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A bit of Mono:
Haydn - Cello Concerto Boccherini - Cello Concerto Janos Starker Philharmonia Orchestra Carlo Maria Giulini Cond. Wonderful mono recording from Angel Records, Superb Play! Angel Records 35725 (mono) Regards, Jim
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Still in a mono mood:
The Art of Dennis Brain Beethoven, Mozart, Dittersdorf, Haydn, Schumann and Dukas Wonderful French Horn Play with some cuts spectacular and others obviously dated. Seraphim Records 60040 (1966) Recordings from 1944-1953 Regards, Jim
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This 7-disc set arrived today. I started with the Fantasy in C Op.17. Nice, very nice.
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Telemann - 12 fantasies for viola solo
Ori Kam The musician did the transcriptions from the violin solo pieces himself and it works wonderfully! Very nice album.
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Beethoven: Sinfonia Eroica
I also got from Presto Classical this new SACD release...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica' Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall As I've written many times here, Savall's Eroica is one of my favorite interpretations of anything by anyone. This is an SACD remaster of the magnificent 1994 Auvidis Fontalis release. This redo slightly improves on the details of the previous recording, but I would say the improvement is marginal - kind of hard to top such a great original recording. The good news is that this SACD makes this essential recording widely available again as the original has been out of print for a while. The booklet included with the SACD describes the story behind the actual recording. Savall says that the session started at 6 pm with a lengthy process of adjustment and balancing with two pair of stereo microphones. To achieve the "desired sound balance" took until 11 pm so the first actual takes of the Eroica movements took place after midnight with the Marcia Funebre recorded after 7:30 am the same morning. Savall says they had never played the Funeral March with such drama and emotion. So they pulled an all-nighter recording these pieces. This story makes sense because you can hear some roughness in the playing, perhaps from the musicians being weary-eyed playing at 4 am, but in my view that slight jaggedness enhances the impact of the period performance. Savall says that even though the recording took place in 1994 he set it aside for 3 years so he would have a more objective idea of what he had achieved. In 1997 he listened to the recording and decided to release it. Here is the July 1997 Gramophone review of the original release by Richard Osborne: Quote:
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I'll be able to listen to my copy this weekend.
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Schubert - Impromptus
Radu Lupu We can only imagine what could have been composed if Schubert had lived as long as for example Haydn... These are simply wonderful pieces.
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