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I love a fried egg - not with bacon but with dry-fried large, flat mushrooms (you cook them first, then store in a hot oven), chopped hot chillies and tomatoes...
Perhaps I should try to get these. Do you know what piano he plays in these recordings?
Hi David, sry - missed that thread ...
For all his Mozart sonata and variation recordings, Brautigam plays a Walter fortepiano (1805) — a replica built by Paul McNulty (Amsterdam) in 1992; Walter fortepiani are marvelous instruments, indeed! I don't have CDs of Mozart concerts with Brautigam, so there I can't tell the instrument. For his Beethoven concert recordings (with Andrew Parrot) he uses a modern concert grand (Steinway D). For most Beethoven works for solo piano he also uses Walter instruments, for the late Beethoven he then switches to a Graf replica (1819), and for the earliest works he uses a Stein replica (1788) - all by McNulty.
Last edited by Guest; 22-09-12, 17:27.
Reason: typos
I find the JEG Bach Cantata CD covers a bit odd - & slightly exploitative, even though they are stock images & not taken especially for the CDs.
But 'irrelevant' images aren't new - was it Ace of Clubs or Eclipse that used pictures of National Trust properties?
Classics for Pleasure had quite a few . I am sure Horenstein's Mahler 4 had a picture of Norfolk on the cover and my old EMI Eminence LPs of Jochum's LSO Beethoven cycle have various Scottish scenes !
Just a few days ago I was doing some cleaning and dug out that very same lp with the same cover from a cabinet (with Mahler on the cover, not Norfolk). The lp is in terrible condition. Regrettably, my searches for a CD recording are showing inordinate prices. Amazon has a used copy for $50 US, and and for the same amount of $ I can buy it as part of a 16 disc EMI Mahler set (which duplicates many other recordings that i already have, such as Barbirolli's 9th.
Last edited by richardfinegold; 23-09-12, 11:17.
Reason: update
Thanks, ferneyhough. I tried navigated the crotchet site to find that recording and could not get the search engine to recognize it, but I really enjoy the exposure to the MusicWeb site that your post has provided, and will probably while away many hours there. In the meantime, I searched the Amazon US site again just looking for the EMI set and found it for $30 US and ordered. I also turned up a CD version of Horenstein's Mathis and Death and Transfiguration for about $3 US, which duplicates another Horenstein lp of mine that is virtually unplayable, so it's been a good morning.
This one has mystified me ever since it appeared a few years ago - what has a deer in what looks like a multi-storey car park got to do with the Brandenburg Concertos?
This one has mystified me ever since it appeared a few years ago - what has a deer in what looks like a multi-storey car park got to do with the Brandenburg Concertos?
Just a few days ago I was doing some cleaning and dug out that very same lp with the same cover from a cabinet (with Mahler on the cover, not Norfolk). The lp is in terrible condition. Regrettably, my searches for a CD recording are showing inordinate prices. Amazon has a used copy for $50 US, and and for the same amount of $ I can buy it as part of a 16 disc EMI Mahler set (which duplicates many other recordings that i already have, such as Barbirolli's 9th.
This is something which has infuriated me, too, making me want to scream: "SOMEONE PLEASE RE-RELEASE ALL OF HORENSTEIN'S MAHLER!"
The only solution I have found is to download just that one symphony from the EMI set via Amazon. The Classical Shop have his Mahler 1 and Mahler 3 (Unicorn-Kanchana) to download, but I'm 'old school' and still would rather buy a disc.
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