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UPLOAD! Frank Forman's Recordings 2016.10
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Frank Forman
Oct 1, 2016, 4:59:26 AM10/1/16
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This month I have added the contents of 18 more cassettes and have typed
in more fully the contents of ten Thibaud tapes, consoldiated in 1988.
STATISTICS (as of 2016 July 4): 3,893 files and 55,224 downloads.
STATISTICS (as of 2016 September 1): 3,851 files and 59,587 downloads.
That is, there have been 4,363 downloads between July 4 and September 1.
Exactly why there are 42 fewer files, I do not know.
STASTIICS (as of 2016 September 30): 3,866 files and 61,841 downloads, or
2,254 in the last month.
CONTENTS OF FESHLY ADDED TAPES AND EXPANSION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE
THIBAUD TAPES
[I FINISH WITH MY STANDARD MESSAGE.]
C0601-0610
THIBAUD: I put my entire collection of his recordings I had at the time
(1988) these ten cassette tapes.
JACQUES THIBAUD (1880-1953) on C0601-C0610
In 1988, I consolidated my recordings of Thibaud onto ten cassettes. Since
then, some alternate takes have emerged, another recording of Lalo's
Spanish Symphony, the sole electrical 78 that I did not have at that time
(Grandos: Spanish Dance 5 (3/3) Tasso Janopoulo, p.), and (most
importantly) two Japanese CDs of most of his earliest recordings for
Pathé and Fonotipia. I have purchased everything I know about.
Get the Thibaud part of both editions of James [Leslie] Creighton,
Discopaedia of the Violin, 1889-1971 (Toronto: Unviersity of Toronto
Press, 1974, second edition, Burlington, Ontario: Records Past Publishing,
1994
http://www.filefactory.com/file/1v26x7r667mx/Thibaud--CR1%262.pdf
I did not furnish data, regarding assisting musicians, takes, dates, and
so on, in most instances. Maybe someone else will undertake the effort!
BOX = The Art of Jacques Thibaud, Toshiba-EMI EAC 77443-5 (3)
Purchased from Tower Records during their DC store opening sale, 1984
Christmas about 9:30 am, for $29.
Toshiba GR series: GR is "Great Recordings", patterned after #[American]
Angel COLH series "Great Recordings of the Century."
Please consult http://classite.com/music/Thibaud/discography-thibaud.htm
@ means acoustic recording.
x/y means the xth out of y recordings of the work by Thibaud.
1A
Albeniz: Tango <-Box
Albeniz: Malaguena <-Box
Bach: BBC 5. (Cortot, p., R. Cortet, flute) #Toshiba GR 2211
Bach: Con. 2@. #Rococo (Japanese private label) OZ 7513
1B
Bach: Gavotte 1/2@. #Pearl GEM 103
Bach: Gavotte 2/2 <-Box
Bach: Preludio <-Box
Bach: Air 2/2 <-Box
Beethoven: Con. (Thibaud, CONDUCTOR, Orchestra de la Société des
Concerts du Conservatoire [Paris Cons.], Henryk Szeryng, v. #Monitor MCS
2083 (fake stereo). So we have Thibaud, Casals, and Cortot as conductor.
Vivaldi: Largo <-Box [out of order]
2A: 2,3
Beethoven: Romance 2. <-Box
Beethoven: Sonata 9 (Cortot). #Toshiba GR 2051
2B: 2,3
Beethoven: Trio 7 (Cortot, Casals)
3A: 3-4
Beethoven: Kakadu (Cortot, Casals). #Seraphim 60242 (not issued on 78s)
3B
Brahms: Concerto (Jean Fournet, Orchestre des Concerts Pasdeloup.
1953.1.18 LIVE #Philips (Japan) 27PC-87
4A
Brahms: Double Concerto (Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot, CONDUCTOR, Barcelona
SO). #EMI RLS 723
Brahms: Waltz 15 <-Box
4B
Chausson: Con. (Cortot and string quartet) #Toshiba GR 2133
5A
Chausson: Poem (Bigot, Lamoureux Orch.) #Turnabout TV 4257
Debussy: Golliwog <-Box
Debussy: Flazen Hair <-Box
Debussy: Ministrels <-Box
Debussy: Sonata (Cortot). #Toshiba GR 2216
Desplanes: Intrada 1/2@. #Rococo (Japanese private label) OZ 7513
Desplanes: Intrada 2/2. <-Box
5B
Eccles: Son. in g <-Box
Falla: Jota <-Box
Falla: Spanish Dance <-Box
Faure: Berceuse (Cortot) 2/2 #Toshiba GR 2133
Faure: Dolly Berceuse <-Box
Faure: PQ2 (Long, Vieux, Fournier) #2EMI C061-12815
6A :4
Faure: Son. 1 (Cortot) #Angel COLH 74
Franck: Son. (Cortot) 1/2@ G.DB 785/8
6B: 3/4
Franck: Son. (Cortot) 2/2 #Angel COLH 74
Granados: Original Dance <-Box
Granados: Spanish Dance 5 <-Box
7A
Granados: Spanish Dance 6 <-Box
Haydn: Trio 25 in G (Cortot, Casals). #Opal 815
Lalo: Sym Esp (w/o Intermezzo), Stokowsi, NYPSO. 1947.1.2 Live. #Recital
Records IGI 339
7B: 4
Leclair: Tamborin <-Box
Marsick: Scherzando <-Box
Mendelssohn: Trio 1 (Cortot, Casals) #EMI RLS 723
8A
Mozart: Con. 3 (Paray, Lamoureux Orch.) #Turnabout TV 4257
Mozart: Con. 5 (Munch, orch.) #Toshiba GR 2159
8B: 4
Mozart: Con. 6 (spurious) (Sargent, orch.) #Rococo (Japanese private
label) OZ 7513. NOTE: Alfred Dubois also recorded this spurious work.)
Mozart: Haffner Rondo. #Toshiba GR 2216
9A
Mozart: Son. 26. #Toshiba GR 2131
Mozart: Son. 34. #Toshiba GR 2131
Paradies: Siciliano <-Box
Poldini: Poupée valsante <-Box
Ravel: Pièce en forme d'Habanera <-Box
9B
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun 2/2 <-Box
Saint-Seans: Prelude 2/2 <-Box
Saint-Seans: Havanise 2/2 [2 ss.] <-Boxx
Schubert: Rondo <-Box
Schubert: Sonatine 3 #Toshiba GR 2216
10A
Schubert: Trio 1 (Cortot, Casals) #Opal 815
Schuman: Trio 1 (Cortot, Casals) #EMI RLS 723
10B: 3-4
Szymanowski: La Fontaine d'Aréthuse <-Box
Veracini: Jig <-Box
Vercini: Minuet and Gavotte <-Box
Vieuxtemps: Serenade 1/2@ #Pearl GEM 102
Vitali: Chaconne in g <-Box
[Vivaldi: Largo <-Box was squeezed onto the end of 1A.]
