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Bob Harper

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Mar 13, 2012, 7:16:48 PM3/13/12
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Further to this now historical thread, how about a
DG box containing all of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's recordings of
Haydn Symphonies? From what I find on Amazon, there were a total of 14
symphonies on 6 discs. Since several of the discs were fairly short
measure, I suspect that they would all fit on 5 discs. A worthy reissue,
IMO.

Bob Harper

Randy Lane

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Mar 13, 2012, 7:20:56 PM3/13/12
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Better idea : all of the DG Orpheus Chamber Orchestra recordings,
maybe in 2-3 boxes.

Bob Harper

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Mar 13, 2012, 7:26:34 PM3/13/12
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I wouldn't argue :) And I see that my post, which I had thought did not
go, did, so forgive the coming repetition.

Bob Harper

Russ (not Martha)

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Mar 13, 2012, 10:16:38 PM3/13/12
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Even better idea - they should record more stuff - especially Haydn.

Russ (not Martha)

T. Esteban Ayala

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Mar 14, 2012, 1:10:57 AM3/14/12
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On Mar 13, 4:16 pm, Bob Harper <bob.har...@comcast.net> wrote:
Some things I'd like to see reissued in my lifetime.

- The old Melodiya recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 with
Maxim Shostakovich conducting. Why isn't this out yet? Did Melodiya
destroy the master tape when Maxim defected?

- A good remastering of Mitropoulos' CBS recording of Shostakovich's
10th. The old CD remastering was dreadful.

- All of Robert Craft's Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.

- Sylvia Kersenbaum's lovely recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto
No. 2 with Martinon. Maybe the finest recording ever of that piece.
Best of all it uses the original version.

- Charles Munch's recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

- Gieseking's recordings of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words and
Grieg's Lyric Pieces.

- Scherchen's Bach. (Especially the St. Matthew Passion.)

- Anything recorded by Toscha Seidel!

- Anything recorded by Hans Weisbach!

- As much Rodzinski as possible!

John Thomas

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Mar 14, 2012, 1:18:33 AM3/14/12
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On Mar 13, 10:10 pm, "T. Esteban Ayala" <testebanay...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>Some things I'd like to see reissued in my lifetime.
>

> - All of Robert Craft's Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.

> - Scherchen's Bach. (Especially the St. Matthew Passion.)
>
Me too.

Bob Harper

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Mar 14, 2012, 1:27:55 AM3/14/12
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On 3/13/12 10:10 PM, T. Esteban Ayala wrote:
> On Mar 13, 4:16 pm, Bob Harper<bob.har...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Further to this now historical thread, how about a
>> DG box containing all of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's recordings of
>> Haydn Symphonies? From what I find on Amazon, there were a total of 14
>> symphonies on 6 discs. Since several of the discs were fairly short
>> measure, I suspect that they would all fit on 5 discs. A worthy reissue,
>> IMO.
>>
>> Bob Harper
>
> Some things I'd like to see reissued in my lifetime.
>
> - The old Melodiya recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 with
> Maxim Shostakovich conducting. Why isn't this out yet? Did Melodiya
> destroy the master tape when Maxim defected?

>
> - A good remastering of Mitropoulos' CBS recording of Shostakovich's
> 10th. The old CD remastering was dreadful.

Ditto for the Szell Walton 2nd The Masterworks Portrait edition is poor.

Bob Harper

Oscar

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Mar 14, 2012, 5:05:24 AM3/14/12
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On Mar 13, 10:10 pm, T. Esteban Ayala wrote:
>
> Some things I'd like to see reissued in my lifetime.
>
> Scherchen's Bach. (Especially the St. Matthew Passion.)

Tahra reissued Scherchen's 1953 SMP in 2010, probably in as good sound
as your going to get, too (remastered by Charles Eddi). http://tiny.cc/7rk5aw

wagnerfan

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Mar 14, 2012, 6:20:10 AM3/14/12
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The wonderful Scherchen Matthew Passion as been reissued a couple
times on CD. Wagner fan

Johannes Roehl

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Mar 14, 2012, 7:16:28 AM3/14/12
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The Scherchen SMP (maybe the most dramatic I have heard, despite some
curious tempi, i.e. the slowest final chorus I have encountered) is
available from Tahra. Older issues (MCA, Millenium) might be found 2nd hand.

Dave Cook

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Mar 14, 2012, 9:32:08 AM3/14/12
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On 2012-03-14, T. Esteban Ayala <testeb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> - The old Melodiya recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 with
> Maxim Shostakovich conducting. Why isn't this out yet? Did Melodiya
> destroy the master tape when Maxim defected?

His 5th came out on Melodiya/BMG. I have the 15th on a Melodiya/Angel
Lp, and it is really fantastic.

> - A good remastering of Mitropoulos' CBS recording of Shostakovich's
> 10th. The old CD remastering was dreadful.

Megadittoes.

> - Sylvia Kersenbaum's lovely recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto
> No. 2 with Martinon. Maybe the finest recording ever of that piece.
> Best of all it uses the original version.

