doctorcilantro Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 First of all I know I won't be able to top the length of a Max G post but here I go. I have been picking up various classical records for a while now and I am curious. If there are any good forums or websites you would recommend please suggest them here. Any comments welcome, if anything I have is worth even commenting on I know your up late enjoying the music Max!!! btw Are all the grey label Columbia 6eye's mono? Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue - Fielder/Boston Pops (Living Stereo LSC-2367) Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue: An American In Paris - Leonard Bernstein, New York Phillharmonic, & The Columbia Symphony (Columbia Masterworks ML5413) Rodgers & Hammerstein - Sound Of Music - Columbia Masterworks KOS2020) Melachrino Strings & Orchestra - Moods In Music: Music For Dining - Living StereoLSP-1000 John Williams & Eugene Ormandy - Two Favorite Guitar Concertos - Columbia Masterworks ML6234 Pachelbel Kanon & Other Baroque Favorites - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - London FFRR CS6206 New Year's Eve In Vienna: Vienna Phillharmonic w/ Willi Boskovsky - Blue Danube & Other Favorites - London FFRR LDR10001-2 Mozart Piano Concerto 27 in b flat//Piano Sonata 2 in a major - Vienna Phillharmonic - London FFRR STS15062 Bach: The Four Suites for Orchestra - Yehudi Menuhin w/ Bath Festival Orchestra - Seraphim SIB6085 Pachelbel Kanon-Albinoni Adagio - Richard Hickox Orchestra - London FFRR STS15441 Mozart - Piano Concerto 15 in b flat//Symphony 36 in C - Leonard Bernstein & Vienna Phillharmonic - London FFRR Mono CM9499 Beethoven - Third Piano Concerto, Op. 37, Fantasy For Piano, Chorus & Orchestra, Op. 80 - Leonard Bernstein & New York Phillharmonic - Columbia Masterworks ML6016 MONO Andrius Kuprevicius - Performs Piano Works Of Lithuanian Composers - Advent AK3790 Tchaikovsky - Concerto No. 1 - Van Cliburn (piano?) & Kiril Kondrashin (conductor) - RCA Victor Red Seal LM2252 Franck Symphony In D Minor - Leonard Bernstein & NY Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks ML5391 Russian Sailors Dance (Khachturian, Smetena, Brahms) - Eugene Ormandy & Phil. Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks ML5223 Liszt: Concertos NOS. 1&2 - Philippe Entremont w/ E. ORmandy & Phil. Phillharmonic - Col. MS6071 Struass Waltzes - Melachrino Orchestra - RCA Living Stereo LSP1757 Mozart Symphonies 25 & 29 - Neville Mariner & Acad. Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - London Treasury 411 717-1LT Haydn (Concerto in D major for cello & orchestra, Opus 101) & Bocccherini (Concerto in b flat major for Cello & Orchestra - Pierre Fournier w/ The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karl Munchinger - DECCA FFRR LXT2968 Brahms: A German Requiem (Variations On a Theme By Haydn) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - London FFRR OS26599 Pavarotti - King Of The High C's - London FFRR OS26373 The Great Pavarotti London FFRR OS26510 Mantovani & His Orch. - Operetta Memories - London FFSS PS202 Scheherazade - Leopold Stowkowski w/ London Symph. Orchestra (Rimsky-Korsakov) - London MONO PM55002 Brahms - Violin Concerto - Heifetz, Chicago Symphony, Reiner - RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1903 Great Sacred Choruses (Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Gounod, Stainer) - Robert Shaw Chorale - RCA Victor LM1117 Schubert - Symph. 