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  • Pulcinella
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    • Feb 2014
    • 12851

    Tippett
    A child of our time.

    Edward Gardner, London Philharmonic Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir, Sarah Connolly, Roderick Williams, Kenneth Tarver, Nadine Benjamin
    London Adventist Chorale

    Tippett: A Child of Our Time. LPO: LPO-0136. Buy CD or download online. Nadine Benjamin (soprano), Dame Sarah Connolly (mezzo), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Roderick Williams (baritone) London Philharmonic Orchestra & Choir, Edward Gardner


    Released 5 September 2025

    Here's a link to the review of the 2022 concert.

    Half a century ago, Michael Tippett’s A Child of our Time felt inescapable. For a youth-choir singer in the London of that period, his wartime “modern oratorio” supplied a reference-point of ambition and achievement to which our exasperated elders always seemed eager to refer – and to defer.Later, if it never quite vanished, Tippett’s epic updating of the sound-world of Messiah and the Bach Passions to dramatise 20th-century tyranny, persecution and revolt slipped into relative neglect.

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    • smittims
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      • Aug 2022
      • 6255

      Cesar Franck: Symphony inD minor. The NBC Symphony, Guido Cantelli.

      A remarkable early stereo recording made in Carnegie Hall with John Pfeiffer's binaural system shortly before this legendary orchestra was disbanded. It is very thrilling and difficult to imagine it better done.

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      • Stanfordian
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        • Dec 2010
        • 9563

        Thomas Quasthoff sings Schubert & Brahms
        Schubert
        Schwanengesang (Swan Song), D957 (collection of 14 Lieder) Op. Posth
        Brahms
        Vier ernste Gesänge (Four Serious Songs), Op. 121
        Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone) & Justus Zeyen (piano)
        Recorded 2000 Bavaria Musikstudios, Munich
        Deutsche Grammophon, CD

        George Frideric Handel – ‘Complete Violin Sonatas’
        7 Violin Sonatas, HWV371, 358, 359a, 364a, 372, 373, 361
        2 Allegros for violin & basso, HWV407, 408
        Sonatina from ‘Il trionfo del Tempo’, HWV46b
        Andante in A minor, HWV412
        Fantasia in A major, HWV406
        Bojan Čičić (baroque violin) & Steven Devine (harpsichord)
        Recorded 2023, St Martin’s Church, East Woodhay, UK
        Delphian, CD

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        • Cockney Sparrow
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          • Jan 2014
          • 2392

          Originally posted by smittims View Post
          Cesar Franck: Symphony inD minor. The NBC Symphony, Guido Cantelli.

          A remarkable early stereo recording made in Carnegie Hall with John Pfeiffer's binaural system shortly before this legendary orchestra was disbanded. It is very thrilling and difficult to imagine it better done.
          There is a matching description recording in the ICON Box.

          (It can be listened to on Naxos Music Library -Label: Warner Parlophone ; Initial I: Cantelli - https://www.for3.org/forums/forum/cl...-music-library ).

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          • richardfinegold
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            • Sep 2012
            • 8460

            Originally posted by smittims View Post
            Cesar Franck: Symphony inD minor. The NBC Symphony, Guido Cantelli.

            A remarkable early stereo recording made in Carnegie Hall with John Pfeiffer's binaural system shortly before this legendary orchestra was disbanded. It is very thrilling and difficult to imagine it better done.
            What label is that, Smittins?

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            • smittims
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              • Aug 2022
              • 6255

              It was an EMI 2-disc set , Guido Cantelli - Artist Profile , CZS 5 68217 2. It includes his EMI stereo recordings of Beetgiven 7, Schubet 8, Mozart K201 and 522. Long deleted, but you may find a second-hand copy.

              Toscanini's last two concerts wre also, I believe , recorded in stereo, but the concensus is that they weren't up to his usual standard.

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              • HighlandDougie
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                • Nov 2010
                • 3365

                Originally posted by smittims View Post
                It was an EMI 2-disc set , Guido Cantelli - Artist Profile , CZS 5 68217 2. It includes his EMI stereo recordings of Beetgiven 7, Schubet 8, Mozart K201 and 522. Long deleted, but you may find a second-hand copy.

                Toscanini's last two concerts wre also, I believe , recorded in stereo, but the concensus is that they weren't up to his usual standard.
                Although I always think that FHG's dismissal of Franck as, "dreary", is a bit unfair, a little of the symphony in the wrong hands can go a long way. Not so with Cantelli. I have that set, as well as a World Record Club release of the Franck on a stereo LP from about 1980. Another performance recorded by a conductor at an early stage in his career is that from Lorin Maazel and the Berlin RSO which has also worn well.

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                • vinteuil
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 14144

                  Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post

                  Although I always think that FHG's dismissal of Franck as, "dreary" is a bit unfair...
                  ... FHG who she?

                  Franz Helser-Ghost? Falph Haughan Gilliams??

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                  • AuntDaisy
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                    • Jun 2018
                    • 2362

                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post

                    ... FHG who she?

                    Franz Helser-Ghost? Falph Haughan Gilliams??
                    Or possibly ferneyhoughgeliebte?

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                    • HighlandDougie
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 3365

                      Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
                      Or possibly ferneyhoughgeliebte?
                      Maid out!

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                      • HighlandDougie
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                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3365

                        Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post

                        Maid out!
                        Which is what you get when you don’t check the nonsense perpetrated by auto-correct on, “Mais oui!”

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                        • AuntDaisy
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                          • Jun 2018
                          • 2362

                          Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                          Maid out!
                          I thought it was some cricketing term

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                          • Pulcinella
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                            • Feb 2014
                            • 12851

                            Originally posted by AuntDaisy View Post
                            I thought it was some cricketing term
                            Moi aussi! Though I did know what FHG referred to.

                            One recording of the Franck I have is the filler in a cheap DG reissue of the Barenboim Chicago Saint Saens Organ Symphony, and frankly (ha ha!) I do think it rather dreary (Barenboim/O de Paris).

                            Last edited by Pulcinella; 10-09-25, 03:45. Reason: Honesty: 'The' changed to 'One'.

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                            • vinteuil
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                              • Nov 2010
                              • 14144

                              Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post

                              Although I always think that FHG's dismissal of Franck as, "dreary", is a bit unfair, a little of the symphony in the wrong hands can go a long way.
                              Ah, ferney - of course. Miss him so much...

                              So right that Franck needs the 'right hands'. I have a so-called 'live' Giulini with the Vienna Phil which might as well be 'dead ' - so turgid as to be unlistenable-to


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                              • pastoralguy
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                                • Nov 2010
                                • 8391

                                And so my Alfred Brendel odyssey nears its end. 114 CDs.

                                Last two discs today.

                                Brahms. Piano Concerto No.1.

                                Sir Colin Davis conducting The Symphony Orchestra of Bayerischen Rundfunks. 1985.

                                Schumann. Piano Concerto in a minor.
                                The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Kurt Sanderling. 1997.

                                Schumann. Fantasie in C. Op.17.

                                Alfred Brendel, piano.


                                It’s been quite an experience listening to all the discs in this set. I’ve heard music I didn’t know at all as well as music I like to think I know extremely well. At no point have I ever had any doubts about Mr. Brendel’s total mastery of whatever he was playing.

                                A wonderful legacy to leave behind.

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