{"id":1014,"date":"2010-04-09T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhkssinging.wordpress.com\/?p=1014"},"modified":"2015-09-25T22:34:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T22:34:13","slug":"lps-batch-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/04\/09\/lps-batch-9\/","title":{"rendered":"LPs: batch 9 &#8211; the only opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This batch was dominated by two sets. One was the only opera we have on LP: <i>Don Giovanni<\/i> in the version which was used as the soundtrack to the Joseph Loseley film.  This is slightly cut but still three LPs&#8217; worth.  The other set is Tchaikovsky&#8217;s first three symphonies conducted by Karajan.  I&#8217;m finding that his symphonies are in general just too long for two to fit on one CD, but one on its own is a bit short.<\/p>\n<p>The batch finished with the <i>New World<\/i> symphony, with the Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Jarvi; there must be a jinx on the recorded quality of this symphony, as this one had a heavy scratch. Finally, Shostakovich&#8217;s 1st and his <i>Festive Overture<\/i> on a Supraphon conducted by Ancerl. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This batch was dominated by two sets. One was the only opera we have on LP: Don Giovanni in the version which was used as the soundtrack to the Joseph Loseley film. This is slightly cut but still three LPs&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2010\/04\/09\/lps-batch-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[314,340,991,165,990,539,467,140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1014\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}