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I am relieved to hear this Ralph! I had read about this decision and thought it spelled bad news for Naxos and other labels that do reissues. Especially since major labels like EMI either (a) keep stuff locked in vaults or (b) do inferior transfers compared to the transfers Obert-Thorne does. I'll ...

One can only imagine what this merger COULD bring to the public in the way of, especially, historical performances and back catalogue that hasn't seen the light of day in many years. Take two patrician labels like RCA and Columbia and their affiliates, and you truly have some major possibilitites. I...

Well, that tells you something about critics, certain critics, not all critics. They can make some pretty bad—almost unforgiving—mistakes themselves, being human and all that has to imply on many levels. If their ears were in the right place, you might have thought they would pick up on just the sou...

There are a few recordings around with Foote's work. If you don't catalogue your discs, you might already have some. I'm not listing, necessarily the actual name of the Foote piece, just that his music appears on the discs: Delos 3172 - Eugenia Zukerman, flute - "Music for a Sunday Morning" Library ...

I have a lot of their Early Music recordings. It's sad but if they can't make a profit, they can't stay in business. :( Well, sure -- profit is what business is all about, but it sure has changed the face of music insofar as recordings goes, and concerts in many places are suffering as well. Great ...

Heck148 wrote:
Lance wrote:What other pieces can be recommended that are indispensable in the PDQ Bach lineup?
2 favorites must be included:

Concerto for Horn and Hardart
Eine Kleine Nichtmusik

Thank you, Heck148. I'll check these out. Appreciate your input.

What a pity, indeed. I have 9 or 10 or their recordings (about 10% of Dorian's current catalogue) but none of the Early Music discs. Their roster contained discs by pianists Ivan Moravec, Anton Kubalek, and Andrew Rangell, and such distinguished singers as Victor Braun, violinist Rachel Barton, cell...

mahlerfan wrote:Well s**t Lance, I would say don't bother in that case! Wait for wireless to become good.

That's what I was hoping somebody would say! But then I don't want to miss anything either!

Massachusetts-born Arthur Foote 's (1853-1937) music first came to me by way of an old Serge Koussevitzky recording of the Suite for Strings in E Major , Op. 63. When that LP was released, nothing seemed to be available of other works by Foote, but Koussevitzky certainly piqued one's interest in th...

I'm sure I have something he conducted*, but I couldn't find anything in my quick perusal of the shelves, so I will settle for something I know he conducted, even if it's not his recording of the work. * I have some Handel he conducted, but as I was one of the participants and know the many things ...

What other pieces can be recommended that are indispensable in the PDQ Bach lineup?

I'm not going to speak as strongly as Mel, but I am in some kind of agreement with him that it takes little effort to have your TV audio also run through your receiver. It just takes connecting a cable. How it works-- if you want to have the audio go through the TV, that's fine. If you want the aud...

I have a CD containing his The Red Guelder-Rose , a work I really love. Haven't listened to it in a while; maybe I should pull it out! Is that the one with Shostakovich conducting? And my, my -- you know your CD collection very well to remember that you had a recording of that! How many people woul...

owlice wrote:Well, if you don't write a review, I know where to find one in a few days!

Yes, I know. Perhaps I should defer to him, yes?

owlice wrote:
MaestroDJS wrote: [snipped] ...

Lance, I voted, I voted!!

Ah, Bless you! And thank you!

Lance , I hope you will provide a full report of the concert! And tell me what you ordered, if anything, at the Lost Dog. :) Hi Owlice! We had a GREAT time, the three of us ... but the Lost Dog was a 40-minute wait - so we had Chinese across the street from the State Theater. I was/may still write ...

The fine, independent label, Russian Disc, before its demise, issued a huge number of superb recordings featuring prominent Russian musicians, not to mention a substantial number of works we might not hear otherwise. Svetlanov [1928-2002], of course, is well known to collectors as one of Russia's gr...

Come on folks, send in your vote. This is a most interesting poll. You must have some opinion, yes?

Ah - a great number "250" (I hope somebody at least remembers me when it is my 250th!) - and many organizations are using this number to do many special things in honour of Herr Mozart. The Mozarteum, for example, is presenting all 22 stage productions of Mozart's operas, including the ones many of ...

jbuck919 wrote: [snipped] ... I am having trouble getting other posters to understand that something happened in the 1960s that ended fluff and started junk.

