Thirty three and a third.

[aligreto]

Bought these some days ago, for a very reasonable price, at an antiquarian sale.

The old LP with Danish piano music is very rare, I never saw it before, the cover is slightly damaged however.

Rarity also applies to the 2LP with 20th century lieder by Reimann, Bialas, Schoenberg, Britten, Dallapiccola etc., released by a German foundation, the Franz Wirth Stiftung. There isn't a label or record number on the cover, but the LPs say GEMA 2834-35.

Some of the fine CPE Bach flute concertos were released on Brilliant CDs, but this is the complete set.

A lot of the Neue Wiener Schule 4LP recordings I haven't heard, I only owned a download CD of the famous Schoenberg String Trio, and I've heard almost none of those Menuhin 4LP recordings. He tends to be uneven I think, but he also has character ...

The Shchedrin /Petrov was rather redundant, but I didn't have the Petrov work.

Nice haul! I am sure that you will thoroughly enjoy them.

[Irons]

There's a lot of stuff here, I'd rather mention some LP labels that I don't see that often, or rarely (there are some BIS at times, but they're not abundant):

European labels:
- Wergo (German)
- Deutscher Musikrat (German)
- Donemus Amsterdam (Dutch)
- Ensayo (Spanish)
- Amadeo (Austrian)
- Balkanton (Bulgarian)
- Jugoton (former Yugoslavia)
- Cybele, Accord, REM, Musidisc (French)
- Paula, Point, Wilhelm Hansen (Danish)
- Musique en Wallonie (Belgian)
- Caprice (Swedish)
- Simax (Norwegian)
- Lyrita (British)
- Chandos (British)
- Genesis
- Pearl (British)

Overseas/US labels:
- Louisville
- American Recording Society
- International Piano Archives
- United Artists Records
- Telarc
- New World Records
- Mercury, the stereo LPs
- CRI Composers Recordings
- Desto
- Orion
- World Record Club
- Arabesque
- Connoisseur Society
- Marco Polo

(I'm sure I forgot some )

The only labels I'm not familiar with on your European list are Deutscher Musikrat, Donemus and Paula, Point, Wilhelm Hansen.

I picked up an Etcetera LP this weekend which I'm pretty excited about.



I was convinced Etcetera a US label but think I must be confusing with a label of a similar name which specialised in Blues music.
This Hindemith LP released in 1983 includes the following information: The Etcetera Record Company, Keizergracht 518, 1017 EK, Amsterdam.

[MusicTurner]

Yes, Etcetera is often very good stuff, and that one looks great. I also hope to find the Cage Sonatas & Interludes with Fremy one day, at a not too expensive price, for example - maybe the most attractive recording of those works (?), at least as I seem to remember it from bygone days.

[Valentino]

While waiting for the RVW I found Pablo Casals directing the Marlborough Festival Orchestra in Haydn Symphonies 94 (Bam!) and 95, used at the hefty price of NOK 20. Damn fine music making it is!
What I've also done is to put in a preorder for the refurbished Solti Ring. On 3+5+5+6 LPs. But why? Well, I like spinning black gold, and the packaging looks promising. The price is in a different league of course, but not significantly more than the hybrid SACD set.

[Irons]

I have paid way too much for some LPs in the far-off days as a hard-nosed collector. Low budget is more fun. I shuddered with embarrassment on discovering when seeing the price sticker affixed to the inner-sleeve at £50! A fool and his money.........



Ticks all right boxes though being a first edition wide band with both record and cover being pristine.
More importantly I liked Honegger's 4th Symphony very much. Coincidently, "Deliciae Basilienses" is a work by a Swiss composer, conducted by a Swiss conductor, recorded in Geneva with a subject of another Swiss city, Basel.

Edit: and a Swiss orchestra.

[aligreto]

I have paid way too much for some LPs in the far-off days as a hard-nosed collector. Low budget is more fun. I shuddered with embarrassment on discovering when seeing the price sticker affixed to the inner-sleeve at £50! A fool and his money.........



