BaL 15.12.18 - Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks

[Bryn]

Do you mean Clemens Krauss, Pet? . . . (Nowadays available in a DECCA box: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Krauss-cond.../dp/B00IY372CY )


Not necessarily - Strauss was one of those composers who went around telling conductors that their performance of his work was the very best he'd ever heard (even if he'd never heard the performance). Plenty of conductors who never met him have recorded fine recordings of Till.

More likely this:

[cloughie]

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Do you mean Clemens Krauss, Pet?

No he means ECS674 originally on RCA and the mono was on RCA Victrola VIC1004.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

More likely this:

No he means ECS674 originally on RCA and the mono was on RCA Victrola VIC1004.

Aha! Apologies to Pet. (I even remember seeing the cover in the shops)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's a work I've played many times and it's great fun to 'execute!'

Once you get the hang of it.

[cloughie]

Once you get the hang of it.

But Till then.....

[BBMmk2]

I have Karajan, don’t know which one, also Jansons with the Bavarians and Kemp’s with the Dresedeners!

[Beef Oven!]

I have Karajan, don’t know which one

Herbert?

[cloughie]

Herbert?

Only von?

With reference back to Reiner - still a favourite and a great example of the sound the Decca engineers produced in the late 50s.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Only von?

Nope:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeopDniOkYc

[Bryn]

Aha! Apologies to Pet. (I even remember seeing the cover in the shops)

The image I offered was used for the SACD version. One which I failed to get when I bought a few from the series a good while back, when they were onoffer at around £7 each. You can square that, these days [or around £40 on ebay, at the moment].

[Petrushka]

Aha! Apologies to Pet. (I even remember seeing the cover in the shops)

Yes, that's the one. The performance of Tod und Verklärung on the same disc is terrific.

[Keraulophone]

I do love a good alluvial fan...

Strauss was one of those composers who went around telling conductors that their performance of his work was the very best he'd ever heard

Wasn’t William Walton another of those?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I do love a good alluvial fan...

Probably more environmentally friendly than an electric one.

Wasn’t William Walton another of those?

Yes!

[Keraulophone]

Probably more environmentally friendly than an electric one.

So environmentally friendly that a pair of them have joined to divide the ribbon lake and create new fertile lowland, useful as a crossing point, for settlement and for agriculture.

I don’t have one of those fancy Dyson fans, but I’ve just listened to my handheld vacuum cleaner and discovered that it’s a ‘Dyson in D’ (a Hoffnungesque addition to the organ part perhaps?).

[Petrushka]

I’m not certain of how many BPO/Karajan versions there are.

Just to answer this: there are two, one recorded in 1972/3 and the other in 1986. As mentioned by BeefO in #8, Karajan also recorded it with the Philharmonia in 1951.There is, in addition, a Decca recording from 1960 with the VPO. By HvK standards then, not as often as one might have expected.