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It has been a while, but my Live Boston Symphony Discs from the 50's-70's are now being offered again on ebay. Lots of Munch. Also titles with Koussevitzky, Monteux, Steinberg, Tilson Thomas, Tennstedt, Ormandy, Abbado, Krips, and Ozawa. Just type in Live Boston Symphony CD in the ebay search engine...

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Sir Simon Rattle has recoded on EMI the 'definitive' reconstruction by four scholars of the last movenent of this titanic Symphony. I found the Bruckner finale listenable, but, I will go back to the three movement version which is 'finished' enough for me. After over half a century of loving the 's...

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It's on ebay!!!! 2nd ever US program. Noone knew who he was at the time, and he delivered a performance that is still talked about in Boston to this day.

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:D After much refraining, I am happy to report that many Live and Rare Boston Symphony goodies have been reposted on ebay: Lots of Munch, some Leinsdorf, one disc each of Monteux, Ormandy, and a young Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition, there is also a single disc of very Rare Live performances by W...

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I notice you are in Australia. I do specify in my ebay listing: Ship to USA only. If you are indeed interested in a fair number of back issues, we can get around that. Just let me know in advance and we can do things outside of ebay.

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Type in the ebay search engine: Any issue Fanfare Magazine. It should pop up. If still no luck, let me know I will get the listing number and you can search that way. You can also try to search for ebay items via seller ID. My ebay seller ID is christmashtn.

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I am trying to unload all my old Fanfare and Gramophone Magazines. I have one copy of each issue of Fanfare from Jan./Feb. 1981 through July/August 2006. I have the complete Fanfare indexes from 1983-2003. In the Gramophone Magazine Dept. I have all from July 1970-September 2006, including all the G...

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If these are commercially issued Reel To Reel Tapes (as opposed to home made tapes or commercially issued cassette tapes ), then there is indeed a market for these. Many fetch some pretty good $$$$ on ebay. You may want to consider this option.

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I hope we are not confusing the TWO different Berglund recordings, both on EMI. There is the earlier analog one with the Bournemouth Symphony, and then there's the later digital one with the Helsinki Philharmonic. Both are among the top three of four interpretations available I feel strongly. I do h...

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Dear Heck148: Were you one of those many who could not let go of Munch after he left the BSO?

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The "Polonaise" Camden LP which you mention above is the one which Haydn House has transferred.

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The Khachaturian Concerto with Previn and The Royal Philharmonic has been reissued on CD in Japan (coupled with a Previn/LSO performance of Nielsen's Symphony # 1.) It can be ordered from amazon.co.jp It will apear by typing in Nielsen Previn in their search engine. The CD will not come up if either...

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Actually I just referred to my programs, and these two Tanglewood/BSO concerts took place in July 1986 and not 1984 as mentioned above. July 26th and 27th respectively. I totally forgot about the dreadfully boring Ozawa performance of the Beethoven 4rth Symphony on the 27th (which followed after int...

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Anyone like to talk about both the most exciting and most boring concerts you have ever attended? In my case back to back days at Tanglewood, 1984. On a Saturday evening, Bernstein conducted the Boston Symphony in front of a fully packed shed and lawn. The evening was just beautiful. Program opened ...

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Ooops. I looked at the wrong part of the tape. On the above date, Andre Previn conducted Rachmaninoff's 2nd Symphony with the BSO. The Friday afternoon Hollander/Dausgaard 2nd Concerto actually took place on January 14, 1994.

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I have a tape at home of Lorin's Friday afternoon performance of the Rachmaninoff 2nd with the BSO. Thomas Dausgaard was the conductor. It was on November 20, 1993. The Boston Globe article came out two or three days later. I beleive this was the last time that he ever appeared with a major Symphony...

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Anyone remember Lorin Hollander? I thought he was just a phenominal pianist. The few recordings which he made, mostly for RCA in the late 50's to early 60's are just sensational. Anyone concur? He had a rare form of epilespy which occasionally affected his playing hands. He kept this a secret for ye...

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To say I have never bothered is certainly not true if you do a little research. The discs are wonderful treasures and should not be taken as a grain of salt.

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Best ever Khachaturian recording in my book is Loris Tjeknavorian's recording of the complete 1942 version of Gayne, currently available as a 2 CD midprice set on RCA. Some have criticized the remastering, but it really is not all that bad as some say. The clear as a bell LP version did have less ai...

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Hear The Boston Symphony Orchestra in their absolute 1950's and 1960's prime LIVE under Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf, and Pierre Monteux. Fabulous transfers! Just go to ebay and type in the particular conductors last name followed by the word LIVE, and all the goodies will show, including twelve d...

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No. This is not the same performance you will find on the Testament label, which was recorded by RCA Victor in 1963. This is a Live broadcast performance from February 3, 1961. As wonderful as the studio recording on the Testament CD is, I think this Live performance from '61 is even livlier. It mar...

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Actually what I should have said is look a little more below in the Chatterbox section.

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I have always slightly preferred the Columbia Symphony Bruno Walter to Horenstein's with the LSO. My favorite studio recording has always been Leinsdorf and Boston Symphony. It rocks without going overboard the way Bernstein/New York Phil does in the Finale. Even better is their Live performance whi...

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Erich Leinsdorf made his 1st appearance with the BSO as a guest conductor in 1961. The concluding work on that program was an absolutely sizzling Prokofiev 5th, which I have made available on ebay, in Stereo, ebay item 190396976917.

