The Art of Conducting - Great Conductors of the Past - YouTube
Wilhelm Furtwängler is your favorite conductor ?
Is an fascinating universe of music interpretations
Agreed.
The amount of albums that I've bought because of one track and found the remaining content disappointing. Boxed sets in my experience are the same, just on bigger scale.
I dunno, I bought a boxed set of all the Zombies studio recordings, I listened to the whole set over a couple of days and still go back to it regularly. Naturally I prefer some over others, but they all have at least a few good tracks.
Somewhat culturally insensitive. Kind of refreshing to know there are still some antipodeans who behave to the old stereotypes
.As most of his recording are out of copyright there is lots out there including some great restorations (at a price). The tempting part of this box set is the completeness, with a few things supposedly not available before and the hope that WB have done some respectful restoration on it. There are some avid collectors out there and WB know their market.
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All of this old school Conductors was with some special characters
All of this old school Conductors was with some special characters
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But my advice is to avoid boxed sets like The Plague. Life is too short to work through all the disks.
Steve,
This is OT, but this box set caught my attention:
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My favorite was George Szell as he conducted the home symphony for many years. I have several LP's of his "Slavonic Dances", the Sony re-issue of CD is no match.
I do have DG' box set of Beethoven under Karajan.
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George Szell was highly recommended by Classics Today.Com
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George Szell was highly recommended by Classics Today.Com
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The need for huge Boxed sets would be reduced if Composers would restrict themselves to one Symphony or Concerto or Opera or Sonata, IMO.
Even that can be whittled down. Take Beethoven's familiar 4th. Symphony. The first movement tells you everything that you need to know. He plays a jolly good tune in the First movement. Pom, Pom , Pom, Pom, Pom, Pom, Pom, Pom...
Then spends the rest of the Symphony teasing the excited audience that he will play it again. But never does!
Haydn wrote hundreds. You'd think he could get it right first time.
And why do writers feel the need to write so many books? James Patterson, I am looking at YOU particularly. John Grisham, Micheal Connelly and John Connolly and James Lee Burke and Stephen King are equally profligate. After writing the perfect Novel, surely it is time to find a new hobby?
James Lee Burke is currently consuming my limited time with his 40th. effort. Another Dave Robicheaux Novel. The series seems to go on forever. Quite exciting, actually. Lots of the usual shooting and fights.
Even that can be whittled down. Take Beethoven's familiar 4th. Symphony. The first movement tells you everything that you need to know. He plays a jolly good tune in the First movement. Pom, Pom , Pom, Pom, Pom, Pom, Pom, Pom...
Then spends the rest of the Symphony teasing the excited audience that he will play it again. But never does!
Haydn wrote hundreds. You'd think he could get it right first time.
And why do writers feel the need to write so many books? James Patterson, I am looking at YOU particularly. John Grisham, Micheal Connelly and John Connolly and James Lee Burke and Stephen King are equally profligate. After writing the perfect Novel, surely it is time to find a new hobby?
James Lee Burke is currently consuming my limited time with his 40th. effort. Another Dave Robicheaux Novel. The series seems to go on forever. Quite exciting, actually. Lots of the usual shooting and fights.
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Wayne King is another unfortunate name, innnit.
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well there is one of the UKs few remaining test equipment manufacturers...
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I was disappointed to find that Wayne King didn't include those perennial crowd-pleasers, Once in Royal David's City and Come all Ye Faithful! The only ones the audiience can be guaranteed to know the chorus for.
I checked, and they have been perennials at "The Nine Lessons and Carols, King's College Chapel." Curiously, Silent Night doesn't seem to be in their repertoire. A curious omission. If I was at the concert, I would heckle them for that and possibly be escorted off the premises. After too much mulled wine, of course.
I checked, and they have been perennials at "The Nine Lessons and Carols, King's College Chapel." Curiously, Silent Night doesn't seem to be in their repertoire. A curious omission. If I was at the concert, I would heckle them for that and possibly be escorted off the premises. After too much mulled wine, of course.
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That's probably the same DG box set I have.
Loved it, but I've heard better recordings from the quality perspective (not talking about the music, but the actual recording).
I was disappointed to find that Wayne King didn't include those perennial crowd-pleasers, Once in Royal David's City and Come all Ye Faithful! The only ones the audiience can be guaranteed to know the chorus for.
I checked, and they have been perennials at "The Nine Lessons and Carols, King's College Chapel." Curiously, Silent Night doesn't seem to be in their repertoire. A curious omission. If I was at the concert, I would heckle them for that and possibly be escorted off the premises. After too much mulled wine, of course.
Are we already limbering up for Xmas?