C0612 SCHERCHEN LIVE
J.C. BACH: Sym. in d, Hessian RSO 1958
BEETHOVEN: Wellington's Victory rehersal, Stuttgart RS0, 1962.9.7
SIDE B
SCHOENBERG: Var. for Orch., Op. 31. ORTF 1964.6.20 Paris <-
¢Stradivarious STR 13592
ditto. MITROPOLOUS, BPO live Salzburg 1960.8.21
C0623-0634 ABRENDROTH JAPANESE ETERNAS
C0623a Abendroth BRUCKNER 5m1,2 49-6-27
C0623b Abendroth BRUCKNER 5m3,4 & EgO, BRSO
C0624a Abendroth BRAHMS 1 49-10-20
C0624b Abendroth BRAHMS 4 54-12-8
C0625a Abendroth BEETHOVEN 4 49-12-4 MOZART Ser 8 BRSO 56-4-12
C0625b Abendroth HAYDN Var 49-12-29 SCHUMANN CC Tortelier 55-9-3
C0626a Abendroth TCHAIKOVSKY 6m1-3 51-1-28
C0626b Abendroth TCHAIKOVSKY 6m4 SCHUMANN PC Wührer BRSO 56-3-13
C0627a Abendroth BRUCKNER 4m1-3 47-11-16
C0627b Abendroth BRUCKNER 4m4 MOZART 38 BRSO 53-2-16
C0628a Abendroth HANDEL Con17m2,4 Cologne CO SCHUBERT 9m1-3 50-1-11
C0628b Abendroth SCHUBERT 9m4, WAGNER Dutchman BPO BRUCKNER 9m1 51-10-29
C0629a Abendroth BRUCKNER 9m2,3 MOZART 35m1-3 BSO 56-9-16
C0629b Abendroth MOZART 35m4 BACH OS3 49-9-28 HANDEL Con27 BRSO 55-9-15
C0630a Abendroth BEETHOVEN 9m1-3
C0630b Arendorth BEETHOVEN 9m4 MOZART 33 56-1-9
C0631a Abendroth STRAUSS Mr. Q 55-1-22
C0631b Abendroth TCHAIKOVSKY 4 51-2-13
C0632a Abendroth SCHUMANN 4, SCHUBERT 8m1
C0632b Abendroth SCHUBERT 8m2 BRAHMS 3 52-3-17
C0633a Abendroth BEETHOVEN Sym 6 (old no. 5) 50-6-18
C0633b Abendroth MOZART 41 & Div 7 56-3-26
C0634a Abendroth DVORAK CC Hölscher 56-3-28
C0634b Abendroth HAYDN 88 LRSO'56 HAYDN 97 BRSO'56
C0635a (only) SCHERCHEN SCHUBERT #Supraphon SUB 10001
C0637
BEETHOVEN 9, Walter Goehr, Chorus of the Caeclienverein, Frankfurt,
Frankfurt RSO&Ch
Agnes Giebel, Grace Hoffman, HELMUT KREBS, Fritz Ollendorff, bass. Concert
Hall Record Club AM 2245 (mono) 1962.
A so-so performance, and the great KREBS sings only briefly. For KREBS
compleatists.
WEBER 2, J. 51. Victor Desarzens, The Lausanne CO. $WGS 8279 [<-MS 813].
Just a cassette filler.
C0643 from Allen Mackler
TURINA: Narrative of the Bullfighter, GORDON SQ
(Gordon-Scakson-Robyn-Benditzski). C.68505 W633
TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile. LENER SQ (Lener-Smilovitz-Roth-Hartman)
new version. W615 [CAX 7478-1/749-3] C.J 8444
VIVALDI op. 3n5 PRO ARTE Q (onnou-Halleuz-Prevost-Maas). V.8827 W663
VIVALDI-OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Son. in D, F12:6, ERICA MORINI, MAX LANNER.
V.11-8671. W665
VIVALDI-CRUSSARD: Son in c. Unidentified by Creighton and WERM. ARS
REDIVIVA = DOMINIQUE BLOT, v.; CLAUDE CRUSSARD, p. V.13484
SIDE B
WAGNER: The Dusk of the Gods: Funeral March [2-20690/1]. MAX SCHILLINGS,
SO. Odeon 5150
WAGNER: Good Friday Spell, SIEGFRIED WAGNER, BSOO [2-2011/3] Odeon 5122/3a
WAGNER: Dance of the Apprentices, EDUARD MÖRIKE, BSOO [2-8992]. Odeon
5122b
SAINT-SEANS: Dance Macabre, EDUARD MÖRIKE, BSOO [2-2-138/40]. Odeon
5134/5a
SAINT-SAENS: Allegro Appassionata, op. 43. FEUREMAN and pf. [2-220218]
Odeon.5133b
C0673
DOHNÁNYI: 4 Rhaposdis, Op. 11, DOHNÁNYI pf., #Remington.RLP-199-43
SZIGETI: IVES: Son. 4. CARLO BUSSOTI, p. USC 1957.1.12 LIVE, with
Introduction by SZIGETI
Introduction to Ravel
SIDE B
SZIGETI: RAVEL: Son. 1957.1.13 LIVE
SZIGETI: VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Sonata in a, Seattle 1955
ONLY RECORDING OF THE WORK BY SZIGETI THAT I KNOW ABOUT!
C0674B Stereo LIVE
KEMPFF: Recital, Helsinki 1978.9.3
BACH: English Suite 3
BEETHOVEN: Son. 32
C0676 from David Bloesch
CORTOT: BACH BBC 4, Ecole Normale ChO. V.7913/6
CHOPIN: Polonaise 7. 2EA 12435/6 UNISSUED 1947.10.15
CHOPIN: Prelude and Etudes (3 new). 2EA142416/8 1947.10.10
SCHNABEL ROLLS from Dr. Jürgen Hocker's amateur recordings, IN STEREO.
Welte-Mignon 385. SCHUBERT: Valses nobles, Op. 77, D. 969., punched 1905.5
[Bloesch 142]
Hupfeld 50019: BEETHOVEN: Minuet in Eb, K. 82, Grove 165, punched after
1905 (I think Hupfeld folded in 1910 [Bloesch App. 20a]
The same from V.DM 806
[NOTE C1582+ contains a much larger collection of Schnabel ROLLS
SIDE B
Hupfeld 50663: Schubert: Impromptu 7, punched after 1905 (I think Hupfeld
folded in 1910.) [Bloesch App. 30a]
Hupfeld 50478: Weber: Invitation, punched after 1905 (I think Hupfeld
folded in 1910.) [Bloesch 168]
Voice of Jürgen Hocker
Ampico 62721, 62733, 62741: Bach: Italian Concerto, punched 1922.
C0678 MAHLER FIRST RECORDINGS
Seven Last Songs 4 = Rückert 2,"Ich amet' eines Linden Duff in D, or I
breathed the breath of blossons end. CHARLES KULLMAN, t., Sargent, orch.
C.M 381, s. 7 ("Columbia History of Music in Sound, Vol. 5"), rec
1938.6.20 = G.DB 1303 [CA 17004]
[followed by irrelevant recordings]
STANDARD MONTHLY MESSAGE
This is a monthly reminder for those who know about my uploading efforts,
as well as those who are finding out about this for the first time.
Unless something unexpected comes up, I am done my job. Lots of work, and
I am grateful for the some 55,505 downloads to date. I know of no effort
of making these great old recordings of classical music that it anywhere
comparable to mine. IS THIS TRUE?? It is my gift to the world.
European copyright law has placed all recordings made up through 1963,
irregardless of whether it was "fixed in sound" for LP or CD after that
date. Since the server is located in Holland, I am not in violation of
American copyright laws, which are a tangle of confusion.
Below is a repeat of what I have uploaded to date. Visit the first folder
first. It will contain instructions about what's what. Basically, there
are:
1. Cassettes of the Columbia and Victor M-sets that Bill Lampe collected
over a long time. (The cassettes that come from Bill are prefixed with an
L. Those from me are prefixed with an F.)
2. Miscellaneous cassettes from many collectors, prefixed with a C.
3. Cassette compilations by artists (prefixed with a C)
4. LP conversions
5. Compact Discs
INDEXES TO THE RECORDINGS
http://www.filefactory.com/f/b0ef5dfa848181b9
There are instructions among these indexes to help you search for
recordings by artists you love.
