Lovely introduction too... :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si87y4oOYJc

Eugene Ysaye conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestrs and playing
violin
"orpheus in Hades" 1920

Rolf

Our January release is finally available: Franz Liszt, The Forgotten
Recordings. Artists include Sergio Fiorentino, Paul Paray, Hans
Schmidt-Isserstedt, Eugene List, and more. Details are at the website.
Thank you so much.

dg

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:13:39 -0800 (PST), rubio
wrote:

...which I would dearly love to get my hands on myself, preferably in
a Pristine Audio transfer.

I have a Lys CD of 7, 15 and 21. I believe, but am not certain, that
7 & 15 are the same performances as on the Music & Arts set; in any
event, are luminous, perhaps the finest versions of those works I've
heard.

BTW, check out Berkshire. They have APR (listed as Appian) CDs of
Fischer in Mozart (2 discs including PCs 20, 22 & 25 plus some solo
works and Haydn's D major concerto) and Beethoven (Sonatas 8, 23 & 31,
with some Handel thrown in). The transfers are superb, grab them, and
also the disc with Mozart PCs 17 & 24 if it turns up again.

- Sol L. Siegel, Philadelphia, PA USA

From Alex Ross' blog:

"Most thinking people agree that Tashi's recording of the 'Quartet for
the End of Time' is a modern classic. The good news from the Pacific
Northwest is that the foursome has reawakened after thirty years of
hibernation. The reunion will take place Jan. 25-27 as part of a
Messiaen/Carter festival at Chamber Music Northwest in Portland

Having become interested in this conductor's work and tracking down his
recordings...

Does anybody know--will DG be issuing any more *real* CDs with him, or is it
all now "download only"?

(Maybe he should have stayed with Sony?)

(I'm not philosophically opposed, as some others in the group seem to be, to
the download only way of doing things--though perhaps I'm uncharatible in
believing they should be lossless, and cost less than used prices for
physical media with real notes. And there's a part of me that's probably
annoyed that now that I'm 'grown up' enough to afford a not-awful stereo
system, that I'm paying for lesser-quality audio to stuff on my ipod
instead. Oh hel

Steve Thompson said,

Before he was Stephen Bishop, was he Glen Gould?

On Jan 17, 5:34 am, Rugby gmail.com> wrote:

I should ask this in the pronunciation thread, but does anyone know
how Radu Lupu's name should be pronounced?

(As this story from Y-Net indicates, classical radio listeners in
Israel apparently have the same problems as classical listeners in the
U.S. - pgaron)

"Israelis protest plan to close classical music radio station"

Tens of thousands of people appeal to Israel Broadcasting Authority in
bid to save Kol Hamusica station; option to keep station open being
considered

by Meirav Crystal

Tens of thousands of people have appealed to the Israel Broadcasting
Authority (IBA) against the plans to close the classical music radio
station Kol Hamusica.

The IBA did not remain indifferent to the protest and is apparently
considering keeping the station open.

Tens of thousands of listeners have sent letters and emails and made
phone calls to the IBA, asking that the planned merger between the
Moreshet department, the Reshet Aleph radio station and the Kol
Hamusic station be cancelled.

In article
e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Rugby gmail.com> wrote:

[to wit, D. 850 and Debussy's first book of Preludes; answer, no.]

Thanks, Rugby, pleasant piece of reading. This remark is both perceptive
and, what, disingenuous:

"Piano sound is a mysterious business, and Mr. Lupu manages to sit at
one end of this sizable hall and fill it with color and clarity. There
is no sense that he is trying hard to do so; it simply happens."

--At this point Lupu probably doesn't have to try very hard for that,
and I know he doesn't look like he is. It's simply one of the things
he's most proficient at doing.

Lupu is a terrific Debussy player. It would be nice to have some solo
Debussy recordigs by him -- are there any at all?

Don Rice said on January 14,

Oooo, I would love to have them. If any of you download the files and make
them into something I could listen to (mp3 or whatever), could you put them
somewhere where we could download them, or could you maybe email me a copy?

I looked into doing it myself, but by the time I figure out what I have to
do, get the software installed, and figure out how to use the software, the
files will be gone.

Dan Amodeo