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Along with the 12 CD Live Charles Munch/BSO set, this THUMPING Live Stereo Mahler 1st with Leinsdorf and BSO (from October 1962) has been made available again on ebay, ebay item # 190396977203.

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If you've missed these before, they are available again on ebay, ebay item # 190396179702. The BSO has not sounded like this in years!!

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This is indeed from one of the very first concerts which Erich Leinsdorf gave as BSO music director, from October 1962. The following week he led the very first BSO performance of the Shostakovich 10th Symphony.

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If you like Leinsdorf's thumping Mahler 1st on RCA, this live performance in excellent broadcast stereo (given just a day or two before the RCA was put down) is even more thumping! ebay item number 190384205654.

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Has been relisted as ebay item number 190382198218 on March 20th.

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I work two jobs which does take up a lot of my time. I'm hoping to contribute some this weekend.

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These discs I have also just made available seperately on ebay, in case one does not desire all 12 Live discs in the set. If you do want the whole of this fab set, refer to ebay item Number 190380304282.

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Here's a real sleeper of a "New World" - Muti and The New Philharmonia on EMI's Budget Encore series! It will only cost you 4-5 dollars and you get quite a vitalic performance which never drags, and it sings it heart out from first bar to last. All the repeats are observed. You also get quite a full...

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These 12 Discs Are Available Again On ebay. Ebay Item # 190378379017.

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Both the original RCA Red Seal CD and RCA Living Stereo Hybrid SACD of the Cliburn/Kondrashin are a vast improvement of the original Mono and Stereo Red Seal LP's, which were totally zapped of overtone and resonance. They sound as if the performance was recorded in a cardboard box. There was also a ...

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Van Cliburn's Live 1958 "Big Hands and Full of Passion" performance with Kiril Kondrashin and The Symphony of the Air on RCA, gets my vote as the best ever commercially released version. However, there is another Live Van Cliburn recording, not commercially released, but available on line, which is ...

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I love Haitink's recording of the 8th Symphonic Poem "Heroide funebre." If Mahler had ever written a nearly half hour long funeral march, it probably would have sounded much like this work. Most conductors who have recorded this Symphonic Poem have done so at a tempos more brisk, which is why Haitin...

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Michael Halasz on Naxos and Rattle on EMI also include Blumine as on their CD's of the 1st, but like Segerstam on Chandos, it appears seperate from the remainder of the Symphony (not between movements 1+2).

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Ponti was the first to record the Tchaikovsky 3rd Concerto in its three movement Op.75/79 version, edited by Taneiev. The Radio Luxembourg Orchestra under Louis de Froment plays scrappily but excitingly at Ponti's dazzling pace. A few more polished renditions of this three movement version have appe...

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Eugene Ormandy and Ivan Fischer have also recorded the 1893/1906 hybrid. Wynn Morris recorded the five movement 1889 in its original scoring for Pye Records sometime around 1969-1970. EMI in Europe had it available oh so briefly on CD about ten years ago, on their short lived midline Phoenix series....

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The Europe CD re-issue of the five movement Ozawa DG First is currently showing up as available on amazon.com between 5-9 dollars, new and used, despite it being noted as discontinued. The CD is coupled witn the famous Fischer-Dieskau/Bohm/Berlin Phil. Ruckert Lieder.

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European LP and CD reissues of the DG Ozawa BSO First Symphony contain the discarded Blumine movement. A week or two before this recording was made, Seiji and BSO performed the First Symphony live as a five movement Symphony. When DG made the recording shortly after, they also recorded the Blumine m...

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I think Solti's earlier 1967 9th with the LSO is much better. The last five minutes of the third movement in particular, literally seeths with virtuosity, quite unmatched anywhere. This earlier rendition is currently available in Germany and Japan on a single CD, Decca Eloquence 473 865-2.

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Beware any LP pressings of the Auclair/Woss which state "Stereo" on the cover. The performance heard on those pressings IS NOT the Auclair/Woss, even though the cover states such. What's inside is really a rechanneled stereo performance from Hamburg, featuring competent second tier performers, who d...

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Auclair's wonderful Remington of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with Kurt Woss conducting has been remastered most successfully, and it is available from www.rediscovery.us The CD is coupled with the Remington Conrad Hansen/Sawallisch Tchaikovsky 1st Concerto. The disc is in their budget Paperback ...

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1.) Leinsdorf/Boston (Walter/Columbia Sym.) 2.) Bernstein/New York Sony (Walter/New York) 3.) Horenstein/London Sym. (Bernstein/New York Sony) Ideal Performance Mvts. 1,3,4 Bernstein Mvts. 2,5,6 Horenstein 4.) Mathis/Karajan Berlin (Schwarzkopf/Klemperer Philharmonia) 5.) Bernstein/New York Sony (Le...

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1.) Van Cliburn (what a shame he could never get away from mother, he's barely played in public since she passed on)
2.) Lorin Hollander (what a shame his hands became epilyptic)
3.) Sviatoslav Richter
4.) Grigory Sokolov
5.) Martha Argerich/Andre Watts (virtual tie)

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The recordings were produced by Jordan M. Whitelaw, and they are all from the best surviving sources.

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Type in the following in the amazon search engine: September 15, 1971 At The Royal Albert Hall. This will bring you directly to the Italian Descant CD pressing, and will override the others.

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If you missed it the first time, this is available again. Item # 190365697241 in the bay search engine.

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The Horenstein BBC Bruckner 5th has been issued on a variety of labels. Though most are of very good to excellent quality , its very best CD transfer was its very first one, on the short lived Italian Descant label. I do believe that this was sourced from the first generation master tape, and all ot...

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