8_B minor "Unfinished" - Paul Kletzki & Royal Phillharmonic - Angel S35779 Dvorak - From The New World Symphony 5 in E minor - Danish National Orch. & Nicolai Malko - RCA Victor Bluebird Classics LBC1005 Mario Lanza - Romberg: The Student Prince - LSC 2339 A. Vivaldi - Concerto For 2Horns & Strings In F Major, Concerto For Guitar & String In C Major, Concerto For Guitar & String In D Major - Collegium Musicum Of Paris Under Direction of Roland Douatte - Nonesuch H71018 Beethoven - Concerto for Violin & Orch., 2 Romances for Violin 7 Orch in F - Susanne Lautenbacher w/ conductors Hubert Reichert & Curt Cremer Tchaikovsky's Greatest Ballets Vol. 1 (Suite From The Nutcracker) - Eugene Ormandy & The Phil. Orchestra - RCA Red Seal (1974) ARL 1-0027 Tchaikovsky: Patheique Symphony - Leonard Bernstein & NY Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks MONO ML6089 The Singing Stradivarius - Mishel Piastro & the Longines Symphonette - LW142 Andres Segovia - A Bach Recital - Everest 3261 Brahms Symphony 4 Academic Festival Overture - Stokowski & New Phill. Orchestra - RCA Red Seal (1967) ARL1-0719 Brahms (Hungarian Dances) & Dvorak (Slavonic Dances) - Bamber Symphony Orchestra - VOX STPL511.240 Brahms Symphony 4 in E Minor/Opus 98 - Vladimir Golschmann & Vienna State Opera Orchestra - Vanguard SRV188 A. Dvorak - Piano Quintet In A Major Opus 81 - Chigi Quintet (Quinetto Chigiano) (my great aunt Vinnie was married to one of them) - London FFRR LLP202 A. Segovia w/ Quintetto Chigiano - Quintet Op. 143 (Castelnuovo-Tedesco) [Villa Lobos: Two Studies, Scriabin: PRelude, Haug: Alba (Legenda), Haug: Postlude, Llobet: Lo Mestre) - DECCA DL9832 Theatre Music w/a French Touch - Lichel Legrand & Orchestra - Col. Masterworks CB15 Not For Sale Tony Mottola - Guitar ...Paris - Command RS 877 SD Andre Previn - Sound Stage - Columbia MONO CS8958 Chopin - Polonaises - Alfred Brendel (piano) - Cardinal (Vanguard) VCS-10058 Stokowski Showpieces For Orchestra - London Phase4 - R224497 (Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel, Byrd, Bach, Mussorgosky, Handel, Elgar, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Wagner, Rachmaninov, Duparc, Clarke, Debussy) Bolero, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Verdi, & Suppe - Zubin Mehta & The LA Phillharmonic - London FFRR CS7132 Dr. C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted July 7, 2005 Share Posted July 7, 2005 Nice, eclectic collection! How familiar were you with these beforehand? FWIW, my tastes, and the ones I'd suggest close, intense listening to, run to the Ormandy/Williams (a highly-regarded classical guitarist, not the Superman composer) which probably includes a Rodrigo work or two; the Stuttgart CO and the Pachelbel & Albinoni baroque recordings; the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27 (a wistful work written not long before his death -- is that Curzon?); and the two Beethoven works. Search the forum on "Classical" to see some rich threads of a year or so ago. