Sibelius:
Symphonies
5 & 6, Tapiola London Symphony Orchestra, Kajanus
Finnish National Orchestra, Schnéevoigt
Classic HMV recordings from the Sibelius Society recordings
of 1932-4. "This is a recording that makes one feel
that something of the musical essence of these works has been
lost in the modern obsession with declamation and effect..."(Classic Record Collector)
Mendelssohn:
Elijah Harold Williams, Parry Jones, Clara
Serena, Isobel Baillie, Tom Purvis, BBC National Chorus &
Orchestra, Stanford Robinson
Choral CD of the Year, 2005 - Classic Record Collector
Recorded
between 25th February and 8th March, 1930 at Central Hall,
Westminster, London, this was the first ever substantially
complete recording of Elijah to be made. "Williams
is a magnificent prophet. From Elijah’s scene with Ahab,
when he challenges the priests of Baal, one knows one is in
the presence of a powerful figure..." (from CRC Review)
Bringing
together this wonderful Trio's 1942 wartime recording of the
third Beethoven Trio with two DGG LP recordings from the fifites,
a superb introduction to Trio Santoliquido. "The pianist
is a classicist to her fingertips, throwing off pearl-like
runs of notes with a consistently lovely tone, and her artistry
is fully matched by her colleagues" (Tully Potter,
Classic Record Collector)
The
Art of Fugue, arranged here for String Quartet by Roy Harris
and Mary Norton, is augmented by Tovey's conjectural piano
completion of the final Contrapunctus. "A unique historical
document, lovingly and beautifully restored..." (Musicweb
International review)
Mascagni/Leoncavallo
: "Cav
& Pag" British National Opera Company
Two
amazingly-well recorded operas from 1927, Cavalleria Rusticana
and Pagliacci are both delivered in English with
soloists of the calibre of Heddle Nash and Harold Williams
to great effect. "The clarity and immediacy of sound
reveal performances which at best give pleasure by any standards..."
(John Steane, Gramophone)
D.
Coates/Moeran : Violin
Concertos Colin Sauer - BBC Northern Orchestra
- Groves
Campoli - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Boult
Two
fabulous and ultra-rare recordings - the Coates previously
unknown, restored from the only known set of acetates of the
only performance, the Moeran a lost classic, perhaps the greatest
performance ever given of his wonderful Concerto.
"Buried
treasure indeed..." (Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone)
A
compendium of rare and excellent recordings.
"The
compelling reason to purchase the disc is the Protée
Suite [which] for sheer bacchic mayhem is unsurpassed..." (American Record Guide)
"The Five Studies was, I believe,
Paul Badura-Skoda’s first recording, so there is much
of importance in this CD. Strongly recommended..." (Musical Opinion)
"...splendidly vigorous performance
of the Second Symphonic Suite…" (CRC)
Bringing
together all the commercial recordings of Moeran's music made
during the composer's lifetime, including a collection of
ultra-rare folk-song arrangements sung by John Goss in 1925/6,
and fabulous new restorations of the great 1942 Heward/Hallé
Symphony recording and the vivid 1941 String Trio reading
by Jean Pougnet, Frederick Riddle & Anthony Pini.
Bizet : Carmen Raymonde, Thill etc., Paris SO,
Cohen
This
classic recording of the world's most popular opera, made
in and around 1928, has previously only had very limited exposure
on LP or CD. While advertised and labelled as being by the
Paris Symphony, the forces are actually those of the Opéra-Comique.
In Georges Thill, playing Don José, we have the greatest
French tenor of the century, and overall this is a memorable
performance.
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