Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.

[Barbirollians]

If anyone is looking for a Beethoven piano concertos set that is terrifically stimulating I see that Amazon have the wonderful Friedrich Gulda/Horst Stein set new for just £10.26 .

[Cockney Sparrow]

If anyone is looking for a Beethoven piano concertos set that is terrifically stimulating I see that Amazon have the wonderful Friedrich Gulda/Horst Stein set new for just £10.26 .

I had it on vinyl as my first purchase and got it on CD re-issue - pleased to find after all these years it is well regarded. (I found it on a Brilliant Big Beethoven box but care was needed - there are different contents in different boxes from them).

[Barbirollians]

I think it is terrific - now one of my favourite sets and preposterously cheap. In the early concertos his influence on Argerich is quite striking .

[cloughie]

If anyone is looking for a Beethoven piano concertos set that is terrifically stimulating I see that Amazon have the wonderful Friedrich Gulda/Horst Stein set new for just £10.26 .

There’s also the12 cd set with complete sonatas for just short of £26! I have the PCs on Belart, there were some great reissues on the label.

[Bryn]

There’s also the12 cd set with complete sonatas for just short of £26! I have the PCs on Belart, there were some great reissues on the label.

Just a word of warning. IIRC, the Universal (Decca/DG/Philips/et al) set of the sonatas is fake surround processed (AMSI). The Brilliant Classis option is, I think, straight stereo. Long a favourite survey since their Philips LP manifestation (which, itself, was not the first, I think).

[Barbirollians]

Heavens above - what an extraordinarily beautiful and moving performance of Kol Nidrei by Du Pre & Barbirolli on Record Review just now .

[johnb]

I agree.

I was half listening to the programme while doing other things but the Kil Nidrei just stopped me in my tracks.

[Nimrod]

I agree.

I was half listening to the programme while doing other things but the Kil Nidrei just stopped me in my tracks.

Me too, quite breathtaking.

[edashtav]

Me too, quite breathtaking.

I agree... when two cellists come together in complete accord...

[Cockney Sparrow]

And the full performance in the programme is available on the iPlayer (and in m4a - AAC - file format, by other means....).

[Barbirollians]

I had ordered the CD after about ten bars !

[visualnickmos]

I had ordered the CD after about ten bars !

Can you give a CD reference - sounds excellent.
Merci

[Barbirollians]

Can you give a CD reference - sounds excellent.
Merci

It is a new Barbirolli Society CD 1965 Broadcast Concert

[visualnickmos]

It is a new Barbirolli Society CD 1965 Broadcast Concert

Many thanks. I rather like those Barbirolli Society CDs. I only have two, though! Quality over quantity.

[Barbirollians]

I suspect you will not regret adding this as a third.