Why won't they release it?

[makropulos]

Tortelier and Sargent in the Dvorak Cello Concerto .

It's virtually impossible to find, but EMI France did release that on CD years ago on EMI CMS 7640692 which was a set of (I think) 4 CDs. So it would be easy for Warner/EMI to put it out again. I remember having it on a Concert Classics LP.

[makropulos]

The Campoli/Pritchard Beethoven Violin Concerto

This might be worth a look: http://www.highdeftapetransfers.com/...nload-p810.php

There is an option to buy a physical disc (CD or DVD) as well as flac downloads.

[frankwm]

The Wolff was on a 1991 Decca 'Weekend Classics' (433 088): ramshackle playing, as usual, 'under his baton' (have the original LXT + ECS).
The Boult (stunningly dreary) also a 1962 45ep with Alwyn/Britten (SEC5119) - CHARM missed the mono (CEP736).

The Campoli/Beethoven is disappointingly performed (CfP reissue): you'd be nutz to pay for a dubbing of a stereo 3.75ips tape (Oz version: not on UK WRC -who only released mono tapes) - but the Tortelier (2 new copies of the original mono ALP) is splendid.

[Pabmusic]

It's strange that this seems never to have made it to CD. Since it wasn't originally a regular EMI recording (wasn't it on a label called Waverley?), it didn't get into the big EMI Boult/Elgar box that has so many great things in it.

It's some consolation that while we don't have Boult's SNO Elgar 2, we do now have his live BBCSO performance from the 1977 Proms on ICA Classics which is something of a marvel. And that's as well as the HMV set originally on 78s, the Lyrita and EMI studio recordings, and... (off the top of my head, that's it, but I may well have missed one).

We don't have his recordings with Cherkassky (Grieg, Schumann, Tchai 1 & Litolff), or his recording of the Mendelssohn VC with Maureen Smith (very good indeed).

Here's an old post of mine (no. 53):

http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?6002-Sir-Adrian-Boult-From-Bach-to-Wagner/page6&highlight=boult+pabmusic

[kea]

Schubert's String Quintet D. 956 - Taneyev Quartet & Mstislav Rostropovich. Recorded 1963 for Melodiya, transferred to stereo (not very well imo) by Westminster in 1974, listed as an upcoming release by DG in ~2010 and subsequently un-personed from DG's website and Amazon. I don't know what happened (legal issues with Melodiya? too many competing versions in print in DG's catalogue?) but it's one of the great unknown recordings of this work and definitely deserving of a CD release. Perhaps more deserving than, say, the Rostropovich & Melos Quartet that's been making the rounds of reissues for years now.

(Also seconding CONSTRUCTION. Regardless of what the composer may think, I'm a plebeian and more than satisfied with listening to Dark Matter and Opening of the Mouth in meagre stereo 16/44.1. Additionally wish to nominate Dillon's Nine Rivers)

[Don Petter]

It's strange that this seems never to have made it to CD. Since it wasn't originally a regular EMI recording (wasn't it on a label called Waverley?), it didn't get into the big EMI Boult/Elgar box that has so many great things in it.

The Waverley LP I've always waited for is of Cedric Thorpe-Davie's cantata 'The Jolly Beggars'. Quite a fun piece, as I recall.

[verismissimo]

... I wish they would release a CD of Shostakovich's symphony no. 12, with Georges Prêtre conducting - I think - the Philharmonia. It was a CfP release in the 1970s.

Found it. One of my earliest DSCH symphony recordings (alongside the wonderful live Mravinsky 8). (P) 1963. I'll give it a spin, arthritic orchestra or not.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Speaking of things brassy, one of Andrew Davis's first recordings was a programme called "Crown Imperial" (CFP198) that included the only recording I've ever come across of Bliss's arrangement of the National Anthem, which I remember as being rather wonderful. I don't think that's ever been on CD either - though most of the LP has been reissued. I'd love someone to tell me I'm wrong about that.

I remember that very fondly - jazzy and upbeat, it actually made the dreary tune sound worth listening to! (The antipode of Britten's "equally but opposite" gently reflective setting.) I'd love to hear it again.

[Alison]

Let's have a relaunch of Classics for Pleasure!

[pastoralguy]

I have a few of these Waverly Lps and 45rpm singles of the SNO under Gibson and they're pretty good. I wonder what happened to the tapes. Waverly's offices were in Home Street in Edinburgh but there is scant information about them. The Boult/SNO/ Elgar 2 was released on CfP in the 70's which makes me wonder if they ended up with their tapes went they disappeared.

I wonder if the RSNO would have any information.

[martin_opera]

It's Just out on Australian Eloquence: ELQ4807277

:)

or maybe that should be it is notoriously un-Bellini. Thanks for the tip.

[cloughie]

Let's have a relaunch of Classics for Pleasure!

Good idea - they could bring out a good Loughran box!

[martin_opera]

It's on release, but can we have a sensibly priced Kubelik Parsifal? It's 2014 and we don't pay £36 for a 4 CD set, anymore.

Agreed. Ditto the Meistersinger.

[amateur51]

Let's have a relaunch of Classics for Pleasure!

Great idea Alison!

Second the motion!

[visualnickmos]

Let's have a relaunch of Classics for Pleasure!

What a great idea! There are some real gems on that label...