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Time travelers delight. This is OLDY city-- 1929-1949 But disks are loaded, and a lot of really tempting things (to me, anyway). I'm going to go ahead and copy and paste the contents. Sorry for your scrolling finger.



CD 1
ANTHONY BERNARD
Delius: Sea Drift (with Roy Henderson)
Walton: Overture 'Portsmouth Point'
New English Symphony Orchestra & Chorus

SIR WILLIAM WALTON
Walton: Façade (with Edith Sitwell, Constant Lambert); Viola Concerto (with Frederick Riddle)
London Symphony Orchestra

CD 2
SIR HAMILTON HARTY
Walton: Symphony No. 1
Haydn: Symphony No. 95
Berlioz: Overture 'Le Roi Lear'; Marche troyenne (Les Troyens)
London Symphony Orchestra

CD 3
SIR HAMILTON HARTY
Handel–Harty: Suite in Five Movements
London Symphony Orchestra

SIR HENRY WOOD
Purcell–Wood: Suite in Five Movements
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves; Overture 'The Wasps'; Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony'
Queen's Hall Orchestra

CD 4
SIR HENRY WOOD
Coates: London Suite; London Bridge – March
Elgar: Enigma Variations
Queen's Hall Orchestra

WILLEM MENGELBERG
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Two Violins (with Louis Zimmermann, Ferdinand Helman)
Gluck: Overture 'Alceste'
Concertgebouworkest

ALBERT COATES
Mussorgsky: A Night on the Bare Mountain; Gopak (Sorochintsy Fair)
London Symphony Orchestra

CD 5
ALBERT COATES
Rimsky-Korsakov: Snegurochka – Suite
National Symphony Orchestra
Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'or – Suite
London Symphony Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique'; Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture
National Symphony Orchestra

CD 6
VICTOR DE SABATA
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'
Berlioz: Overture 'Le Carnaval romain'
Sibelius: Valse triste
Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries (Die Walküre)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 7
VICTOR DE SABATA
Sibelius: En saga
London Philharmonic Orchestra

ROGER DÉSORMIÈRE
Bizet: Ouverture 'Patrie'; Jeux d'enfants – Petite Suite
Chabrier: Habanera
Debussy: Marche ecossaise
National Symphony Orchestra
Opera Arias – Gounod, Offenbach, Thomas, Proch, Charpentier (with Janine Micheau)
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

CD 8
GRZEGORZ FITELBERG
Wagner: Overture 'Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg'
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Eileen Joyce)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 9
GRZEGORZ FITELBERG
Borodin: Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Saltan – Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra

WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 10
CARLO ZECCHI
Rossini: Overture 'La Scala di Seta'
Pizzetti: La Pisanelle – Suite
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (with Clara Haskil)
London Philharmonic Orchestra

PIERO COPPOLA
Grieg: Symphonic Dances Nos. 1, 2 & 4
London Symphony Orchestra

CD 11
PIERO COPPOLA
Schumann: Symphony No. 1
National Symphony Orchestra

GEORGE ENESCU
Schumann: Symphony No. 2
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 12
ERNEST ANSERMET
Debussy: Petite Suite
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
Debussy: La Mer
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Ravel: Shéhérazade (with Suzanne Danco); La Valse
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire

CD 13
CLEMENS KRAUSS
Beethoven: Overture 'Fidelio'
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
London Symphony Orchestra
Strauss: Tod und Verklärung
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

PAUL VAN KEMPEN
Wagner: Overtures, 'Tannhäuser' & 'Der fliegende Holländer'

CD 14
SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Handel: Messiah, Israel in Egypt, Semele, Alexander's Feast, Solomon, Serse – excerpts; Zadok the Priest
(with Kathleen Ferrier, Richard Lewis, Trevor Anthony)
Royal Choral Society
London Symphony Orchestra

CD 15
SIR MALCOLM SARGENT
Handel–Harty: Music for the Royal Fireworks – Suite
National Symphony Orchestra
Holst: The Perfect Fool – ballet music
London Philharmonic Orchestra

EDUARD VAN BEINUM
Elgar: Overture 'Cockaigne'
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Britten: Four Sea Interludes & Passacaglia from Peter Grimes
Concertgebouworkest
Arnold: Overture 'Beckus the Dandipratt'
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 16
EDUARD VAN BEINUM
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (with Eugenia Zareska)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Concertgebouworkest

