Beethoven 9 Symphonies-Italian-Swiss Radio Orchestra/Solists/Chorus-H.Scherchen (6-CD set-STEREO, live rec.1965)Scherchen’s Swiss Radio Beethoven cycle has gone on CD elsewhere, but we believe to have added significantly to the quality of recorded sound and proudly present this box, complete with liner notes ...
Brahms Academic FestOvt-Liszt Les Preludes-Wagner Siegfried Idyll-Sibelius Finlandia-BambergSO/H.Hollreiser (MONO,rec.1955)Heinrich Hollreiser conducts the Bamberg SO in a romantic program with top-notch renditions of the Brahms Academic Festival Overture, Liszt Les Préludes, Wagner Siegfried Idyll and Sibelius Finlandia ...
Schubert Piano Quintet"The Trout"-Perlemuter/Pascal Qt.-Pno Son B flat, op.posth.(H.Boschi)(MONO,rec.mid-1950s)Vlado Perlemuter is hors concours in the Trout of course and the Quatuor Pascal are his peers in an excitingly frothy rendition of this beloved work. Heléne Boschi is a pianist forgotten today, but s ...
Chausson Poeme*/Ravel Tzigane (Lockhart,vln)*-Honegger Concertino-Milhaud PnoCto 1(Jacquinot,pno)-LSO*/Philharmonia/Fistoulari (MONO,rec.early 1950s)Here is a valuable and most rare recording by Fistoulari and two formidable ladies, the Scottish Elisabeth Lockhart on Chausson and Ravel and the French Fabienne Jacquinot on Honegger and Milhaud. Loc ...
Brahms Viola Sonatas 1 & 2-P.Doktor/N.Reisenberg (MONO,rec.1954)Paul Doktor and Nadia Reisenberg recorded this classic rendition of the two late sonatas Brahms composed for the clarinet and reluctantly transcribed for the viola. Recorded very well by Westminster, ...
Handel Royal Fireworks Music/Water MusicSuite - Hague PO/Otterloo (MONO, rec.1957)Willem van Otterloo recorded this Handel program with his own Residency Orchestra in the Concertgebouw – so the sound is magical anyway. The dashing Dutch conductor preceded his Amsterdam rival, van ...
Hindemith Kammermusik 4-Four Temperaments(Rybar/Holletschek/H.Swoboda)(MONO,rec.1951)Hindemith was served very early by these finest recordings of his later well known works done by Henry Swoboda for Westminster. The Four Temperaments are played in Vienna with great skill and taste by ...
Tchaikovsky Symph 4*/Romeo-Sibelius Finlandia-Austrian SO/H.Arthur Brown*/K.Woss)(MONO, rec.1951*/1950)Hine Arthur Brown, recorded in Vienna for Remington some excellent discs. Collectors should once more be reminded of his model Pathetique, Sheherazade and Brahms First, done with the young Tonkünstle ...
Charpentier Messe "Assumpta est Maria"-Soli,Chorus,Ensemble Instr.-L.Martini (MONO/MSE Processed, rec.1953)Louis Martini did sterling work during the 1950s unearthing France’s long lost Baroque composers like the mighty Charpentier, here presented in one of his greatest Masses. Recorded in Saint Eustace ...
Roussel* Symph 3 (Borsamsky)-Bacchus&Ariane Ste2(Rucht)-Stravinsky Firebird Ste(Szenkar) (MONO, rec.1953*/1954)Ernest Borsamsky is a conductor too little known today, yet his Urania recordings of Mahler Titan and Shostakovich 5th Symphony were not only pioneering but would surprise today’s listeners for thei ...
Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker Suite - R.Korsakof* Sheherazade-Paris Corserv.Orch.-Fistoulari/Ansermet* (MONO,rec.1951/1948*)Ansermet recorded Sheherazade for the first time in Paris, in 1948, with the best French orchestra existing at the time and special though his later stereo rendition at the helm of his own Swiss orche ...
Weber Konzertstuck/Liszt PnoCto1-P.Mildner/RIAS/Rother-R.Strauss* DonJuan-BPO/Lehmann (MONO/MSE Processed, rec.1953/1955*)Poldi Mildner, a Viennese lioness of the piano, recorded during the 1950s and 60s for Telefunken and this is perhaps her most well known recording of Weber’s Konzertstuck and Liszt’s First Piano C ...
Albeniz Iberia - Jose Echaniz,piano (MONO, rec.1953)The Cuban José Echaniz recorded during the 1950s Spanish piano works. Here is his eclipsed Westminster recording of Albeniz’ Iberia. Though de la Rocha gave us a more definitive account, Echaniz sh ...
Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto op.35*-M.Auclair/AustrianSO/K.Woss-Piano Concerto no.1-C.Hansen/RIAS/Sawallisch (MONO, rec.1951*/1954)Michele Auclair’s LPs sell today at very steep prices and her youthful recording of the Tchaikovsky, shortly after her Boston debut playing it, proves her to be a true firebrand. This great Remingto ...
Berlioz* Harold in Italy op.16 (W.Primrose,vla)-Elgar Enigma Variations-RPO/Beecham (MONO/MSE Processed, rec.1951*/1954)Here are our own efforts on the sound of two great recordings by sir Thomas, the first being his visceral Harold and the second his rarest Elgar Enigma – both standing apart from their competitors f ...
