Anderson's Archive Archives

From the Anderson Archive – No.12 – Efrem Kurtz records the First Symphonies of Prokofiev & Shostakovich with the Philharmonia Orchestra for HMV.

Aug 22, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

My first recordings of these debut Symphonies was courtesy of a Classics for Pleasure LP (CFP 40004), a reissue of HMV ASD 263 (cover illustrated). I thought back then – whenever ‘then’ was and however instinctive my reactions might have been – that these...

From the Anderson Archive – No.11 – Annie Fischer.

Aug 21, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

I don’t think I ever had any Annie Fischer LPs. Nor did I hear her live, although I had the opportunity to do so, Beethoven PC3 with Solti and the LPO (he conducting Elgar 2). I was introduced to her greatness by a BBC Legends release that included a terrific studio...

From the Anderson Archive – No.10 – Sir Adrian Boult records music by Sir Hubert Parry with the LSO for Lyrita.

Aug 19, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

Cover of Lyrita LP SRCS.48, released February 1971 The music of Sir Hubert (1848-1918) and Sir Adrian’s conducting of it were calling me – so look no further than a Lyrita compact disc, SRCD.220. Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy is a powerful piece, Symphonic...

From the Anderson Archive – No.9 – Ida Haendel records Elgar’s Violin Concerto with Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic for EMI/HMV.

Aug 8, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

I needed a corrective to two recent Elgar Violin Concertos that I experienced – the inconsistent (shall we say) approach from Nicola Benedetti (and Vladimir Jurowski) for Decca, and the shambolic Proms account (given during the 2008 season) from Nigel Kennedy, often...

From the Anderson Archive – No.8 – Leopold Ludwig records Mahler’s Fourth Symphony in Dresden for Eterna.

Aug 2, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

I have not heard this recording in years, yet it’s rather good, as re-visited in a faithful transfer on a Berlin Classics compact disc (BC 2119-2). As captured by Eterna in January 1957 in the Kreuzkirche, Leopold Ludwig (1908-79) leads a cohesive and unexaggerated –...

From the Anderson Archive – No.7 – Hollywood String Quartet & friends record Schoenberg & Schubert for Capitol.

Aug 1, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

Stimulated by knowing that the celebrated Hollywood String Quartet’s complete recordings (though not the one with Frank Sinatra) have just been issued as a box in Japan I returned to Testament’s 1990s’ CD coverage of these tapings, and opted for SBT 1031, which acted...