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorcilantro Posted July 8, 2005 Author Share Posted July 8, 2005 Thanks. I will list the rest, search the archives and the web, and try to learn something. I don't know anything about classical music. I need to list these for my records so I thought it would be fun to catch some comments on stuff. I listened to Rhapsody In Blue on shaded dog (RCA?) last night somewhat low volume, or so I thought....the dynamics on these LP's blow me away! DR. C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaptnBob Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 You've got some nice recordings there. The Mercury and the RCA "Shaded Dogs" (the ones with Nipper in a darker spot on the red label) are particularly well thought of. The Columbias can be kind of a mixed bag. Great performances - Ormandy deserves his following - but technically the recordings can be suspect. Columbia's top brass apparently felt everybody listened on "Close & Play" record players and so limited frequency response and dynamics, and used vinyl which, on occasion, was apparently made of ground up truck tires. Columbia also got heavily into multi-micing, which is an approach a bit discredited today. It's a good collection of lps there-enjoy them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 Dr., your collection looks even better IMO in your fleshed out list. I have the Mozart Concerto No. 15/Sym No. 36, and it's a very nice, vigorous performance, so I'd suggest an early close listen to that one. Van Cliburn's Tchaikovsky Concerto, from the late 1950's, may have been one of the most famous classical recordings ever, because he had just won the Tchaikovsky prize in Moscow at a time Russia seemed to be overtaking us in space, science, and art. The Liszt concertos are very interesting, as are the Haydn and Boccherini cello concertos. The Brahms Requiem is a beautiful but somber, reflective work which needs a special mood of concentration for listening. The same listening requirement helps greatly for the much happier Schubert Unfinished Symphony. Scheherazade is a wonderful, oriental-colored and brilliantly orchestrated work that should get a thorough listen from you. The Dvorak New World (renumbered to 9 since your record was released) has both a strong Czech character and Dvorak's take on the directon American classical music could take (hence "From the New World"). The slow (second) movement is a masterpiece in that regard. The Tchaikovsky ballets are fascinating for their tunefulness and orchestration -- of course, they should be seen in their ballet context to fully realize how brilliant they are, but they're great listening nevertheless. His Sixth Symphony (Pathetique) is truly a world-class masterwork, although you should be prepared for the depths of musical despair and desolation! The third, march movement is very exciting and powerful. Your last two listings, the Stowkowski and Mehta/LAPhilharmonic, look like they have a many short classical works that tend to be given short shrift in LP and CD collections. These are valuable LPs for that reason. This kind of running commentary might be a little nervy on my part, but I hope it helps provide suggestions and guides for your listening. If you have a nearby classical FM station, you might start listening periodically, and you might be surprised how many of these you can start recoginzing when they show up. