Classic FM Magazine: A Guilty Secret

[Ferretfancy]

I still have the Kempe set on LP in its original SQ Quad format. I seem to remember that it got rather indifferent reviews when it was first issued, but I got it because I admire Kempe. I shall have to take it of the shelf again.

The Cluytens /BPO was the first complete stereo set on LP, and was recorded a couple of years before the first Karajan set on DG, which rather eclipsed it.
These are fine performances, but I think they are only available on CD in a bumper Beethoven box from EMI Classics.Since this includes the Ferras performances of the Violin Sonatas, Gilels in the Piano Concertos, and many other gems, it's a real bargain on 50 CDs if you can still find it.

[Parry1912]

Ah, the voice of experience... !

[Chris Newman]

I feel most guilty about yet another New World. Does James Loughran still conduct? I recall he worked a lot in Scandinavia after he left the Halle. (Nine seasons of LNOTP must mean he was just pipped to the post by Andrew Davis as the most LN concerts after Timber).

[Curalach]

Does James Loughran still conduct? I recall he worked a lot in Scandinavia after he left the Halle.

I ran into him just the other week at the MacMillan St John Passion concert in Glasgow and again at the Royal Conservatoire. He plays golf regularly with a mutual friend. He is now 80 and has restricted his conducting activities to a bare minimum as his wife does not keep well.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Curalach

May I impose upon you to impose upon your mutual friend to pass on to James Loughran my heartand mindfelt thanks for the pleasure his Music Making in concert and on Disc has given to me over the past 35 years. He was a substantial part of both my education and lifelong love of Music: I so wish he'd recorded the Bruckner #6 he gave with the Halle in Leeds in the early '80s - or, for that matter, the Schonberg Variations.

Best Wishes.

[Curalach]

fhg,
Happy to do so. In fact I'll be seeing him on Sunday.
Iain

[hafod]

The Cluytens /BPO was the first complete stereo set on LP, and was recorded a couple of years before the first Karajan set on DG, which rather eclipsed it.
These are fine performances, but I think they are only available on CD in a bumper Beethoven box from EMI Classics.Since this includes the Ferras performances of the Violin Sonatas, Gilels in the Piano Concertos, and many other gems, it's a real bargain on 50 CDs if you can still find it.

Until very recently that was the case but EMI France has issued the symphony set on its own. Best price to my knowledge is £8.99 at HMV.

http://hmv.com/hmvweb/displayProductDetails.do?ctx=280;-1;-1;-1;-1&sku=924016

[kuligin]

Curalach

May I impose upon you to impose upon your mutual friend to pass on to James Loughran my heartand mindfelt thanks for the pleasure his Music Making in concert and on Disc has given to me over the past 35 years. He was a substantial part of both my education and lifelong love of Music: I so wish he'd recorded the Bruckner #6 he gave with the Halle in Leeds in the early '80s - or, for that matter, the Schonberg Variations.

Best Wishes.

And please add my thanks too, I recall particularly a wonderful Mahler 6, I played my vinyl Brahms 2 only the other day with great pleasure

[IRF]

In my reckless youth I purchased a couple of issues of Classic FM magazine, only to find that the CDs contained extracts, not complete works. Am I undersdtanding correctly that they are now offering complete works?

[MickyD]

...you can laugh, but at least we were discreet in those days!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

fhg,
Happy to do so. In fact I'll be seeing him on Sunday.
Iain

[amateur51]

Curalach

May I impose upon you to impose upon your mutual friend to pass on to James Loughran my heartand mindfelt thanks for the pleasure his Music Making in concert and on Disc has given to me over the past 35 years. He was a substantial part of both my education and lifelong love of Music: I so wish he'd recorded the Bruckner #6 he gave with the Halle in Leeds in the early '80s - or, for that matter, the Schonberg Variations.
Best Wishes.

I can add only that I once served him in Liberty's record department in London in the mid-70s and 'recognised' him discreetly, telling him that we sold shedloads on his CfP LPs and cassettes. He was a thorough gent with a lovely sense of humour, had a nice chat with my colleagues & unknowingly assured himself even greater sales to other shoppers who wanted to know afterwards 'Who was that??'

Please add by heartfelt thanks to him, Curalach - he is most fondly remembered

[Curalach]

It will give me great pleasure to pass on all your good wishes. He really is a very nice man.

[Barbirollians]

His Brahms Symphonies on CfP are terrific and have given me a great deal of pleasure over the years. Wish him well from me too.

[Dave2002]

I ran into him just the other week at the MacMillan St John Passion concert in Glasgow and again at the Royal Conservatoire. He plays golf regularly with a mutual friend. He is now 80 and has restricted his conducting activities to a bare minimum as his wife does not keep well.

I liked JL, even though he once beat me at table tennis!

I saw the CFM disc though, and wasn't sure that I really needed yet another Dvorak 9, so left it alone. The Horenstein Mahler was a terrific find, though I've still not figured out an easy way to get that ripped to hard drive.