sandbox classical

Been hitting blogs of out of print historical recordings for a few months now, in part due to your Badura-Skora tip pointing me to a few good ones. remarkable to hear how drastically performance styles have already changed from the 30s/40s. And 50's hifi is already nothing to laugh at.

Charles Ives - a radical insult and tie, premiere recordings - lo-fi but Brute Force! Even the sentimental 3rd (which I love so so much and will listen to any version of)
Furtwangler conducts Mozart Piano Concertos
Ben Johnston - Microtonal Piano, Philip Bush

/Radical In Suit And Tie

But as always autocorrect gets at the truth of things

You're right oPal, I guess I can't read roman numerals :|

I need to dive into more of this stuff when I'm not performing it; I just went on a Messiah binge the last two weeks because I was singing "The People That Walked In Darkness" at a recital on Tuesday and I am on the verge of a full-on opera binge starting with Mahagonny because the company I used to perform with is dissolving as of Jan 1.

oh man I only have Furtwangler doing Bruckner & the Sigfried Idyll but it's ace, interested in that Mozart!

Rameau - Hippolyte et Aricie, Dardanus, Platée

Dardanus is beautiful, need to finally hear Platee. I want to get into the earlier Italian operas too: Monteverdi, Caccini, et al.

Bought myself the new Riccardo Chailly set of Beethoven Symphonies on Decca as a birthday present.

ooooooh I should hear that, Chailly is great in my book

http://www.amazon.com/Symphony-No-Charles-Critical-Clothbound/dp/1458418480