This was a quad recording, so it could be done as a multi-channel
SACD. Stereo playback of the quad LP sounds a bit phasey.

Dave Cook

Frank Berger

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Mar 14, 2012, 10:23:00 AM3/14/12
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- A good remastering of Mitropoulos' CBS recording of Shostakovich's
10th. The old CD remastering was dreadful.

Is this the "old CD remastering?"

http://www.amazon.com/Shostakovich-Symphonies-Nos-10-9/dp/B00133ZK2G

Matthew B. Tepper

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Mar 14, 2012, 10:54:36 AM3/14/12
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> Some things I'd like to see reissued in my lifetime.
>
> - The old Melodiya recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 with
> Maxim Shostakovich conducting. Why isn't this out yet? Did Melodiya
> destroy the master tape when Maxim defected?

Yes, plus Barshai's *original* recording of the 14th. I have a silly
theory that these items are always next on the reissue agenda of each
iteration of Melodiya before it gets sued out of existence by its rival
claimants....

> - A good remastering of Mitropoulos' CBS recording of Shostakovich's
> 10th. The old CD remastering was dreadful.
>
> - All of Robert Craft's Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.

Indeed, yes -- so far, most of what we've gotten has been Gould, Gould, and
Gould, with a few other items along for the ride in the Original Jackets
series, plus the Brahms-Schoenberg Piano Quartet, thanks to the brief reign
of Gilbert Hetherwick in the post-Gelbian glow. I'd really like to have
every last thing from the series available on CD. In particular, I miss
those little choral canons.

> - Sylvia Kersenbaum's lovely recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto
> No. 2 with Martinon. Maybe the finest recording ever of that piece.
> Best of all it uses the original version.

I could almost swear this was in a 2CD set of all the concerti on a French
EMI issue that I once saw at the Virgin Megastore in Burbank (which dates
it quite a bit).

> - Charles Munch's recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

These haven't been issued in Japan yet!?

> - Gieseking's recordings of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words and
> Grieg's Lyric Pieces.
>
> - Scherchen's Bach. (Especially the St. Matthew Passion.)
>
> - Anything recorded by Toscha Seidel!
>
> - Anything recorded by Hans Weisbach!
>
> - As much Rodzinski as possible!

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Matthew B. Tepper

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Mar 14, 2012, 10:54:37 AM3/14/12
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Yes.

Russ (not Martha)

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Mar 14, 2012, 11:19:13 AM3/14/12
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On Mar 14, 12:10 am, "T. Esteban Ayala" <testebanay...@gmail.com>
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> - Charles Munch's recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
>

Available from Arkivmusic. Notes in Japanese only.

Russ (not Martha) .

Norman Schwartz

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Mar 14, 2012, 11:56:21 AM3/14/12
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T. Esteban Ayala wrote:
> On Mar 13, 4:16 pm, Bob Harper <bob.har...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Further to this now historical thread, how about a
>> DG box containing all of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra's recordings
>> of Haydn Symphonies? From what I find on Amazon, there were a total
>> of 14 symphonies on 6 discs. Since several of the discs were fairly
>> short measure, I suspect that they would all fit on 5 discs. A
>> worthy reissue, IMO.
>>
>> Bob Harper
>
> Some things I'd like to see reissued in my lifetime.
>
> - The old Melodiya recording of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 15 with
> Maxim Shostakovich conducting. Why isn't this out yet? Did Melodiya
> destroy the master tape when Maxim defected?
>
> - A good remastering of Mitropoulos' CBS recording of Shostakovich's
> 10th. The old CD remastering was dreadful.
>
> - All of Robert Craft's Schoenberg, Berg, and Webern.
>
> - Sylvia Kersenbaum's lovely recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto
> No. 2 with Martinon. Maybe the finest recording ever of that piece.
> Best of all it uses the original version.
>
> - Charles Munch's recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
>
Available here:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/search3.html?q=munch+bach&media=cd&r=any&step=20&order=score

Stan Punzel

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Mar 14, 2012, 11:57:46 AM3/14/12
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>
> - Charles Munch's recording of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.
>

Available from Japan

Stan Punzel

Matthew B. Tepper

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Mar 14, 2012, 3:40:51 PM3/14/12
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> - Sylvia Kersenbaum's lovely recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto
> No. 2 with Martinon. Maybe the finest recording ever of that piece.
> Best of all it uses the original version.

Ah-kha, as a Russian might say. Here you go:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000024E0A

I used to have the Connoisseur Society LP, but I never got around to
replacing it with the CD reissue.

wade

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Mar 14, 2012, 4:02:04 PM3/14/12
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On Mar 14, 12:40 pm, "Matthew B. Tepper" <oyþ@earthlink.net> wrote:
> "T. Esteban Ayala" <testebanay...@gmail.com> appears to have caused the
But what we really want are 4-channel SACDs of the EMI Quad
recordings. Too bad Pentatone cant get into the act since EMI doesnt
seem to want to do it.
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