GMG Wishlist: OOP or rare recordings you want reissued

[Mark]

Please, Melodiya, if you're reading this, reissue that Sveshnikov/USSR State Choir Rachmaninov All-night Vigil. The transfer I have is almost certainly a fake, so I'd love to hear the original. Thank you.


Anyone else got a request?

[Que]

I've been quite lucky lately in finding several OOP items from the RCA Heifetz Collection.

Most of the times I'm able to find what I'm looking for, or the item is reissued - but it can take a year or two! 

Only thing I can think of right now are the recordings Nathan Milstein did in the 30's of the Tchaikovsky and Bruch concertos, as issued on Biddulph. I have these recordings on Naxos, and they're nice but I remember the Biddulph as being superiorly transferred.

Ah, and yes: volume 2 of the Schnabel/LvB sonatas cycle on Pearl!

Q

[sidoze]

Only thing I can think of right now are the recordings Nathan Milstein did in the 30's of the Tchaikovsky and Bruch concertos, as issued on Biddulph. I have these recordings on Naxos, and they're nice but I remember the Biddulph as being superiorly transferred.

According to the Milstein discography, in addition to Biddulph and Naxos the Tchaikovsky VC is also on Pearl, available now for £10 if you wish to take a chance (just 1 in stock).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nathan-Milstein-Vol-2-Tchaikovsky-Beethoven/dp/B000000WRS/ref=sr_1_7/203-6050568-1831944?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1184229393&sr=1-7

In fact the Bruch is also on Pearl:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruch-Concerto-Scottish-Fantasy-KoNidrei/dp/B00000JCEV/ref=sr_1_1/203-6050568-1831944?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1184229611&sr=1-1

[Harry Collier]

Only thing I can think of right now are the recordings Nathan Milstein did in the 30's of the Tchaikovsky and Bruch concertos, as issued on Biddulph. I have these recordings on Naxos, and they're nice but I remember the Biddulph as being superiorly transferred.

Yes, nice performances. I have both on Naxos, Biddulph and Arlecchino. Can't remember whether Naxos or Biddulph is the better transfer, however. If I remember, I'll give it a test this evening.

[71 dB]

Anyone else got a request?

Sure!

Bruhns - Complete Cantatas - Ricercar.

[Holden]

John Field - Nocturnes: Noel Lee

[Maciek]

Well, my wishes are pretty obvious, and I'm sure I share them with the majority of GMGers. I wish there would be a rerelease of the following:

Moniuszko - The Haunted Manor, Poznan Opera under Bierdiajew (LP, released on CD by Tonpress in the early 1990s)

Moniuszko - Halka under Semkow (LP and MC, released on CD by Harmonia Mundi)

Moniuszko - Flis (Polskie Nagrania MC, probably an LP too; no CD release that I'm aware of)

Plus a ton of other stuff. (Of course... ).

[Grazioso]

* Ricercar's complete Deutsche Barock Kantaten series
* anything by the late, lamented countertenor Henri Ledroit

[Que]

According to the Milstein discography, in addition to Biddulph and Naxos the Tchaikovsky VC is also on Pearl, available now for £10 if you wish to take a chance (just 1 in stock).

In fact the Bruch is also on Pearl:

I know Sidoze, and those are fine alternatives - but I'm dragging my feet to buy those, hoping that Biddulph will reissue! 

* Ricercar's complete Deutsche Barock Kantaten series
* anything by the late, lamented countertenor Henri Ledroit

We should organise a campaign to request reissue of the series by Ricercar!

btw they did reissue some items which might originate from that series?



Q

[Rabin_Fan]

Amadeus in Vienna - a CD by Christophe Rousset on Decca. My friend had it in his hand & he let it pass. Too bad until Decca re-releases it!

[Que]

I have another one.
I'm missing volume 4 with opus 33 & 42 from the complete Haydn SQ's by the Festetics Quartet (Arcana - A 414). Can't find a trace of it on the net - it seems to have vanished into thin air.
Now, that hurts...

Q

[Mark]

I'd just be happy if someone could find this (in stock and available to buy) for me:

[dirkronk]

Anything and everything done by the Beethoven String Quartet of Moscow. Retransfers of their Shostakovich quartet cycle (the Consonance CDs were WAY too shrill), their Beethoven quartet cycle (the vinyl is now costly and hard to find, at least in the US, and I don't think these were ever issued on CD), plus whatever else may be in Russian archives. Melodiya...please? Brilliant...a nice big collector box to go along with your other Russian performer sets?

The Frederick Stock double-CD set formerly but not now available from Biddulph...and others from this conductor (which would include the Milstein Tchaikovsky noted in other posts above...one of my favorite performances of the piece).

The Enescu-as-violinist recordings, including a CD's worth of solo work once available on Biddulph, and various pieces with Lipatti (last released on Philips but now OOP, I believe) and other accompanists. I do now own copies of these, thanks to very kind collectors out there who took pity on me after more than four years of searching...but I'd still like "legit" releases for any notes or additional items. Besides, I have been told that there are a number of private, radio broadcast and other performances that would easily fill one or more additional CDs, but have never been officially released.

Several items once released in limited number by the Chicago Symphony but now long out of print: LvB sym. 4 and several otherwise unreleased performances by Reiner, plus lots of things by other conductors with that orchestra. Based on posts by Heck on CMG and others over the years, I am given to understand that there are many treasures that deserve to see the light of day once more (or perhaps for the first time)--the two still-available multi-CD sets apparently being the tip of the iceberg. I actually contacted the symphony's representatives last week to urge reissue and broader marketing of some specific previously-released items, and was told basically that they would take this under advisement. I won't hold my breath, but will try to remain hopeful.

