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From the Anderson Archive – No.5 – Leonard Bernstein records Elliott Carter’s Concerto for Orchestra with the New York Philharmonic for CBS.

Jul 20, 2020 | Anderson's Archive, Videos

In a Comment left on Archive posting No.4 (Ansermet) I signposted that I would look for something featuring Leonard Bernstein for the next instalment. Given the many choices, Elliott Carter’s Concerto for Orchestra (1969) is perhaps not obvious, but, put simply, it’s...

From the Anderson Archive – No.4 – Ernest Ansermet records Haydn’s Paris Symphonies with the Suisse Romande Orchestra for Decca.

Jul 19, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

During the 1970s, when I was growing up, not least musically, I was very fortunate to be introduced to much of the repertoire from Ernest Ansermet’s recordings. Not that he was the draw – I hadn’t a clue who he was – it was more the inexpensive price (99p) attached to...

From the Anderson Archive – No.3 – Danny Kaye & Victor Young record Tubby the Tuba for Decca.

Jul 19, 2020 | Anderson's Archive, Videos

Suddenly I had a yen for Tubby the Tuba. Straight on to YouTube. Wonderful to hear this mini masterpiece again – words by Paul Tripp, music by George Kleinsinger – recorded incomparably in 1947 for Decca by Danny Kaye with Victor Young conducting his Concert...

From the Anderson Archive – No.2 – Sir Adrian Boult records Vaughan Williams’s Job with the LSO for HMV.

Jul 18, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

Recorded in August 1970, this is Sir Adrian’s fourth and final studio recording (there’s an ICA DVD of him conducting it at a concert) of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s Job: A Masque for Dancing (first-performed in 1931), one of the composer’s greatest works, which he...

From the Anderson Archive – No.1 – John Lill records Brahms’s First Piano Concerto with the Hallé conducted by James Loughran.

Jul 13, 2020 | Anderson's Archive

This is the beginning of an irregular and serendipitous series, although it may be said to have been initiated on July 11 with my John McCabe posting. I hope I remain as keen as ever to explore music that is unfamiliar to me, but I am certainly going through a...

John McCabe.

Jul 11, 2020 | Anderson's Archive, Ramblings

I fancied listening to some of the late John McCabe’s music, so I chose EMI CDM 5671202 (which if still available is now on Warner Classics), a CD compilation of superb pieces in recordings from the mid-seventies: The Chagall Windows, Hallé/James Loughran (also on the...