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Following on from the Joyce Hatto affair, I am casting my mind back over my father's record collection and recalling a number of what in retrospect seem rather dodgy issues!
First of all, he had a number of discs - 7", 10" and 12" - issued by "The Classics Club" - some with recognised names (Rene Leibowitz springs to mind in La boutique fantasque), others which are unknowns - a conductor, William Steinberg, a pianist, Hans Kann, amongst others.
Then - Jakob Gimpel? A great recording of Brahms 1st piano concerto by him, whoever he was - anyone know?
And, more recently, the 50p in Woolworths LPs by the likes of "Ludwig Hoffmann"?
I also remember a Society LP of highlights from The Pirates of Penzance (produced by the same Kensal Road factory that issued Saga records) with some very weird sounds on it, including a Pirate King who sounds as though he has been transferred at the wrong speed, and a Major-General who sounds like Vincent Price!
Anyone who can shed light on any of this? Or had similar experiences?
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« Reply #1 on: 15:47:21, 21-02-2007 » |
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Thanks for the thread roslynmuse.
My favourite pianists are Horowitz (I have almost all of his CDs). Now I fall in love with John Ogdon.
This is just for starters.
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autoharp
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« Reply #2 on: 16:22:01, 21-02-2007 » |
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Hi roslynmuse
At last - someone else who's heard of Jakob Gimpel . . .
A truly staggering bit of piano playing is to be found on the Tom and Jerry cartoon "Johann Mouse", which features virtuoso transcriptions of famous Johann Strauss tunes, some borrowed (Schulz-Evler and the like) and others possibly arranged for the occasion. The credited pianist is Jakob Gimpel.
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autoharp
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« Reply #3 on: 16:29:14, 21-02-2007 » |
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roslynmuse - it may be worth posting your question in the general classical music section. (I discovered it by accident).
admin note: thanks autoharp, the two threads are now combined (and slightly edited)
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« Reply #4 on: 16:37:51, 21-02-2007 » |
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Ho! William Steinberg was a well known conductor in the U.S.A. He was born about 1900 in Germany.
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« Reply #5 on: 16:57:24, 21-02-2007 » |
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Jakob Gimpel was the credited pianist on the Tom + Jerry cartoon "Johann Mouse" - a staggering bit of pianism whoever it is . . .
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« Reply #6 on: 08:37:01, 22-02-2007 » |
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William Steinberg was a real person.Born Hans Wilhelm Steinberg in 1899 he conducted in Cologne, Prague and Frankfurt, and premiered Schoenberg's comic opera 'Von Heute auf Morgen'.
He emigrated to Palestine in 1936,and to America ,where he made a number of LP records for Capitol with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,which were a mainstay of the 'Music for Pleasure' Catalogue in the UK in the 1960s. Later he recorded for DG with the Boston Symphony. Died 1978.
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« Reply #7 on: 08:42:06, 22-02-2007 » |
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Thank you for interesting information. I would not know William Steinberg if I was not a member here.
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Bryn
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« Reply #8 on: 09:55:05, 22-02-2007 » |
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« Reply #9 on: 10:17:29, 22-02-2007 » |
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Jakob Gimpel. Jakob Gimpel. I never heard of him.
He sounds very very good from the samples. Thank you, Bryn.
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roslynmuse
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« Reply #10 on: 10:27:49, 22-02-2007 » |
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Thanks, Smittims, thanks, Bryn!
Anyone have any recollection of the Classics Club?
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« Reply #11 on: 10:36:34, 22-02-2007 » |
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He emigrated to Palestine in 1936,and to America ,where he made a number of LP records for Capitol with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,which were a mainstay of the 'Music for Pleasure' Catalogue in the UK in the 1960s. Famously including the Mahler re-orchestration of the 9th. |
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« Reply #13 on: 11:24:57, 22-02-2007 » |
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Steinberg made a number of LP records for Capitol with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra,which were a mainstay of the 'Music for Pleasure' Catalogue in the UK in the 1960s. Later he recorded for DG with the Boston Symphony. Died 1978.
Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony made one of the best recordings of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony ever. |
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« Reply #14 on: 11:58:55, 22-02-2007 » |
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Roslynmuse I think my first LP was from Classic Club (Very late 50s ) Noel Mewton Wood ( sad story- see google) Tchaikovsky PC 1. I think it was the only one I bought went on to collect Decca Ace of Clubs.
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