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Harold Tucker

A Giulini Carmina? Tell me more. Tell me more.

Harold Tucker

The really wonderful Munch Berlioz Romeo and Juliet has never had wide release on CD in the US. I have it on RCA Navigator and the mastering left a lot to be desired.

Harold Tucker

MDT has it for 46.29 (pounds) plus 30 dollars shipping. Still a a bargain.

Harold Tucker

Volume Two is being released in February 2014:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/living-stereo-coll ... 60cds.html

Harold Tucker

I was in the store a few years back when one of the owners tore into some poor employee up in the classical department. It was a tirade that would make old Scrooge feel downright inadequate. I felt so bad for him that I had to take the subway up to Tower to buy something that would make me feel bett...

Harold Tucker

A few more years and this guy could really amount to something.

Harold Tucker

Are you certain the No.7 in the notes is the reconstructed symphony and not the "Great" D.944? Years back the "Great" was known as No.7.

Harold Tucker

Check out the MDT site for both content and price. Releases next month in the U.K.

Harold Tucker

Francis is not a total unknown. I have seen him here in Cincinnati and he has made the round here in the states. This is what his agency has to say:

http://www.cami.com/?webid=2013

Harold Tucker

Allen's clip is not the Beecham /Goosens monster: no cymbals, no Mahlerian horns, no tinking triangle. Try this ( and marvel at Jon Vickers ):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUdPbsxFdrI

Harold Tucker

When I was a young, inexperienced and untutored in such things I clutched my allowance dollars and headed to Willis Music on Forth Street in Cincinnati to obtain a recording of that Messiah thing that was all over the AM radio dial at Christmas time. There it was in a beautiful Red Slip Case: a RCA ...

Harold Tucker

I had the pleasure of his company twice and I treasure the memory. No walking tour of lower Manhatten could have been finer. Dim Sum in Chinatown with many treats that I wouldn't have attempted without his urging was a joy. He will be missed. CMG was never the same without him. He was an icon of tas...

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Seems like a good idea to me.

Some years back it became the fashion to do Schoenberg's "Survivor from Warsaw" as a prelude to the Ninth. If I recall correctly there was no intermission in the program.

Harold Tucker

I miss the excitement of the hunt and the thrill of the find. Certainly, pointing and clicking is easier. But it is also and easier way to the poor house. And, my house is beginning to track the attention of those folks who do TV shows about clutter and hoarding.

Harold Tucker

I done ordered it ,John. Curiosity killed the Budget.

Harold Tucker

Hang in there and don't forget to take care of yourself. You are going to have to stay strong to get you both through this.

Harold Tucker

Good opera gossip herein:
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti ... ullarticle

Harold Tucker

Believe it or not, Ozawa and Boston(DG)--a really exciting, incisive performance. Might give you a hint of how he got the job.

Harold Tucker

Mr. hound needs to find a library that has a copy of Jonathan Valin's "The RCA Bible" (1994). It will tell him more than he ever thought he wanted to know about the history and technique of the "Living Stereo" recordings. Unfortuanately it is hard to come by.

Harold Tucker

I have no idea how the writer can say that Klaus Tennstedt's name isn't associated with the Bruckner symphonies. On my planet he had a great reputation with these works during his lifetime and in his recorded legacy.

Harold Tucker

I believe we have to drop the Cincinnati Symphony from the Neeme Jarvi list. He has conducted the group, but the recording in question is Ravel's Pavane which is led by his son Paavo. And, speaking of errors, did any one else note the Hyperion ad in the BBC Music Magazine claiming this to be the 300...

Harold Tucker

Count me among the true believers. I hold the Tennstedt concerts I attended in the same esteem that I hold concerts in my past by Stokowski, Bernstein and Kondrashin (to name a few). I also attended a couple of rehearsals when he appeared at the Cincinnati May Festival back in the 1980's and they we...

Harold Tucker

I had already reached my quota of recordings of "Daydream Believer". Sorry, Susan.

Harold Tucker

Best wishes and thanks to the CMGers for another year of infotainment.

Harold Tucker

I think somebody's music was upside down.

Harold Tucker

So you have a perfectly good pagan holiday hijacked by Christianity and then poisoned by Capitalism. If you don't mind, I am going to go ahead an enjoy the parts I like and try ignore the parts I don't. I have amassed about 200 Christmas cds and I doubt you would find any of mention of Santa Claus a...

Harold Tucker

I see that MDT has the RCA release of this production listed for the month of December.

