Apr 29, 2021 | News, Recording Soundbites
Photograph of Mehta taken in late-January this year during rehearsals with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra At the end of May last year Decca issued a thirty-eight CD set devoted to Mehta’s complete Los Angeles Philharmonic recordings (and he has of course also...
Apr 2, 2021 | Recording Soundbites
Colin Davis’s Beethoven, recorded-in-London for Philips, now branded Decca, is handsomely gathered here, with either the BBC Symphony Orchestra (mostly) or the LSO. Symphonies 1-8 (plus a ‘Choral’ Ninth with Bavarian Radio forces), a selection of Overtures, the Five...
Jan 3, 2021 | Recording Soundbites
Dipping-in to this alluring collection celebrating the recently late Ida Haendel’s artistry is to find a previously unpublished recording of Vaughan Williams’s The Lark Ascending, from 1997 with the London Philharmonic and Roger Norrington, something known about for...
Dec 23, 2020 | Christmas Crackers 2020 and then for all seasons, Recording Soundbites
Having gifted us a bumper Barbirolli box, Warner now releases a slender Szell set (fourteen CDs, another Christmas/New Year present contender). Slender because the bulk of Szell’s indispensable discography is here:...
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Dec 1, 2020 | Christmas Crackers 2020 and then for all seasons, Recording Soundbites
The multitalented Danny Kaye (1911-87) steals the show with the eight-ditty sequence “Hans Christian Andersen” (recorded during August 1952 in Los Angeles), words and music by Frank Loesser for the same-name film – superior song-writing – the first number, in which...
Nov 30, 2020 | Christmas Crackers 2020 and then for all seasons, Recording Soundbites
Christmas sentiment to the fore in this 100-minute collection featuring a galaxy of celebrated talent from yesteryear (recorded between 1941 and 1949), six beautifully told tales by those detailed on the cover, add to which, whether speaking or making music, Charles...
