Haydn In Plain Sight: The Classical Music Thread

[axolotl]

Claridge Symphony Orchestra - Brahms: Symphony No. 2 (rec. 1939, rel. 1955)

Who are these guys and who's conducting them?

You might be surprised.

I am surprised. Surprised that you would make us hunt for this info.

popsike.com - Brahms Symphony 2 - Claridge Symphony Orchestra (LP Camden CAL-236) VG+/NM- - auction details

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[Ojai Sam]

I am surprised. Surprised that you would make us hunt for this info.

popsike.com - Brahms Symphony 2 - Claridge Symphony Orchestra (LP Camden CAL-236) VG+/NM- - auction details

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Quoting from your Popsike link:

"Claridge Symphony Orchestra is a pseudonym. This recording has been credited to Fritz Busch with the Danish Radio Symphony or Eugene Ormandy with The Philadelphia Symphony. I've also read that it could be Reiner or Rodzinski."

Well, that certainly clears it up.

 

[axolotl]

Quoting from your Popsike link:

"Claridge Symphony Orchestra is a pseudonym. This recording has been credited to Fritz Busch with the Danish Radio Symphony or Eugene Ormandy with The Philadelphia Symphony. I've also read that it could be Reiner or Rodzinski."

Well, that certainly clears it up.

Yeah, my first guess was The Cleveland Orchestra. So much for alliterative assumptions.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Yeah, my first guess was The Cleveland Orchestra.

That would probably be a hard Szell.

 

[axolotl]

That would probably be a hard Szell.

I Dohnányi know about you, but I do not Wand to participate in another pun-fest.

 

[Ojai Sam]

I Dohnányi know about you, but I do not Wand to participate in another pun-fest.

I would ask why you feel that way but I know you won’t Ansermet. I never Mehta guy like you.

 

[axolotl]

I would ask why you feel that way but I know you won’t Ansermet. I never Mehta guy like you.

Ozawa 't you did there. You're beginning to Rattle me.

 

[Ojai Sam]

Ozawa 't you did there. You're beginning to Rattle me.

Haitink if I keep up the pressure, you might Boult. So instead, I offer another pair of mysteries that I am enjoying right now:

[uncredited orchestra] - World's Greatest Music: Bach, Mozart (1938)

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Haitink if I keep up the pressure, you might Boult. So instead, I offer another pair of mysteries that I am enjoying right now:

[uncredited orchestra] - World's Greatest Music: Bach, Mozart (1938)

[Uncredited Orchestra] was the name of my death metal band.

 

[axolotl]

[Uncredited Orchestra] was the name of my death metal band.

Why did you unalive it?

 

[Ojai Sam]

"One Of The World's Greatest Orchestras and Conductors" - World's Greatest Music: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 / Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (1938)

Who better to perform the World's Greatest Music than "One Of The World's Greatest Orchestras and Conductors" as identified on the label shown above? Their performance of Beethoven's Fifth is brisk and buoyant without seeming rushed. And the most important thing to bear in mind about Schubert's Eighth is

 

[axolotl]

"One Of The World's Greatest Orchestras and Conductors" - World's Greatest Music: Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 / Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (1938)

Who better to perform the World's Greatest Music than "One Of The World's Greatest Orchestras and Conductors" as identified on the label shown above? Their performance of Beethoven's Fifth is brisk and buoyant without seeming rushed. And the most important thing to bear in mind about Schubert's Eighth is

That took me a sec

 

[Ojai Sam]

 

[axolotl]

The first time I read that, I thought, "How do you floop a house?"

 

[Ojai Sam]

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Dennis Russell Davies, cond.) - Hans Rott: Symphony (comp. 1880, rec. 1998)

1001 Classical Recordings included this obscure (at least to me) composer among Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak. Punching above his weight? Not at all. Composed when he was just 22, this gorgeous symphony echoes both Brahms and Bruckner and was later reflected in the work of Mahler. Unfortunately, Rott died just three years later of tuberculosis after being confined to an insane asylum. His delusions of persecution led him to pull a gun on a fellow passenger because he believed that Brahms had put dynamite on the train. He left behind more than 20 compositions of which only this symphony has been extensively recorded.



Johann Nepomuk Karl Maria Rott
1858-1884

 

[axolotl]

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (Dennis Russell Davies, cond.) - Hans Rott: Symphony (comp. 1880, rec. 1998)

1001 Classical Recordings included this obscure (at least to me) composer among Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak. Punching above his weight? Not at all. Composed when he was just 22, this gorgeous symphony echoes both Brahms and Bruckner and was later reflected in the work of Mahler. Unfortunately, Rott died just three years later of tuberculosis after being confined to an insane asylum. His delusions of persecution led him to pull a gun on a fellow passenger because he believed that Brahms had put dynamite on the train. He left behind more than 20 compositions of which only this symphony has been extensively recorded.

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Johann Nepomuk Karl Maria Rott
1858-1884

What hath these Hans Rott?

 

[Nickyboy]

^^ And there's the name Nepomuk again!

 

[Ojai Sam]

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (Eugene Ormandy, cond.) - Sibelius: Symphony No. 1 (1935)



Before landing in Philadelphia, Eugene Ormandy served as the third music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra between 1931 and 1936. RCA Victor recorded his efforts in the Twin Cities prolifically in 1934 and 1935, somewhat surprising considering The Depression. Also surprising is that in 2022 Sony released an 11-CD box of his complete work with the MSO. Today's curious listener will enjoy the exposure to rarely heard composers like Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Zador, Arthur Honegger and Ermano Wolf-Ferrari, not to mention exciting new works by Roy Harris, John Alden Carpenter, even a Schoenberg debut. The usual suspects get their due as well. Recording in marathon sessions on their home stage at the University of Minnesota's Northrop Memorial Auditorium, the orchestra sparkles with an energy that was captured quite successfully by the skilled Victor engineers and remastered with equal skill in 24-96 by Nancy Conforti and Andreas Meyer. Each disc comes in a cardboard mini-LP sleeve like the one above.

on the Sam-O-Meter. Highest recommendation.

 

[Ojai Sam]

The Philadelphia Orchestra (Eugene Ormandy, cond.) - Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (excerpts) (Philips 45 RPM EP, 1960)

Vinyl Spin of the Day #2.

Today's odd format allows us to enjoy a soupcon of Tchaikovsky, four brief selections from Swan Lake on a 7" 45 rpm Extended Play record complete with picture sleeve and built-in spindle adapter. This release was actually one of more than 60 in a series called "Musikalische Edelsteine". Maybe the boys playing the jukebox at the gasthaus in Gotha got tired of hearing schlagers and called out for some ballet with their beer.

 

[axolotl]

Maybe the boys playing the jukebox at the gasthaus in Gotha got tired of hearing schlagers and called out for some ballet with their beer.

I think I will need to see a video of that.

Or, is this the ballyhooed Beer Hall Ballet Putsch (or, Busch)?