Sounds bloody awesome........

Cheers

Flettster

Schubert Impromptus Op.90:

The first time played on a CD555. This CD has a slightly defused perspective than Brendel or Richter vinyl.

Kuma, get yourself a better player..

On the 3.5.

Schubert Trio No.1 in B Flat Major, Op.99

Founier/Janigro/Badura-Skoda

It's prissy and sissy. Gotta try somebody else's cuz, this ain't happening. :x

Haim, 

I didn't mean it in a bad way. I think most people like that type of perspective as you can feel the hall acoustics. Less in your face and slightly farther away from the piano. Interesting thing is that when I played the same disc in my smaller office space, the perspective was more up front.

P.S. I need to get the Zimmerman's Impromptus on vinyl! I bet that's good.

Just joking, Kuma, making indirectly fun of my inferior gear. The only Zimerman LP that I have is a very early Chopin which I play quite often:

I managed to do a bit of amateur surgery on my case and replace the AA battery, which bizarrely only makes the the LED flash if connected arse about face, as in the positive end of the battery goes to the 'spring' which normally takes the bottom of the battery.

A deliberate bit of humour by PF, or do I have a collector's item?

John.

John,

My Led and batt has been changed many times over the years.

The last time my son took the voice box out of a little Britain 50th birthday card and placed it inside so every time the CDs came out you got Lou and Andy.

I almost pissed my self laughing when it got played for the first time, 3 or4 months after my birthday.

A friend got it out of the rack to play,

It was unreal the amount we all laughed.

No one was expecting Lou & Andy.

Stu.

Frederick Delius (1862-1934)

[playing CD no.13...]

Requiem

~<>~

Idyll: Once I passed though a populous city

Heather Harper - soprano

John Shirley-Quick - baritone

Royal Choral Society

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Meredith Davies

Recorded  in Kingsway Hall, London, Feb 1968

~<>~

A Song before Sunrise

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Sir Malcolm Sargent

Recorded in no.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 2nd March 1965

~<>~

Songs of Farewell

Royal Choral Society

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ~ Sir Malcolm Sargent

Recorded in no.1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, 22/23 April 1964

~~<<>>~~

Haim,

I have the same Chopin Zimerman you have. I also have his Mozart Sonata in vinyl.

What a cutie he was.

great albums

atb

kk

Schubert: Sonata No.15 in C Major (Unfinished) D840 

Still on Schubert.

This later '79 performance shows he has matured and I prefer this one over his older Paris live version in spite his much slower tempo. ( 1st movement is over 22 min. )
Feels like he's teaching me who Schubert was.

Pretty sure none of these ever made it to CD. If they did, I'm sure they'd be worth a king's ransom! His other 'clean-shaven' performances are Brahms' sonatas, which did make it to CD but is rare, and his early concerto performances with Bernstein.

EJ

Thanks Haim, I've seen you post on this record quite often, I don't know her or the music but will take a leap of faith.

EJ

Many thanks KeanoKing,

I had system on random and Summer came on and I thought, I need to listen to the whole album which I did, not realising how cheesey I was being....it was the last day of June!!!

Disc No 5 - Symphony No 4 "Romantic"

Cheers

Flettster

Hi Flettster, you're listening to a fine box, IMO. Chailly got better as he went and I find symphonies 6, 8 and 9 essential performances. Superlative recordings, too. 

EJ

On Vinyl

Cheers,

EJ

The best, and funniest, radio comedy of the past decade.

Composed between 1860 and 1934, the works on this disc hail from a momentous period in Russian music – from the emergence of a national Russian school of composing advocated by the group called ‘The Mighty Five’, to Stalin’s denunciation of Shostakovich’s opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, which was to cause generations of Russian composers to harness their modernist leanings.

On vinyl