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kriton Posted July 8, 2005 Share Posted July 8, 2005 I guess I am confused, are you looking for classical suggestions, or trying to determine the value of your collection (money wise)? Suggestions I can make, value not so much. K Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorcilantro Posted July 10, 2005 Author Share Posted July 10, 2005 Whatever comments you want to make. I am going to learn about some of these records and keep listening. Interesting to know if they have any monetary value but that's secondary. The liner notes of the Van Cliburn lp are very interesting; I'll have to read more about 6'4" sandy haired native of Kilgore, Texas. Pretty neat how he captured the Russians' hearts, playing Tchaichovsky no less. Dr. C Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxg Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 OK - what do you have? Well what you have is an excellent primer for a superb collection of Baroque, Classical and Romantic music - with some modern thrown in for good measure. In a word - droolworthy (some word but you get the idea): Comments in CAPS (sorry for shouting) ---------------- On 7/7/2005 9:25:02 PM doctorcilantro wrote: First of all I know I won't be able to top the length of a Max G post but here I go. I DONT KNOW - THIS IS DFEFINITELY A COMPETITOR I have been picking up various classical records for a while now and I am curious. If there are any good forums or websites you would recommend please suggest them here. Any comments welcome, if anything I have is worth even commenting on I know your up late enjoying the music Max!!! btw Are all the grey label Columbia 6eye's mono? COLUMBIA 6-EYE'S HAVE A V3ERY DEDICATED FOLLOWING OUT THERE - CHECK OUT THE POSTS ON THE VINYL ASYLUM - THERE ARE SOME THAT GO NUTS OVER THESE. I HAVBE A BUNCH OF THEM - SOME VERY GOOD INDEED. Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue - Fielder/Boston Pops (Living Stereo LSC-2367) OBVIOUSLY NOT A COLUMBIA - BUT WHAT A START!! EXCELLENT PERFORMANCE OF A CLASSIC PIECE THAT IS THE CROSSOVER FROM JAZZ TO CLASSICAL. IF IT IS IN GOOD CONDITION THIS IS SOMETHING TO HAND DOWN TO YOUR CHILDREN. Gershwin - Rhapsody In Blue: An American In Paris - Leonard Bernstein, New York Phillharmonic, & The Columbia Symphony (Columbia Masterworks ML5413) I HAVE THIS ONE TOO. I THINK I PREFER THE FIELDER - BUT THAT IS A PERSONAL TASTE THING. Rodgers & Hammerstein - Sound Of Music - Columbia Masterworks KOS2020) DONT HAVE IT. I GUESS IT IS THE OST FROM THE FILM. NOT REALLY MY TUP OF TEA. Melachrino Strings & Orchestra - Moods In Music: Music For Dining - Living StereoLSP-1000 I GENERALLY HATE THESE MOOD TYPE RECORDINGS - AS THEY RARELY MATCH MINE. CANT COMMENT OTHERWISE. John Williams & Eugene Ormandy - Two Favorite Guitar Concertos - Columbia Masterworks ML6234 NOT A DE-RIGEUR PIECE FOR A COLLECTION BUT PLEASANT ENOUGH IF YOU ARE A GUITAR FAN. Pachelbel Kanon & Other Baroque Favorites - Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra - London FFRR CS6206 PACHELBEL'S KANON IS ONE OF THE DEFINING PIECES OF BAROQUE MUSIC IMHO. DON'T KNOW THIS VERSION BUT I THINK YOU HAVE ANOTHER - COMPARE THE 2 AND KEEP THE ONE YOU PREFER - THE OTHER ONE YOU KEEP AS A BACKUP (I STILL CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO PART WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC ON VINYL SO THAT IS THE BEST ADVICE I CAN GIVE). New Year's Eve In Vienna: Vienna Phillharmonic w/ Willi Boskovsky - Blue Danube & Other Favorites - London FFRR LDR10001-2 AH....THE WALTZ'S. NO COLLECTION IS COMPLETE WITHOUT THEM. FROM MEMORY THIS IS A GOOD PERFORMANCE TOO. I THINK I WILL PULL THIS ONE OUT FOR A LISTEN TONIGHT - IT HAS BEEN AN AGE SINCE STRAUSS (JOHANN) HAS GRACED MY SYSTEM - BEEN ON A RICHARD KICK OF LATE INSTEAD. Mozart Piano Concerto 27 in b