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  • Roger Webb
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    • Feb 2024
    • 957

    #16
    Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
    Elgar: The Starlight Express

    There are two recordings of this:
    The complete music, conducted by Vernon Handley...............
    Yes, I have the 2×Lp release on HMV Greensleeve ESDW 711, but at the back of my mind I have a suspicion that the CD release doesn't have it complete - I haven't got the CD....which was a single disc to check.


    BTW Charles Mackerras recorded bits with WNO Orch. and Alison Hagley and Bryn Terfel on Decca.

    Edit. My number two in my CD shop in Bristol, Roger Dubois, edited and arranged the score of The Starlight Express whilst a student of John Pickard, the overall Editor of the New Elgar Edition, for which Roger received his Masters.
    Last edited by Roger Webb; 03-02-25, 19:45.

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    • Pulcinella
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      • Feb 2014
      • 11289

      #17
      Originally posted by Roger Webb View Post

      Yes, I have the 2×Lp release on HMV Greensleeve ESDW 711, but at the back of my mind I have a suspicion that the CD release doesn't have it complete - I haven't got the CD....which was a single disc to check.


      BTW Charles Mackerras recorded bits with WNO Orch. and Alison Hagley and Bryn Terfel on Decca.

      Edit. My number two in my CD shop in Bristol, Roger Dubois, edited and arranged the score of The Starlight Express whilst a student of John Pickard, the overall Editor of the New Elgar Edition, for which Roger received his Masters.
      This 78-minute CD?

      Elgar: Starlight Express, Op. 78. Warner Classics: 5859072. Buy download online. Valerie Masterson (soprano), Derek Hammond-Stroud (baritone) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley

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      • Roger Webb
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        • Feb 2024
        • 957

        #18
        Originally posted by Pulcinella View Post
        Thanks for that....I think 'in the back of my mind' I had remembered that when first released on CD it shared a 2CD mid price EMI issue with Delius's Hassan, and that the Disc 1 was only 74 minutes (just about the limit at the time), and so didn't have it all on. Actually there was a CFP release of it with the full 78 mins...I say 'full', I don't know how long my LPs play for as there are no timings - and I'm not going to play them to find out, as it's not my favourite Elgar....by a long chalk!

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        • mopsus
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          • Nov 2010
          • 853

          #19
          A lot of worthwhile operas lack a really serviceable recording, presumably because of the organisation required to record them, and then they could be let down by some of the many participants. We are trying to assemble all of Verdi's but have are having real difficulty with the last couple of early ones, which though rarely staged are still a good listen. In some cases there is a choice between a classic older recording with poor sound and possibly not in the catalogue any more, and a more recent one with lesser-known performers (of course we could be doing them a disservice).

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          • Barbirollians
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            • Nov 2010
            • 11923

            #20
            Originally posted by Opinionated Knowall View Post
            Can I make a possibly controversial suggestion. Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, K364? I love this piece, and have listened to a stack of recordings, old/new, HIPP/modern etc etc. but none seem to quite nail it. Any suggestions of something I might have missed?
            Vilde Frang /Maxim Rysanov/Archangelo - been wisking VF would record 2,3 & 4 ever since.

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            • Barbirollians
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 11923

              #21
              Mozart K271 - only Schiff/Vegh and Shelley/LMP seem to get this concerto IMO. Haskil was good but elderly recordings and I have a spirited live Friedrich Gulda - but Anda, Uchida, Brendel,Perahia etc - the big cycles don't seem to bring it off

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