Exceptional recordings

[amateur51]

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

Over to you

[visualnickmos]

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

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Now - this will be something!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

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

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I take exception to this suggestion.

[Barbirollians]

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

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Surely a new thread will be required for this .

[Don Petter]

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.

[cloughie]

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!

[Bryn]

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.

[vinteuil]

... 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 -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0091EF2YK

and the - so surprisingly - leaden Giulini Franck Symphony -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000083Y2X

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

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.

[Nick Armstrong]

the - so surprisingly - leaden Giulini Franck Symphony

By current reckoning I'd be tempted to term Franck's Symphony 'exceptional', tout court....

[vinteuil]

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

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Cloughie's was better than anything I could come up with, but vinty gets the prize!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's nothing like a bit of poetic licence.

[umslopogaas]

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.

[cloughie]

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