My new blog

paulrterry1921
May 31, 2019
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For the past 10 years, I have operated a website devoted to historic recordings of classical music ( historic-recordings.co.uk ). As this is becoming very time-consuming, I am running it down & replacing it with this blog, on which I will post freely-downloadable recordings from time to time.

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Sir Adrian Boult conducts Vaughan Williams

Another item that seems to have slipped through the cracks. Boult made two visits to Vienna in 1959 to record for Westminster: Holst's "The Planets" & the two Vaughan Williams fantasies (Tallis & Gree

Adrian Boult's 1953 "Planets"

In 1953, Sir Adrian Boult recorded Holst's "The Planets" for Pye / Nixa. This mono recording was replaced a few years later by a stereo version on Westminster, with the Vienna State Opera Orchestra. W

Earl Wild plays Liszt

This repertoire suits Mr. Wild, and this recording seems to be out of circulation. Contents: 1. Ballade No. 2 in B minor 2. Tarantelle di bravura (after La Muette de Portici by Auber) 3. Petrarch Sonn

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thorel.jean

Jun 16, 2019

Wishing you all the best for your new blog !

dmclarke78

Jun 15, 2019

Swoboda... Do you have any of those old 10" Musical Masterpiece Society mail-order LPs? Or Music Treasures of the World? I belonged to all those "clubs" when I was a kid.

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