The Mysterious Film World of Bernard Herrmann is a true demonstration recording. The brass and percussion in Jason and the Argonauts and Mysterious Island sounds fantastic. When I play this recording on my JBL Hartsfield speakers the orchestra sounds like it's in my living room.

Another great episode! Thanks in particular for the fine information on Britten.

Going to Ebay for that War lp.

I managed to find a clean wide-band copy of the Britten recording War Requiem recently, complete with a programme of a performance from 1977 with Charles Groves conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra! Also came with a magazine article from a 1986 issue of The Listener. It's an extremely moving piece, especially to perform it. I myself sang in the boys' choir for a performance back in 2014 for the centenary of the First World War and my father was in the main choir.

Your work in these videos is wonderful, I love them, thank you!

I didn't know that there were any true audiophiles left until I happened upon your channel. My ears don't qualify me to be one, but I enjoy your videos. You always manage to find beautiful illustrations to enhance your presentations, and I think you've surpassed yourself in this one - I especially liked the old Italian movie posters, and it was fascinating to see Janacek as a young man, as well as decades later with Zdenka in the window - I wonder if this was taken after he had become obsessed with Kamila.

Excellent video. Keep up the good work.

Thank you very much for all the time and effort that you're putting in for creating such high quality content. I am also a collector of classical music records and listen to classical music daily. Do you have any recommendation on Franck's Symphony in D Minor with regards to a specific conductor and also a record label? I'm familiar with the whole discussion on Bernstein having wanted to play the symphony in the most sublime manner by slowing the tempo to make the whole piece sound melancholic and dark, but I'd like to know your opinion on that and whether you recommend any other conductor or a specific record for this magnificent symphony. I also have in my CD collection a recording of Franck's Sonata in A major (flute and piano) by two musicians named Racine and Meyer and the collaboration of the two has resulted in a truly memorable performance. Anyways, I appreciate your channel and I always look forward to your next video. Cheers, Kash from Sacramento.

I'm a lifelong Chicago Symphony fan. As good as Solti was in Mahler, Beethoven and Wagner, Reiner's (1962) Also Sprach Zarathustra is in a class of its own. The absolute best! Their ensemble, intonation, power and beauty are unmatchable. Sidney Harth's beautiful violin solos and Donald Peck's flute and Leonard Sharrow's bassoon solos make it sound like heaven on earth at the end. Artistry of the highest order!

Greatly enjoy your video.. learn a lot.

Last quarter of this video contains astute commentary on Britten's War Requiem.

Wonderful survey. I really enjoy your channel. I am a jazz trumpet player living in Greenwich South East London, but love classical music & opera as much as jazz & am a collector. What you do is important. Many thanks. Look forward to the next one.

Ice been working on my Bernard Herrmann collection lately.

I adore Bernard Herrmann and have practically everything he recorded on CD, but I also have the London "Mysterious Worlds" LP you feature here. The tempi are slow; Herrmann was older and not in good health is what I gather. "Pursued by Giants" from "Gulliver" is a system-destroyer; there is some overload at the climax but the bass drum just shakes the room. Wonderful stuff!!!

Funny you should mention Karajan doing Strauss on DG but forget to note that he recorded (on DECCA) Zarathustra with the Vienna Philharmonic. And it was that specific recording that was used in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey. That is why you don't find it on the original soundtrack, but instead get the Karl Böhm version. MGM records had copyrights agreement with DGG at the time and not DECCA.

Thankyou - another great episode

Can I have your thoughts please on the Rachmaninov Piano Concertos with Ashkenazy, Previn LSO and Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto Ashkenazy , Maazel .

Phase 4 were great, but really not audiophile, they were multi miced. Designed to test your 60's or eary 70's stereos. They don't give an honest sound to the orchestra. Every instrument is pushed onto your lap. Yuk