Dukas La Peri*-Colonne/P.Paray-Dvorak SlvDances/Milhaud Suite Provencale/Schoebnerg Verklaerte Nacht-St.LouisSO/Golschmann (MONO/MSE Processed, rec.1949*/1945)The star here being the Paray/Dukas La Péri, which the great French conductor never recorded at any later time during his long career. La Péri was recorded as late as 1949 but doesn’t seem to have ...
Brahms Symphony 1/VStOO/H.Swarowsky (STEREO, rec.1959)Hans Swarowsky conducts here the VStOO in a magnificent rendition of the Brahms First. Swarowsky’s C minor gets a dynamic, dramatic and monumental reading, unselfishly served by this teacher of so m ...
Brahms Piano Concerto 2 - W.Klien/ORF SO/M.Horvat (STEREO, rec.1969)Walter Klien was a celebrated Viennese pianist specializing in the classical/romantic repertory. His Schubert and Brahms cycles for VOX were essential and so was his complete recording of Mozart solo ...
Grieg Piano Concerto/Rachmaninov Piano Concerto 2* - K.Baekkelund/OsloPO/Gunner-Hegge/Fjelstadt* (STEREO, rec.1962/1959*)Kjel Baekkelund was a Norwegian pianist little known to the record collecting public except for the few recordings RCA made available on their Camden series. Here is a double-bill of two popular warho ...
Beethoven PnoCto5"Emperor"-Felicitas Karrer,pno/AustrianSO/K.Woss - Liszt/Chopin Solo Works(Barere)(MONO,rec.1950)Felicitas Karrer, a young Viennese firebrand at the time of this recording, and quite a name then, was soon to be forgotten and lost to later generations for having recorded almost exclusively on this ...
Chopin Piano Concertos 1 & 2 - Branka Musulin,pno-SDRS/Muller-Kray (MONO, rec.ca 1955)Branka Musulin, a beauty and a true romantic-novel heroine, had a very short career for soon she left concertizing and devoted herself to teaching. Here you’ll hear her play a strong, masculine but ...
Mac Dowell(*)Piano Concertos 1 & 2 - Piston Symphony 2 - Vivian Rivkin,pno-VStOO*/American Rec.SO/D.Dixon (MONO, rec.1953*/ca 1950)Vivian Rivkin and Dean Dixon (a Mitropoulos protégé) were an interracial couple, at the time a very daring thing to do. The lady is clearly hors concours in the MacDowell works, surpassing all compe ...
Beethoven Symphony 7 - Brahms Symphony 4 - VSO/Fritz Busch (MONO, live rec.1950)Fritz Busch is one of the greatest conductors of his time and the two live recordings with the VSO on this CD should be in everyone’s collection. These are exuberant yet classically poised rendition ...
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons - J.Corigliano, vln-NYPSO-Cantelli (MONO/MSE Processed, rec.1955)Cantelli made very few studio recordings for Columbia. One of them is the present full string band Four Seasons with the delightful solo of the NYPSO principal John Corigliano. Collectors will know wh ...
Ravel Bolero; La Valse; Valses nobles; Pavane; Alborada - Orch. Theatre des Champs-Elysees/P.de Freitas Branco - Ma Mere l'Oye Suite - Orch. Pasdeloup/L.Martin (MONO/MSE, rec.1954&ca 1955)Pedro de Freitas Branco (Pedro António da Costa de Freitas Branco in his full name) was born 1896 and died 1963. He was one of the greatest Portuguese composers of the 20th century and also an eminen ...
Bruckner Symphony no.9 in D minor - Overture in G minor - VSO/F.Charles Adler (MONO/MSE, rec.1952)Adler’s 9th is of the Loewe edition of the score – which is more than interesting the way this maestro gives it. Recorded three years earlier than the 1st symphony (on BRC-3220) this is played wit ...
Bruckner Symphony no 1 in C min."Linz" - VSO/F.Charles Adler (MONO/MSE, rec.1955)F(rederick) Charles Adler was one of the first and greatest exponents of Bruckner’s symphonies and he invariably stuck to the first editions (unauthentic as they are called) but with an art that tra ...
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto KV 622 - Flute & Harp Concerto KV 288 - De Wilde (clt); Barwahser (fte); Berghout (hp) - Concertgebouw / Beinum (STEREO, rec.1957)Eduard van Beinum was a great musician – everything he has done and left us on record being an ageless testimony of his rare sensitivity and vigor. His Mozart set of the two concertos on this CD (fr ...
Bruckner: Symphony 8* - Te Deum - Soloists/Chorus/VPO/Wallberg (2-CD set, Stereo, rec. 1965 & 1968*)After the glorious recordings of nos 5 on BRC-3230 and 9 on BRC-3087, here comes a double CD set with the studio recordings of no. 8 in C minor and the Te Deum, both done with the Vienna Philharmonic ...
Bruckner Symphony no 3 in D minor - The Netherlands Philharmonic / Walter Goehr (MONO/MSE Proc., rec.1954)Walter Goehr, a most underrated conductor, yet a very prominent figure during the 1950s and 1960s, set down for posterity a few recordings of which this one is perhaps his most valuable. He directs th ...
