I think this is an incredible recording:

http://www.audite.de/sc.php?cd=95491&step=4&h=4

Just wondering what others have to say! For once a tenor that I can
live with along side Wunderlich. Janet Baker observes the subtleties
and intimacy of her part like few others. Listen to the pp of the
closing Abschied (and the 1st violins observe their pp marking too).
Its been a while since I've studied the score in any detail but this
seems a very faithful performance and has a radient quality that I've
not heard for a long time.

the US Marine Band directed by Bourgeois of the Symphonie funebre et triomphale
looks like it's in stock at this moment, on Mark Masters:

http://www.amazon.com/Hector-Berlioz-Presidents-United-States/dp/B0000365NS/

Dondeyne's 1976 recording without chorus is here or there:

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/Drilldown?name_id1=1007

or in stock at the moment at uk amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Berlioz-Symphonie-fun

Hello all -

With the interest in American music this weekend, and blending in with
the Golschmann items from the “Midwest Tour”, this appears to be a
good moment to post this fine but forgotten LP:

Capitol P-8245 "Contemporary American Music"
Side 1
Barber: Adagio for Strings
Diamond: Rounds for String Orchestra
Side 2
Copeland: A Quiet City
Creston: Choric Dances No. 1 & 2

Vladimir Golschmann conducting the “Concert Arts Orchestra”
Recorded 1953

Zip file, mono mp3 using VBR max 320 kbps. 36.4 MB

http://www.mediafire.com/?tigo4imin0y

Be back in a few days. Have a good weekend, everyone!

- Bill

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Stereo Flacs

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4 in F Minor
NY Philharmonic
09/30/58
Brooklyn, NY, St. George Hotel

Sourced from an open reel with a 1:36 insert at the beginning of mvt 2
from an LP

The Brass playing is amazing. I wish I could say the same for Lenny.
But the brass is worth the price of admission. They are:

Trumpets
William Vacchiano
Nat Prager

On Jul 4, 2:31 pm, Beaver Lad wrote:

Thanks! I ALMOST put this on with my Van Beinum post yesterday! I
have only a fairly worn copy from that 8 lp set that had it. It's on
some sampler cd? What is it, if I might ask?

Neal

On 2008-07-04, C3 aol.com> wrote:

John Adams (there's also a composer named John *Luther* Adams). I'd start
with Harmonielehre and Chairman Dances, both on Nonesuch CDs.

Dave Cook

Here are the .wav files. I broke the Persichetti into separate
movements, but the Bennett is all one files. Ticks and pops are
present, of course, but not bad for an over 50 year old LP!

Persichetti: Divertimento
Gould: Ballad
Schumann: George Washington Bridge
Bennett: Suite of Old American Dances
Piston: Tunbridge Fair
Barber: Commando March

Enjoy the music liberated from...well, nothing. Mercury MG 50079
straight into Audacity.

Enjoy,
Jenn

http://www.mediafire.com/?3mcjymlm7zm

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http://www.mediafire.com/?yumbvigzb9m

http://www.mediafire.com/?9mwyxouqey2

http://www.mediafire.com/?m09tzwtm0z5

http://www.mediafire.com/?wivxiasy1by

Jimmy Smits announced, and Here He is, The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis

George Bush came running out and yelled, stop the show, I sent 4k
soldiers to wooden boxes and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians
so Exxon and others can reclaim the oil that Saddam nationalized. I AM
THE KILLER AND DON"T YOU FORGET THAT.

Who was the cow who sang before Brian Stokes Mitchell? The only hope
for her and Mitchell is if The Stooges were there, and threw fruit.

Abbedd

With all due respect to Mr. Powell and his heroes, I offer one of the
very finest Sousa march performances one will hear anywhere, anytime,
by any ensemble past or present.

http://rapidshare.com/files/127180784/Nobles_of_the_Mystic_Shrine.mp3

SOUSA: Nobles of the Mystic Shrine
United States Marine Band
Colonel Timothy Foley, conducting
Live performance

Please enjoy.

Frank

As it's July 4th, I thought I'd complete and upload my transfer of the
recording of Brahms's 2nd Symphony made in 1928 by Walter Damrosch, one of
the most famous conductors in the USA prior to Toscanini.

Damrosch has a very flexible approach to tempo, making for a very exciting
close to the finale!

www.damians78s.co.uk

Damian