Well, LOTS of fluff was well rendered by the extraordinary "German Nightingale," soprano Erna Sack, including Strauss and many others.

One of my own favorite Haydn symphonies is the 53rd in D Major, "The Imperial" - especially in Leopold Stokowski's old RCA Victor recording [recently made available on an English Cala CD (0532)]. As I recall, there were appendices for one of the movements, which appeared on the famous Dorati/English...

I once had the pleasure of preparing Mr. Schikele's piano for concert and found him to be quite a delightful man, most serious about his compositional work. One work that appeals to me very much of PDQ/Schikele is the cantata Blaues Gras (Bluegrass Cantata), which appeared first around 1979 on a Van...

For DJS: Many of the composers you list are represented on CD - some quite generously: [snipped] And, you include a couple of performing composers, i.e. Previn and Lipatti. I would mention one more - Jorg Demus - who wrote absolutely exquisite pieces for cello and piano (Marco Polo). Indeed, Jörg D...

It would be nice if there was a Pope Lance or Pope Lancelot. It could be a first!

APRIL 14 Births and Deaths Born 1900: Salvatore Baccaloni, bass singer, died 12-31-1969 Born 1929: Paavo Berglund, conductor Born 1956: Barbara Bonney, soprano Died 1859: Ignaz Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer, born 07-28-1796 Born 1892: George Cehanovsky, baritone, died 03-25-1986 Born 1861: Jean-F...

Listening to a lot of piano music today, performed by Russian pianists such as Elisso Virzaladze, the legendary Grigori Ginsburg, Maria Yudina, Maria Grinberg, Stanislaw Bunin, Mikhail Pletnov, all from Russian Melodiya CDs ... and all wonderful performers. Bunin in the music of Schumann, especially...

APRIL 13 Births and Deaths Died 1959: Eduard van Beinum, conductor, born 09-03-1901 Born 1816: William Bennet, composer, died 02-01-1875 Died 1910: Julius (Ferdinand) Blüthner, piano manufacturer, born 03-11-1824 Born 1931: Anita Cerquetti, soprano Born 1937: Richard and John Contiguglia, duo-piani...

APRIL 12 Births and Deaths Died 1997: Zurab Andjaparidze, tenor, born-?? Died 1981: Hendrik Andriessen, organist/composer, born 09-17-1892 Born 1931: Martin Boykan, composer Died 1949: Henry Thacker [H. T.] Burleigh, composer/arranger, born 12-02-1866 [assisted Antonin Dvorak] Born 1933: Montserrat...

APRIL 11 Births and Deaths Born 1908: Karel Ancerl, conductor, died 07-03-1973 Died 1956: Eric Blom, author/musicologist, born 08-20-1888 Died 1938: Feodor Chaliapin, bass singer, born 02-11-1873 Died 1954: Augusta Cottlow, pianist, born 04-02-1878 Born 1926: Gervase De Peyer, clarinetist Born 1916...

APRIL 10 Births and Deaths Born 1864: Eugene d'Albert, pianist/composer, died 03-03-1932 Born 1927: Luigi Alva, tenor Died 1952: Frederic Austin, baritone/composer, born 03-30-1872 Born 1930: Claude Bolling, pianist/composer Born 1835: Ludwig Bösendorfer, piano manufacturer, died 1919 Born 1958: Ye...

APRIL 9 Births and Deaths Died 1999: Ruth (Rosalie) Balsam, pianist, born 01-23-1906 [wife of pianist/teacher Artur Balsam] Died 1960: Arthur Benjamin, composer, born 09-18-1893 ["Jamaican Rhumba"] Died 1930: Rose Caron, soprano, born 11-17-1857 [*Died 1949: Maria Cebotari, soprano, born 02-10-1910...

I have found that classical music appeals more to those who have had at least some education and to those who had exposure as children through music lessons if nothing else, and as a result, at least have some "appreciation" of classical music. Others enjoy it, but often say in the same breath "I en...

. Matti raises the interesting question of how to use the word Scandinavian. The Skandanavien peninsula includes Sweden and Norway. People speaking Scandinavian languages also inhabit Denmark, Iceland and the Faeroe islands. The Finnish language is related to Estonian and Hungarian but not to any o...

Lance, thanks for the list. It was virtually all a surprise to me. It's interesting to see how people want to change their names for artistic reasons or to facilitate assimilation into their adopted country. Matti raises the interesting question of how to use the word Scandinavian. The Skandanavien...