Ticks all right boxes though being a first edition wide band with both record and cover being pristine.
More importantly I liked Honegger's 4th Symphony very much. Coincidently, "Deliciae Basilienses" is a work by a Swiss composer, conducted by a Swiss conductor, recorded in Geneva with a subject of another Swiss city, Basel.

Edit: and a Swiss orchestra.

Swiss prices for a Swiss treat! 

[vandermolen]

Swiss prices for a Swiss treat! 

I remember ironically playing Honegger's charming and eloquent Symphony 'Delights of Basle' to myself after Switzerland beat England in a 1982 World Cup qualifying match (in Basle).

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Swiss prices for a Swiss treat! 

I have paid way too much for some LPs in the far-off days as a hard-nosed collector. Low budget is more fun. I shuddered with embarrassment on discovering when seeing the price sticker affixed to the inner-sleeve at £50! A fool and his money.........



Ticks all right boxes though being a first edition wide band with both record and cover being pristine.
More importantly I liked Honegger's 4th Symphony very much. Coincidently, "Deliciae Basilienses" is a work by a Swiss composer, conducted by a Swiss conductor, recorded in Geneva with a subject of another Swiss city, Basel.

Edit: and a Swiss orchestra.

Glad that you are enjoying it as that's what matters in the end.    Perhaps treat yourself to some really good Swiss chocolate to accompany it?

Speaking of things Swiss, I'm currently catching bits of the Laver Cup going on for the next three days in London.  Roger's last match tonight (your time), so probably won't be getting in much music listening today.  That and trying to come up with some ways to use up my tomatoes and eggplants and peppers!

PD

[aligreto]

I remember ironically playing Honegger's charming and eloquent Symphony 'Delights of Basle' to myself after Switzerland beat England in a 1982 World Cup qualifying match (in Basle).

Something of a masochistic compensation on your part at the time, Jeffrey. 

[Irons]

Glad that you are enjoying it as that's what matters in the end.    Perhaps treat yourself to some really good Swiss chocolate to accompany it?

Speaking of things Swiss, I'm currently catching bits of the Laver Cup going on for the next three days in London.  Roger's last match tonight (your time), so probably won't be getting in much music listening today.  That and trying to come up with some ways to use up my tomatoes and eggplants and peppers!

PD

It is the good lady of the house birthday today, PD. So no music, tennis or indeed Swiss chocolate tonight, but maybe a beer or two.

[Irons]

I remember ironically playing Honegger's charming and eloquent Symphony 'Delights of Basle' to myself after Switzerland beat England in a 1982 World Cup qualifying match (in Basle).

I don't remember that, Jeffrey. The cover image of Ansermet's recording is a nice shot of Basle. Looks a nice city.

[Pohjolas Daughter]

It is the good lady of the house birthday today, PD. So no music, tennis or indeed Swiss chocolate tonight, but maybe a beer or two.

Please wish her a happy birthday from me and "the cat chat group". 

PD

[Irons]

Please wish her a happy birthday from me and "the cat chat group". 

PD

[Wanderer]

Out of nowhere, these LP's came recently into my possession the usual unfortunate way (someone - a friend's relative - died). They seem to be in mint condition. Many are Melodiya issues (with Russian-only texts) and apparently they were bought directly from the source, during trips behind the Iron Curtain. Unfortunately, my turntable has been out of commission for years, so it may be some time before any of this gets played.

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 4 & Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Petrov/Moscow Radio Large[?] Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky) - Melodiya

*ALL IN RUSSIAN* (State Russian Choir/Sveshnikov) - Melodiya

Bellini: Norma (Callas/Corelli/Ludwig/Zaccaria/de Palma/Vincenzi/Teatro alla Scala/Serafin) - EMI Columbia (a handsome boxset)

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 13, 27/2 & 57 (Serebryakov) - Melodiya

Haydn: Symphony No. 104 & Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 (?? Orchestra/Markevitch) - Melodiya

Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 88 & 100 (Hungarian State Orchestra/Adam Fischer) - Hungaroton

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 (Gilels/Cleveland Symphony Orchestra/Szell) - Melodiya

Dvořák: Violin Concerto & Romance, Op. 11 (Suk/Czech Philharmonic Orchestra/Ančerl) - Supraphon

