Great Music - Unarranged ...

Posted by: u5227470736789439 on 10 January 2008

So Wagner is well known to me, but not so well loved by me. This is too good to miss though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dfbZ6S6DU4&NR=1

Note the exemplary balance of the orchestra which remains entirely a support to the voice, partly because of the instruments then used and also the containment provided by the pit. So different from horribly loud and crude representations that pass in modern studio recordings. Recorded at a performance in 1936 in Covent Garden, London, with Flagstad, Reiner, and the LPO ...

George

Posted on: 01 January 2009 by u5227470736789439

The Ricecare in six parts [six voices or lines of music], in a rather wonderful performance on strings

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K6UTEip-Ntc&feature=related

Happy New Year ...

Posted on: 02 January 2009 by Wolf2

Thanks for the posts George, I've only seen a few but I'll be back after errands that have to be done TODAY.

Posted on: 02 January 2009 by u5227470736789439

Some of the earlier ones have been delisted, but most of them survive, and one curiously leads from the first part of the second Brandenburg Concerto to Louis Armstrong! The second part leads correctly, so the first part is still traceable!

ATB from George

Posted on: 02 January 2009 by u5227470736789439

I have long hoped for this come out on CD. Elgar's Violin Concerto in the 1954 Decca recording played by Alfredo Campoli with the LPO and Sir Adrian Boult.

Simply my favourite recording of this lovely concerto - this is part from the second movement.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=R4wGLGQ5nSI

In the wrong hands this music can fall flat but here is is incredibly moving ...

ATB from George