GEMS from the DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON catalogue #2

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A further selection of great records from the Deutsche Grammophon (DGG) catalogue, ranging from classic solo piano to a Russian orchestral spectacular, and mid-20th century avant-garde compositions.
You can watch the companion video here:
• GEMS from the DEUTSCHE...
The complete "live" video of Stockhausen's "Gesange der Junglinge" is here:
• Gesang der Jünglige - ...
Henze's "Tristan" (with score animation) is here:
• Hans Werner Henze - Tr...
Recommended channels for classical music fans and collectors:
David Hurwitz
/ @davesclassicalguide
Poetry On Plastic
/ @poetryonplastic
An invaluable guide to all the different pressings of the main classical labels:
• A Guide to Collecting ...
Another excellent resource for new classical recordings is BBC Radio 3's long-standing weekly broadcast "Record Review". Shows remain available to listen to for 30 days after first broadcast:
www.bbc.co.uk/...
My system, which has evolved over 20-plus years, is tube based and many pieces were acquired used. It was mostly put together with the invaluable help and ears of Eliot Midwood at Acoustic Image (acousticimage.com) who is also responsible for many of the fine recordings on the Yarlung label.
Well-Tempered Classic Turntable (round motor)
Micro-Benz Ruby 2 MC Cartridge
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Preamp: Kora Equinoxe
Amps: Genesis Monoblocks 60 Amp Valve
Speakers: Silverline Sonatas with upgraded crossover and tweeters (Dynaudio)
Cabling: Aural Symphonics
Custom-made stands, with a Townshend Seismic Sink for the Well-Tempered turntable

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@Mahlero 2 года назад

I really like your videos. Been binge watching your channel for the last couple of days, because I recently started a classical music collection on vinyl. The way you present things is usually very clear. Please keep these videos coming!

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Thank you for the complement!

@geraldmartin7703 2 года назад

Hello; I hope you don't mind a bit of useless trivia about the Karajan/Vienna Philharmonic recording of Also Sprach Zarathustra. As you mention, this was indeed the version used in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Kubrick insisted on it; however Decca/London thought it would demean the label's reputation to identify the recording in the movie, so Karajan and the VPO are not identified in the movie credits: just the work itself. The rest of the music used in the movie was fully identified and taken from the DG catalogue-- my guess is because at the time MGM distributed DG in the U.S.-- and the "official soundtrack" MGM L.P. substituted the pedestrian DG Bohm/Berlin Philharmonic "Sunrise" for the Karajan. (Karajan was furious at Decca's blunder when the movie became a critical hit.) In a scramble to make up for their mistake Decca reissued the Karajan recording on the bargain Stereo Treasury label, with the flag on the jacket cover: "As heard in 2001: A Space Odyssey". Unfortunately, in their haste to get the recording to market, Decca screwed up the mastering and the end of each record side is plagued by a horrendous pitch warble. (I've collected three L.P.s over the years and each suffers from the warble so I doubt it was ever corrected.) I read that recent DVDs of the movie have been "corrected" to cite Karajan/VPO in the credits so everybody can now pretend none of this ever happened. I'm sure there is moral somewhere; but I am too exhausted to speculate.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

I knew some of this but certainly not all. Thank you so much for giving the full story!

@taraznzoro 4 месяца назад

The Böhm’s recording is even better.

@makistsobanou9451 2 года назад

Thanks a lot for your videos! Your presentations and references to the quality of vinyl pressings are extremely accurate. Please keep going.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

I am so glad you are enjoying them!

@anthonyabbinanti5739 6 месяцев назад

Thank you for informing me on these wonderful recordings. Can you do a show on the great composer and conductor Pierre Boulez?

@Derfunkmeister 11 месяцев назад

Your videos are really a big inspiration for me as I am more and more getting into Classical Music. I remember in the 1990's to be working at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen in Denmark and I was only working as a Waiter there but it gave free access to all the performances there and my Boss in the Restaurant department was an avid Classical music lover and he had a great insight into the different Recorddings as you do .( He was in the Wiener Staatsoper 200 times ) He is unfortunately dead now so it is so nice to have these videos from you as inspiration. I have recently started to collect the new series from Deutsche Grammophone "The Original Source" and have the first 7 of them and I recently just bought the Boxset Georges Bizet Carmen conducted by Leonard Bernstein on Speakers Corner + a lot of the Living Stereo by Analogie Productions and it gives me great pleasure to delve into this Genre. Keep up the good work and thank you for taking the time to do this.

@SonicFlare Год назад

Emil Gilels is one of my favorites! And yes, agreed, there's a bunch of DG gems that are really good musically and also sonically... nice video!!!

@musiconrecord6724 Год назад

Thanks so much!

@ftumschk 2 года назад

Thanks for another excellent video, especially for the "off the beaten track" records at the end, which are among my favourites. As a bit of trivia, the boy soprano in Stockhausen's _Gesang der Jünglinge_ was Josef Protschka, who later had a decent career as a lyric/character tenor and made many recordings (with Harnoncourt and Abbado, among others).

