<div id="LayerE10" class="Black_Text" style="visibility: visible; overflow: visible; width:500px; z-index:0; left:0px; top:0px; position:absolute; "> <div align="center" name="textnamecont" id="textnamecont" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:100%; left:0px; top:2px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:12;"> <div name="imagename" id="imagename" style="background-color:#eeeeee; color:#000000; font-weight: bold; font-family:arial; font-size : 10pt; text-align:center; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; height:18px; z-index:10; overflow:inherit;"> Historic Recordings Third Release </div> </div> <br> <div align="left" name="infodisplayscroll" id="infodisplayscroll" style="font-family : arial; font-size : 10pt; border:none; position:relative; width:95%; left:20px; top:6px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:10;"> <table style="border-collapse: collapse;" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="3" bordercolor="#000000" border="0" width="460"><tbody><tr><td width="100%" valign="top"> <div align="center"></div> <div align="center"> <div align="left"><span class="Black_SubHead"> </span><font size="5" class="DarkRed_SubHead">Historic Recordings Third Release </font> <span class="DarkRed_SubHead"><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"></span><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"></span><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"><span class="DarkRed_SubHead"></span></span></span></span><br /> </div><span class="Black_SubHead"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"></span></span></div> <div><strong> </strong></div> <div> <div align="center"></div> <div><font size="2"><img height="160" width="160" src="/EZ/hr/hr/imagelibrary/coates.jpg" alt="" title="" /><br /> </font></div> <div><font size="2"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"></span></font></div> <div> </div> <div><br /> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"></span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">The Albert Coates Collection Volume 1 (Pagodes Records)</span><br /> <br /> 7: Polovtsian Dances ("Prince Igor") (with chorus, in English) <br /> <br /> "The ..Borodin dance music will be very popular. The chorus is rather modestly distant, </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">at the start, but warms up later. ... the vim and rhythm surge mightily." <br /> <u><br /> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/January%201929/19/764088/HIS+MASTERS+VOICE.#header-logo)" title="">Gramophone Review</a></u><br /> <br /> <br /> <span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Malcolm Sargent: Mendelssohn, Haydn & Faure</span><br /> <br /> Surprise Symphony<br /> <br /> Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)<br /> <br /> Recording excels in clarity, virility. Softer tones not so fine. The strings tell better, on </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">the whole, than the wind. Not quite the finest wood-wind playing, I think. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">That start is a difficult one....In such music our players triumph gallantly. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">One could not wish a firmer-based recording, and scarcely a better-balanced one. <br /> <br /> (February 1948 issue)<br /> <br /> Faure Pavane<br /> <br /> <br /> <span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Gieseking, Volume 1</span><br /> <br /> SCHUBERT: 4 Impromptus, D935, 4 Impromptus, D899<br /> September 1955<br /> <br /> The very first piece is a wonder. It is in any case one of the best things Schubert </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">ever achieved for the piano, and I have always thought that it is usually played </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">much too fast. ....</span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">Gieseking takes the music quite slowly, and the result to me is immensely moving. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">The A flat needs innocence and self denial, and Gieseking catches the mood beautifully. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/January%201959/62/859810/SCHUBERT.%20+Impromptus%2C+D.899.+No.+1+in+C+minor%29+%3A+No.+2+in%20+E+flat+major+%3A+No.+3+in+G+flat+major%29+%3A+No.+4+in+A+flat+major.%20+Impromptus%2C+D.935.+No.+1+in+F+minor+%3A+No.+2+in+A+flat+major+%2833CX1611%29+%3A+No.+3+in+B+flat+major+%3A+No.+4+in+F+minor.+Drei%20+Klavierstucke%2C+D.946+%2833CX1612%29.+Walter+Gieseking+%28piano%29.+Columbia+33CXI6112+two+12+in.%2C+each+30s.+plus+1+ls.+81d.+P.T.%29.">Gramophone Review</a></u><br /> <br /> <br /> <span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Henry Wood Disc 2</span><br /> <br /> Chant sans Paroles<br /> 1812 Overture (Jan & April 1926) <br /> <br /> It is a long time since we had an " 1812." </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">The new process can do it ever so much more effectively than the old.</span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> I still want to hear those cannon and smell the powder.<br /> <br /> <u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/September%201926/35/811714/by+W.%20+Mengelberg+%3A+Tannhauser+Overture+%28Wagner%29.+Phil.+and+Eulenburg.">Gramophone Review</a></u></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><br /> <br /> <span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Freider Weissmann: Beethoven 6th, Haydn "Surprise"</span><br /> <br /> In Haydn's Surprise Symphony the conductor is great, as are his players. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">These Berliners know better than to treat Haydn as only fit for amateurs; </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">which is more than can be said for most English orchestras.<br /> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/August%201927/9/826707/GRAMOPHONE%20+CELEBRITIES#header-logo">Gramophone Review</a></u><br /> <br /> <br /> <span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Constant Lambert Rarities</span><br /> <br /> 1: Rimski-Korsakov: Ivan the Terrible Overture (Liverpool Phil, Col. DX 1140)<br /> <br /> in music of the very modest calibre of this overture (modest as regards ideas), </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">nothing could be much nicer than the bright, clear adequacy of the record.<br /> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text"><u><a title="" target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/January%201944/13/795858/Liverpool+Philharmonic%20+Orchestra+%28Lambert%29+%3A+Overture%E2%80%94+Ivan+the+Terrible+%28Rimsky++Korsakov%29."><span class="DarkRed_Text">Gramophone Review</span></a></u></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><br /> <br /> 3 - 6: Purcell, arr. Lambert: Comus Ballet Suite <br /> <br /> The orchestration is piquant : in things like the chipper trumpet-stuff at the end of side 2, </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">the effect is quite delicious. The recording makes the most of the instrumentation's clarity </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">and sparkle. For such music it seems to me almost ideal.<br /> </span></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201942/11/801353/ANALYTICAL+NOTES"><span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span></a></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201942/11/801353/ANALYTICAL+NOTES">Gramophone Review</a></u><br /> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><br /> <br /> 7 - 10: Adam / Lambert: Giselle <br /> <br /> A very favourable sample of bold, rich colouring in recording: I don't think anyone could ask for anything better, in that respect.<br /> <br /> <u><a target="_blank" href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/September%201946/6/862564/Royal+%20Opera+House+Orchestra%2C+Covent+Garden+%28Lambert%29+%3A++Giselle+Ballet+Music+%20%28Adam%2C+arr.+Lambert%29.Columbia+DX1270I+%28sa+in.%2C+gs.+9d.%29.#header-logo">Gramophone Review</a></u><br /> </span></div></div></div> <div> <div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; text-decoration: underline;"><span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span></span></span></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </div> <br> <div align="center" style="border:none; position:relative; width:100%; left:0px; top:0px; visibility:visibile; overflow:inherit; z-index:12;"> <a href="sitemap.php?PHPSESSID=39o30rq8bi17hek87ju378gls7" target="_self"><img border = "0" src="images/vi_returnpage.gif"></a> </div><br></div>
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