THE FILE FACTORY FOLDERS
Abendroth_ Hermann (3.8GiB) Hermann Abendroth, 1883-1956, German conductor
http://www.filefactory.com/f/f835edf60620e15d
When I first listened to him, at the behest of the late Allen Mackler, who
said the best Fourth was Abendroth's, I felt that I was intruding upon
something so very German that I was invading the Germans' privacy. As
Furtwängler is the German conductor for the world, Abendroth is the
German conductor for Germans. The great secret of Abendroth's method, I
think, is his selectively holding a lot for a fraction of a second too
long, which he does with great meaning.
Acoustic Organ Discs (all, 91KiB)
http://www.filefactory.com/f/c31becd379064e43
It might come as a surprise that there were any acoustic organ records at
all, since the acoustical process could hardly record low frequency organ
notes. But here is a sample of them. Neither is the music or the organist
outstanding, but the first truly outstanding organist was Helmut Walcha,
whose earliest recordings appeared on late 78s, though in the same
performances afaik as those on early monophonic LPs.
Barylli Quartet with piano LPs
http://www.filefactory.com/f/6f65fe64c37fab38
Their discs are prized collectors' items, but I an enthusiastic only about
those compositions that include a piano. Here are all of them.
Biddulph CDs
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/738654e91939ac03
Beethoven Loewenguth
Active 1930s-1970s Loewenguth Quartet of Paris.
Contains Middle and Late Quartets
http://www.filefactory.com/f/9b903ded71b95f76
THIS IS THE VERY HEIGHT OF MY ENTIRE COLLECTION. Excellent performances,
with just the right amount of gruffness. Exceptionally wide stereo spread
that sits you in the middle of the quartet, allowing you to fully savor
Beethoven's genius in bouncing melodies from instrument to instrument.
Brain D_and_A (0.54GiB)
Brain Dennis and Aubrey horns LPs
Dennis Brain, 1921-1957 in a car accident (English)
Aubrey Brain, his father (English), 1893-1955
http://www.filefactory.com/f/b8bfa4f62f200522
Casals LPs
Pablo Casals, 1876-1973, cello and conductor (Spanish, or more properly
Catalan)
http://www.filefactory.com/f/ca1d603a9080d624
All the Columbia LPs, plus some on other labels, up through 1963 that is.
Too bad I can't include the stereo Brandenburgs, whose big, robust
old-fashioned playing is my vary favorite. Nor can I include my favorite
rehearsal disc, of the same.
Tom Clear said in notes to his cello album that information about Casals
is available at your "nearest drugstore." That was then, for today, just
grab the Wikipedia article.
Coates_Albert (conductor)
Albert Coates, Anglo-Russian conductor, 1882 1953
http://www.filefactory.com/f/284789ef06528a32
A great extrovert among conductors. No one has most robustly recorded the
Russians or Wagner.
Coppola_Piero (conductor) (1.3GiB)
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/36b3625355d1092f
Italian conductor, 1888-1971, moved to France but was not given a major
conducting post, as he refused to give up his Italian citizenship.
Instead, he placed his energies in the recording studio, often with
orchestras that gave no public concerts and with names like "orchestre
gramophon du disque" (something like that), as well as orchestras that
appeared in public with other conductors, such as France's first
orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. (I may
have gotten my facts wrong.) We today are grateful for Coppola being
confined to the recording studio, as he made many first recordings. How
often it is that the first recording is the best! Making a first recording
is a most serious business and extra care is taken. Coppola has as good an
idiomatic understanding of French music as native conductors. His Bolero
is better than Mengelberg's and (no big surprise) Ravel's own. (I love
French chamber music, but the rest does not appeal to me. It is Coppola, I
feel, that makes the best case for French orchestra music. His recording
of S-S's Organ Symphony is so absolutely right that you know within thirty
seconds that all other recordings should be hauled away with the
garbarage. (It is worth all the frustrations of record collecting to find
such transcendental recordings of transcendental music. I should make my
own list.) So what if the organ in the organ symphony does not capture the
bass notes as well as later ones! There was no acoustic recording of the
Organ Symphony, but if Coppola had made his recording with the acoustic
method, it would still be the best. Among the highest lights of my
collection is Coppola's acoustic recording of the Franck symphony. (It was
either the first or second recording of the work, depending on whether to
consider the date the recording began or finished. The other one was Henry
Wood's, of no great merit, for Sir Henry devoted too little of his
tremendous energies in the service of music to rehearsing an orchestra.) I
wanted to hear the Coppola Franck but the late, great Don Hodgman lacked
one of the discs. After five or ten years, he found a fellow conductor who
had the missing side and made a cassette of it for Don, who sent me the
whole thing. It was well worth the wait.
CD Booklets
http://www.filefactory.com/f/0ef97b5e7fcfb055
Flonzaley Quartet cass
1902-1928
http://www.filefactory.com/f/653008cf04d8d395
String quartet playing has changed more than any other kind of classical
music playing. The early style was ragged and deeply dug into, unlike the
smoothed-out perfectionism that came later. Fortunately, this kind of
playing survived into the recordings era. Outstanding examples are the
Flonzaley Quartet (here), the London, the Bohemian, and the *early*
Budapest (before the Russians replaced the Hungarians).
Fried_Oskar (1.1GiB)
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/75d676cb94d1ed2a
I need to do a short write up of his significance. Made the first
recording of the Mahler Second. An acoustic but you'll hear things in the
music you won't hear later. I have not re-uploaded it yet. Poke around the
cassettes, if you wish.
Gianoli_ Reine (0.955GiB)
Reine Gianoli, French pianist, 1915-79
http://www.filefactory.com/f/2cd0abae3958d6b0
She is much my favorite lady pianist and plays with bounce and vigor. Her
Mozart and Bach is what I often want when I get an overdose of Gould.
Harty cassettes
Sir Hamilton Harty, Irish conductor, pianist, and composer 1879-1941
Knighted 1925
http://www.filefactory.com/f/fd8d34a7a1897b0b
He is quite popular with those who collect historical recordings. Though I
have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't say that I have ever
really grasped his individuality. They remain popular downloads.
Kapell RCA (0.7GiB)
Kapell Victors plus Australian Concerts
William Kapell, American pianist, 1922-1953, died in a plane crash.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/27fb13d776c15197
Whoever said he admired Kapell but did not love him expressed perfectly my
own attitude. He is quite popular with those who collect historical
recordings. Though I have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't
say that I have ever really grasped his individuality. They remain popular
downloads.
Krebs LPs
Helmut Krebs, German tenor, 1913-2007
http://www.filefactory.com/f/909396da35dec52a
My favorite singer. He had a "small voice," whatever that means, and never
performed Wagner afaik. His angelic voice is exactly right for Bach, so
much so that, whenever I listen to a Bach vocal work that includes a solo
tenor part that is sung by someone else, I feel ROBBED. Here are nearly
all his recordings. He also sung during first performances of many modern
works.
Lehmann cassettes
Fritz Lehmann, German conductor, 1904-1956
http://www.filefactory.com/f/03b29bc2d6aaf0f5
While he conducted a number of orchestras, he is best remembered as a DGG
house conductor that re-recorded music on early LPs. Despite his recording
the best imho St. Matthew Passion, Choral Fantasy, German Requiem, and
Capriccio Italien, he is largely forgotten today. I am not sure what is on
these cassettes. Search in other places for more Lehmann.