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Thank you -- and what a fascinating piece of information re. Protschka. Yes, I am familiar with his later work.

@ManueldelRio 2 года назад

Another marvelous video. All GREAT records. Thank you!

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

I appreciate you watching!

@colinerswell7490 2 года назад

Just found your wonderful channel and loving it 😀. I have now subscribed and can't wait to catch up on all your uploads. Keep up the great work 👍.

@theophicen7850 2 года назад

Great choice. As a big Karajan-fan I notice that the earlier recordings Karajan made for DG in the 60s en 70s are strangely much better than the more technically advanced digital ones he made in the 80s. The digital ones sound pushy and claustrophobic, especially those of the early 80s. The performances were not better than his previous ones (of Beethoven, Brahms in particular). That's why I cherish my old LPs of his.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

I hear you. But some of the remastered versions of these records sound much better, and the Esoteric SACDs are stunning.

@theophicen7850 2 года назад

@@musiconrecord6724 Indeed a number of reissues of the 80's recordings sound better (less 'locked in') on for example the Karajan Gold series. I'm not familiar with the SACDs, but I'll take your word for it, although I think the digital overly broad and direct sound will still be present and I will still prefer the more natural (concert) sounding 60's and 70's sound concept. Greetings from the Netherlands!

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

@@theophicen7850 The Esoteric remastering of Karajan's digital Alpine Symphony is stunning. Goes to show there's more to these recordings sonically than we thought.

@djjoeykmusic Год назад

Great video Thank you so much

@LyleFrancisDelp 2 года назад

Great video! I enjoy your input much more than Hurwitz.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

I'm flattered..... Thanks for watching.

@northendroad 2 года назад

Keep up the good work!

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Thanks!

@LyleFrancisDelp 2 года назад

I respect Karajan's Richard Strauss more than I actually like it. I much prefer the Also Sprach of Reiner, Steinberg, Kempe, and Ozawa.

@hoifcheu7533 2 года назад

I agree. Karajan's DG version of Zarathustra is overrated. Too much string, and not very good recorded sound, not only lean but unnatural. Around the same time, I much prefer Mehta' Decca recording, and earlier, Karajan's own with Vienna Philharmonic.

@ILTOURS Год назад

superb no words

@Roamany-Jones Год назад

I'm still binge watching your wonderful channel. I love many of the DGG recordings but find the later reissues and many of the 1970's & 80's are a bit of a challenge in terms of the sound quality. I have found that, particularly the early vacuum tube recordings, the original German Pressings sound better than the my UK pressed ones. I look for the 'Alle Hersteller..' in the rim text as these Tulip Labels are the first German stereo releases and the sound is up with the very best Decca's of the time. They usually come with very different art work on the Cover to all the later more 'modern' looking reissues 😁👍

@paulusrex321 2 года назад

It's amazing, Rozhdestvensky just runs with Khachaturian's Saber Dance. just fun, and incredible.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Fabulous isn't it?!

@hhk01 2 года назад

Great vid! I hope you will explore the RCA and US Columbia/CBS catalogues,

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

I plan to, though for many reasons my collection of records on these labels is less extensive. Alas, the RCA post-Living Stereos are severely compromised sonically on vinyl, as are many of the Columbia/CBS records. However, recently remastered CDs for both labels are restoring much of these catalogues to sonic excellence, and I will be talking about these. I am currently devouring the Eugene Ormandy/Columbia early mono b ox and it is a revelation.

@LyleFrancisDelp 2 года назад

For Francesca da rimini, that is a truly fine recording, but Markevitch with Lamoureux, also on DGG, has even more of the swirling hellfire and brimstone. Not sure what you might think of the sonics, but to me, it's a knock-out!!!! Best recording I've ever heard...and that includes the famed Stokowski on Everest.

@vinylarchaeologist 2 года назад

Agree about your assessment of Karajan‘s _Also sprach_ … the reason why you probably don‘t hear much difference between the Speakers Corner and the original DG LP is that it‘s most likely done by the same person, mastering engineer Willem Makkee, who unfortunately died a few years ago. The Speakers Corner reissue was done by him in the same studio in Hanover, from the same master tape, with the same old DG equipment.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

@vinylarchaeologist 2 года назад

@@musiconrecord6724 When DG sold off many of its old assets in the ‘90s, a lot of it ended up with the Emil Berliner Studios, which is now an independent studio. DG‘s old equipment, including their 1950s mixing consoles and their lathes are now with them. They are located in Berlin in the old Hansa Studios building, where David Bowie recorded “Heroes” in the 70s. Also in that studio is now Wilhelm Kempff‘s old Steinway, the one he used for all of his classic DG recordings.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

@@vinylarchaeologist I am very familiar with the Emil Berliner studios, and in one of my earlier videos I talked about the amazing remasterings they are doing of the older DG catalogue for SACD, completely redefining what we think of as the classic DG sound. Plan to do a video on this specifically in the near future. I own two of their direct-to-disc records (Bruckner 7 and Ma Vlast), both superb. How cool that they have Kempff's old piano.....

