Schumann Cello Concerto* (Andre Navarra - Orchestre Colonne); Franck Symph. Variations & D'Indy Symphony on a Mountain Air (Ciccolini - Orchestre du Conservatoire) - Andre Cluytens (MONO, rec.1951*&1953)A trio of rarities here, by the great Franco-Belgian conductor André Cluytens. from his early mono era recordings. First of, a beautiful Schumann A minor concerto with André Navarra and the Colonne ...
Mendelssohn: Symphonies nos 3"Scottish" & 4"Italian" - London PO / Boult (MONO, rec.1956)What a couple! And what a shame that sir Adrian wasn't asked to record this fare more often than the English works we was type-cast to be a specialist of - and of course he was. But the pupil of Nicki ...
Mahler: Symphony 2 "Resurrection" - Ferrier (a), Vincent (s), Toonkunst Choir, Concertgebouw / Klemperer (live rec. 1951, MONO/MSE)Klemperer was well in his sixties in 1951 and his unhappy stay in the United States had not ended yet. But he often visited Europe and gave since the earliest decades of the 20th century innumerable c ...
Handel The Messiah - Isobel Baillie(s)-Gladys Ripley(a)-James Johnston(t)-Norman Walker(b)-The Huddersfield Choral Society-Liverpool PO/Sargent (2-CD set, MONO rec.1946)One must have a heart of stone not to feel an honest frisson listening to this Victorian version of the great oratorio as played by Sargent and his singers in 1946, the first of several recordings of ...
Had he been around his twenties when he became the assistant of Feliz Mottl in 1897, Selmar Meyrowitz should have been born about 1877, when Brahms, Wagner and Liszt were still alive and active. He he ...
Mozart: Piano Concertos for two pianos K.365 & 242 - Paul Badura-Skoda & Reine Gianoli/Vienna State Opera/Hermann Scherchen (MONO/MSE, rec.1951)This 1951 recording of the two concertos was top recommendation until the advent of stereo. Skoda only 24 and Gianoli 36 at the time, both legendary names today, joined forces under Scherchen and the ...
Beethoven: Violin Sonatas nos 4 op.23 & 8 op.30/3 - R.Odnoposoff (vln)-O.Herz (pno) - Mendelssohn Piano Trio no.1 op.49 - Trio Santoliquido (MONO/MSE, rec. eraly 1950s & 1954)The Trio Santoliquido formed by pianist Ornella Puliti-Santoliquido in the 1940s later formed the Quartetto di Roma with the participation of violist Bruno Giuranna and the ensemble recorded actively ...
Beethoven: Ovts Leonora 3 - Coriolan - Prometheus - Egmont - Fidelio - Consecration of the House - NBCSO / Arturo Toscanini (MONO/MSE, rec.mid-late 1940s and early 1950s)Toscanini’s Beethoven has been established as definitive in the symphonies and modern conductors' tendencies seem to vindicate his view of the composer. Beethoven's overtures are rarely heard today, ...
Brahms Piano Concerto no.2 in B flat, op.83 - Horowitz / NBCSO / Arturo Toscanini (MONO/MSE, rec.1940)Horowitz-Toscanini recorded officially Brahms’ 2nd piano concerto in 1940 at Carnegie Hall but their recording suffered the limitations of its LP transfer and collectors, although recognizing its gr ...
Brahms: Symphonies nos 1 & 2 - NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini (MONO/MSE, rec.1951 & 1952)Here is a reworking of the first two symphonies by Brahms from Toscanini’s famous RCA LPs. Listening again to the official CDs made us turn back to the old vinyl originals which sound immensely bett ...
Beethoven: Symphony no.9 "Choral"-Brahms: Schicksalslied op.54 - Gonzalez(s); Nikolaidi(a); Jobin(t);Harrell(b) Westminster Choir/NYPSO/Bruno Walter (MONO/MSE, rec.1949 & 1941)Bruno Walter’s 9th with the NYPSO held the field along with Toscanini’s NBC and Furtwangler’s Bayreuth during the mono era, along with the cheaper but equally thrilling Horenstein/VSO on Vox. Wa ...
