Monthly Archives: July 2010

LPs batch 23: the end of romanticism

This batch began with the second LP of Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances and overture My Home. Then a treasured disc of Elisabeth Schwarzkopf singing Strauss; we have been unable to agree on whether her performance of the Four Last Songs or … Continue reading

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a new organ at Llandaff

I got away for a weekend singing in Llandaff Cathedral with the Erleigh Cantors: a new venue for them, though one I’d sung in a couple of times before. This time there was a very new organ – we must … Continue reading

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LPs batch 22: Op. 0

This batch was mostly the Æolian Quartet playing Haydn, including his very earliest quartets and the entertainingly numbered Op. 0. After that came Dvořák’s Slavonic Dances (together with another version of his Scherzo Capriccioso) played by the Bavarian Radio SO … Continue reading

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LPs batch 21: Sibelius and Haydn

By this stage I felt like doing some blocks rather than odd single discs. I finished off the Sibelius symphonies, which are mostly conducted by Karajan or Ashkenazy but we have Kamu doing no. 2. Then it was onto a … Continue reading

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