Sunday, August 30, 2015

Bloch: String Quartet No. 3 (Griller Quartet)

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The Griller Quartet with Ernest Bloch, 1947 About a month ago, I sprang for the recent Decca big box (53 CDs) called "Decca Sound:...
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Sunday, August 23, 2015

Beethoven's Ninth - The First Recording

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This is my 300th post on this blog - can you believe it? Something really big seemed called for, so I offer a recording that I have poste...
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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (Phillippe Gaubert)

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Phillippe Gaubert This week, a fine recording by the French flutist and conductor, Phillippe Gaubert (1879-1941) - the Second Suite from...
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Early Music from Germany in the 1930s

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Well, I'm back online, thank God, and on a new laptop to boot. So for my first offering post-crisis, something easy for me to prepare,...
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Saturday, August 1, 2015

Poulenc: Double Concerto (Whittemore & Lowe)

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I'm having ISP problems right now, and having to type this on the fly using my church's wi-fi (a friend did the actual uploading o...
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Monday, July 27, 2015

Mendelssohn: Quartet No. 1 (Budapest Quartet)

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I've lately managed to acquire a few sets by the Budapest String Quartet in their glory days - when the group still boated one Hungari...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Hans Kindler

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Slava Rostropovich, for all his achievements, was far from being the first cellist to make for himself a successful conducting career. He ...
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Honegger Conducts his "Symphonie Liturgique"

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Last year, I was able to offer, in time for Bastille Day, the first recording of a symphony by Honegger , the Second, in a riveting perfor...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

The Early Music Revival in America

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Early music - particularly music of the Baroque - has become such a part of out musical fabric in recent years that it's hard to recal...
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