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| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Learsfool, the Rene Jacobs operas are excellent and they feature the Concerto Köln in cooperation with WDR 3. There is also a 'Saul' by Georg Friedrich Haedel and it's superb. The Don Giovanni is with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and it's also ... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Learsfool, I apologize but I made an error, I meant to say the Vienna State Opera Chorus. I have the Josef Krips, Don Giovanni on vinyl. It's an 8 sided London mono box set which was given to me. I just wish that I had a better mono cartridge sinc... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Brownsfan, to refresh your memory, Josef Krips studied with Felix Weingartner in Vienna and became principle conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic before he was exiled out of Austria. I'm guessing that may have been around 1948 when that Krips Schu... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Lowrider, Brownsfan, I dare make mention of Josef Krips. Though not in anyway a household name such as von Karajan, a very intelligent and musical conductor. Of course it would be impossible to name everyone but he made some outstanding recordings... | |
| Jazz for aficionados I don't know if this one is jazz but 'The Complete Bessie Smith Recordings' The 'Louis Armstrong plays W.C. Handy' RemasterThe Japanese remaster of 'Introducing Lee Morgan'Dave Douglas 'Soul on Soul'Hugh Ragin 'An Afternoon In Harlem'Paul Bley 'No... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Learsfool, I've often seen the CSO, especially when Paavo Jarvi was director. I studied a bit of set design at CCM so I gravitate towards the theatre in that way. Also, my late Aunt Marcia Lewis did Broadway shows in NYC from the early 1960's unti... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Thanks Learsfool, you have a more expansive knowledge about music history then I do, though I do have a liberal arts education in music. I hear a lot of music in Cincinnati (for it being a small city) and seeing that my grandparents were affiliate... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Learsfoot, you are right on the mark here and I wouldn't try refuting anything which you've just said. Keep in mind as well while concerning performance practice that Vienna was the mecca for music because composers, conductors, musicians, etc....... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD I tend to believe that tempo markings are primarily dependent upon the overall aesthetic of the work. Back in the day of course, conductors had to speed up tempos in order to fit works onto a recording. This was a serious handicap with cylinders a... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Learsfool, I'm not sure that I agree with anything that you've said (ha, ha) all the same. Andante put out a nice Brahms set which contains Toscanini 1941, Walter 1936, Stokowski 1936, Mengelberg 1932, Monteux 1945, Sabata 1939, Furtwängler 1945,... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Brownsfan, A priority reason that I'm thinking of the Japanese re-masters is to to test my stereo. I don't own a SACD player but that's OK.Ashkenazy: Strauss Ein AlpenSinfonie on Ondine has been on my list for a while. He is certainly a very capab... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Loydelee21, I had that Harnoncourt cycle with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe and thought the 9th to be the best of them. Yes, Orfeo, Audite, and more rarely mentioned Andante which was one of my favorites before they stopped production, too bad. ... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Can anyone recommend one of the Japanese re-masters or validate its quality based on price comparison? Speaking of von Karajan, I've been cogitating over the Sibelius 2nd and Finlandia but for $80.00?http://store.acousticsounds.com/d/80474/Herbert... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD I'll just throw this out there; Immortal Performances RCA Victrola (re-pressings of the red seal deluxe edition) Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra Brahms: The Four Symphonies and "Haydn" Variations, Tragic Overture, Academic Festival Overtu... | |
| Beethoven Symphonies - best perf + sonics on CD Lowrider, complete with a descriptive review of the entire set;http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=102270 |