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Suspension of this Blog 11 Apr 2013 | 01:13 am
Everyone: My blog has been targeted by someone or someone(s) within the last month. Namely, recent and previous posts are somehow being reported to Mediafire for copyright violations. This is ridicul...
Opera Overtures with Horst Stein and Edward Downes on Somerset 4 Apr 2013 | 09:17 pm
Remember those old Somerset records? You could buy 'em for $1.98 at the local Safeway, Radio Shack or Walgreens. Though meant for mass distribution, many of the performances on them were very fine ind...
Treasures of Byzantium 2 Apr 2013 | 09:36 pm
I've been reading a lot about the East Roman Empire, or Byzantine Empire, of late. For a good number of years, it has held a certain mystical fascination for me that I don't really know how to describ...
Menahem Pressler plays Music for Children of Bartok 20 Mar 2013 | 08:10 pm
Bartok's series of Music for Children contains deceptively simple but imaginative music nonetheless. From MGM E3047, the great Menahem Pressler performs the 39 Pieces based on Slovak folksongs. Now to...
Lukas Foss conducts Sibelius from Buffalo 19 Mar 2013 | 08:30 pm
Here's a wonderful record, one which sort of heralded in a renaissance for the Buffalo Philharmonic in terms of recordings. Lukas Foss leads the BPO in the Four Legends from Kalevala by Sibelius. Cut ...
A few to tide me over.... 25 Feb 2013 | 01:01 am
I've had some serious "writer's block" of late which, unfortunately, has made blogging oh so difficult for me. Perhaps I've hit a wall or something, I don't know. Well, as not to deprave my patient an...
Sir Thomas Beecham works his magic in Goldmark 13 Feb 2013 | 11:18 pm
An absolutely fantastic record here today! In fact, one of the very best recordings that I have heard in quite a while. Sir Thomas Beecham conducts the RPO in this 1952 lp of Karl Goldmark's delightfu...
Musica Antica e Nuova from the Colt Klavier Collection 7 Feb 2013 | 10:36 pm
Here's an lp from an interesting series that the old Oryx label rleased as part of it's "Colt Klavier Collection" series. This is volume six featuring fortepianist Celia Bizony leading the Musica Anti...
Robert Gerle performs concertos of Delius and Barber 30 Jan 2013 | 10:20 pm
A while back I offered up some playing by the fine Hungarian-American violinist Robert Gerle. On this Westminster stereo lp, Gerle is joined by forgotten American conductor Robert Zeller for an intere...
The Richards Piano Quartet play Chausson and Martinu 26 Jan 2013 | 12:09 am
Regular readers of this blog know that I have a soft spot for chamber music. Here's a very fine L'Oiseau Lyre lp c 1969 featuring the Richards Piano Quartet (named after founder-cellist Bernard Richar...
