Tag Archives: Bernard Haitink

LPs batch 29: Vivaldi

The baroque repertoire wasn’t represented strongly in our LPs, but we did have two discs of Vivaldi’s concertos L’estro armonico.  (These proved rather tricky to put on CD because they turned out to have persistent clicks).  The very last of … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 19 – trying to finish Shostakovich

I realised I’d been neglecting chamber music, so I moved on to an LP of Mozart’s piano quartets with the Beaux Arts trio, followed by a couple of string quartets performed by the Quartetto Italiano. Representing solo piano in this … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 18 – a tasteless sleeve

This batch was largely orchestral music again. It started with an old LP of mine: James Galway ‘The Man with the Golden Flute’ playing assorted pieces which showcase the instrument. One track is a bit notorious: a Moto Perpetuo by … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 17 – carols and folk poetry

Half of this batch was the rest of the 9-CD Arrau/Chopin box. After the great wodge of Chopin I moved on to Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (as he then was) playing Beethoven’s third piano concerto with Colin Davis and the BBC … Continue reading

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LPs: batch 12 – the latest and longest?

I topped and tailed this with some Shostakovich. Firstly, a favourite of mine, a little out of favour at the moment: the Leningrad Symphony, here performed by the Czech Philharmonic under Neumann and paired with the 9th Symphony. At the … Continue reading

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