Mengelberg_ Willem (3.78GiB)
Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor, 1871-1971
My favorite conductor and an extrovert.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/44eb80876ed8046e
M-Sets
These M-set represent how most American heard classical music during the
78 rpm days. There were over 2500 of them on Columbia and Victor. I have
uploaded a majority of them. They constitute the core of my offerings.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/554b11e8cd9fe5c6
Mravinsky, Evgeny (2.4Gib)
More about him later.
Musical Offering (Wilfried Böttcher, The Vienna Soloists
http://filefactory.com/folder/159714f6a3443261
This is much my favorite recording of the music. It has exactly the right
amount of graveness. The folder contains the scores and both the LP
version (Vanguard BGS 5070) and the CD reissue (Amadeus AMD 7004), both in
mp3 and WAV, along with a text file that matches what is heard in the
recording and the places in the scores, sometimes Bach, other times the
Kirnberger realizations. It gets complicated!)
OoP Hist. CDs
Out of Print Historical CDs.
I have refrained from uploading CDs from small active labels, to not
discourage them from continuing their good work. I have also refrained
from uploading Gould, Walcha, the Kempff Beethoven sonata cycles, and the
Backhaus stereo Beethoven cycle for the same reason.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e506defe41134d59
Other Cassettes
These are non-M sets from my own collection
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e2b09b29f8c29acf
Other Mono LPs
These are LPs that are not among the artist collection listed here.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/45bbac97e080cdee
Other Stereo LP to mp3
There are stereo LPs that are not among the artist collection listed here.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/552cc040b44b49d1
Rodzinski cassettes
Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor, 1892-1958
http://www.filefactory.com/f/3a51c433aef61fbb
He is quite popular with those who collect historical recordings. Though I
have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't say that I have ever
really grasped his individuality. They remain popular downloads.
Rybar LPs
Peter Rybar, Czech violinist, 1913-2002
http://www.filefactory.com/f/8bc7a61a20683ae0
A vigorous performer, whose interpretations are highly italicized, he is a
favorite of those who collect old recordings. Here are most of them. His
recording of the Shreck transcription of Bach's fifth klavier concerto I
find is even more incisive than Szigeti's. His recorded repertoire is
wide. I commend esp. his recording of Italian Baroque composers.
Scherchen LPs in mp3
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
http://www.filefactory.com/f/5ceace722ff1720c
A great extrovert, whose performances got more markedly inflected as he
got older. Mr. Mencken, when asked to update his obituary for the
Baltimore Sun, where he worked, said, "Just add, 'As he got older, he got
worse.'" But I find Scherchen's stereo remakes to be better, more
characteristic of him, with the exception of the Messiah and the Mozart
Requiem, which I find rather ponderous. I call attention to the stereo
remake of the Eroica, which whips through the music so fast you wonder
whether the orchestra loses itself in the process. Yet when the movement
is over and you are exhausted, you remain moved. Better wait a few minutes
before going on with the funeral march.
Scherchen LPs in WAV
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e144f8d31b8590e7
Scherchen Lugano Cycle
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
Contains the Beethoven symphonies in performance and rehearsal excepts of
many movements.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/4a0421ccbf5a62bf
Scherchen at his best, or at his worst? A whipsaw first movement of the
Seventh that somehow manages to sweep you into it, unlike Albert Coates's
two recordings (acoustic and electric) of the first movement of the
Jupiter.
Scherchen WAV
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
In general, I did not make many WAV files, because I did not realize there
would be much of a demand for them. These are a good selection, but still
not all Scherchens are here.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e144f8d31b8590e7
Silverman
Robert Silverman, Canadian pianist, born 1938.
With his permission I have uploaded Beethoven Sonatas 18 and 28, along
with his excellent liner notes, from his Beethoven cycle. Also with his
permission, I have uploaded a live Mozart sonata cycle, given at the house
of his friend and philosopher, Jan Narveson. I find his seriousness and
thoughtfulness to make him the best living pianist and cannot fathom why
he is little known outside Canada. Please visit his site,
http://www.robertsilverman.ca
http://www.filefactory.com/f/5d3d7ccf9a0b6ed4
Spalding LPs
American violinist, 1888-1953. First American musician to gain
international renown. Complete LPs
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e80fa589cbc1790d
Saying any recording beats Szigeti's is, for me, making the highest
praise. But his 78s of the Brahms Second Sonata beats Szigeti's and
his"Tartini's" Devil's Trill, though not recorded by Szigeti, is the best
of that music. (Alas, you won't find them in this folder but elsewhere.)
Stock cass
Dr. Frederick Stock, 1872-1972
http://www.filefactory.com/f/dee173966a8cbae0
He is quite popular with those who collect historical recordings. Though I
have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't say that I have ever
really grasped his individuality. They remain popular downloads.
Szigeti Am Saloons
Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, 1892-1973
These are all the fillers and single discs recorded in America
http://www.filefactory.com/f/81186ee2d67eab82
Several of these delights never came out on LPs. The most elusive is
Cowell's "How Old Is Song?", which the late Don Hodgman was able to
finally locate and get me a tape of.
Szigeti LPs
Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, 1892-1973
My favorite clarinetist
Complete early Columbia LPs and the early Mercury stereo LPs.
Incisive. Intellectual. Inflected. His is much my favorite violinist.
Tahra CDs (zip only):
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/973c925f05aed666
Thibaud_ Jacques (1.3GiB)
Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, 1880-1953, in a plane crash
http://www.filefactory.com/f/7b4f23c2ea9e3a6d
These are nearly all his recordings.
B.H. Haggin speaking of "the powerful tone and phrasing playing of Casals
that is in striking contrast with the elegance of Thibaud and the intimate
warmth of Corot" is as an astute observation of musicians as any I have
read. All of their playing together in the greatest of all trios, as well
as any pairing of two of them, is there.
Wiengartner acousticals (GiB)
Felix Weingartner, German conductor, 1863-1942
This is almost certainly the most complete set. It is one of the most
popular of my downloads. In general, though, I never did become a big
Weingartner fan. Surprisingly, perhaps, I find his early electric of the
Fantastic Symphony to be my favorite.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/d3cafa296cc18a34
Wlach LPs
Leopold Wlach, clarinet, 1902-56
My favorite clarinetist, whose sheer power can be devastating, esp. the
Brahms Clarinet Quintet, which I regard as the swan song of Western
Civilization.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/643eb663ca9c5bca
MY AIM
My aim is to make available many of the great classical music recordings
of The Past. I have pointedly excluded recordings on small courageous
labels, so as to avoid undermining their continuing efforts. Several of
the very best labels (including Biddulph, Pearl, and Tahra) have either
gone out of business) or else continue in existence to make a small
fraction of their dwindling stock available but show no signs of doing
anything new.
Here are the small labels I have recording from, in many cases well under
a dozen. Please advise me on the status of those below.
archiphon
Appian
Arbiter
Archipel
Beulah
Biddulph (defunct)
CBC
Dutton
Glenn Gould Foundation
Maliban
Marston
Melodram
Mercury
Music and Arts (this has not gone defunct)
Myoto
Naxos (this has not gone defunct)
Nimbus
Pearl (defunct)
Symposium
Tahra
Testament
VAIA
in more fully the contents of ten Thibaud tapes, consoldiated in 1988.
STATISTICS (as of 2016 July 4): 3,893 files and 55,224 downloads.
