DG's "Westminster Legacy" box - catnip for nostalgia fans

[Don Petter]

Now that would be interesting, all those Vox Boxes. Loads of Barqoue music from German regional ensembles when unavailable anywhere else!! Decca used to issue LPs from them under the Turnabout budget label. Some of it has popped up here and there on CD, eg Locatalli Op3 with Lautenbacher, not Hip of course. I also a remember a Caldara Christmas Cantata, nice piece but the recording used a truly out of tune soprano!! One real favourite was a cello concerto by Porpora a slightly later contemporary of Handel who also worked in London.

There has been quite a bit of VOX on CD. I'm just listening to a Milhaud double VOXBOX and on the notes are listed some 56 other double VOXBOXs (variously CDX 5000 - CDX 5100) and 24 3CD VOXBOXs (CD3X 3000 - CD3X 3029 & CDX3 3500, CDX3 3501).

So that's not far short of 200 CDs - rather more than the Westminsters, in fact!

[richardfinegold]

Free sample track to download if you register on the DG site:

http://my.deutschegrammophon.com/buzz-material/details/186

(Plus from their other new albums: http://my.deutschegrammophon.com/buzz-material )

One of my very first classical lps was a Westminster, but it does not seem to be included in this collection. I was able to track it down as a cD reissue a few years ago and have played it frequently. It was the 19 year old Daniel Barenboim in the Beethoven Third Concerto and the Choral Fantasy with Lazlo Somogyi (a musician about whom I know nothing else, but leads very exciting accounts of these works).
Stateside, the cover of this album showed a topless woman holding a bust of Beethoven over each breast, which was probably part of the appeal to my raging hormonal 15 year old self, but the fiery versions helped ignite my lifelong admiration of LvB.

[Nick Armstrong]

...the 19 year old Daniel Barenboim in the Beethoven Third Concerto and the Choral Fantasy with Lazlo Somogyi ...
Stateside, the cover of this album showed a topless woman holding a bust of Beethoven over each breast, which was probably part of the appeal to my raging hormonal 15 year old self

The past is another country - they do things differently there...

[richardfinegold]

The past is another country - they do things differently there...

Good grief, Cali,haven't seen that in years! I had always wanted to meet that young woman and discuss music with her...and whatever else came to mind....

[Stunsworth]

An interesting bust.

[Nick Armstrong]

A chance to hear some of the set on CD Review tomorrow...

11.20am - 11.45am
The Westminster Legacy Collector’s Edition

http://www.deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4792343

(40 CDs budget)