"The Bells of the Alexander Nevski Memorial Church" and other music for a cappella choir by Hristov, Chesnokov & Bortnyanski ("S. Obretenov" Bulgarian A Cappella Choir et al.) - Balkanton

Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Kogan/USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov) - Melodiya

An 8-LP collection of Tchaikovsky - another handsome boxset {Piano Concerto No. 1 with Wild/RPO/Fistoulari, Violin Concerto with Perlman/LSO/Wallenstein, Symphony No. 5 with the New Philharmonia Orchestra/Horenstein, Symphony No. 6 with the London Festival Orchestra/Gibson, Suites from The Nutcracker (New Symphony Orchestra of London/Boult), Swan Lake (New Symphony Orchestra of London/Boult) and The Sleeping Beauty (RPO/Gamley), Francesca da Rimini (RPO/Münch) and other paraphernalia (Capriccio Italien, Romeo & Juliet Overture, the ubiquitous 1812 Overture, Marche Slave, Waltz & Polonaise from Eugene Onegin and a few more bits and pieces)}

More from where these came from:

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Gilels/Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra/Kondrashin) - Melodiya

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Milena Mollova/Symphonic Orchestra of the Committee for Television & Radio/Vassil Stefanov) - Balkanton

Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus & "The Peacock" - Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (József Simándy/Budapest Chorus/Children's Chorus of the Hungarian Radio & Television/Hungarian State Orchestra/Antal Doráti) - Hungaroton

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Richter/Wiener Symphoniker/Karajan) - Deutsche Grammophon

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan) - Deutsche Grammophon (11/1965)

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - The Voyevoda, Op. 78 - Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 (Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Konstantin Ivanov) - Melodiya

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Fischer-Dieskau/Kohn/Kreppel/Jurinac/E.Haefliger/Stader/Sardi/Seefried/RSO Berlin/RIAS-Kammerchor/Ferenc Fricsay) - Deutsche Grammophon Privilege (boxset with libretto - 😎)

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Moscow Radio Large Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky) - Melodiya (boxset)

Sakellaridis: O Vaftistikós (The Godson) (Ο Βαφτιστικός : Γαλανίδης/Καραβουσάνου/Κουλουμπής/Κονταξή/Κολάσης/Ριτσιάρδης) - EMI/His Master's Voice (perhaps the most beloved Greek operetta, I was incidentally watching its film version the other day on TV)

Theodorakis: To Axion Esti (Το Άξιον Εστί : Μπιθικώτσης/Κατράκης/Δημήτριεφ/Μικρή Ορχήστρα Αθηνών/Μικτή Χορωδία Θάλειας Βυζαντίου/Θεοδωράκης) - EMI/His Master's Voice (An iconic work of modern Greek music, setting - parts of - the poem by the same name of Greek Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis. Theodorakis called it "A People's Oratorio", endeavoring a synthesis of western art and Greek traditional music - his efforts were deemed successful and the formidable verses of Elytis thus clad in music have entered the collective Greek psyche like few works before or since.)

[Pohjolas Daughter]

More from where these came from:

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Gilels/Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra/Kondrashin) - Melodiya

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Milena Mollova/Symphonic Orchestra of the Committee for Television & Radio/Vassil Stefanov) - Balkanton

Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus & "The Peacock" - Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (József Simándy/Budapest Chorus/Children's Chorus of the Hungarian Radio & Television/Hungarian State Orchestra/Antal Doráti) - Hungaroton

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Richter/Wiener Symphoniker/Karajan) - Deutsche Grammophon

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan) - Deutsche Grammophon (11/1965)

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - The Voyevoda, Op. 78 - Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 (Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Konstantin Ivanov) - Melodiya

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Fischer-Dieskau/Kohn/Kreppel/Jurinac/E.Haefliger/Stader/Sardi/Seefried/RSO Berlin/RIAS-Kammerchor/Ferenc Fricsay) - Deutsche Grammophon Privilege (boxset with libretto - 😎)

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Moscow Radio Large Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky) - Melodiya (boxset)