Harold Tucker

What an incredible legacy. I had cold chills just remembering some of those recordings. His Gurrelieder is unmatched in clarity and sheer beauty. Even unlikely suspects like Wagner's Die Meistersinger Prelude and Falla's Three Cornered Hat benefit from Boulez' masterful direction.

Harold Tucker

From the seven minutes are so posted on Youtube, I would judge that the performance was far from a disaster and I would be happy to add it to my Porgy and Bess collection. The assumptions you are liable to read in the Classical Music Guide ain't necessarily so. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rikNPht...

Harold Tucker

My first purchase was Beethoven's "Eroica" with Reiner and the Chicago Symphony on RCA. The cover had the head of Michaelangelo's Moses on the cover and notes by Romain Roland on the back. It set me back $4.98. The next two lps came from a dime store and cost 99 cents: Arthur Rodzinski conducting Be...

Harold Tucker

I listened to Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour last night and was very pleased with what I heard. The clarity was amazing. The real test for me will be how the early albums stack up against the amazing Toshiba vinyl that I have treasured for years. That said, and I am happy that I lived long eno...

Harold Tucker

Boredom is in the mind of the beholder. You may quote me on that.

Harold Tucker

Who has the key? The door is still locked.

Harold Tucker

Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this The fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Leonard Cohen, "Hal...

Harold Tucker

There are a lot of words that could be used to describe Mel, but "nice" is not one of them. Being referred to in that manner might be enough to bring him back for one more foul-mouthed rebuttal. The poor man suffered greatly and I felt for him, but his online persona was insufferable. I often wonder...

Harold Tucker

Satie and Mompou were miniaturists, not minimalists. Satie is closer to Berg and Webern than Adams and Glass--he just avoided atonality.My old favorite John Adams work was the "Grand Pianola Music".

Harold Tucker

Beethoven Symphony No. 6. Bass players detest it.

Harold Tucker

Michael Tilson Thomas, December 21.

Harold Tucker

Damn the History Book Club! I love history, so I keep buying more and more of those lovely books that are so intriguingly described in each month's list of offerings. I buy them faster than I can read them. In our new house, the bonus room contains nothing but stacks and stacks of books --- some of...

Harold Tucker

Damn the History Book Club! I love history, so I keep buying more and more of those lovely books that are so intriguingly described in each month's list of offerings. I buy them faster than I can read them. In our new house, the bonus room contains nothing but stacks and stacks of books --- some of...

Harold Tucker

Thank goodness you folks noticed this too! I have been sick and I was sure that receiving a copy of NEWSWEEK the week that Michael Jackson died with a cover story recommending the reading of Trollope was a sure sign of a feverish dementia or at the very least and indication that I had entered an alt...

Harold Tucker

That is a great straight line jbuck, but I think I will let it pass this time.

Harold Tucker

I cannot tell you anything about KUSC , but I can say that prior to becoming President of that station, Brenda Barnes nearly destroyed the classical radio station here in Cincinnati. In her brief stay she eliminated any programing that ventured beyond the hackneyed relaxation mode. * * * to my mind...

Harold Tucker

I cannot tell you anything about KUSC , but I can say that prior to becoming President of that station, Brenda Barnes nearly destroyed the classical radio station here in Cincinnati. In her brief stay she eliminated any programing that ventured beyond the hackneyed relaxation mode. All of the broadc...

Harold Tucker

I am a great fan of Savall and have both of these releases. The Jerusalem set is a fantastic journey though it is all over the place musically and culturally. Kind of fitting for the subject.

Harold Tucker

The EMI recording of "Seven Stars. . ." is available as an Archiv on demand reissue and another recording for RCA conducted by James Judd is available from the same source as a special order import.

Harold Tucker

Famous for his recordings of music by Hugo and Beo Wulf?

Harold Tucker

Wrong forum there, daydreamer. Discussions of torture should be posted in the Corner Pub.

Harold Tucker

Just in time for the great celebration Naxos has released an audiobook of the works of the Scottish poet(?) William Topaz McGonagall. Follow the link below and treat yourself to the masterpiece of this fine gentleman, "The Tay Bridge Disaster":

http://www.naxosaudiobooks.com/189312.htm

Harold Tucker

In a moment, the results of that trial: From WCPO TV news: The world-renowned conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra charged with drinking and driving appeared in court on Tuesday morning. Paavo Järvi, 46, entered a no contest plea on an OVI charge. Hamilton County Municipal Judge Dwane Mall...

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