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André Previn’s LSO Shostakovich Eight for EMI/HMV.

Dec 19, 2024 | Vinyl, YouTube Collections - for when the sagging shelves can't take any more and titles are becoming trickier to find! [category w.e.f. August 1, 2024]

My first recording of… Shostakovich Five. USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Maxim Shostakovich (son).

Dec 12, 2024 | Anderson's Archive, Videos, Vinyl

I had the HMV UK release, ASD 2668, 3/1971, illustrated. Made a big impression. Taken here from a Melodiya...

Sad news – viola-player Donald McInnes has died (age not found). His recording (released 1978) of William Schuman’s Concerto on Old English Rounds, with New York Philharmonic and Leonard Bernstein.

Oct 26, 2024 | News, Videos, Vinyl

McInnes also recorded Berlioz’s Harold in Italy with Bernstein...

Rachmaninov/Rubbra: Prelude in G-minor (Opus 23/5). Recorded 1959 for Mercury. Plus…

Oct 17, 2024 | Guest Contributors, Videos, Vinyl

Edmund Rubbra (1901-86) With thanks to Edward Johnson for much of what follows… Rubbra’s Fifth Symphony (tracks 2-5). Postscript: Stokowski conducted this work in 1952 with BBCSO. The Rachmaninov Prelude in question… Many Happy Returns to Evgeny...

November 1: ECM New Series Releases Danish String Quartet’s Keel Road on Vinyl.

Oct 4, 2024 | News, Vinyl

Keel Road is the latest chapter in the Danish String Quartet’s reckoning with music from – or inspired by – northern folk and traditional sources, rounding off a decade of sustained engagement with the genre. Wood Works, issued in 2014 on the Danish Dacapo...

Many Happy Returns to Mr. Jimmy Carter – the 39th President of the United States (1977-81) – 100 today. Stan Kenton’s ‘The Peanut Vendor’. Salt Peanuts.

Oct 1, 2024 | News, Videos, Vinyl

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