STATISTICS (as of 2016 September 1): 3,851 files and 59,587 downloads.
That is, there have been 4,363 downloads between July 4 and September 1.
Exactly why there are 42 fewer files, I do not know.
STASTIICS (as of 2016 September 30): 3,866 files and 61,841 downloads, or
2,254 in the last month.
CONTENTS OF FESHLY ADDED TAPES AND EXPANSION OF THE CONTENTS OF THE
THIBAUD TAPES
[I FINISH WITH MY STANDARD MESSAGE.]
C0601-0610
THIBAUD: I put my entire collection of his recordings I had at the time
(1988) these ten cassette tapes.
JACQUES THIBAUD (1880-1953) on C0601-C0610
In 1988, I consolidated my recordings of Thibaud onto ten cassettes. Since
then, some alternate takes have emerged, another recording of Lalo's
Spanish Symphony, the sole electrical 78 that I did not have at that time
(Grandos: Spanish Dance 5 (3/3) Tasso Janopoulo, p.), and (most
importantly) two Japanese CDs of most of his earliest recordings for
Pathé and Fonotipia. I have purchased everything I know about.
Get the Thibaud part of both editions of James [Leslie] Creighton,
Discopaedia of the Violin, 1889-1971 (Toronto: Unviersity of Toronto
Press, 1974, second edition, Burlington, Ontario: Records Past Publishing,
1994
http://www.filefactory.com/file/1v26x7r667mx/Thibaud--CR1%262.pdf
I did not furnish data, regarding assisting musicians, takes, dates, and
so on, in most instances. Maybe someone else will undertake the effort!
BOX = The Art of Jacques Thibaud, Toshiba-EMI EAC 77443-5 (3)
Purchased from Tower Records during their DC store opening sale, 1984
Christmas about 9:30 am, for $29.
Toshiba GR series: GR is "Great Recordings", patterned after #[American]
Angel COLH series "Great Recordings of the Century."
Please consult http://classite.com/music/Thibaud/discography-thibaud.htm
@ means acoustic recording.
x/y means the xth out of y recordings of the work by Thibaud.
1A
Albeniz: Tango <-Box
Albeniz: Malaguena <-Box
Bach: BBC 5. (Cortot, p., R. Cortet, flute) #Toshiba GR 2211
Bach: Con. 2@. #Rococo (Japanese private label) OZ 7513
1B
Bach: Gavotte 1/2@. #Pearl GEM 103
Bach: Gavotte 2/2 <-Box
Bach: Preludio <-Box
Bach: Air 2/2 <-Box
Beethoven: Con. (Thibaud, CONDUCTOR, Orchestra de la Société des
Concerts du Conservatoire [Paris Cons.], Henryk Szeryng, v. #Monitor MCS
2083 (fake stereo). So we have Thibaud, Casals, and Cortot as conductor.
Vivaldi: Largo <-Box [out of order]
2A: 2,3
Beethoven: Romance 2. <-Box
Beethoven: Sonata 9 (Cortot). #Toshiba GR 2051
2B: 2,3
Beethoven: Trio 7 (Cortot, Casals)
3A: 3-4
Beethoven: Kakadu (Cortot, Casals). #Seraphim 60242 (not issued on 78s)
3B
Brahms: Concerto (Jean Fournet, Orchestre des Concerts Pasdeloup.
1953.1.18 LIVE #Philips (Japan) 27PC-87
4A
Brahms: Double Concerto (Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot, CONDUCTOR, Barcelona
SO). #EMI RLS 723
Brahms: Waltz 15 <-Box
4B
Chausson: Con. (Cortot and string quartet) #Toshiba GR 2133
5A
Chausson: Poem (Bigot, Lamoureux Orch.) #Turnabout TV 4257
Debussy: Golliwog <-Box
Debussy: Flazen Hair <-Box
Debussy: Ministrels <-Box
Debussy: Sonata (Cortot). #Toshiba GR 2216
Desplanes: Intrada 1/2@. #Rococo (Japanese private label) OZ 7513
Desplanes: Intrada 2/2. <-Box
5B
Eccles: Son. in g <-Box
Falla: Jota <-Box
Falla: Spanish Dance <-Box
Faure: Berceuse (Cortot) 2/2 #Toshiba GR 2133
Faure: Dolly Berceuse <-Box
Faure: PQ2 (Long, Vieux, Fournier) #2EMI C061-12815
6A :4
Faure: Son. 1 (Cortot) #Angel COLH 74
Franck: Son. (Cortot) 1/2@ G.DB 785/8
6B: 3/4
Franck: Son. (Cortot) 2/2 #Angel COLH 74
Granados: Original Dance <-Box
Granados: Spanish Dance 5 <-Box
7A
Granados: Spanish Dance 6 <-Box
Haydn: Trio 25 in G (Cortot, Casals). #Opal 815
Lalo: Sym Esp (w/o Intermezzo), Stokowsi, NYPSO. 1947.1.2 Live. #Recital
Records IGI 339
7B: 4
Leclair: Tamborin <-Box
Marsick: Scherzando <-Box
Mendelssohn: Trio 1 (Cortot, Casals) #EMI RLS 723
8A
Mozart: Con. 3 (Paray, Lamoureux Orch.) #Turnabout TV 4257
Mozart: Con. 5 (Munch, orch.) #Toshiba GR 2159
8B: 4
Mozart: Con. 6 (spurious) (Sargent, orch.) #Rococo (Japanese private
label) OZ 7513. NOTE: Alfred Dubois also recorded this spurious work.)
Mozart: Haffner Rondo. #Toshiba GR 2216
9A
Mozart: Son. 26. #Toshiba GR 2131
Mozart: Son. 34. #Toshiba GR 2131
Paradies: Siciliano <-Box
Poldini: Poupée valsante <-Box
Ravel: Pièce en forme d'Habanera <-Box
9B
Rimsky-Korsakov: Hymn to the Sun 2/2 <-Box
Saint-Seans: Prelude 2/2 <-Box
Saint-Seans: Havanise 2/2 [2 ss.] <-Boxx
Schubert: Rondo <-Box
Schubert: Sonatine 3 #Toshiba GR 2216
10A
Schubert: Trio 1 (Cortot, Casals) #Opal 815
Schuman: Trio 1 (Cortot, Casals) #EMI RLS 723
10B: 3-4
Szymanowski: La Fontaine d'Aréthuse <-Box
Veracini: Jig <-Box
Vercini: Minuet and Gavotte <-Box
Vieuxtemps: Serenade 1/2@ #Pearl GEM 102
Vitali: Chaconne in g <-Box
[Vivaldi: Largo <-Box was squeezed onto the end of 1A.]
