<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 Second 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 Second 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><img height="117" width="160" title="" alt="" src="/EZ/hr/hr/imagelibrary/PercyPitt.jpg" /><font size="2"><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">Percy Pitt</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">Ruy Blas is not the finest Mendelssohn, yet it is stirring stuff, that most people are fond of. ....Quality is good ....The B.B.C. orchestra, I mention again, has a chance to become a really first-class organisation, and we all want to see it refining and strengthening its work.</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">See full review:</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/February%201928/14/811262" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/February%201928/14/811262</a></span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Franck: Symphony (Henry Wood)</span></span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"> </span></span></div> <div> </div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">The symphony is recorded without cuts, and both playing and recording struck me as very good. ....The recording of such a long and severe work as this is a good illustration of the immense advance that the gramophone has made, musically and mechanically speaking, in the last year or two. </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">See full review:</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201924/60/802525#article-begin" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201924/60/802525#article-begin</a></span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Stuyvesant Quartet / Bloch </span></span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">This exceedingly difficult music is finely played by the Stuyvesant Quartet. They give a satisfying impression of having studied and lived with the work till it has become a part of themselves. The recording shows good balance and tone, except for occasional shrillness in the first violin part. </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">See full review:</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/April%201942/12/835213" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/April%201942/12/835213</a></span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Ormandy / Rachmaninov</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">See </span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">full </span></span><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> review:</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201935/16/770550#article-begin" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201935/16/770550#article-begin</a></span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Dan Godfrey</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">Link to obituary in "Gramophone" magazine September 1939:-</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/September%201939/58/856686" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/September%201939/58/856686</a></span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold"><span class="DarkRed_Text_Bold">Goossens / Sydney SO</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Danse Macabre</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">The Sydney orchestra is in fine form on this disc, well justifying a repeated appearance in the international field. ...</span></span></div><span class="Black_Text"><span class="Black_Text">The recording is rich, well up to the best 78 standards. ... a most satisfactory disc. <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">See full review:</span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201954/26/767568" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201954/26/767568</a></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Mendelssohn 3rd Symphony</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold"> </span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">This disc, like that of Beethoven's Second Symphony recently issued, confirms the high reports we have received of this Australian orchestra. They play with an altogether admirable precision and attack. </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">See full review:</span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201954/26/851071" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201954/26/851071</a></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text_Bold"><span class="Black_Text_Bold">Beethoven Symphony No. 2</span></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">The playing is good throughout .... It is fine to be able to welcome this Australian orchestra so warmly : it can hold up its head with the best of them. The sound itself is always good to hear and the recording seems to deal with it very well.<br /> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text">See review:</span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"><a href="http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201954/20/767541" target="_blank">http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201954/20/767541</a></span></div> <div><span class="Black_Text"> </span></div></span></span></div><span class="Black_Text"><br /> </span></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>
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