many have him as accompanist with singers and i...
- Sun Feb 24, 2019 10:10 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Verbier Festival: 25 Years / DGG 4 CDs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3934
Re: Verbier Festival: 25 Years / DGG 4 CDs
Yes, Yuja Wang's Mendelssohn is great but get the DVD and watch it as well! Just a shame the Orchestra isn't a bit better.
- Sun Jan 27, 2019 1:03 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Yehudi Menuhin
- Replies: 21
- Views: 11420
Re: Yehudi Menuhin
I heard Menuhin 3 times in the 60s and 70s as well as seeing him on television fairly often. He was a major presence in the UK in those days. Sadly he was no longer the great player he had been but he was still capable of very moving performances. He stood in when Oistrakh died for a memorable perfo...
- Sun Dec 16, 2018 9:04 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Pavel Haas Quartet plays Shostakovich live
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2611
Re: Pavel Haas Quartet plays Shostakovich live
I heard them last Monday in the Wigmore Hall, the Janacek quartets (how often do we hear both together in concert?) and the 2nd Smetana. It was fabulous, the best concert I have heard in ages.
- Thu Dec 13, 2018 11:25 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Henryk Szeryng's 44-CD Decca set
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4614
Re: Henryk Szeryng's 44-CD Decca set
Hi Lance, I think Amazon must be wrong, the RCA Tchaikovsky (Boston/Munch) and Devil's Trill aren't there either. I have quite a lot of duplicates but I am tempted nonetheless. I do like his Mozart sonatas and concerti, the latter got a rough ride in the UK when they were issued as part of the Phill...
- Wed Oct 31, 2018 3:53 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: So, now what's left after Szell to buy?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14745
Re: So, now what's left after Szell to buy?
Yes Szeryng's Mozart sonatas with Ingrid Haebler are very good too. I feel he has been badly underestimated since Perlman's quip about not recognising his playing. Mind I sometimes find the same with Gil Shaham, another superb player. I'm not familiar with this quotation. Can you provide it more fu...
- Mon Oct 29, 2018 2:53 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: So, now what's left after Szell to buy?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14745
Re: So, now what's left after Szell to buy?
Yes Szeryng's Mozart sonatas with Ingrid Haebler are very good too. I feel he has been badly underestimated since Perlman's quip about not recognising his playing. Mind I sometimes find the same with Gil Shaham, another superb player.
- Sun Oct 28, 2018 1:33 pm
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: So, now what's left after Szell to buy?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 14745
Re: So, now what's left after Szell to buy?
I plan on getting that Szeryng box when it comes out in December. BBC Magazine just named his Mozart Concerti as the best ever, and I have to hear them. The Szeryng set was unfashionable for a long while and IIRC many complained that it was included in the Philips Mozart edition rather than the Gru...
- Sat Sep 29, 2018 10:22 am
- Forum: Classical Music Chatterbox
- Topic: Conductor's " pieces of a lifetime "
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3439
Re: Conductor's " pieces of a lifetime "
Very strange collection of conductors.....