Deutsche Grammophon.

[vinteuil]

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... each day has had a theme - Monday obsessive numeromania, Tuesday faith and Holy Mother Church, Wednesday Wagner, Thursday revision mania, Friday the Curse of the Ninth.

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[Ein Heldenleben]

You really have got exemplary recall ! To be fair the dodgy trumpets were part of a performance where the brass generally covered themselves in glory . These days they'd surely retake ....

[Richard Tarleton]

I have a fine DGG tulip label stereo LP set of the 1966 Jochum Der Freischutz with Waechter, Seefried, Streich etc - the LPs are reassuringly thick and heavy, and are numbered 1/3 and 2/4 so that you can put them on a stacking record player

[Dave2002]

I have a fine DGG tulip label stereo LP set of the 1966 Jochum Der Freischutz with Waechter, Seefried, Streich etc - the LPs are reassuringly thick and heavy, and are numbered 1/3 and 2/4 so that you can put them on a stacking record player

I rather like some of Kubelik's Mahler symphonies - which IIRC were on DG. In particular, number 1 and number 8. Since it has also been mentioned, some Heliodor discs, which may have originally been on DG at higher prices were good - Borodin symphonies and Haydn Masses - but these were significantly cheaper than the DG full price LPs.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I have a fine DGG tulip label stereo LP set of the 1966 Jochum Der Freischutz with Waechter, Seefried, Streich etc - the LPs are reassuringly thick and heavy, and are numbered 1/3 and 2/4 so that you can put them on a stacking record player

I had a Messiah set of 3 LPs like that.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Eee! Tha's posh!

(I literally had to stick a microphone with masking tape to one of the speakers. I got the Bernstein Mahler #6 onto a C90 tape, but it only fit if you recorded the Andante after the first Movement: I got to know the work in what has become the fashionable order of the middle two movements by "default"!)

At least you can do that with Mahler 6.

[John Wright]

Ace of Diamonds was an aptly named label, most of them were absolute gems!

Ah yes that was the Decca SDD series of LPs, a reissue series of earlier superb Decca SXL series. Looking at my shelves I have a good number of SDD series (and just a few SXL) all charity shop acquisitions. The SPA series were what I was buying in the 60s, I think that series was of new recordings. SPA are very common in charity shops.

[cloughie]

Ah yes that was the Decca SDD series of LPs, a reissue series of earlier superb Decca SXL series. Looking at my shelves I have a good number of SDD series (and just a few SXL) all charity shop acquisitions. The SPA series were what I was buying in the 60s, I think that series was of new recordings. SPA are very common in charity shops.

SPA - World of series. A mixture of SXL reissues and RCA recordings made by Decca after RCA relinquished it Decca ties!
These included a number of Monteux recordings.

[pastoralguy]

Thanks again for all the interesting posts.

[jayne lee wilson]

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... if you think of it as a 'substantially illustrated lecture' rather than as a concert, then I think it's all right. I have been enjoying it (and learning from it).

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The note to the 'Curse of the 9th" on the CotW is woefully out-of-date and misrepresents the situation badly, as thanks to the heroic efforts of several scholars, the finale now exists as a well-developed continuous sketch, right up to the coda (maybe someone will find that in a library one day...).... of which various excellent recordings are now available, of slightly different completions.

The lowdown...

https://www.abruckner.com/discography/symphonyno9indmino/

[jayne lee wilson]

Going off-topic, it occurs to me that belonging to the Record dept of the local Libraries in my teens was like a sort-of "proto streaming service": you'd pay your 50p, take the record away, then bring it back the next week having sampled, but not owned what you listened to.

Good point - turn it around and a high-quality streaming service (like the wonderful new Qobuz Studio) is very like having a well-stocked record library in your house (going way beyond your own tastes and choices), which you use in just the same way - to explore, experiment, try out and compare... few of the downsides and most of the upsides of libraries themselves, and the pleasure of having your own on-request radio station too, if you choose to so use it....

Search for DG(G) on Qobuz, and browse through all those lovely yellow DGG cartouches (what a lovely mot juste to be reminded of - thanks, Parry ) in large hi-res images, going back to the 1950s....and yes - most of them have the booklet.

[Petrushka]

I had a Messiah set of 3 LPs like that.

I've still got one! Walter Susskind and the LPO?

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I've still got one! Walter Susskind and the LPO?

That was the one - Pye, I think.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The SPA series were what I was buying in the 60s, I think that series was of new recordings. SPA are very common in charity shops.

Mostly 1970s I think, though a few may have been around in the very late 60s.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Mostly 1970s I think, though a few may have been around in the very late 60s.

As cloughie points out in #53, most of the Decca "World of ... " series had SPA numberings, too. SPA 1 was "The World of Mantovani", released in 1968, but there was also Mahler, Tommy Steele, Bach, John Mayall (two volumes), Edmondo Ross ...