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[Sergeant Rock]

George Lloyd Symphony #9




Sarge

[North Star]

Schubert
Piano Duets
Osborne & Lewis
[asin]B0042ZUNGU[/asin]

[Sergeant Rock]

Some Satie




Sarge

[Jay F]

Beethoven's Late String Quartets

[asin]B00067R3BG[/asin]

[Bogey]

Mozart String Quartet D major K.499 "Hoffmeister" played by the Quartetto Italiano




Sarge

Year on these, Sarge?  Different set than the old Philips run?

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Yep.  Dorati with Minneapolis is also a good one, from the past as well.

Thanks for the tip on the Dorati. I'll have to check it out.

[Parsifal]

Thanks for the tip on the Dorati. I'll have to check it out.

There are two, mono and stereo.  (The mono only available on the original LP or in the recent MLP II collection.)

[Todd]

Pulling out some of the heaviest artillery for my current foray into the greatest solo piano music in the canon.

[Bogey]

Pulling out some of the heaviest artillery for my current foray into the greatest solo piano music in the canon.

Been on my Amazon wish list since....well, .....

[Sergeant Rock]

Year on these, Sarge?  Different set than the old Philips run?

No, these are the Philips recordings. Recording dates 1966-73.

Sarge

[Bogey]

No, these are the Philips recordings. Recording dates 1966-73.

Sarge

Ah, then you must have pulled them off of your top shelf.

[Parsifal]

I have the one from 1953 included in this set

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It is a bit confusing since the other Stravinsky works are with the London Symphony Orchestra.

Very confusing, since the recording you linked (which I have) is not a set, but a single disc containing the 1959, stereo recording of the Sacre.

You have


which is included in
[asin]B005XBA9Y8[/asin]


The 1953 recording is


which is included in
[asin]B00B7364H2[/asin]

[Parsifal]

I must have grabbed the wrong image since what I have is a 5-Cd set including Prokofiev, Copland, Gershwin and Strauss.  I think the Rite from it is the  1953 recording.

This is the set I have

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I don't have that set, but it appears to be a re-packaging of 5 of the MLP discs from the original series (one of which is the disc you linked above).  I listened to the amazon 30 second excerpt of Part I.  It's stereo, so it must be 1959.

[Lisztianwagner]

Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.10

[Lisztianwagner]

Pyotr Il'ych Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini

http://www.youtube.com/v/8Tiov8RZE7g

[Jay F]

More Late Beethoven. Now by the ESQ. If you don't like the new style box sets, and you just want the Lates, go Trio in double-wide:

[asin]B0000942LM[/asin]

[North Star]

Earlier today:

Mussorgsky
Pictures
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4
Sokhiev & Toulouse

[asin]B000H7I4XG[/asin]

[TheGSMoeller]

[prémont]

I'm listening to this through spotify. Does the booklet contain interesting essays about the performance and the music? If so I  may well buy the CD.

The booklet notes are in three parts.

1) A persentation of the music written by Kandel, not very deep.
2) A short thesis on Music Ficta by Gerard Géay, who attended the sessions. I do not think he is that clear.
3) A thesis on the pronunciation of 14th and 15th Century Gallican latin by Thierry Peteau. I do not know if this topic interests you. If it does, and you do not know anything about it, you may learn a bit, but it is not enough to justify the purchase of the CD - IMO.

[listener]

RIMSKY-KORSAKOFF:   Piano Quintet in Bb   op. posth.   RUBINSTEIN: Piano Quintet in. F op. 55
Felicia Blumental, piano    Members of the New Philharmonia Wind Ensemble, London
LOEFFLER: Deux Rapsodies: L'Étang, Le Cornemuse   BARLOW: Night Song
McCAULEY: Five Miniatures for Flute and Strings
Eastman Rochester Orch.,   Howard Hanson, cond.
SCHUMANN:  Symphony no.4     BEETHOVEN Overtures - Egmont, Leonora no.2
Berlin Philharmonic      Furtwangler, cond.
recordings from 1953, 1947 and 1949