What are you listening to and WHY might anyone be interested? (Vol. X)

Dear Kuma,

What label is this? Fritz Busch was a great musician of the second rank of fame, but first rank credentials!

ATB from George

Lyle Lovett "Joshua Judges Ruth"

My fav Walsh album.

Fantastic recording too.

G

George,

My vinyl copy is from no name US reissue company but they got the source from DG. In spite, surprisingly this sounds pretty good to me.

Busch died too young before long playing records got popular. This is why there aren't much available in terms of recording. If he lived a bit longer, he would have been better known.

I am not certain why he did not migrate to the US like his brother did.

BSO would have been so much better if he was a musical director in place of Munch. :/

I love unexpected discovery by visiting a local record shop. Now I will be exploring more of his symphonic work.

Really Adolf Busch moved to the USA to avoid internment in the UK as an enemy alien, but he did not prosper in the USA and eventually became a Swiss passport holder making the greater part of his music in London post 1945. The Jewish great Rudolf Serkin was Adolf Busch's son in law, and so he saw fit to abandon Germany in 1933. Hermann was totally dependent on Adolf as the cellist in the Busch String Quartet. 

Fritz was the senior and made a huge success in the UK at the Glyndebourne Opera, where he made the first recordings of Figaro, Cosi and Don Giovanni. The Figaro was disfigured by cuts in the 1934 recording, but Cosi [1935] and the Don Giovanni [1936] are recordings that retain their validity even today.

During the War, Fritz made an unissued recording of Beethoven's Violin Concerto in New York that was vetoed because Adolf disliked the balance he was given in the recording. It made him too forward, and he was not happy to be more important than his brother's accompanying orchestra! To this day I believe this recording is embargoed!

None of them could associate with serving the Government in Germany after 1933, but none made any political profit from their hardly self-serving position. Hense their first rate credentials, but second rank fame ...

ATB from George

A genesis evening ...

Genesis - Trespass. 24/48 FLAC followed by

Genesis - And Then There Were Three. CD ripped to FLAC and now

Genesis - Nursery Cryme 24/48 FLAC

This must be a bootleg copy. ( recorded 1942 )

Dear Kuma,

You lucky person!

This is only a legend for me! Officially this is still embargoed as far as I know!! It must be in the wild now, so I must search it out, if only to listen once to the great Beethovenian Adolf's solo contribution! 

Have you heard it? Is it any good?

ATB from George

Listening to Gottes Synthesizer (as this is the one you recommended) right now. Hypnotic.

I see they're from Osnabrück, a lovely little town.

George,

I love the orchestra. but Too fine lined and a bit polite for me. The balance sounds just about right, don't you think?

Heifetz still rulz for Op.61 till further notice, for me.

Not the easiest listen but quite inspiring as it must have been to Bob Dylan, Clapton and Led Zep.

Wolfgang Muthspiel & Brian Blades "Friendly Travelers" (2007)