Remember Collins Classics? :-)

[Alison]

I've got an excellent recording of Rachmaninov 2 with the Philharmonia and Kaspszyk.

I bought a lot of these Collins CDs at the time I was beginning to form my own collection. Others discs with Kaspszyk and the Philharmonia were The Franck Symphony, Verdi Overtures and a Johann Strauss collection.

[Stunsworth]

A number are available to stream or download from Qobuz...

http://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/label/collins-classics/download-streaming-albums?qref=dac_3

[neiltingley]

Rachmaninov Pc 1 & 2 with Ogdon and Rhozhdestvensky/ LSO. So hard to find JO in good form in the later years though so these are hit and miss.

I am really really keen to find a recording of JO in Rach 3. There's a bootleg concert form Perth / BBCSSO kicking about but it's so compressed it's hard to make much of it.

The JO set of Rachmaninov solo music that made it's way into an EMI boxed set was originally recorded for Collins but never released. I'd have preferred it had stayed out of the public 'ear' because the playing is at best very uneven. I wonder who produced this stuff! Surely with the right coaxing they could have got much cleaner performances from him. AListair Hinton was a lot more successful. (The Bach_Busoni disk is nearly magisterial - even if a little fluffy at times, JO was in commanding form for most of it).

[Roehre]

Antiphonies was conducted by Michael Gielen....

I was there [the Concertgebouw that is] and I still have a cassette tape of that performance as well as the CD which was produced by Collins.

for me Collins is the label for Britten, Maxwell Davies, Birtwistle, Hugh Wood, Scharwenka (piano concertos), Holloway, and on the "single" CDs Mason and David Matthews e.g.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I was there [the Concertgebouw that is] and I still have a cassette tape of that performance as well as the CD which was produced by Collins.

The London performance was particularly memorable to me - not only the Birtwistle "premiere", but a superb Schönberg's Film Music and a lithe complete Pulcinella.

And the last time I chatted to Steve Martland

[Dave2002]

Yep, I had all those Collins releases, back in the day. A lot of our CDs overlap, it seems.

One Collins Classics that was a favourite of mine was this Strauss disc. Spectacular sound quality and great performances.

Still available - apparently - on eBay for £1.15.

After an hour or so of faffing, and remembering/looking up my eBay and payment passwords (I don't use the sites very often ...) I managed to place an order for this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lso-Lso-Jacek-Kaspszyk-Strauss-Don-Juan-Till-Eulen-CD-/380951452717?pt=UK_CDsDVDs_CDs_CDs_GL&hash=item58b279dc2d

[soileduk]

Still available - apparently - on eBay for £1.15.

After an hour or so of faffing, and remembering/looking up my eBay and payment passwords (I don't use the sites very often ...) I managed to place an order for this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lso-Lso-Ja...item58b279dc2d

At £1.15 it's got to be worth a punt …

I have only a few examples of Kaspszyk 's work, the Argerich & Lugano Festival sets of 2010,11 and 12 and the Cd accord Lutoslawski : Opera Omnia vols 5 and 6

[Beef Oven!]

At £1.15 it's got to be worth a punt …

Ireland joined the European Monetary System (EMS) which began operation on 13th March 1979. Initially the Irish Punt kept parity with Pound Sterling but on 30th March 1979 the link was broken when sterling broke the fluctuation limits set for the Irish Punt. I don't recall it ever being £1.15

[soileduk]

Yep, I had all those Collins releases, back in the day. A lot of our CDs overlap, it seems.

One Collins Classics that was a favourite of mine was this Strauss disc. Spectacular sound quality and great performances.

Still available - apparently - on eBay for £1.15.

After an hour or so of faffing, and remembering/looking up my eBay and payment passwords (I don't use the sites very often ...) I managed to place an order for this.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lso-Lso-Ja...item58b279dc2d

This arrived today and is suffering terminal Bronzing. All who may have bought this or even have a copy already please check. Also I'd advise checking all your PDO manufactured discs.

[Dave2002]

This arrived today and is suffering terminal Bronzing. All who may have bought this or even have a copy already please check. Also I'd advise checking all your PDO manufactured discs.

Does it play at all? Sorry if not. If it does then it should be possible to make a copy. I've not had my CD yet.

[Beef Oven!]

This arrived today and is suffering terminal Bronzing. All who may have bought this or even have a copy already please check. Also I'd advise checking all your PDO manufactured discs.

My copy that I bought more than 20 years ago is quite bronzed, but it plays and I ripped it to iTunes without difficulty.

Try it, it might be ok.

[soileduk]

Ripped using EAC, although I don't really have a clue how to use it, in Wave and Flac (I think ) Log files show 99.8% for track quality in the first 9 tracks but 9 differences in track 10 and 22 in track 11.

[Dave2002]

This arrived today and is suffering terminal Bronzing. All who may have bought this or even have a copy already please check. Also I'd advise checking all your PDO manufactured discs.

My copy arrived. One complaint is that the disc case is smashed to bits, but I can replace that. The CD itself looks pretty normal and the booklet is OK. I played through the Also Sprach this afternoon. What I heard was splendid, though I'll revisit this, and blast the neighbours in a few days. Maybe expectation bias, but it did have quite a feel of a live concert, and a good one at that.

I'm assuming that bronzing would be fairly obvious - the CD I received as I mentioned looked reasonably normal.

There still seem to be 4 discs available - so I'd definitely recommend it - http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Lso-Lso-Ja...item58b279dc2d

If anyone gets stuck with a copy they can't play or rip, then I might be able to help out.

Are there any other really good Collins recommendations?

[visualnickmos]

Are there any other really good Collins recommendations?

Beethoven: Sym No 3 'Eroica' LSO/Fruhbeck de Burgos

[Dave2002]

Beethoven: Sym No 3 'Eroica' LSO/Fruhbeck de Burgos

Do you think this is the same one?

http://open.spotify.com/track/2ypr9RJJmsV6HtVrMwuGD5

Perhaps some of those turned up in one of Brilliant's box sets - though not in the current sets I think.