Historic Recordings Second Release
Historic Recordings Second Release
Percy Pitt
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.
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http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/February%201928/14/811262
Franck: Symphony (Henry Wood)
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.
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http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201924/60/802525#article-begin
Stuyvesant Quartet / Bloch
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.
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http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/April%201942/12/835213
Ormandy / Rachmaninov
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http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/October%201935/16/770550#article-begin
Dan Godfrey
Link to obituary in "Gramophone" magazine September 1939:-
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/September%201939/58/856686
Goossens / Sydney SO
Danse Macabre
The Sydney orchestra is in fine form on this disc, well justifying a repeated appearance in the international field. ...
The recording is rich, well up to the best 78 standards. ... a most satisfactory disc.
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http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201954/26/767568
Mendelssohn 3rd Symphony
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.
See full review:
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/July%201954/26/851071
Beethoven Symphony No. 2
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.
See review:
http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/May%201954/20/767541
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