In late 80's when I was in grad school I picked up the Maag/Mendelssohn on "London Weekend Classics " budget, budget cheap and have never looked back.😊
Anthony your vid’s are all so informative, I’m just getting into classical music and I find them so interesting. Learning so much from you. Look forward to every vid you do.
That Arnold record is marvellous. The Ansermet de Falla is great but have you heard he old version by Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos and Philharmonia Orchestra on EMI? It's from 1963 or 64 and it sounds absolutely wonderful.
@@AudiophiliaChannel I have loads of recordings with music by Arnold and they almost always sound very good. His orchestration is so transparent and clear. I listened to his ninth symphony recently and was really shaken by the last movement. Firebird with Dorati will probably never be surpassed. Dorati made an enormous amount of recordings and I have never heard any that was less than very good. He was chief conductor in Stockholm when I lived there and I heard him live often and you know, he performed Swedish music around 300 times! That's how a real conductor works, something I know I don't have to tell you.
Reiner's Lt. Kije was was recorded in Orchestra Hall Chicago on March 2, 1957. Reiner's Song of the Nightingale was recorded on. November 3, 1956 in Orchestra Hall Chicago. Both of these recording demonstrate the superior acoustics and what a wonderful recording hall Orchestra Hall was in those days. The beautiful string tone, the lustre on the flutes, the projection of the brass and percussion and the sense of spaciousness were beautiful. All of that beauty was destroyed in the unbelievably incompetent 1966 renovation. It was called in the Chicago Tribune "An acoustical calamity". It was transformed from a glowing, radiant, beautiful concert hall into a dead, dull disaster. The original acoutical beauty was destroyed.
I have an original pressing of "Corroboree". Yeah, those sliver and black Everests were pretty bad. I have the 3-channel SACD and, man oh man, is it a lease-breaker. The final ceremony will destroy systems. The soundstage is wide and deep; the percussion sounds great. I was lucky enough to find an original Mercury pressing of "The Firebird" in great shape for a dime at a local used shop. It's a joy and frighteningly dynamic.
@@robertgadwood7095 The 'OG' direct translation is Original Gangsta, a now universal slang for the first, most, best etc. of whatever is being discussed.
