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  • amateur51

    #91
    The title "Exceptional recordings" can also be read to include those which are exceptionally bad.

    Over to you

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    • visualnickmos
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      • Nov 2010
      • 3610

      #92
      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
      The title "Exceptional recordings" can also be read to include those which are exceptionally bad.

      Over to you
      Now - this will be something!

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        #93
        Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
        The title "Exceptional recordings" can also be read to include those which are exceptionally bad.

        Over to you
        I take exception to this suggestion.
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • Barbirollians
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          • Nov 2010
          • 11709

          #94
          Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
          The title "Exceptional recordings" can also be read to include those which are exceptionally bad.

          Over to you
          Surely a new thread will be required for this .

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          • Don Petter

            #95
            Originally posted by umslopogaas View Post
            Don Petter, do not be put off Glenn Gould because he is a bit cultish (he is). He is also unique and wonderful. Try his Bach recordings, you wont be disappointed.

            I think I have an LP of Lupu playing Brahms somewhere, must dig it out.
            Can't stand Bach on the piano, so that wouldn't work! Might dip a toe into his Brahms, though.

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            • cloughie
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              • Dec 2011
              • 22128

              #96
              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post


              Go on; try "Riccardo Chailly"!

              EDIT: Now, if only he conducted some G&S ...
              The other week the sun was out - I was holidaying in Filey
              Saw a distinguished man with a broken arm - was it Riccardo Chailly?

              ...well you did ask ferney!

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              • Bryn
                Banned
                • Mar 2007
                • 24688

                #97
                Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                The title "Exceptional recordings" can also be read to include those which are exceptionally bad.

                Over to you
                Damn you! I was about to start a thread titled "Exceptionable recordings". I won't now.

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                • vinteuil
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12846

                  #98
                  ... it's surprising, but I seem to have very few CDs which I wd count as exceptionally bad, by which I mean that the listening to them causes real exasperation.

                  For the moment I can only think of the unforgiveably dull Lester Scarlatti -



                  and the - so surprisingly - leaden Giulini Franck Symphony -

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                  • Eine Alpensinfonie
                    Host
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 20570

                    #99
                    Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                    The other week the sun was out - I was holidaying in Filey
                    Saw a distinguished man with a broken arm - was it Riccardo Chailly?

                    ...well you did ask ferney!
                    I've lived in Filey for 13 years and that's the first poem to come to my attention.

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                    • Nick Armstrong
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                      • Nov 2010
                      • 26540

                      Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                      the - so surprisingly - leaden Giulini Franck Symphony
                      By current reckoning I'd be tempted to term Franck's Symphony 'exceptional', tout court....
                      "...the isle is full of noises,
                      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12846

                        Originally posted by cloughie View Post
                        The other week the sun was out - I was holidaying in Filey
                        Saw a distinguished man with a broken arm - was it Riccardo Chailly?
                        Some might think that Chailly
                        Rhymes with Filey
                        Others would contend, drily
                        That the only rhyme for Chailly
                        Is Bill Nighy

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                        • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                          Gone fishin'
                          • Sep 2011
                          • 30163

                          Cloughie's was better than anything I could come up with, but vinty gets the prize!
                          [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                          • Eine Alpensinfonie
                            Host
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 20570

                            There's nothing like a bit of poetic licence.

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                            • umslopogaas
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 1977

                              Don Petter #95, I have a CD of Gould's 1959 recital at the Salzburg Festival, which he gave early in his career. Apart from the Goldbergs, which you clearly wont like, there are works by Sweelinck (Fantasia in D), Mozart (sonata K.330) and Schoenberg (Piano Suite op. 25). its a Sony Classical CD, SMK 53474. Well worth a try if you can find a copy. As someone else noted, Gould's Schoenberg is in its way as special as his Bach.

                              I also have a six CD set of Gould recordings, of which only one and a half are devoted to Bach. The rest include Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Weber, Brahms, Schoenberg, Webern and Krenek. Some of these are marked as previously unissued. The CDs are issued by West Hill Radio Archives, WHRA 6038. The recordings were mostly made live and the sound quality isnt marvellous, but I dont remember any serious problems with it.

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                              • cloughie
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2011
                                • 22128

                                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                                Some might think that Chailly
                                Rhymes with Filey
                                Others would contend, drily
                                That the only rhyme for Chailly
                                Is Bill Nighy
                                If upon this one dwells
                                Chailly's two silent Ls
                                You may find there's a guy
                                Who's name is John Fahey

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