The process continues apace. I’m afraid at the moment it’s still showing up which are the composers we are less keen on, as I save our favourites for later. I started with another old disc of mine, Holst’s Planets<\/i> conducted by Malcolm Sargent. Some other composers with a toe-hold in our collection: Prokofiev (his first and third symphonies), Hindemith and Honegger (represented by string quartets). We think the Hindemith and Honegger disc – a Supraphon recording – was passed on by a relative who didn’t like it either.<\/p>\n
I included a rather heavy-handed performance by Karajan of Tchaikovsky’s sixth symphony. This lacks a sleeve, and came from the death throes of the once-great Taphouse’s music shop in Oxford. Other duplicated works included Mozart concertos performed by Elisso Virsaladze and the Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, worth transferring if only as a record of how Mozart was interpreted in the USSR.<\/p>\n
This batch finished with two discs of Telemann and Handel from my former neighbour Christopher Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music. There isn’t a whole lot of early music among our LPs; at the time we were buying most of them performance practice in this area was rapidly changing and new ensembles springing up, so it made sense to build up a collection at a time when there was more choice. By then CDs had taken over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The process continues apace. I’m afraid at the moment it’s still showing up which are the composers we are less keen on, as I save our favourites for later. I started with another old disc of mine, Holst’s Planets conducted … Continue reading