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[Stanfordian]

I noted the current asking price. The "Hmm" was intended to indicate a certain unhappiness with the current situation. The sooner that set returns to the catalogue, the better. Have you tried searching out lossless downloads?

Hiya Bryn,

Sadly I don't do downloads yet. I like handling the actual CD and booklet. My point is that this Previn/ Vaughan Williams set is out of the top drawer. It feels as if it should be a mainstay of the RCA catalogue and I'm surprised it’s not been reissued recently. Of all the various recordings I hear people enquiring about it is this much admired RVW/Previn set.

[gurnemanz]

Just been gardening with headphones and really enjoying some recently bought young Fischer-Dieskau live with Gerald Moore - Salzburger Liederabende, 1956-65. 11CD box set (well priced at Amazon de)

[pastoralguy]

Mozart. Piano concertos 24 & 27.

Christian Zacharias with the NDRSO under Gunther Wand. A lovely recording I picked up in the Oxfam shop today for £1.49 but also available from Amazon for 13p! It gets a good review in the February 1987 Gramophone.

[Bryn]

Following and earlier spinning of Beethoven's Diabelli Variation played by the same pianist, Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated (Igor Levit). The Goldberg Variations to follow later.

[Petrushka]

Beethoven: Symphony No 1

[interval]

Shostakovich: Symphony No 8

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti

[BBMmk2]

Hiya Bryn,

Sadly I don't do downloads yet. I like handling the actual CD and booklet. My point is that this Previn/ Vaughan Williams set is out of the top drawer. It feels as if it should be a mainstay of the RCA catalogue and I'm surprised it’s not been reissued recently. Of all the various recordings I hear people enquiring about it is this much admired RVW/Previn set.

Perhaps all of us RVW "fans", should lobby RCA to highlight this?

[Lat-Literal]

Perhaps all of us RVW "fans", should lobby RCA to highlight this?

I would do, without hesitation, as part of a team initiative.

Am not at all a Beethoven person but tonight is the night. This post will a strange mixture of things. First, I don't have any familiarity with L'Orchestre du Monde and fear that they might not be rated. Secondly, I am only choosing LVB and L'ODM for one reason. An interview with Joanna Lumley who works close to them. Thirdly, I am a fairly ordinary fella in many ways and am not of the same class background. But what an exceptional, beautiful and attractive woman in all respects. She is extraordinary and she always cheers me up:

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 7, Second Movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14TNcGHKuzo

[Petrushka]

I would do, without hesitation, as part of a team initiative.

Am not at all a Beethoven person but tonight is the night. This post will a strange mixture of things. First, I don't have any familiarity with L'Orchestre du Monde and fear that they might not be rated. Secondly, I am only choosing LVB and L'ODM for one reason. An interview with Joanna Lumley who works close to them. Thirdly, I am a fairly ordinary fella in many ways and am not of the same class background. But what an exceptional, beautiful and attractive woman in all respects. She is extraordinary and she always cheers me up:

Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No 7, Second Movement - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14TNcGHKuzo

I once found myself standing next to her in one of the Albert Hall bars. Must say I agree with your assessment! Way out of my league, of course, and much taller too!

[Lat-Literal]

I once found myself standing next to her in one of the Albert Hall bars. Must say I agree with your assessment! Way out of my league, of course, and much taller too!

Thanks for the confirmation - I just really, really, really, like her.

No gushing Monday to follow. (PS and she is taller than me too tbh)*

(*Actually just googled, maybe not, very similar though)

[DublinJimbo]

Following and earlier spinning of Beethoven's Diabelli Variation played by the same pianist, Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated (Igor Levit). The Goldberg Variations to follow later.

I listened to the Goldbergs and will listen to the other two tomorrow and the following day. I am especially looking forward to the Rzewski. I have six versions already, but have great hopes for this.

[cloughie]

I once found myself standing next to her in one of the Albert Hall bars. Must say I agree with your assessment! Way out of my league, of course, and much taller too!

Did you converse?

[cloughie]

I once found myself standing next to her in one of the Albert Hall bars. Must say I agree with your assessment! Way out of my league, of course, and much taller too!

Did you converse?

[Stanfordian]

Haydn
Symphony No. 31 in D major, Hob. I:31, ‘Horn signal’
Symphony No. 70 in D major, Hob. I:70
Symphony No. 101 in D major, Hob. I:101, ‘The Clock’
Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Robin Ticciati
Recorded 2015 Usher Hall, Edinburgh
Linn Records

Lehár
Waltzes
Gold und Silber, Op. 79,
Die lustige Witwe: O kommet doch, o kommt, Ihr Ballsiren,
Where the Lark Sings,
Giuditta: excerpt(s),
Der Graf von Luxemburg: excerpt(s),
Zigeunerliebe: excerpts(s),
Eva: excerpt(s),
Wiener Johann Strauss-Orchester/Willi Boskovsky
Recorded Vienna 1982
EMI Classics

Grant Green with Dave Bailey, Frank Hayes & Ben Tucker
‘Reaching Out’
Blue Note (1961)

[BBMmk2]

Carrying on with my survey of Andre Previn's Vaughan Williams cycle. Sinfonia Antartica. I have heard numerous recordings of this work and found that, I could possibly say that this is most likely the most atmostpheric of the ones I know.

[EdgeleyRob]

Hi BBM,

It's very good IMO,but Haitink and Bakels (the underwhelming organ part excepted) are just that bit more special.
To my ears at least.