Now playing: Jacob Handl (Gallus) & Kryštof Harant - Masses & Sacred Works - Camerata Bratislava, Jan Rozenahl - recorded 1995
Now Playing: Jan Ladislav Dussek - Piano Concertos Opp. 17, 27 & 40 - Maria Garzón, Neues Rheinisches Kammerorchester, Jan Corazolla - recorded 1993
The cover painting here looks similar to 'Boy with Flute' by Frans Hals (Dutch, c.1582-1666). Does the booklet identify the painter? Thanks!
It probably is not available in the US but I may be able to get it from Presto, which is where I got many of the Naxos Historical Recordings CD's ...
It's a painting called The Singing Boy by Hendrick ter Brugghen who was of the same generation of painters as Frans Hals.
It's on CDmusic.cs based in Prague, but not sure they deliver to the US: HARANT K. (1564-1621) MISSA QUINIS VOCIBUS SUPER DOLOROSI MARTYR, GALLUS J.H. (1550-1591) | Old Czech music |CDmusic.cz
Now playing: Hermann Goetz - Symphony Op. 9; Violin Concerto Op. 22; Overture "Der widerspenstigen Zähmung" - Gottfried Schneider, NDR RPO Hannover, Werner Andreas Albert - recorded 1990, 1991
Wow, Presto Classical processed and shipped this CD within a few hours of receiving my order, and it arrived less than a week later. (As opposed to MovieMars-CD in the US, who still hasn't even processed the order for Lucas Debage's new Faure recording I ordered three days ago....) Anyway, his playing is great, but I so wish he had used a modern piano. The 1858 Erard doesn't sound as much like a honkytonk barroom piano as much as those from Mozart's era, but it still pales in my opinion. The CD comes with a lavish hardbound booklet, which includes the score.
Finishing warhorse wednesday Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 'Pathétique" & Dvořák: Rusalka Fantasy Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck Great, exciting recording. Pittsburgh really found a great partner in RR (I'm not always a fan of theirs, their recordings of other orchestras are sometimes misses for me).
Listening to CD 1 from "Monastic Chant - 12th & 13th C. European Sacred Music" performed by Theatre Of Voices led by Paul Hillier on Harmonia Mundi.
Issued 1949. Recorded 4/18/46 (Respighi) and 11/22/47 (Prokofiev), Academy of Music, Philadelphia. Both recordings were first issued in 78-rpm albums. This blue label preceded the famous 6-eye label. Above the LP trademark is the small Columbia trademark of the "magic notes" and a microphone in linked circles.
Issued 8/75. Recorded 8/12 & 14/74, All Saints Church, Petersham, London. Producer: James Mallinson. Engineers: James Lock & John Dunkerley. This is a Dutch pressing, made after PolyGram bought Decca.
Listening to CD 1 from "William Byrd / John Bull - The Visionaries Of Piano Music" performed by Kit Armstrong on DG.
From Unlocked Recordings. Issued in Austria, 1966. I enjoyed the Pfitzner as well as the short work by Wolf.
From Unlocked Recordings. I'm not sure when this French LP was issued, but the recording was made 1/15/37, Abbey Road Studio No. 3, London and first issued on HMV 78s. Produced by Fred Gaisberg (1873-1951), one of the great pioneers of the gramophone who had recorded Caruso in early 1900s.
From Unlocked Recordings: Checkmate C-76005, 1967. Checkmate was an Elektra sub-label. This was also issued on Nonesuch (also an Elektra sub-label), where the orchestra was credited as the Stuttgart Symphony Orchestra. Gray's discography has it recorded 4/30/67 by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonie-Orchester. The Checkmate LP says it was recorded in Stuttgart, but gives the orchestra as the "South German Philharmonic Orchestra", which Discogs says was "A fictitious orchestra invented by Alfred Scholz and used as a fake orchestra credit in many of his productions". Apparently it was also a name used for pick-up orchestras for recordings. Confusing. Anyway, Scholz was a shady character who may or may not have been involved here.
Emmanuel Chabrier: Joyeuse marche España Suite pastorale Danse Slave, From Le Roi Malgré Lui Fete Polonaise, From Le Roi Malgré Lui Prélude pastoral Bourrée fantasque (Orch. Mottl) Menuet pompeux, M. A 23 (Orch. Ravel) Habanera (Orchestral Version) 3 Valses romantiques Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson
