Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Kempff's First "Hammerklavier"

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The mightiest of Beethoven's piano sonatas, the "Hammerklavier," was slow to come to records in its original form.  Its firs...
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Friday, March 25, 2011

Steinweiss' Generic Covers

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Part 5 of my Steinweiss covers series is a survey of the various designs he did, or that I suspect he did, for Columbia Masterworks 78-rpm s...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

A Gallery of Steinweiss Covers, Part 4

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Today is Alex Steinweiss' 94th birthday!  For my next installment of the Columbia Masterworks Steinweiss gallery, I present the last cov...
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Walton's Viola Concerto: The First Recording

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William Walton's first fully mature work, his 1929 Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, was written for the dean of English viola players...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Early Schubert by the Guilet Quartet

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Back in November, Squirrel's Nest gave us a transfer of the first recording of Bartók's Fourth String Quartet played by the Guile...
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Sunday, March 13, 2011

A Gallery of Steinweiss Covers, Part 3

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The Steinweiss gallery continues with seven Columbia Masterworks covers from early 1947.  Here are the first two, MM-644 (a ten-inch set) an...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Columbia Spanish Album (1930)

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This week I present a program of Spanish music mostly conducted by the man who was considered in the first half of the 20th century to be ...
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Monday, March 7, 2011

A Gallery of Steinweiss Covers, Part 2

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For my next installment of Columbia Masterworks album covers by Steinweiss, I present six covers from late 1945-early 1946.  Here are the fi...
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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Mogens Wöldike's Haydn

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This week I present what I believe to be the first recording of a Haydn symphony by the great Danish conductor Mogens Wöldike (1897-1988)....
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