This channel has been a joy to watch and learn from. I appreciate that you mix the heavy hitters with lesser known sonic gems as well. I recently added some of these to my collection and haven't been disappointed. I look forward to your future videos.

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. Glad (and relieved!) that my recommendations have not disappointed! (so far!)

Thank you for your channel.. Ad a former member of the Concertgebouw orchestea its nice to still have these kind of channels .. Decca for me were the best in recording in Amsterdam ...even better than Philips...

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching - I am especially happy that a member of this great orchestra is amongst my viewers. If you would feel so inclined, I would be most interested to hear your opinion of the various conductors you played under. What instrument did you play? I think the general consensus is that Decca had the the best sound, along with the early RCA Living Stereos and Mercury Living Presence in the USA. I also really like many of the EMI recordings in terms of sound alone.....

@haraldvandevelde8566

2 жыл бұрын

@@musiconrecord6724 Hello again, What to tell.. I first started around 1980 in the orchestra as a viola player. In that time Bernhard Haitink was in charge...what a fine conductor he was....knew precise when and what an orchestra needed...was still in his younger years..Recording with him for Philips and Decca was always a joy...in the middle of the hall the most of the recordings were made.. I do remember for example Mahler 7 for Philips and Shostakovitch 8 for Decca For Philips with the legendary Volkert Strauss and the great Andrew Cornall and is Decca team. And the struggle Emi/Savi Grubb had with the acoustics during the recording with Brahms doubleconcerto with Perlman/Rostropovitch... Ricardo Cailly recording with Mahler 9 or Berio Sinfonia...difficult recordings but with very good results... CBS with Tilson Thomas/Ives was a mess....they could not cope withe the acoustics... Bernstein/Missa Solemnis live for DGG was not bad...

Thanks for all your great videos! I recently discovered your channel and I am going through each one with great enjoyment. I am learning a lot relative to record companies.. My vinyl collection rounds out to 10,000 or so. I have been at it since 1964 (college days) and I am 75 now. Life without classical music would have been extremely empty and dull! Yes, anything by conductor Andre Previn is worth seeking out and buying! He was one of the greatest!

@musiconrecord6724

Жыл бұрын

That must be quite the collection.... Wow! So glad you are enjoying my channel - and share my enthusiasm for Mr. Previn. What a talent!

Another excellent video sir. I too have the Andre Previn 'Britten', its excellent. I must admit to admiring how you are putting together pictures and excerpts. The Sinfonia da Requiem is very well thought out and as we know incredibly poignant . Incidentally, the opera Peter Grimes is superb on Decca SXL 2150-2. My copy of Previn is on ASD 3154, which is both Stereo & Quadrophonic (remember that?). I look forward to the next video.

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

I do indeed remember those Quad records - and have many of them. I would love one day to hear a proper vintage Quad system in the flesh! Yes, this Previn/Britten record is truly special on every level. I actually recorded the video before war broke out in Ukraine, but had started editing after the invasion. That horrible photograph of the family who were mortared while trying to flee will, alas, become as iconic as similar photos from past conflicts. Once I decided to feature the Sinfonia da Requiem I felt it was essential to make the connection. It was only after the edit that I realized the visual connection between the implacable statue bearing witness in Dresden 1945 and the similar statue in the Ukraine photo - maybe I just made a subliminal connection when I was selecting the photos. Interestingly, as I was putting that segment together, for the first time I realized those thunderous drumbeats are meant to recall the artillery from the First World War (whose noise was truly earth-shattering) and Previn plus his engineers ensure the recording does indeed capture "the monstrous anger of the guns" (Wilfred Owen).

I am very pleased to find you and have many records since the 1960s and still very happy to keep playing records but you have inspired me to look in my collection again and I really really think that you're doing a very good job to help young people to get more interested in classical

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! There is much joy to be found by diving into one's old records and - dare I say it - CDs. I love the convenience of streaming to check out all manner of repertoire and recordings on the cheap, but nothing compares to physical media.

Dear friend! Thanks a lot for your awesome posts! Wonderful content indeed!

@musiconrecord6724

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for your support - and for watching. Alas, I have had little time to do new videos, in part because I was asked by Michael Fremer to start writing for his new website, trackingangle.com. I have several pieces up - you might enjoy reading. Here's a link to one of them: trackingangle.com/features/handel-s-messiah-and-the-recording-that-changed-the-classical-record-industry

I could'nt agree more about the Britten/Previn album. A few days ago I wrote on a Swedish site and presented it as a favorite record where everything is perfect. The music, the playing and recorded sound - all is terrific. I remember when it came out and I was totally blown away. Agree about the Muti Rite as well.

@musiconrecord6724

Жыл бұрын

All great records!

In my most s humble opinion, the LPO, with its wonderfully “ripe” brass sound, is the best for Vaughan Williams’ Symphonies. I was fortunate to find a British EMI set led by Adrian Boult in a Houston record store during my college years, and having owned the the US Angel disc of the 8th….I had my first experience in comparing not only the pressings, but also the masterings. Why the Americans took a perfectly good master tape, and fudged it for the Angel issue is quite beyond my comprehension.

