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smittims
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« Reply #15 on: 10:25:29, 22-05-2007 »
Hi,Pim,you say 'Every week the listener gets the chance to hear the most wonderful performances from the WDR archives, but most of the time I can't find them on CD.'

Both Andante and Medici Arts have recently started new CD series of WDR archive recordings,and the sound is excellent. In have the Klemperer Bruckner 4 and Don Juan,and the Beethoven 3 and 4 , Brahms  second piano concerto with the young Geza Anda,and Hindemith's 'Nobilissima Visione'.

There are  also 2 Erich Kleibers and a Clara Haskil (Mozart Concertos).
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« Reply #16 on: 22:42:19, 23-05-2007 »
One of the closest to being made - Decca advertised it and even gave it a catalogue number: Ferrier, Pears and Britten in Abraham and Isaac.

Of most of the others that have been listed here I think "Yeah, that would have been interesting". Of this one for some reason, I think "That was a real tragedy."

Possibly it's just my reaction to the great Ferrier myth here in the UK, even though she was dead before I was born. But it's interesting that there have been two or three other other mentions for Ferrier already in this thread...

One small, late compensation for the missing A & A: Britten and Pears recorded it with Norma Procter a few years later (1957) but it wasn't issued until 2001, IIRC because it was mono only and quickly replaced by the SXL recording with boy alto John Hahessy. Procter does very, very well even if she can't quite obliterate the wish to hear what Ferrier would have done in this work. Does anyone else have a view of this 1057 version?? Or of Ferrier...?
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« Reply #17 on: 13:58:59, 24-05-2007 »
Quote from: smittims on 10:25:29, 22-05-2007
Hi,Pim,you say 'Every week the listener gets the chance to hear the most wonderful performances from the WDR archives, but most of the time I can't find them on CD.'

Both Andante and Medici Arts have recently started new CD series of WDR archive recordings,and the sound is excellent. In have the Klemperer Bruckner 4 and Don Juan,and the Beethoven 3 and 4 , Brahms  second piano concerto with the young Geza Anda,and Hindemith's 'Nobilissima Visione'.

There are  also 2 Erich Kleibers and a Clara Haskil (Mozart Concertos).

Many thanks, smittims! I hope more WDR-recordings will be issued in the future: I remember some excellent Walton conducted by Szell and a very fine performance of the Bizet symphony by Jean Martinon, for example. I visited the Medici Arts site earlier today, but I can't find an Andante site. Do you know if Andante has a website?
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« Reply #18 on: 14:29:22, 24-05-2007 »
http://www.andante.com/

i would love to have heard stokowski doing Mahler 9 and Elgar 2.
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