C0612 SCHERCHEN LIVE
J.C. BACH: Sym. in d, Hessian RSO 1958
BEETHOVEN: Wellington's Victory rehersal, Stuttgart RS0, 1962.9.7
SIDE B
SCHOENBERG: Var. for Orch., Op. 31. ORTF 1964.6.20 Paris <-
¢Stradivarious STR 13592
ditto. MITROPOLOUS, BPO live Salzburg 1960.8.21
C0623-0634 ABRENDROTH JAPANESE ETERNAS
C0623a Abendroth BRUCKNER 5m1,2 49-6-27
C0623b Abendroth BRUCKNER 5m3,4 & EgO, BRSO
C0624a Abendroth BRAHMS 1 49-10-20
C0624b Abendroth BRAHMS 4 54-12-8
C0625a Abendroth BEETHOVEN 4 49-12-4 MOZART Ser 8 BRSO 56-4-12
C0625b Abendroth HAYDN Var 49-12-29 SCHUMANN CC Tortelier 55-9-3
C0626a Abendroth TCHAIKOVSKY 6m1-3 51-1-28
C0626b Abendroth TCHAIKOVSKY 6m4 SCHUMANN PC Wührer BRSO 56-3-13
C0627a Abendroth BRUCKNER 4m1-3 47-11-16
C0627b Abendroth BRUCKNER 4m4 MOZART 38 BRSO 53-2-16
C0628a Abendroth HANDEL Con17m2,4 Cologne CO SCHUBERT 9m1-3 50-1-11
C0628b Abendroth SCHUBERT 9m4, WAGNER Dutchman BPO BRUCKNER 9m1 51-10-29
C0629a Abendroth BRUCKNER 9m2,3 MOZART 35m1-3 BSO 56-9-16
C0629b Abendroth MOZART 35m4 BACH OS3 49-9-28 HANDEL Con27 BRSO 55-9-15
C0630a Abendroth BEETHOVEN 9m1-3
C0630b Arendorth BEETHOVEN 9m4 MOZART 33 56-1-9
C0631a Abendroth STRAUSS Mr. Q 55-1-22
C0631b Abendroth TCHAIKOVSKY 4 51-2-13
C0632a Abendroth SCHUMANN 4, SCHUBERT 8m1
C0632b Abendroth SCHUBERT 8m2 BRAHMS 3 52-3-17
C0633a Abendroth BEETHOVEN Sym 6 (old no. 5) 50-6-18
C0633b Abendroth MOZART 41 & Div 7 56-3-26
C0634a Abendroth DVORAK CC Hölscher 56-3-28
C0634b Abendroth HAYDN 88 LRSO'56 HAYDN 97 BRSO'56
C0635a (only) SCHERCHEN SCHUBERT #Supraphon SUB 10001
C0637
BEETHOVEN 9, Walter Goehr, Chorus of the Caeclienverein, Frankfurt,
Frankfurt RSO&Ch
Agnes Giebel, Grace Hoffman, HELMUT KREBS, Fritz Ollendorff, bass. Concert
Hall Record Club AM 2245 (mono) 1962.
A so-so performance, and the great KREBS sings only briefly. For KREBS
compleatists.
WEBER 2, J. 51. Victor Desarzens, The Lausanne CO. $WGS 8279 [<-MS 813].
Just a cassette filler.
C0643 from Allen Mackler
TURINA: Narrative of the Bullfighter, GORDON SQ
(Gordon-Scakson-Robyn-Benditzski). C.68505 W633
TCHAIKOVSKY: Andante Cantabile. LENER SQ (Lener-Smilovitz-Roth-Hartman)
new version. W615 [CAX 7478-1/749-3] C.J 8444
VIVALDI op. 3n5 PRO ARTE Q (onnou-Halleuz-Prevost-Maas). V.8827 W663
VIVALDI-OTTORINO RESPIGHI: Son. in D, F12:6, ERICA MORINI, MAX LANNER.
V.11-8671. W665
VIVALDI-CRUSSARD: Son in c. Unidentified by Creighton and WERM. ARS
REDIVIVA = DOMINIQUE BLOT, v.; CLAUDE CRUSSARD, p. V.13484
SIDE B
WAGNER: The Dusk of the Gods: Funeral March [2-20690/1]. MAX SCHILLINGS,
SO. Odeon 5150
WAGNER: Good Friday Spell, SIEGFRIED WAGNER, BSOO [2-2011/3] Odeon 5122/3a
WAGNER: Dance of the Apprentices, EDUARD MÖRIKE, BSOO [2-8992]. Odeon
5122b
SAINT-SEANS: Dance Macabre, EDUARD MÖRIKE, BSOO [2-2-138/40]. Odeon
5134/5a
SAINT-SAENS: Allegro Appassionata, op. 43. FEUREMAN and pf. [2-220218]
Odeon.5133b
C0673
DOHNÁNYI: 4 Rhaposdis, Op. 11, DOHNÁNYI pf., #Remington.RLP-199-43
SZIGETI: IVES: Son. 4. CARLO BUSSOTI, p. USC 1957.1.12 LIVE, with
Introduction by SZIGETI
Introduction to Ravel
SIDE B
SZIGETI: RAVEL: Son. 1957.1.13 LIVE
SZIGETI: VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS: Sonata in a, Seattle 1955
ONLY RECORDING OF THE WORK BY SZIGETI THAT I KNOW ABOUT!
C0674B Stereo LIVE
KEMPFF: Recital, Helsinki 1978.9.3
BACH: English Suite 3
BEETHOVEN: Son. 32
C0676 from David Bloesch
CORTOT: BACH BBC 4, Ecole Normale ChO. V.7913/6
CHOPIN: Polonaise 7. 2EA 12435/6 UNISSUED 1947.10.15
CHOPIN: Prelude and Etudes (3 new). 2EA142416/8 1947.10.10
SCHNABEL ROLLS from Dr. Jürgen Hocker's amateur recordings, IN STEREO.
Welte-Mignon 385. SCHUBERT: Valses nobles, Op. 77, D. 969., punched 1905.5
[Bloesch 142]
Hupfeld 50019: BEETHOVEN: Minuet in Eb, K. 82, Grove 165, punched after
1905 (I think Hupfeld folded in 1910 [Bloesch App. 20a]
The same from V.DM 806
[NOTE C1582+ contains a much larger collection of Schnabel ROLLS
SIDE B
Hupfeld 50663: Schubert: Impromptu 7, punched after 1905 (I think Hupfeld
folded in 1910.) [Bloesch App. 30a]
Hupfeld 50478: Weber: Invitation, punched after 1905 (I think Hupfeld
folded in 1910.) [Bloesch 168]
Voice of Jürgen Hocker
Ampico 62721, 62733, 62741: Bach: Italian Concerto, punched 1922.
C0678 MAHLER FIRST RECORDINGS
Seven Last Songs 4 = Rückert 2,"Ich amet' eines Linden Duff in D, or I
breathed the breath of blossons end. CHARLES KULLMAN, t., Sargent, orch.
C.M 381, s. 7 ("Columbia History of Music in Sound, Vol. 5"), rec
1938.6.20 = G.DB 1303 [CA 17004]
[followed by irrelevant recordings]
STANDARD MONTHLY MESSAGE
This is a monthly reminder for those who know about my uploading efforts,
as well as those who are finding out about this for the first time.
Unless something unexpected comes up, I am done my job. Lots of work, and
I am grateful for the some 55,505 downloads to date. I know of no effort
of making these great old recordings of classical music that it anywhere
comparable to mine. IS THIS TRUE?? It is my gift to the world.
European copyright law has placed all recordings made up through 1963,
irregardless of whether it was "fixed in sound" for LP or CD after that
date. Since the server is located in Holland, I am not in violation of
American copyright laws, which are a tangle of confusion.
Below is a repeat of what I have uploaded to date. Visit the first folder
first. It will contain instructions about what's what. Basically, there
are:
1. Cassettes of the Columbia and Victor M-sets that Bill Lampe collected
over a long time. (The cassettes that come from Bill are prefixed with an
L. Those from me are prefixed with an F.)
2. Miscellaneous cassettes from many collectors, prefixed with a C.
3. Cassette compilations by artists (prefixed with a C)
4. LP conversions
5. Compact Discs
INDEXES TO THE RECORDINGS
http://www.filefactory.com/f/b0ef5dfa848181b9
There are instructions among these indexes to help you search for
recordings by artists you love.