The Remington catalog. Yes, there were some pretty so-so items in it, but there were also some real gems. Finding near-mint vinyl copies is like finding hen's teeth, and very few of the recordings have EVER been issued on CD. The late-career Enescu Bach sonatas & partitas have seen issue on budget labels, and Appian has released the Barere Carnegie Hall recordings, but what about the rest of the catalog?

And this wouldn't be a reissue...BUT...does everyone remember the news announcement from about two or three years ago that one or more enormous radio archives had been "discovered" in Russia, and that these contained several decades of live performances by major and lesser-known Russian and other artists? Whatever happened to these fabled archives? What's in 'em? And how come the market hasn't been flooded with examples of their contents? Inquisitive (and acquisitive) people want to know!


Dirk

[Que]

Anything and everything done by the Beethoven String Quartet of Moscow. Retransfers of their Shostakovich quartet cycle (the Consonance CDs were WAY too shrill), their Beethoven quartet cycle (the vinyl is now costly and hard to find, at least in the US, and I don't think these were ever issued on CD), plus whatever else may be in Russian archives. Melodiya...please? Brilliant...a nice big collector box to go along with your other Russian performer sets?

Looks as if some of it is coming Dirk! (pictures from jpc)




Q

[Harry Collier]

The Bach A minor and E major concertos that Milstein recorded in 1967 (with "chamber orchestra"), together with the D minor double concerto with Erica Morini (1964). The EMI (France) CD also contained the Bach (Goldberg) sonata in C for two violins (Milstein and Morini). I bought the CD in FNAC for €6 many years ago. The performances are immaculate, and classical. I keep recommending it, since it's a very fine disc indeed, but it's probably now only available in Outer Mongolia.

[rubio]

I'm desperately looking for:

Bruckner Symphony No. 6 conducted by Bongartz (Berlin Classics).
Nielsen Symphony No. 5 performed by Horenstein/New Philharmonia (Unicorn).
Haydn's Creation conducted by Hogwood (Decca).

It would also be nice to find:

Richter's Praga box set for an OK price.
Beethoven late String Quartets by Busch Quartet w/Op. 130 (on Biddulph).

[MISHUGINA]

I'm desperately looking for:

Nielsen Symphony No. 5 performed by Horenstein/New Philharmonia (Unicorn).

The Nielsen has just been re-issued not long ago coupled with the equally elusive Mahler 6/Bournemouth SO on BBC Legends here:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Sept06/Mahler6_Horenstein_BBCL41912.htm


The only recording I want is Rite of Spring by Bernstein/NYPO. I repeat New York Philharmonic recording, not the later London Symphony or Israel Philharmonic recordings. Critics are raving it so much it
's becoming stuff of legends and I don't understand why Sony doesn't want to reissue it. 

[Drasko]

Les Introuvables d' Igor Markevitch (4 CD Emi France box)
Shostakovich 10th - NYPO/Mitropoulos (CBS)
Richter - Scriabin recital Warsaw '72 (Music & Arts)
Richter Edition vol.10 - Scriabin, Prokofiev, Miaskovsky (Melodiya)
Martinu Double Concerto, 3rd Symphony - CzPO/Sejna (Supraphon)
Rachmaninov Vespers (complete) - Sveshnikov (Melodiya)
Sibelius - Syms. 1, 2, 3, 5, Tapiola - LSO/Kajanus (Finlandia)
Samuil Feinberg vols.2 & 3 - Scriabin & Schumann (Arlecchino)
Weill - Seven Deadly Sins - Lemper/Mauceri (Decca)
Victor Ullmann - Der Kaiser von Atlantis - Leipzig/Zagorosek (Decca/Entartete Musik)
Stravinsky - Les Noces (two versions) - Eotvos (Hungaroton)
Lev Knipper - Symphony No.4 - Moscow SO/Dudarova (Melodiya)
BMG/Melodiya Musica Non Grata series (particularly Mosolov and 'Russian Music from the 20s' mixed disc)
Nelson Freire - '84 Miami Recital (Audiofon)
Mussorgsky - Complete songs - Christoff (EMI 3CDs)
Sibelius - 4th, Leminkainen - USSR something or other (Melodiya), 2nd & 5th - LSO (EMI), Tapiola, Violin Concerto/Spivakovsky (Everest) - all of the above conducted by Tauno Hannikainen

and I could go on like this....

[rubio]

The Nielsen has just been re-issued not long ago coupled with the equally elusive Mahler 6/Bournemouth SO on BBC Legends here:

http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Sept06/Mahler6_Horenstein_BBCL41912.htm


The only recording I want is Rite of Spring by Bernstein/NYPO. I repeat New York Philharmonic recording, not the later London Symphony or Israel Philharmonic recordings. Critics are raving it so much it
's becoming stuff of legends and I don't understand why Sony doesn't want to reissue it. 

It's sadly enough not the same performance.

http://groups.google.de/group/rec.music.classical.recordings/browse_thread/thread/355d96e0bbce154/593b478ef456328c?lnk=gst&q=nielsen+horenstein+bbc+&rnum=4#593b478ef456328c

The Unicorn release is well-known for it's amazing and wild snare drum work.

[MishaK]

Victor Ullmann - Der Kaiser von Atlantis - Leipzig/Zagorosek (Decca/Entartete Musik)

That entire series disappeared way too fast. There was some good stuff there.