flat//Piano Sonata 2 in a major - Vienna Phillharmonic - London FFRR STS15062 I MAY HAVE THIS ONE TOO - IS IT PHILLIPE ENTREMONT PLAYING? IF IT IS AND THE CONDITION IS GOOD YOU HAVE ANOTHER FAVORITE OF MINE. Bach: The Four Suites for Orchestra - Yehudi Menuhin w/ Bath Festival Orchestra - Seraphim SIB6085 SERAPHIM'S ARE NOT USUSALLY GOOD RECORDINGS IME. AS I RECALL THEY ARE LIFTED DIRECTLY FROM THE EMI CATALOGUE OF TAPES AND ARE INVARIABLY INFERIOR. THAT SAID IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND A SEMI DECENT ONE. THIS ONE I DO NOT KNOW. Pachelbel Kanon-Albinoni Adagio - Richard Hickox Orchestra - London FFRR STS15441 I DONT KNOW THIS VERSION EITHER. ALBIONINI IS WORTH HAVING TOO - ANOTHER STALWART OF THE BAROQUE ERA. I GUESS THIS IS THE ADAGIO IN G MINOR - JUST LISTEN TO IT - IT MAY TAKE A WHILE, OR IT MAY GRAB YOU IMMEDIATELY - BUT I THINK IT WILL GET YOU IN THE END. Mozart - Piano Concerto 15 in b flat//Symphony 36 in C - Leonard Bernstein & Vienna Phillharmonic - London FFRR Mono CM9499 NOW THAT IS A PECULIAR MIX ON THE RECORD. NORMALLY THEY PAIR UP PIANO CONCERTOS TOGETHER - WOLFGANG DID WRITE ENOUGH OF THEM AFTERALL. SYMPHONY 36 IS OK - BUT NOT HIS BEST. GENERALLY 35 AND 39-41 ARE THE ONES TO START WITH. Beethoven - Third Piano Concerto, Op. 37, Fantasy For Piano, Chorus & Orchestra, Op. 80 - Leonard Bernstein & New York Phillharmonic - Columbia Masterworks ML6016 MONO DONT KNOW THE PERFORMANCE - BUT CAN YOU REALLY GO WRONG WITH LUDWIG? Andrius Kuprevicius - Performs Piano Works Of Lithuanian Composers - Advent AK3790 DONT KNOW IT - DONT KNOW ANY LITHUANIAN COMPOSERS EITHER OFF HAND. DONT KNOW ADVENT - SOME EXPERT!! Tchaikovsky - Concerto No. 1 - Van Cliburn (piano?) & Kiril Kondrashin (conductor) - RCA Victor Red Seal LM2252 MOUTH WATERING PIANO CONCERTO - ONE OF MY TOP 5 OF ALL TIME. DONT KNOW THE PERFORMANCE. RCA'S ARE VERY VARIABLE - FROM ABSOLUTELY STUNNING TO TOTAL CRAP. LETS HOPE YOU ARE LUCKY. Franck Symphony In D Minor - Leonard Bernstein & NY Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks ML5391 FRANK'S DEFINING WORK. MY FATHER'S FAVORITE PIECE. I DONT GET IT MYSELF - ITS OK - BUT WOULDNT MAKE MY TOP 50. Russian Sailors Dance (Khachturian, Smetena, Brahms) - Eugene Ormandy & Phil. Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks ML5223 I PROBABLY KNOW THE PIECES - BUT NOT THIS MIX. BRAHMS HUNGARIAN DANCES ARE NOT A PATCH ON LISZT'S. IF THE SMETENA IS DIE MOLDAU IT IS DEFINITELY WORTH A LISTEN - AGAIN IT IS PROBABLY HIS DEFINING WORK. Liszt: Concertos NOS. 1&2 - Philippe Entremont w/ E. ORmandy & Phil. Phillharmonic - Col. MS6071 NOW YOU ARE TALKING. ANOTHER FAVORITE PIECE - ANOTHER FAVORITE PERFORMANCE. Struass Waltzes - Melachrino Orchestra - RCA Living Stereo LSP1757 WHICH ONES? DOESNT MATTER. THERE ARE TIMES TO LISTEN TO WALTZ'S AND TIMES TO AVOID THEM - BUT YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE THEM IN THE COLLECTION. Mozart Symphonies 25 & 29 - Neville Mariner & Acad. Of St. Martin-in-the-Fields - London Treasury 411 717-1LT I MAY HAVE THESE VERY ONES TOO. WORTHY RATHER THAN OUTSTANDING IN ANY WAY. Haydn (Concerto in D major for cello & orchestra, Opus 101) & Bocccherini (Concerto in b flat major for Cello & Orchestra - Pierre Fournier w/ The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra conducted by Karl Munchinger - DECCA FFRR LXT2968 GOT IT - WORTH IT - BUT I AM A SUCKER FOR THE CELLO. YOU REALLY NEED THE DVORAK