CD 17
HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
Wagner: Overture 'Rienzi'; Tannhäuser – Overture & Venusberg Music; Lohengrin – Prelude to Act III; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Prelude to Act III, Dance of the Apprentices, March of the Guild
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Wagner: Lohengrin – Prelude to Act I
Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Prelude to Act I
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

CD 18
ERICH KLEIBER
Handel: Andante larghetto (Berenice)
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 19
ERICH KLEIBER
Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge
Johann Strauss II: Overture 'Der Zigeunerbaron'
Dvořák: Overture 'Carnaval'
London Philharmonic Orchestra

JEAN MARTINON
Tchaikovsky: Da, čas nastal! ... Prostite vï, kholmï, polya rodnïye (The Maid of Orléans) (with Eugenia Zareska)
Chabrier: Suite Pastorale
Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 20
LEO BLECH
Humperdinck: Prelude 'Hänsel und Gretel'
Haydn: Symphony No. 94 'Surprise'
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande

SERGIU CELIBIDACHE
Mozart: Symphony No. 25
London Philharmonic Orchestra

CD 21
SERGIU CELIBIDACHE
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5; The Nutcracker – Suite
London Philharmonic Orchestra
It's all good...

Mookalafalas

Weird sales popping up and then disappearing around the various Amazons.
  Got the Ormandy Mono for $100 (UK), and am loving it.
Heard this was available for $70 from Amazon Spain and ordered it a couple days ago. Thought I'd post it here for you guys, but see the price has doubled since then :o  Anyway, for those interested, it might be worth keeping an eye on...
It's all good...

Mookalafalas

In a different classical web site, memebers assert this has come back into print. It sold out and went OOP very quickly upon release, several years back.
It's all good...

Karl Henning

Quote from: Mookalafalas on March 10, 2024, 12:41:49 AMIn a different classical web site, memebers assert this has come back into print. It sold out and went OOP very quickly upon release, several years back.

A nice set!
Karl Henning, Ph.D.
Composer & Clarinetist
Boston MA
http://www.karlhenning.com/
[Matisse] was interested neither in fending off opposition,
nor in competing for the favor of wayward friends.
His only competition was with himself. — Françoise Gilot

Atriod

I'm seven discs into the Copland/Copland box and enjoying it more than I expected. This was as the yoots say a YOLO purchase without any streaming of the performances I hadn't heard before. I tend not to explore much Copland having long time favorites for the popular works. Like the Sony Stravinsky box it gives an interesting insight from the composer's hand.

Sony just need to release a Koussevitzky box and we'll be incredibly spoiled for a Boston legacy.

JBS

Quote from: Mookalafalas on March 10, 2024, 12:41:49 AMIn a different classical web site, memebers assert this has come back into print. It sold out and went OOP very quickly upon release, several years back.


Amazon US Marketplace lists one new copy available for about $210, one used copy for a couple of dollars less, and some other listings for much higher prices.

Hollywood Beach Broadwalk

Mookalafalas

Quote from: JBS on March 10, 2024, 05:45:48 PMAmazon US Marketplace lists one new copy available for about $210, one used copy for a couple of dollars less, and some other listings for much higher prices.

  Yeah, I just checked, $207. For some reason, it now says they have 2 new copies. This is one of the few box sets I let get by me, back when I was snapping up everything. I waited for the price to come down, and then it just went OOP.
Odd that they would bring it back, and make so few copies available. Amazon Japan doesn't show it at all.
It's all good...

Que

Quote from: Mookalafalas on March 10, 2024, 06:15:22 PMYeah, I just checked, $207. For some reason, it now says they have 2 new copies. This is one of the few box sets I let get by me, back when I was snapping up everything. I waited for the price to come down, and then it just went OOP.
Odd that they would bring it back, and make so few copies available. Amazon Japan doesn't show it at all.

Germany is usually the first place to find new releases:

https://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/art/complete-edition/hnum/5145674

So, the stories of a re-release are true: mid-March, €120.

Mookalafalas

Quote from: Que on March 11, 2024, 08:09:35 AMSo, the stories of a re-release are true: mid-March, €120.


Whoa! That's a pretty good price!
It's all good...

Que

Quote from: Mookalafalas on March 12, 2024, 12:11:27 AMWhoa! That's a pretty good price!

I know...right?  :D 

Although I'm usually not into conductor focused box sets, which are usually not limited to the niche or niches the conductor excelled in and contain the same "iron repertoire" over and over again, in this case I'm tempted...