This repertoire suits Mr. Wild, and this recording seems to be out of circulation. Contents: 1. Ballade No. 2 in B minor 2. Tarantelle di bravura (after La Muette de Portici by Auber) 3. Petrarch Sonnet 104 4. Petrarch Sonnet 123 5. Valse ouliee No. 1 6. La Campenella (Paganini Etude No. 3) 7. Feux Follets (Transcendental Study No. 5) 8. Ricordanza (Transcendental Study No. 9) Recorded in July 1973 at Abbey Road. Originally on HMV LP HQS 1332, this issue from CD 586522-2....

Two live performances from his years as head of the Cleveland Orchestra. Brahms' Piano Quartet in G minor, orchestrated by Schoenberg...

The name "Schoenberg" may be a bit off-putting to some, but these pieces are quite mellow. In this concert from January 29th 1979 from...

These recordings were issued by dell'Arte around 30 years ago. They don't seem to be available any more, although some of the...

A few recordings by this unjustly neglected British conductor. The Ride of the Valkyries (Symphony Orchestra) 25th January 1926 Lohengrin...

A Russian miscellany today. Firstly, two LPs by Malko: Disc 1: Track 1: Saint-Saens Danse macabre (rec. 1951) 2: Debussy Prelude a...

Here is the 8-CD set issued nearly 20 years ago. Some of the recordings have reappeared, most recently in the Decca "mono years" box set....

Sorry for the recent silence. I lost my wife a couple of months back, but am starting up again with some old CDs from my collection....

A few years ago, Melodiya re-issued around 100 CDs of Svetlanov in three boxed sets, under the title Anthology of Russian Orchestral...

https://www.mediafire.com/file/8wc84b7j6lukpqb/Aurora's+Wedding+(Kurtz)+flac.zip/file TCHAIKOVSKY The Sleeping Beauty Op.66 ...

I submitted a review of this to Amazon UK, but they didn't use it. I then posted a shorter version - same result. Anyway, I am loath to...

Here is the original broadcast of the Poem of Ecstasy without the "added on" final chord from another recording !...

The Boston Symphony recently uploaded 8 programmes conducted by their one-time music director. I am adding four more pieces, Prokofiev's...

Schoenberg will always be controversial, but to commemorate his anniversary, here is his own recording of "Pierrot Lunaire" :-...

Enescu conducts his Roumanian Rhapsodies & Villa-Lobos his Choros No, 6 Enescu Rhapsodies 1 & 2 Colonne Orchestra / Enescu Villa-Lobos:...

This recording with the Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra seems to date from the mid-50s. Ben Cutler lent me his copy of Colosseum CRLP 10081 /...

This is a recent release by the UK Sibelius Society, which I helped to prepare. Sunday 13th June 1954 Symphony No. 3, Six Songs Op. 88...

Here are two more recordings that fell through the EMI / Warner net when they issued their Icon boxed set of William Steinberg & the...

Universal recently issued a mega-box of Ansermet stereo recordings, but somehow missed off this recording, while duplicating the 1957...

I don't usually upload records that are currently available, but I'm going to make an exception here. I recently bought the...