Mahler 4 VPO/Walter Hilde Gueden 1955 a heads up

[Barbirollians]

Oh, but with such wonders-full Music, and such beautiful playing, don't you wish it could go on longer? Without the repeats, the Finale here is under three minutes! It's like being naked with somebody beautiful, only for them to say "It'll have to be a quickie - I've got to catch a bus in five minutes".

Just played Knappertsbusch's Schubert 7/8/9 (D944). Fabulous performance, particularly the first two Movements - some bouts of "interpretation" in the last two that require some indulgence - but throughout, an astonishing clarity from the inner voices, which really sing out without ever obscuring either the hauptstimmen or the underlying bass line. Remarkable Music-making.

Fair enough

[ARBurton]

C......Krauss in an unusual coupling of the Missa Solemnis (showing the pre-HIPP tradition at its very finest) and the Pulcinella Suite (worth hearing only to demonstrate how rubbish this orchestra used to be outside its regular repertoire)......; s.

That Krauss Missa Solemnis, curiously was the first recording I`d heard which got me hooked on the work. I remember reviews being quite negative about it - someone described the sound as "sand-blasted" - but it`s an amazing performance indeed. And thought provoking to hear the multiple choral lines of "pacem...pacem..." (peace) in 1940 Austria...

[Barbirollians]

That Krauss Missa Solemnis, curiously was the first recording I`d heard which got me hooked on the work. I remember reviews being quite negative about it - someone described the sound as "sand-blasted" - but it`s an amazing performance indeed. And thought provoking to hear the multiple choral lines of "pacem...pacem..." (peace) in 1940 Austria...

Yes I think Richard Osborne used that term in his Feb 1992 review in Gramophone.