Mahler: Symphony no.4 - M.Tauberova(s)/Czech PO/Karel Sejna (MONO/MSE, rec. ca 1953)Arguably one of the greatest Mahler recordings of last century, Sejna's 4th with the golden era CPO of the 50s was handicapped by its monaural sound, in a work by a composer who demands stereo. But lo ...
Martucci:Symphonies 1&2 - Piano Concerto 2 - La Canzone dei Ricordi a.o. orchestral works - NBC SO/Toscanini (2-CD set, MONO-MSE Surround, live rec. 1938, 1940/41, 1946)Collectors will know Martucci’s orchestral works from the valuable ASV recordings by D’Avalos and The Philharmonia. Yet with those, fine and glorious as they sounded, no-one begins to even suspect ...
Rachmaninoff:Piano Concerto 2*-Solo works by Chopin, Scriabin, Poulenc, Saint Saens,Dohnanyi&Rachmaninoff - Pennario/StLouisSO/Golschmann (MONO-MSE*&STEREO rec, 1950 & 1958)Some few weeks ago we gave you Pennario’s stunning Rachmaninoff 1st and 4th piano concertos with Previn and the LSO from the middle 1960s stereo recordings for RCA. Here is the recording that confir ...
Tchaikovsky:Symphs 4,5,6-NBC/Cantelli-Borodin:Symph2&Tchaikovsky Voyevode/The Tempest-NBC/Toscanini-Borodin:Steppes of Central Asia/Prokofiev:Lieutenant Kije/NYPSO/Mitropoulos (3-CD box, MONO/MSE, live & studio recs of 1938, 1941/44, 1953/54)More live recordings from the 1950s and this time a three-CD box containing some marvelous concerts preserved by the radio archives. Cantelli conducts the NBC SO live in Carnegie Hall Tchaikovsky’s ...
Tchaikovsky:Symphonies 5* & 6"Pathetique"-BPO*/Concertgebouw/Mengelberg (MONO/MSE, rec.1940&41)Mengelberg again in Tchaikovsky, this time from two war-time studio recordings of the 5th and 6th symphonies, recorded admirably by Telefunken in Berlin and in Amsterdam. Both orchestras are galvanize ...
Beethoven:Trio op.10/3"Geister" - Schumann:Trio op.63 - Brahms Trio op.8 (Edwin Fischer, pno-Wolfgang Schneiderhan, vln - Enrico Mainardi, cel) (2-CDs MONO/MSE, live rec.1953)Here is a historical memento of the post-war Salzburg Festival from where we already have had so many valuable live recordings. This is the concert given on August 8, 1953 by the Edwin Fischer Trio, c ...
Gluck/Mottl:Ballet Suite-Haydn:Symphony 99-Smetana:Vltava & From Bohemian Woods and Meadows-Prague German Philharmonic/Bamberg SO/Joseph Keilberth (MONO/MSE, rec. 1950/51&1955)The "kernel" of the Bamberg Symphony was a nucleus of ex-members of Prague’s German Philharmonic Orchestra, and their first Principal Conductor in 1950 and for decades after, was Joseph Keilberth. H ...
Johann Strauss: Waltzes & Dances - RIAS/Fricsay - VSO/Moralt (MONO/MSE, rec. 1955/1956)Ready for last Christmas, this got stuck in the tunnel and appears only now, post-holiday, a virtual New Year Day concert in Vienna and Berlin, with Fricsay at the helm of his RIAS SO and Moralt at th ...
Beethoven Symphony 9 "Choral" -Soloists/Chorus/Dannish RSO/Fritz Busch (MONO/MSE, live rec.1950)Fritz Busch gave this impressively grand performance of The Ninth with his Dannish RSO in 1950. We propose our own reworking of the good but dated source material and guarantee you a real shock when y ...