THE FILE FACTORY FOLDERS
Abendroth_ Hermann (3.8GiB) Hermann Abendroth, 1883-1956, German conductor
http://www.filefactory.com/f/f835edf60620e15d
When I first listened to him, at the behest of the late Allen Mackler, who
said the best Fourth was Abendroth's, I felt that I was intruding upon
something so very German that I was invading the Germans' privacy. As
Furtwängler is the German conductor for the world, Abendroth is the
German conductor for Germans. The great secret of Abendroth's method, I
think, is his selectively holding a lot for a fraction of a second too
long, which he does with great meaning.
Acoustic Organ Discs (all, 91KiB)
http://www.filefactory.com/f/c31becd379064e43
It might come as a surprise that there were any acoustic organ records at
all, since the acoustical process could hardly record low frequency organ
notes. But here is a sample of them. Neither is the music or the organist
outstanding, but the first truly outstanding organist was Helmut Walcha,
whose earliest recordings appeared on late 78s, though in the same
performances afaik as those on early monophonic LPs.
Barylli Quartet with piano LPs
http://www.filefactory.com/f/6f65fe64c37fab38
Their discs are prized collectors' items, but I an enthusiastic only about
those compositions that include a piano. Here are all of them.
Biddulph CDs
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/738654e91939ac03
Beethoven Loewenguth
Active 1930s-1970s Loewenguth Quartet of Paris.
Contains Middle and Late Quartets
http://www.filefactory.com/f/9b903ded71b95f76
THIS IS THE VERY HEIGHT OF MY ENTIRE COLLECTION. Excellent performances,
with just the right amount of gruffness. Exceptionally wide stereo spread
that sits you in the middle of the quartet, allowing you to fully savor
Beethoven's genius in bouncing melodies from instrument to instrument.
Brain D_and_A (0.54GiB)
Brain Dennis and Aubrey horns LPs
Dennis Brain, 1921-1957 in a car accident (English)
Aubrey Brain, his father (English), 1893-1955
http://www.filefactory.com/f/b8bfa4f62f200522
Casals LPs
Pablo Casals, 1876-1973, cello and conductor (Spanish, or more properly
Catalan)
http://www.filefactory.com/f/ca1d603a9080d624
All the Columbia LPs, plus some on other labels, up through 1963 that is.
Too bad I can't include the stereo Brandenburgs, whose big, robust
old-fashioned playing is my vary favorite. Nor can I include my favorite
rehearsal disc, of the same.
Tom Clear said in notes to his cello album that information about Casals
is available at your "nearest drugstore." That was then, for today, just
grab the Wikipedia article.
Coates_Albert (conductor)
Albert Coates, Anglo-Russian conductor, 1882 1953
http://www.filefactory.com/f/284789ef06528a32
A great extrovert among conductors. No one has most robustly recorded the
Russians or Wagner.
Coppola_Piero (conductor) (1.3GiB)
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/36b3625355d1092f
Italian conductor, 1888-1971, moved to France but was not given a major
conducting post, as he refused to give up his Italian citizenship.
Instead, he placed his energies in the recording studio, often with
orchestras that gave no public concerts and with names like "orchestre
gramophon du disque" (something like that), as well as orchestras that
appeared in public with other conductors, such as France's first
orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire. (I may
have gotten my facts wrong.) We today are grateful for Coppola being
confined to the recording studio, as he made many first recordings. How
often it is that the first recording is the best! Making a first recording
is a most serious business and extra care is taken. Coppola has as good an
idiomatic understanding of French music as native conductors. His Bolero
is better than Mengelberg's and (no big surprise) Ravel's own. (I love
French chamber music, but the rest does not appeal to me. It is Coppola, I
feel, that makes the best case for French orchestra music. His recording
of S-S's Organ Symphony is so absolutely right that you know within thirty
seconds that all other recordings should be hauled away with the
garbarage. (It is worth all the frustrations of record collecting to find
such transcendental recordings of transcendental music. I should make my
own list.) So what if the organ in the organ symphony does not capture the
bass notes as well as later ones! There was no acoustic recording of the
Organ Symphony, but if Coppola had made his recording with the acoustic
method, it would still be the best. Among the highest lights of my
collection is Coppola's acoustic recording of the Franck symphony. (It was
either the first or second recording of the work, depending on whether to
consider the date the recording began or finished. The other one was Henry
Wood's, of no great merit, for Sir Henry devoted too little of his
tremendous energies in the service of music to rehearsing an orchestra.) I
wanted to hear the Coppola Franck but the late, great Don Hodgman lacked
one of the discs. After five or ten years, he found a fellow conductor who
had the missing side and made a cassette of it for Don, who sent me the
whole thing. It was well worth the wait.
CD Booklets
http://www.filefactory.com/f/0ef97b5e7fcfb055
Flonzaley Quartet cass
1902-1928
http://www.filefactory.com/f/653008cf04d8d395
String quartet playing has changed more than any other kind of classical
music playing. The early style was ragged and deeply dug into, unlike the
smoothed-out perfectionism that came later. Fortunately, this kind of
playing survived into the recordings era. Outstanding examples are the
Flonzaley Quartet (here), the London, the Bohemian, and the *early*
Budapest (before the Russians replaced the Hungarians).
Fried_Oskar (1.1GiB)
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/75d676cb94d1ed2a
I need to do a short write up of his significance. Made the first
recording of the Mahler Second. An acoustic but you'll hear things in the
music you won't hear later. I have not re-uploaded it yet. Poke around the
cassettes, if you wish.
Gianoli_ Reine (0.955GiB)
Reine Gianoli, French pianist, 1915-79
http://www.filefactory.com/f/2cd0abae3958d6b0
She is much my favorite lady pianist and plays with bounce and vigor. Her
Mozart and Bach is what I often want when I get an overdose of Gould.
Harty cassettes
Sir Hamilton Harty, Irish conductor, pianist, and composer 1879-1941
Knighted 1925
http://www.filefactory.com/f/fd8d34a7a1897b0b
He is quite popular with those who collect historical recordings. Though I
have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't say that I have ever
really grasped his individuality. They remain popular downloads.
Kapell RCA (0.7GiB)
Kapell Victors plus Australian Concerts
William Kapell, American pianist, 1922-1953, died in a plane crash.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/27fb13d776c15197
Whoever said he admired Kapell but did not love him expressed perfectly my
own attitude. He is quite popular with those who collect historical
recordings. Though I have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't
say that I have ever really grasped his individuality. They remain popular
downloads.
Krebs LPs
Helmut Krebs, German tenor, 1913-2007
http://www.filefactory.com/f/909396da35dec52a
My favorite singer. He had a "small voice," whatever that means, and never
performed Wagner afaik. His angelic voice is exactly right for Bach, so
much so that, whenever I listen to a Bach vocal work that includes a solo
tenor part that is sung by someone else, I feel ROBBED. Here are nearly
all his recordings. He also sung during first performances of many modern
works.
Lehmann cassettes
Fritz Lehmann, German conductor, 1904-1956
http://www.filefactory.com/f/03b29bc2d6aaf0f5
While he conducted a number of orchestras, he is best remembered as a DGG
house conductor that re-recorded music on early LPs. Despite his recording
the best imho St. Matthew Passion, Choral Fantasy, German Requiem, and
Capriccio Italien, he is largely forgotten today. I am not sure what is on
these cassettes. Search in other places for more Lehmann.