Sakellaridis: O Vaftistikós (The Godson) (Ο Βαφτιστικός : Γαλανίδης/Καραβουσάνου/Κουλουμπής/Κονταξή/Κολάσης/Ριτσιάρδης) - EMI/His Master's Voice (perhaps the most beloved Greek operetta, I was incidentally watching its film version the other day on TV)

Theodorakis: To Axion Esti (Το Άξιον Εστί : Μπιθικώτσης/Κατράκης/Δημήτριεφ/Μικρή Ορχήστρα Αθηνών/Μικτή Χορωδία Θάλειας Βυζαντίου/Θεοδωράκης) - EMI/His Master's Voice (An iconic work of modern Greek music, setting - parts of - the poem by the same name of Greek Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis. Theodorakis called it "A People's Oratorio", endeavoring a synthesis of western art and Greek traditional music - his efforts were deemed successful and the formidable verses of Elytis thus clad in music have entered the collective Greek psyche like few works before or since.)

Cool beans! 

So, now have you found a repair shop for your turntable? 

PD

[aligreto]

More from where these came from:

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Gilels/Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra/Kondrashin) - Melodiya

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Milena Mollova/Symphonic Orchestra of the Committee for Television & Radio/Vassil Stefanov) - Balkanton

Kodály: Psalmus Hungaricus & "The Peacock" - Variations on a Hungarian Folk Song (József Simándy/Budapest Chorus/Children's Chorus of the Hungarian Radio & Television/Hungarian State Orchestra/Antal Doráti) - Hungaroton

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Richter/Wiener Symphoniker/Karajan) - Deutsche Grammophon

Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (Berliner Philharmoniker/Karajan) - Deutsche Grammophon (11/1965)

Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien, Op. 45 - The Voyevoda, Op. 78 - Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32 (Russian State Symphony Orchestra/Konstantin Ivanov) - Melodiya

Mozart: Don Giovanni (Fischer-Dieskau/Kohn/Kreppel/Jurinac/E.Haefliger/Stader/Sardi/Seefried/RSO Berlin/RIAS-Kammerchor/Ferenc Fricsay) - Deutsche Grammophon Privilege (boxset with libretto - 😎)

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Moscow Radio Large Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky) - Melodiya (boxset)

Sakellaridis: O Vaftistikós (The Godson) (Ο Βαφτιστικός : Γαλανίδης/Καραβουσάνου/Κουλουμπής/Κονταξή/Κολάσης/Ριτσιάρδης) - EMI/His Master's Voice (perhaps the most beloved Greek operetta, I was incidentally watching its film version the other day on TV)

Theodorakis: To Axion Esti (Το Άξιον Εστί : Μπιθικώτσης/Κατράκης/Δημήτριεφ/Μικρή Ορχήστρα Αθηνών/Μικτή Χορωδία Θάλειας Βυζαντίου/Θεοδωράκης) - EMI/His Master's Voice (An iconic work of modern Greek music, setting - parts of - the poem by the same name of Greek Nobel laureate Odysseas Elytis. Theodorakis called it "A People's Oratorio", endeavoring a synthesis of western art and Greek traditional music - his efforts were deemed successful and the formidable verses of Elytis thus clad in music have entered the collective Greek psyche like few works before or since.)

A good variety of music there to be enjoyed.
I am sure that you will cherish them as much as their previous owner did.

[Irons]

Cool beans! 

So, now have you found a repair shop for your turntable? 

PD

Yes indeed. Get TT fixed.

[Irons]

Record haul from LA. Not me, sadly.

Stunning film extract of Horowitz playing Scarlatti in Russia.

https://youtu.be/k9CHq8YbHW0

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Record haul from LA. Not me, sadly.

Stunning film extract of Horowitz playing Scarlatti in Russia.

https://youtu.be/k9CHq8YbHW0

Neat!  Thanks for sharing that.

I want to visit that record shop in LA!!!

PD

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Irons,

That same store in Los Angeles has some albums listed on eBay.  I'd love a copy of this record, but not at the price that they are offering it for!

https://www.ebay.com/itm/195027614106?hash=item2d688d399a:g:VucAAOSwhUNictlf

Fly away little Eagles.... 

PD