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Seán wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:

Seán wrote:

Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner - conducting.

Recorded in 1954, Reiner´s Heldenleben is the first high quality stereo recording ever. A tribute to RCA, it still sounds great after almost 60 years!!!!

Indeed it is Pepe; the recording quality and performance is so much better than John Barbirolli's later recording with the LSO too, or perhaps it's just me? I felt it dragged, is turgid and gloopy. Perhaps I should give it another chance?

The Reiner is much better recorded, and personally, I too prefer Reiner in Strauss, it was one of his specialties, and the vintage CSO, is a marvel. Did you know that after the War the Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony were made of mostly Hungarian and Czech musicians that fled Europe?
Maybe that´s why they were so good!!!!

Jose Echenique wrote:

Seán wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:
Recorded in 1954, Reiner´s Heldenleben is the first high quality stereo recording ever. A tribute to RCA, it still sounds great after almost 60 years!!!!

Indeed it is Pepe; the recording quality and performance is so much better than John Barbirolli's later recording with the LSO too, or perhaps it's just me? I felt it dragged, is turgid and gloopy. Perhaps I should give it another chance?

The Reiner is much better recorded, and personally, I too prefer Reiner in Strauss, it was one of his specialties, and the vintage CSO, is a marvel. Did you know that after the War the Cleveland Orchestra and the Chicago Symphony were made of mostly Hungarian and Czech musicians that fled Europe?
Maybe that´s why they were so good!!!!

I hadn't realised but that does make sense given the fact that both Reiner and Georg Szell were Hungarians too.

Happy New Year Pepe.

Jose Echenique wrote:

I fancy that one Pepe!

I have been working my way through the Kondrashin Shostakovich Symphonic cycle....





....Symphonies 1 to 8 so far.

Happy new year to all and I wish you a lot of listening pleasure and new discoveries

Haven't heared it very often yet, so no opinion ...

fergus wrote:I have been working my way through the Kondrashin Shostakovich Symphonic cycle....





....Symphonies 1 to 8 so far.

I have yet to get it.

Aleg wrote:

Happy new year to all and I wish you a lot of listening pleasure and new discoveries

Happy New Year to you too Aleg, I am fond of Schiff's Bach.

Just finished watching the VPO's New Year's Day concert from Vienna, what a blast!

fergus wrote:

Jose Echenique wrote:

I fancy that one Pepe!

I know you will love it Fergus, Happy New Year!!