Brahms: Symphony 3 NYPSO/Cantelli - Violin Concerto De Vito/RAI Turin/Furtwangler (MONO/MSE, live rec. 1953)Two unforgettable live recordings here: Guido Cantelli with the NYPSO in concert at the Carnegie Hall, gives a rousing Brahms 3rd – that most difficult to bring out of his symphonies because the und ...
J.S.Bach:Christmas Oratorio - Soloists/Stuttgart Choral Soc./Swabian SO/H.Grischkat (MONO/MSE, 3-CD set, rec.1952)Hans Grischkat devoted his life in studying Bach and his very early recordings were always based on the most recent scholarship of his time. Collectors will enjoy this lively(and first ever) recording ...
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Staggioni (The 4 Seasons) fm op.8 - Reinhold Barchet, vn/Stuttgart CO/K.Munchinger (MONO-MSE, rec.1951)Probably the first LP recording of this marvelous set taken from Vivadi's op.8 sounds today as fresh as paint, Barchet (unstylish to today's ears, but oh! so lovely sounding) and the Stuttgart chamber ...
Vivaldi: L'Estro Armonico, op.3 - Reinhold Barchet a.o./ProMusica CO,Stuttgart/R.Reinhardt (MONO-MSE, 2-CD set, rec. mid-1950s)Here is a wonderful Estro played by Reinhold Barchet, Rolf Reinhardt and Co. with such high spirits you will immediately be carried away. This is perhaps the first ever complete recording of the twelv ...
J.S.Bach: 4 Orchestral Suites - J.-P.Rampal, fte - Hewitt Chamber Orchestra (MONO/MSE, rec. c.1953/3)Here is one of these unforgettable recordings which thaught older collectors their Bach. The Hewitt chamber orchestra (a French ensemble based in Paris) was recording at the time for Les Discophiles F ...
Rahmaninoff: Piano Concertos nos 1 & 4 - Leonard Pennario/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra/Andre Previn (STEREO, rec.1964)Leonard Pennario lived for a long time in Hollywood and even dated Elisabeth Taylor for a spell. He was a much admired musician (early enough in his long career he was eulogized by Mitropoulos) but so ...
Arriaga: Symphony in D - Schmidt: Hussar Variations - New Philharmonia / Hans Bauer (STEREO, rec.1976)The Viennese Hans Bauer started as violinist and for all instances he was a much gifted musician with great studies and a very promising career. After his exalted European studies he graduated as a co ...
Franck: Les Beatitudes, oratorio - Soloists, Choeurs Elisabeth Brasseur - Les Petits Chanteurs de Chaillot - Orchestre Academie Symphonique de Paris - Jean Allain, cond. Pierre Cochereau & Pierre Chapelet, organ (2-CD set, STEREO, rec. 1962)"Prima la musica, poi le parole" indeed! Cesar Franck composed this very fine oratorio on the impossibly puerile verses of a certain Mme Colomb and a libretto would only serve to sustain one's admirat ...
Brahms: Sonata no.1, op.78 - Hungarian Dances (selection) - Albert Spalding, vl - Ernst v. Dohnanyi (Sonata) & Anthony Kooiker (Dances), pno (MONO/MSE Processed, rec. early 1950s)The great American violinist Albert Spalding recorded for Remington in the early 1950s. This selection from Brahms' Hungarian Dances in their original violin/piano form, was originally on its own - ...
Tchaikovsky Symphonies 4 & 5 / Valse fm Serenade op.48 - Franck Symphony / Concertgebouw (MONO-MSE, rec. 1928, 1929 & 1940)Little need be said about this. Collectors who know these two Tchaikovsky recordings from their previous incarnations will be pleased to get them in such fine sound, for we have tried hard to bring to ...