I am in the market for a recording as I just heard the Montreal SO play Mahler 3 under Nagano with Marjana Liposvek. Incidentally the posthorn solo/principal trumpet was a Herseth pupil. Looks like the Horenstein recording is no longer available... other than used for upwards of $50 Well go for it!...

I just realized that I think Corlyss was referring to Auntie Lynn being alive, not Birgit Nilsson! But I'm certainly glad BOTH are alive and well. I hear the name Nilsson - and my heart palpitates. No, I was referring to Nilsson. I thought she was long dead. Auntie Lynn posted here lately so I susp...

Does anyone know about Mozarts Symphony No.39? I'm looking for a break down on all 4 movements, including; timings, melody, dynamics, instruments, general mood, etc. I'm also looking for the 3 main sections of sonata form (exposition, development and recapitulation) and how they fit into the 1st mo...

Mr. Bocelli is not for me. Some artists are adored by the public for the wrong reasons. Kind of like André Rieu, another that I can't listen to nor watch. If Bocelli is artistic heir to Pavarotti, the music world is in trouble. It can't last forever, however, but the recordings can. THIS is the lega...

Talent 2910 76 "Wilt thou be my dearie" 19 Songs of Leopold Kozeluch (1747-1818) Lenk Lauwers, baritone Diane Andersen, pianoforte ___________________ The reason for acquiring this disc was because of Diane Andersen, who seems to dig into the past for some exciting and forgotten music. Called the "G...

Yep, I saw most of it. Thought Ben was wunnerful, but that James Morris certainly has had the staying power over the years. I remember in the dim distant past when Lennie did a concert version on the Young Peoples' with Birgit Nilsson - and didn't she also sing the Dich Teure Halle on this same pro...

I really don't understand you people. You don't seem to be "getting it" at all. If you connect your TV audio to your stereo sound systen it DOES NOT MEAN that you MUST listen to all TV broadcasts through your sound system. The TV speakers remain active and usable at all times. I did not mean to inf...

Maestro Giulini, born May 9, 1914, soon celebrates his 91st birthday. No doubt he thought it time to step down, though Stokowski went on a few more years (to age 95, I think), and conductors in general have been found to live longish lives. Giulini has contributed greatly to the world's music scene,...

Lance mentioned Bryce Morrison to me today, a name I never heard of in music criticism, so I plugged it into Amazon and the only title I could find was under the aegis of this thing called the ILGCS. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/ref=s_sf_b_as/104-2880591-0687916 Anybody hear...

Every once-in-a-while , I get a big surprise in the field of entertainment. One night, very late, I watched Charles Bronson (who I happen to admire greatly) in the film Death Wish 3 . In one of the sequences, he's invited to dinner by a lovely young woman. She mentions that she had a sister in "Bin...

Yep, I saw most of it. Thought Ben was wunnerful, but that James Morris certainly has had the staying power over the years. I remember in the dim distant past when Lennie did a concert version on the Young Peoples' with Birgit Nilsson - and didn't she also sing the Dich Teure Halle on this same pro...

Well, a Wagner opera on TV, unless one has the big screen and you're hooked up to sound other than that of the TV set itself, I would not be interested in watching. I visited Wagner's home in Bayreuth. Now THAT would have been a production to see. Alas, I just missed it there. But thanks for the ti...

Well, a Wagner opera on TV, unless one has the big screen and you're hooked up to sound other than that of the TV set itself, I would not be interested in watching. I visited Wagner's home in Bayreuth. Now THAT would have been a production to see. Alas, I just missed it there. But thanks for the tip...

Well, so far I know her work not at all. Tried to get to her discography but it wouldn't open for me. As long as she doesn't have a voice like Florence Foster Jenkins, she might make it just fine. I'm now very anxious to hear her. If she sounds anything like she l@@ks ... she will be a knockout!

During the LP era, I had the good fortunte to acquire James Levine's RCA recording of Mahler's 3rd with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Quite frankly, my reason for wanting it in the first place was because of 1) Marilyn Horne's presence, and 2) the posthorn playing by Bud Herseth. This came out on ...

Well, Sibelius was born Johan Christian Julius Sibelius. His uncle (also Johan) was a sailor, a captain of a merchant ship and he used the name Jean Sibelius, for one reason or another - perhaps a French forename ensured some more credibility in his business. Anyhow, this uncle died just when Sibel...

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