AND ELGAR CELLO CONCERTO'S TO SEE HOW THE ART FORM EVOLVED. HAYDN IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE COMPOSERS THESE DAYS. GOTTA LOVE A MAN WHO GIVES YOU SO MUCH CHOICE IN WHAT TO LISTEN TO. Brahms: A German Requiem (Variations On a Theme By Haydn) - Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus - London FFRR OS26599 NOT A BIG FAN OF THE BRAHMS REQUIEM (I AM A SUCKER FOR THE BERLIOZ). NOTHING WRONG WITH IT - BUT I WOULD PREFER THE VERDI TOO COME TO THAT. Pavarotti - King Of The High C's - London FFRR OS26373 HMMMM... The Great Pavarotti London FFRR OS26510 HMMMM....THIS IS NO WAY TO LISTEN TO OPERATIC ARIA'S IMHO. GO BUY THE DAMN OPERA'S AND GET THE ARIA'S IN CONTEXT. Mantovani & His Orch. - Operetta Memories - London FFSS PS202 NOT ME! Scheherazade - Leopold Stowkowski w/ London Symph. Orchestra (Rimsky-Korsakov) - London MONO PM55002 MY MUM'S FAVORITE PIECE OF ALL TIME - ONE OF MINE TOO. GOOD TEST OF DYNAMICS TO BOOT. PERFORMANCE WISE I TEND TO GO FOR THE REINER - BUT STOWKOWSKI WAS NO SLOUCH. THIS IS ONE INSTANCE WHERE MONO REALLY IS A DISADVANTAGE - BUT I WOULD STILL LISTEN TO IT A DOZEN TIMES OR SO TO GET THE FEEL OF THE PIECE. Brahms - Violin Concerto - Heifetz, Chicago Symphony, Reiner - RCA Victor Red Seal LM-1903 A CLASSIC RECORDING. OFTEN USED TO DEMO SYSTEMS IF IT IS IN GOOD CONDITION. PROBABLY MY FAVORITE BRAHMS PIECE OF ALL. Great Sacred Choruses (Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Gounod, Stainer) - Robert Shaw Chorale - RCA Victor LM1117 NOT MY THING. Schubert - Symph. 8_B minor "Unfinished" - Paul Kletzki & Royal Phillharmonic - Angel S35779 HIS MOST FAMOUS PIECE - AND WITH GOOD REASON. A QUITE STUPENDOUS SYMPHONY - EVEN WITH (OR IS THAT WITHOUT) THE MISSING MOVEMENTS. Dvorak - From The New World Symphony 5 in E minor - Danish National Orch. & Nicolai Malko - RCA Victor Bluebird Classics LBC1005 MY FAVORITE PIECE OF ALL TIME. THIS IS NOW CALLED NUMBER 9 - AND DIDNT THAT CONFUSE THE HELL OUT OF ME BACK IN THE DAY. 2ND MOVEMENT IS ABOUT PINING FOR YOUR HOMELAND. AS EVOCATIVE A PIECE OF MUSIC AS I HAVE EVER COME ACROSS. ALONG WITH HIS CELLO CONCERTO THIS IS AS GOOD AS DVORAK GETS IMHO. Mario Lanza - Romberg: The Student Prince - LSC 2339 NOPE - NO IDEA. A. Vivaldi - Concerto For 2Horns & Strings In F Major, Concerto For Guitar & String In C Major, Concerto For Guitar & String In D Major - Collegium Musicum Of Paris Under Direction of Roland Douatte - Nonesuch H71018 I QUITE LIKE NONSUCH RECORDINGS AND HAVE A NUMBER OF THEM. I MAY EVEN HAVE THIS ONE. VIVALDI'S DEFINING PIECE IS THE FOUR SEASONS - BUT THERE IS MUCH MORE TO HIM THAT THAT. THIS IS, I RECALL, A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT STATEMENT. Beethoven - Concerto for Violin & Orch., 2 Romances for Violin 7 Orch in F - Susanne Lautenbacher w/ conductors Hubert Reichert & Curt Cremer THE BEST VIOLIN CONCERTO EVER WRITTEN. OK - IMHO. BUT I AM RIGHT - WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF THE TCHAIKOVSKY - NO - I AM RIGHT - I ....ER...I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON THIS DISCUSSION SOON. SUFFICE TO SAY - DREAMY!!! Tchaikovsky's Greatest Ballets Vol. 1 (Suite From The Nutcracker) - Eugene Ormandy & The Phil. Orchestra - RCA Red Seal (1974) ARL 1-0027 YUP -GOOD STUFF. GOOD PERFORMANCE TOO. Tchaikovsky: Patheique Symphony - Leonard Bernstein & NY Phillharmonic - Col. Masterworks MONO ML6089 I THINK I PREFER HIS 5TH SYMPHONY - BUT THIS ONE IS NO SLOUCH. BEETHOVEN'S PATHETIQUE BLOWS IT AWAY OF COURSE - BUT THEN AGAIN WHAT COULD STAND UP AGAINST THAT? The Singing Stradivarius - Mishel Piastro & the Longines Symphonette - LW142 NO IDEA. Andres Segovia - A Bach Recital - Everest 3261 NO IDEA. Brahms Symphony 4 Academic Festival Overture - Stokowski & New Phill. Orchestra - RCA Red Seal (1967) ARL1-0719 THIS COULD BE A GREAT PERFORMANCE BUT I AM NOT 100% SURE AS MY MEMORY IS FAILING ME. I DONT OWN IT BUT I SEEM TO RECALL HEARING IT AT A FRIENDS AND BEING BLOWN AWAY. Brahms (Hungarian Dances) & Dvorak (Slavonic Dances) - Bamber Symphony Orchestra - VOX STPL511.240 BOTH OK - ARE THE LISZT HUNGARIAN DANCES IN THIS COLLECTION - I DONT RECALL NOW. Brahms Symphony 4 in E Minor/Opus 98 - Vladimir Golschmann & Vienna State Opera Orchestra - Vanguard SRV188 DONT KNOW THIS PERFORMANCE. JUST CHOOSE THE BETTER OF THE 2 AND KEEP THE OTHER ONE AS A BACK UP. A. Dvorak - Piano Quintet In A Major Opus 81 - Chigi Quintet (Quinetto Chigiano) (my great aunt Vinnie was married to one of them) - London FFRR LLP202 DONT KNOW THE PERFORMANCE - ASK AUNTY. A. Segovia w/ Quintetto Chigiano - Quintet Op. 143 (Castelnuovo-Tedesco) DONT KNOW IT. Theatre Music w/a French Touch - Lichel Legrand & Orchestra - Col. Masterworks CB15 Not For Sale DONT KNOW IT. Tony Mottola - Guitar ...Paris - Command RS 877 SD Andre Previn - Sound Stage - Columbia MONO CS8958 NEITHER OF THESE EITHER. Chopin - Polonaises - Alfred Brendel (piano) - Cardinal (Vanguard) VCS-10058 I LIKE BRNADEL AND HAVE THIS RECORDING. NOT BAD AT ALL. Stokowski Showpieces For Orchestra - London Phase4 - R224497 (Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Bach, Schubert, Dvorak, Ravel, Byrd, Bach, Mussorgosky, Handel, Elgar, Berlioz, Stravinsky, Wagner, Rachmaninov, Duparc, Clarke, Debussy) I THINK THEY EXECUTED THE GUY THAT CAME UP WITH LONDON PHASE 4 FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY (AS IN DESIGNING PHASE 4). SOME OF THE WORST RECORDINGS EVER MADE ARE IN THIS FORMAT. WHY DID THEY DO IT? Bolero, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Verdi, & Suppe - Zubin Mehta & The LA Phillharmonic - London FFRR CS7132 ANOTHER COLLECTION. NOT A BAD ONE. THE BOLERO IS NOT A SUITABLE BACKGROUND FOR MAKING LOVE - WHATEVER THE FILM 10 CLAIMED. Dr. C ---------------- [/blockquote> Overall - a great startoff collection. I dont think there is anything too valuable in here - all good standard players though (except that phase 4 - hurl that from the top of a high building with the words - CD is your fault!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted July 11, 2005 Share Posted July 11, 2005 Dr., if you get to the Brahms Requiem, be sure to follow along with the words. While I think that's a good idea in general in classical choral and opera works, the Brahms uses a unique text (biblical passages which he personally chose) that adds a great deal of meaning to the music. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorcilantro Posted June 12, 2006 Author Share Posted June 12, 2006 I have been listening to a lot of different stuff lately and plan on a morning session of some Beethoven Violin Concertos as well as listing my newest batch of classical here for further orientation. Thanks guys!!!! DC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Lindsey Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 You waited a year to say that? LOL [] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrot Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 You waited a year to say that? LOL [] Well, it was a lot of material to digest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorcilantro Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 MAN, I feel oldER....I apologize for not thanking you guys earlier, I got really wrapped up in school last year and time is flying by! I am trying to get a bunch of classes done this summer as well because in the Fall we are expecting our first addition to the family, a baby boy. Anyway, I picked up a ton of stuff...here's a start: Sealed LPs: Leonard Bernstein & NY Phill. - Shostakovitch Symphony No. 5 Op. 47 - ML 5445 Col. Mstwrks Leonard Bernstein & NY Phill. - Vivaldi Concerto C Major for Diverse Instru. (w/ Mandolins)>Concerto D Minor for Oboe, Strings, & Cembalo: Solo Oboe is Harold Gomberg>Concerto in C Minor for Flute, Strings, & Cembalo: Solo FLute is John Wimmer> Concerto in C Major for Piccolo, Strings, & Cembalo: Solo Piccolo is F. William Heim - Col. Mstrwrks. ML 5459 Petter Maag & Philharmonia Hungaria - Schubert Music to Rosamunde - TV 34330 Turnabout Vox Eugen Ormandy w/ Phildelphia Orchestra - Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 7 in E Flat Major - Col. Mastwrks. ML5749 NM LPs: Guido Cantelli w/ Phillharmonic Symphony Orch. of NY - Vivaldi The Seasons Op. 8 - John Corgliano solo violin - ML 5044 Phillpe Entremont - Claire de Lune: A Debussy Piano Recital - ML 5614 VG+-VG++ LPs: 10" 33rpm Jaques Offenbach - Hoffman's Ezrahlungen - Duetsche Grammophon LPE 17049 Pierre Monteux w/ Boston Symphony - Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5 - LSC-2239 RCA Red Seal Rubinstein - Mozart Concertos 21 & 23 Conducted by Alfred Wallenstein - LSC 2634 Joef Hoffman plays Beethoven - Everest X-903 (Sonata Op. 2 No. 3 in C Major>Sonata Op. 27 No. 2 in C sharp minor>Rondo A Capriccio Op. 129>Turkish March from the "Ruins Of Athens"Op. 113 transcribed by Anton Rubinstein John Ogdon w. Philharmonia Orchestra cond. by John Pritchard- Rachmaniov Piano Conertos No. 2 In C Minor - ALP 1928 (UK RCA issue? shaded white dog) David Oistrakh with Phillharmonic Orchestra of NY cond. by Dimitri Mitropoulos - Shostakovitch Violin Concerto Op. 99 (First Recording) - ML Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarryC Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 The Shostakovich No. 5 by Bernstein is a fine, dramatic, wild performance of this powerful symphony, perhaps the prize of this group of LPs. Rosamunde is pretty and attractive in parts, but tends to be boring in others; your earlier LP of the "Unfinished" is much better Schubert. Tchaikovsky's "Seventh" symphony was never produced by the man himself, but only reconstructed from sketches by the composer. Tchaikovsky died just days after the premiere of his last symphony, No. 6, which he thought was the finest he had written. The Monteux recording of the Tchaikovsky 5th symphony should be a very good one. The slow movement is one of his finest, showing his incomprable gift for saying things with melody. The Mozart concertos nos. 21 and 23 are very nice. Their slow movements are especially ravishing in the way the piano, strings, and woodwinds interact, and I recommend an especially close listening to those. Larry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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