I listened to King's College Canbridge Carols, and also to John Rutter with the Cambridge Singers last year on the wireless. TBH, it was a lot of obscure stuff. Could have been in Latin for all I know.
I know everyone is patronising about Andre Rieu, but at least he does pieces we have heard before. And no sermons. And "Silent Night" is included. I have also found I have a couple of Herbert Vons doing Mozart. And, yes, I am embarrassed to admit, I have a Boxed Set. ABBA.
I always had a thing about Agnetha. And what is wrong with that?
I know everyone is patronising about Andre Rieu, but at least he does pieces we have heard before. And no sermons. And "Silent Night" is included. I have also found I have a couple of Herbert Vons doing Mozart. And, yes, I am embarrassed to admit, I have a Boxed Set. ABBA.
I always had a thing about Agnetha. And what is wrong with that?
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I have been busy today separating the Wheat from the Chaff in my CD collection. A task that saves doubtless future weeping relatives much travail in sorting out one's effects after one has shuffled off this Mortal Coil. Personally, I have always preferred Gold mementoes of deceased relatives to remember them by. Like their Gold Rolex. A timeless principle, one feels. They'll be fighting to rip the Gold Chain off my neck!
I have discovered a second Box Collection. Frank Sinatra "The Capitol Years"! I can't part with this one just yet. Frankie singing with Nelson Riddle strings in the1950's. Many classic swing numbers before his voice declined into the 1960 "Reprise" years with journeyman Conductor Don Costa bumbling along.
Frank disrespected some numbers in his declining years. "Moody River" was an angry embarrassment. But Frank was hardly Country. He was reduced to *Doo Be Doo Be Doo" on "Strangers in the Night".
Surprising Gem discovered in a Classic FM Christmas compilation. Starts of with a bit of Handel. Unto us a Child is Born. Includes a number called "Stille Nacht" which sounded vaguely familiar, even if I didn't understand the words. Followed by an initially gloomy number called Christmas Concerto, Pastorale by some cove called Corelli. Flippin' Brilliant!
Hit a very bum note (Jazz Term) with "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" by Tchaikovsky. What is Christmassy about that? But generally enjoyable. Especially "While Shepherds washed their socks by night".
I am surprised I have saved 4 Taylor Swift records and no less than 7 Diana Kralls. And endless Chris Rea. Mostly Piano in the Classics. Saint-Saens especially.
Hope that all makes sense.
I have discovered a second Box Collection. Frank Sinatra "The Capitol Years"! I can't part with this one just yet. Frankie singing with Nelson Riddle strings in the1950's. Many classic swing numbers before his voice declined into the 1960 "Reprise" years with journeyman Conductor Don Costa bumbling along.
Frank disrespected some numbers in his declining years. "Moody River" was an angry embarrassment. But Frank was hardly Country. He was reduced to *Doo Be Doo Be Doo" on "Strangers in the Night".
Surprising Gem discovered in a Classic FM Christmas compilation. Starts of with a bit of Handel. Unto us a Child is Born. Includes a number called "Stille Nacht" which sounded vaguely familiar, even if I didn't understand the words. Followed by an initially gloomy number called Christmas Concerto, Pastorale by some cove called Corelli. Flippin' Brilliant!
Hit a very bum note (Jazz Term) with "Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy" by Tchaikovsky. What is Christmassy about that? But generally enjoyable. Especially "While Shepherds washed their socks by night".
I am surprised I have saved 4 Taylor Swift records and no less than 7 Diana Kralls. And endless Chris Rea. Mostly Piano in the Classics. Saint-Saens especially.
Hope that all makes sense.
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I was in high school when Szell stopped a concert in mid-stream because so many in the congregation were coughing -- sometime in the 1960's.
He despised organs, and long after his death the magnificent Norton Memorial Organ was restored. The Restoration of the Norton Memorial Organ
The city in which I grew up, in the middle of the US, benefitted tremendously from a flow of immigrant classical musicians during the 1940s and 1950's. Men and women who grew to great prominence.
If you like Christmas compilations and are willing to wander a bit from the classics, there was a series of albums released in the early oughts called "Maybe This Christmas", "Maybe This Christmas Too?", and "Maybe This Christmas Tree" that were all pretty good. The middle one is worth the price just for Rufus Wainwright's "Spotlight on Christmas", though I also like Guster's cover of "Donde Esta Santa Claus?".
I stay with Toscanini ...
Una rivalidad musical: Furtwangler vs. Toscanini [Un documental de Thomas von Steinaecker] - YouTube
Una rivalidad musical: Furtwangler vs. Toscanini [Un documental de Thomas von Steinaecker] - YouTube