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

I just love the LPO sound. It is perfect for English music (and much else besides). The problem, back in the day when I was growing up in London, was that "their" hall, the Royal Festival Hall, had terrible acoustics. I know it has been "improved", but I have yet to go to a concert there since the refurbishment. It continues to be the tragedy of London that there isn't a large hall with great acoustics. Here in LA we are spoiled with Disney Hall.... As to the thunderously appalling quality of Angel pressings -- well the first time I heard an Angel LP (at the radio station where I was working) I couldn't believe my ears. How they could so ruin such wonderful recordings is beyond me. Yes, I treasure my own Boult/VW boxset. I heard him conduct once, in the Great Hall at Windsor Castle. Tortelier played the Elgar 'cello concerto. I wish I could recall the rest of the program. Boult was amazing, with that huge baton he wielded slicing through the air while he barely moved, whipping the orchestra into a frenzy. Fantastic stuff!

Ok, my french emi's are on their way. Ibert and Poulenc. :-)

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

Would be very interesting to know how these albums sound on their respective CD issues compared to vinyl. Do you have any experience of comparing the same album on vinyl and CD?

Thank you so much for these fantastic videos. I have been collecting classical music vinyls for some years now and your videos are a source for learning and guiding us through the often complex world of labels, original pressings and reissues. For the EMI/HMV, do I understand correctly that the English/British pressings are the best? I ask because I have a lot of French and some German pressings but I don't know if they are of the same quality. Thank you so much. Regards from Brussels. Ignacio Perez

@musiconrecord6724

Жыл бұрын

So with EMI up until Digital go for the UK pressings. But the French and German pressings (especially the German) are very fine too. Sometimes in the case of recordings clearly made in Germany or France the country of origin pressings are best. I once did a side-by-side comparison of the Rudolf Kempe R. Strauss box sets, and the German pressings were ever so slightly better than the British ones. All those amazing records of French music by French artists are wonderful on French EMI, and they have those lovely thick, gatefold sleeves.

@ignicioperez4647

Жыл бұрын

@@musiconrecord6724 Thank you so much for the reply and the very good advice, I greatly appreciate it. I agree with you that the French EMI pressings are quite good and very well presented as well. Do you have any views on lesser known or less widespread European labels such as Calliope, Harmonia Mundi, Astrée Auvidis and also on labels from Eastern Europe such as Supraphon and Hungaroton? Congratulations again for your great and instructive videos, they are a boon for classical music lovers! Best regards, Ignacio

Thankyou for another great episode - that Carmen excerpt was marvellous Those Adrian Boult Wagner records were a revelation I bought them at their original release and was unexpectedly thrilled Solti and Karajan were the glamour guys - Adrian Boult ? I innocently wondered at the time what a complete Wagner opera with Boult conducting would sound like - fantasy land EMI pressings were one of the reasons I embraced CD with such enthusiasm I know this is a bit of a can of worms and completely understandable if you would rather not go there - but - what is your sound system?

@albiepalbie5040

2 жыл бұрын

Powerful and poignant sounds and visuals

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

Oh man - a complete Wagner opera with Boult - what a marvelous thought to conjure with! That Carmen is so much fun, isn't it! I actually really like Karajan's pair of Wagner "bleeding chunks" records on EMI in the 70s. I will add the details of my sound system to the video description. Alas, my phono stage has been in the shop for months - a very tricky repair, it seems.

@albiepalbie5040

2 жыл бұрын

@@musiconrecord6724 I had one of that 70s Karajan bleeding chunks records - it was Gorgeous - as was the complete Tristan which seems to get very short shrift now with the critics It was so rich and sumptuous with an amazingly wide dynamic range - the third act with Jon Vickers was a revelation Because of the anti Karajan backlash those recordings are now seen as an indulgence to our modern critical ears and unfortunately never been properly remastered - the recent EMI amazing Sibelius an exception I only heard him and the Berlin Philharmonic live once in Beethovens 9th in Berlin - that was the sound !

@musiconrecord6724

2 жыл бұрын

@@albiepalbie5040 I am so jealous of you hearing that concert! That Karajan Tristan is my favorite recording. Yes, that third act is incredible. Alas the Karajan backlash has cast a lot of great work into the wilderness...... I recently picked up the complete Warner remasterings of the orchestral works on EMI and they are amazing - are you referring to the Sibelius recordings contained within? If you have a SACD player the somewhat expensive Emil Berliner remasterings of parts of his DG catalogue are ear-opening (they are single layer, not CD compatible). I just got the Second Viennese School set and it is stunning. I urge you to seek out the handful of live Karajan recordings put out by Testament. They speak to a very different BPO/Karajan beast from the one we know in studio recordings: risk-taking, pulsating with energy, an almost physical force of sound living on the edge. The live Mozart divertimento and Schoenberg Verklarte Nacht are extraordinary. You may well find them cheap at the Berkshire Music Outlet.

@albiepalbie5040

2 жыл бұрын

@@musiconrecord6724 The Beethoven 9th was the Berlin Festival Performance with - from memory - Anna Timowa Sintow Agnes Baltsa Rene Kollo and Jose van Dam - released on DG in a silver box ! The soloists when they trouped on looked terrified and at the end the orchestra had left the stage when Karajan was still coming back again and again for the applause and the fans rushing the stage ! Reserved Scottish me thought that very strange The Karajan Testament stuff is edge of the seat stuff - amazing !

I have three versions of Muti's "Le Sacre": two CD's and the original LP. The budget CD doesn't sound very good; there is some tizzy distortion on climaxes and I suspect it's digital overload. The others sound great; it's in my top five under the 1969 Boulez and the 1959 Markevitch.

@musiconrecord6724

Жыл бұрын

I also love the Abbado/LSO and the Michael Tilson Thomas/Boston Symphony, both on DG

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