@vinylarchaeologist 2 года назад

@@musiconrecord6724 Indeed, I saw that video. Speakers Corner use them as a mastering studio because they're one of only two studios left in Germany than can do true all-analogue masterings from tape to vinyl. There is another one at Air Studios in London and I think about 3 in the US (Kevin Gray, Bernie Grundman, Sterling Sound, maybe another one I forgot). That's about it, worldwide.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

@@vinylarchaeologist Chad Kassem has Doug Sax's former mastering facility at his Acoustic Sounds facility.

@lmanna 2 года назад

I wholeheartedly agree with your with regards to Emil Gilels. Lyric Pieces is an incredible record. DIscovered him in the late 70s. Geza Anda's Mozart excellent and Karajan 70s rendition of Also Sprach Zarathustra beats his own earlier and later recordings and even the one from the movie. I will research the others. Excellent video. Thanks for the tulips tip.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

I love Gilels, and have done so ever since I heard him play live when I was around 14/15. That Lyric Pieces LP is a true classic of the gramophone. That 70s Karajan Zarathustra is phenomenal indeed!!!

@stefanufer608 Год назад

The string passage from Zarathustra in this recording blows me away every time

@jonnieinbangkok 11 месяцев назад

I almost spit my coffee listening to that Staukhousen "music" 😂 😂 😂

@musiconrecord6724 10 месяцев назад

I am sure you are not the only one.... Definitely an acquired taste.....

@greatpix 10 месяцев назад

I attended several concerts of the LA Phil w Giulini conducting, and every performance seemed painfully slow and drawn out. I'd been a big fan or Zubin Mehta's time with the LA Phil and attended many of his concerts, all superb.

@musiconrecord6724 10 месяцев назад

I had a friend in the orchestra who just loved playing for Giulini. Yes, Giulini in his later years slowed everything down, sometimes a lot! I envy you hearing Mehta and Giulini live. I only heard Giulini live once in London at Covent Garden conducting Falstaff and it was marvelous!

@matthewweflen 11 месяцев назад

I have tried other Zarathustra recordings, Kempe, Blomstedt, Reiner... And nothing matches the awesome majesty and effulgent beauty of the Karajan 70s recording.

@leslieackerman4189 2 года назад

Interesting nostalgia but I don’t miss any DG records. Everything sounds better on CD!

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Yes and no...... But so long as you are listening to the music and enjoying it that's all that matters!

@stevesincock941 2 года назад

The Stochausen lp is very rare. One mint copy on Discogs for £75! Not on cd.

@pandoraefretum Год назад

I want to give 2 thumbs up... but there is no button

@musiconrecord6724 Год назад

Thank you!!

@earvinquero2037 7 месяцев назад

Hello, Great stuff. What you think about the Beethoven Bicentennial Collection from Deutshche Grammophon? How is the sound quality on it?

@musiconrecord6724 6 месяцев назад

Well like all the DG pressings, the sound is compromised compared to same-era Deccas and EMIs etc. But the performances are mostly benchmark. Some of the recordings which originate from much earlier time-wise (pre-1970) see if you can find on Large tulip pressings. Also, check out the incredible DG Original Source series of new vinyl remixes and remasters that have been coming out over the last year. They sound incredible, and include benchmark Beethoven piano sonatas by Emil Gilels, and the 7th Symphony with Carlos Kleiber conducting. The Kleiber has just been repressed so is readily available.

@detectivehome3318 2 года назад

Do you know David Hurwitz?

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

No alas, but love his videos.

@LyleFrancisDelp 2 года назад

Giulini was never Music Director of the CSO. He was likely principal guest conductor.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Stupid goof on my part. I did correct this in a quick subtitle - but it was so quick you must have missed it.

@LyleFrancisDelp 2 года назад

@@musiconrecord6724 I really enjoy your delivery, and I think we are roughly the same age. I came to classical music at age 12, through the wonderful Giulini recording of the Tchaikovsky 6th on US Seraphim. I now own a copy of the original UK Columbia.

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

@@LyleFrancisDelp -- which I am sure sounds much better!

@richardwilliams473 Год назад

Correct me if I'm wrong but was it the recording of Also Sprake Zarathustra the Berlin Philharmonic with conductor, Karajan used in the film 2001 A Space Oddessy?

@musiconrecord6724 Год назад

Yes, it was his earlier recording with the VPO on Decca. Owing to weird rights issues on the original soundtrack album they substituted Karl Bohm's DG recording.

@feskoegaffney9177 2 года назад

Dear sir. Do you have an opinion about the so called red label dg cartouch recordings? Also I have noticed that there is a blank label in dg recordings on lp. What are your views?

@musiconrecord6724 2 года назад

Not aware of these....