Mengelberg_ Willem (3.78GiB)
Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor, 1871-1971
My favorite conductor and an extrovert.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/44eb80876ed8046e
M-Sets
These M-set represent how most American heard classical music during the
78 rpm days. There were over 2500 of them on Columbia and Victor. I have
uploaded a majority of them. They constitute the core of my offerings.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/554b11e8cd9fe5c6
Mravinsky, Evgeny (2.4Gib)
More about him later.
Musical Offering (Wilfried Böttcher, The Vienna Soloists
http://filefactory.com/folder/159714f6a3443261
This is much my favorite recording of the music. It has exactly the right
amount of graveness. The folder contains the scores and both the LP
version (Vanguard BGS 5070) and the CD reissue (Amadeus AMD 7004), both in
mp3 and WAV, along with a text file that matches what is heard in the
recording and the places in the scores, sometimes Bach, other times the
Kirnberger realizations. It gets complicated!)
OoP Hist. CDs
Out of Print Historical CDs.
I have refrained from uploading CDs from small active labels, to not
discourage them from continuing their good work. I have also refrained
from uploading Gould, Walcha, the Kempff Beethoven sonata cycles, and the
Backhaus stereo Beethoven cycle for the same reason.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e506defe41134d59
Other Cassettes
These are non-M sets from my own collection
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e2b09b29f8c29acf
Other Mono LPs
These are LPs that are not among the artist collection listed here.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/45bbac97e080cdee
Other Stereo LP to mp3
There are stereo LPs that are not among the artist collection listed here.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/552cc040b44b49d1
Rodzinski cassettes
Artur Rodzinski, Polish conductor, 1892-1958
http://www.filefactory.com/f/3a51c433aef61fbb
He is quite popular with those who collect historical recordings. Though I
have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't say that I have ever
really grasped his individuality. They remain popular downloads.
Rybar LPs
Peter Rybar, Czech violinist, 1913-2002
http://www.filefactory.com/f/8bc7a61a20683ae0
A vigorous performer, whose interpretations are highly italicized, he is a
favorite of those who collect old recordings. Here are most of them. His
recording of the Shreck transcription of Bach's fifth klavier concerto I
find is even more incisive than Szigeti's. His recorded repertoire is
wide. I commend esp. his recording of Italian Baroque composers.
Scherchen LPs in mp3
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
http://www.filefactory.com/f/5ceace722ff1720c
A great extrovert, whose performances got more markedly inflected as he
got older. Mr. Mencken, when asked to update his obituary for the
Baltimore Sun, where he worked, said, "Just add, 'As he got older, he got
worse.'" But I find Scherchen's stereo remakes to be better, more
characteristic of him, with the exception of the Messiah and the Mozart
Requiem, which I find rather ponderous. I call attention to the stereo
remake of the Eroica, which whips through the music so fast you wonder
whether the orchestra loses itself in the process. Yet when the movement
is over and you are exhausted, you remain moved. Better wait a few minutes
before going on with the funeral march.
Scherchen LPs in WAV
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e144f8d31b8590e7
Scherchen Lugano Cycle
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
Contains the Beethoven symphonies in performance and rehearsal excepts of
many movements.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/4a0421ccbf5a62bf
Scherchen at his best, or at his worst? A whipsaw first movement of the
Seventh that somehow manages to sweep you into it, unlike Albert Coates's
two recordings (acoustic and electric) of the first movement of the
Jupiter.
Scherchen WAV
Hermann Scherchen, German conductor, 1891-1966
In general, I did not make many WAV files, because I did not realize there
would be much of a demand for them. These are a good selection, but still
not all Scherchens are here.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e144f8d31b8590e7
Silverman
Robert Silverman, Canadian pianist, born 1938.
With his permission I have uploaded Beethoven Sonatas 18 and 28, along
with his excellent liner notes, from his Beethoven cycle. Also with his
permission, I have uploaded a live Mozart sonata cycle, given at the house
of his friend and philosopher, Jan Narveson. I find his seriousness and
thoughtfulness to make him the best living pianist and cannot fathom why
he is little known outside Canada. Please visit his site,
http://www.robertsilverman.ca
http://www.filefactory.com/f/5d3d7ccf9a0b6ed4
Spalding LPs
American violinist, 1888-1953. First American musician to gain
international renown. Complete LPs
http://www.filefactory.com/f/e80fa589cbc1790d
Saying any recording beats Szigeti's is, for me, making the highest
praise. But his 78s of the Brahms Second Sonata beats Szigeti's and
his"Tartini's" Devil's Trill, though not recorded by Szigeti, is the best
of that music. (Alas, you won't find them in this folder but elsewhere.)
Stock cass
Dr. Frederick Stock, 1872-1972
http://www.filefactory.com/f/dee173966a8cbae0
He is quite popular with those who collect historical recordings. Though I
have collected them, mostly from Bill Lampe, I can't say that I have ever
really grasped his individuality. They remain popular downloads.
Szigeti Am Saloons
Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, 1892-1973
These are all the fillers and single discs recorded in America
http://www.filefactory.com/f/81186ee2d67eab82
Several of these delights never came out on LPs. The most elusive is
Cowell's "How Old Is Song?", which the late Don Hodgman was able to
finally locate and get me a tape of.
Szigeti LPs
Joseph Szigeti, Hungarian violinist, 1892-1973
My favorite clarinetist
Complete early Columbia LPs and the early Mercury stereo LPs.
Incisive. Intellectual. Inflected. His is much my favorite violinist.
Tahra CDs (zip only):
http://www.filefactory.com/folder/973c925f05aed666
Thibaud_ Jacques (1.3GiB)
Jacques Thibaud, French violinist, 1880-1953, in a plane crash
http://www.filefactory.com/f/7b4f23c2ea9e3a6d
These are nearly all his recordings.
B.H. Haggin speaking of "the powerful tone and phrasing playing of Casals
that is in striking contrast with the elegance of Thibaud and the intimate
warmth of Corot" is as an astute observation of musicians as any I have
read. All of their playing together in the greatest of all trios, as well
as any pairing of two of them, is there.
Wiengartner acousticals (GiB)
Felix Weingartner, German conductor, 1863-1942
This is almost certainly the most complete set. It is one of the most
popular of my downloads. In general, though, I never did become a big
Weingartner fan. Surprisingly, perhaps, I find his early electric of the
Fantastic Symphony to be my favorite.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/d3cafa296cc18a34
Wlach LPs
Leopold Wlach, clarinet, 1902-56
My favorite clarinetist, whose sheer power can be devastating, esp. the
Brahms Clarinet Quintet, which I regard as the swan song of Western
Civilization.
http://www.filefactory.com/f/643eb663ca9c5bca
MY AIM
My aim is to make available many of the great classical music recordings
of The Past. I have pointedly excluded recordings on small courageous
labels, so as to avoid undermining their continuing efforts. Several of
the very best labels (including Biddulph, Pearl, and Tahra) have either
gone out of business) or else continue in existence to make a small
fraction of their dwindling stock available but show no signs of doing
anything new.
Here are the small labels I have recording from, in many cases well under
a dozen. Please advise me on the status of those below.
archiphon
Appian
Arbiter
Archipel
Beulah
Biddulph (defunct)
CBC
Dutton
Glenn Gould Foundation
Maliban
Marston
Melodram
Mercury
Music and Arts (this has not gone defunct)
Myoto
Naxos (this has not gone defunct)
Nimbus
Pearl (defunct)
Symposium
Tahra
Testament
VAIA
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