MAHLER
Symphony No. 8
Liane Synek, soprano drammatico
Colette Herzog, soprano
Ruth Hesse, mezzosoprano
Helga Jenckel, mezzosoprano
William Blankenship, tenore
Hans Otto Kloose, baritono
Gerd Nienstedt, basso
Maîtrise de l'ORTF, Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Choeurs de l'ORTF
Georges Sébastian
November 26, 1964
First Performance in France
FLAC
BRUCKNER
Symphony no. 7
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karl Böhm
March 24, 1977
FLAC
I don't know if it's the same for you ... anyway, Böhm for me is sometimes the most boring, other times the most sensational. In particular with Mozart and Bruckner.
For example, the 4th Decca is one of my ten favorite studio symphonic recordings ever (and maybe number 1 for recording quality). At the same time, listening to his Bruckner 7&8 DG I almost fall asleep.
Let me know, if you like. :)
MOZART
Requiem KV. 626
Margareta Hallin, sopran.
Gurli Plesner, alt.
Claes-Hakan Ahnsjö, tenor.
Ulrik Cold, bass.
DR Symphony Orchestra & Concert Choir
Sergiu Celibidache
Copenhagen - Radiohusets Concert Hall, 9 novembre 1972)
A little digression.
I'm not going to stop. I hope you enjoy the news.
But I have several commitments.
Also I try not to put "anything", "something"... "thing", here. I am lazy, I am limited, idiosyncratic, but I also have flaws.
Sometimes I make a mistake in understanding what you may like, what is "rare" or not.
We're all dinosaurs here, in a way, so I trust you will understand.
I would just like to tell that you are rightly disappointed when I'm not present enough, but consider that I think and I care a lot about you and what to do here. Sometimes I try to surprise you, other times just to give you something just discovered right away.
As you well know, the pleasure of appreciating together things of which just "the last human beings" know the value is truly the only reason to go on.
All this to say that I may be absent for weeks, but always expect a new post at any moment. ;)
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Piano Concerto n.2
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, pf
Live - November 2, 1939 - World Premiere
MISCHA PORTNOFF
Piano Concerto
Nadia Reisenberg, pf
Live - February 23, 1941 - World Premiere
NYPO - John Barbirolli
FLAC
