This is the time for sharing holiday music, and today I want to point you to two of my favorite sites for Christmas tunes, and let you know about a new compilation from our own David Federman. Plus Santa himself in the form of 8H Haggis arrives with a vast array of presents for all good little girls and boys - especially those who are fond of Eugene Ormandy's records.
Big Apple Bash - A New Year's Musical Narrative
First, David's contribution, which he is calling "Big Apple Bash - A New Year's Musical Narrative." He tells us, "If you think there's a crisis in Christmas music, then there's an absolute catastrophe in New Years music. This mix is the first attempt of two to remedy this cultural malady." The selection takes you through one festive night in New York City, particularly focusing on the music of the 1930s. There are 30 songs here, all winners.
David explained his compilation in the comments to a previous post, but I have included his introductory remarks in the download. You can find the link in the comments to the post.
Two Great Sites for Christmas Music
Just a brief plug for two of my blogging pals, who have been at this even longer than me. Ernie of Ernie (Not Bert) specializes in Christmas music. If he doesn't have it, it doesn't exist. This year, he's been posting holiday music since Thanksgiving, and has already pumped out 30 LPs. My favorite is the Capitol Christmas promo LP set from 1957, with Fred Waring introducing all of the label's holiday offerings from that year, but there are lots of oddities and rarities on Ernie's site.
Meanwhile, my friend Lee of the Music You Possibly Won't Hear Anyplace Else blog is already on his third Christmas compilation of the year. Lee specializes in restoring 78s, and the sounds he wrings from these relics is a constant source of amazement to me. This is what Christmas sounded like to your grandparents and great-grandparents.
Limited-Time Uploads from 8H
The music machine called 8H Haggis has been particularly industrious lately, so much so that I am having a hard time keeping up with him. This week's booty features an enormous collection of Eugene Ormandy recordings, all processed with the unusual care that 8H lavishes on every project.
As always, see the comments to the posts below for what 8H has for you, as well as his amusing and enlightening comments.
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suggest searching on the composer or artist to minimize scrolling. Note
that these are limited-time uploads - the links may not last for more
than a few weeks.
In the Two from Morton Gould, More Christmas Presents, Plus Limited-Time Uploads comments
Coates - London Suite/Morton Gould
Copland - Symphony No. 3/Antal Dorati
Debussy - La Mer/Bruno Walter
Respighi - Vetrate di Chiesa (Church Windows)/Antal Dorati
Strauss - Don Juan/Bruno Walter
Strauss - Sinfonia Domestica/Bruno Walter
Stravinsky - Petrushka/Ernest Ansermet
Tchaikovsky - 1812 Overture, Capriccio Italien/Antal Dorati
Vaughan Williams - Greensleeves and Tallis Fantasias, English Folksong Suite/Morton Gould
Plus an 8H Haggis Historic Schumann Symphony Cycle:
Symphony No. 1/Sir Adrian Boult
Symphony No. 2/Georg-Ludwig Jochum
Symphony No. 3/Arturo Toscanini
Symphony No. 4/Eugene Goossens
In the A Pre-Climate Change Christmas - the Complete Set comments
Bartók - Second Suite/Antal Dorati
Bartók - First Suite/János Ferencsik
Mozart - Piano Sonata K.331, Fantasia in c K. 457, Sonata in c K. 475/Paul Badura-Skoda
Mozart - Piano Trios (K. 496, 542, 458)/Jean Fournier, Antonio Janigro, Paul Badura-Skoda
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 19 and 27/Paul Badura-Skoda, Felix Prohaska
Mozart - Piano Concertos Nos. 22 and 24/Paul Badura-Skoda (conducting from the keyboard)
In the Unre-released Charles Munch, Part 1 comments
Saint-Saëns - Symphony No. 3 (live)/Charles Munch (improved sound)
In the Bartok from Sándor and Ormandy, Plus Miaskovsky comments
An Ormandy Extravaganza:
Bach - Air on the G string
Barati - Concerto for String Orchestra
Bartók - Divertimento
Bartók - Four Pieces for Orchestra
Bartók - Second Piano Concerto/Alexis Weissenberg
Beethoven - Eroica (1981 recording)
Beethoven - Violin Concerto/Zino Francescatti
Brahms - Symphony No. 2 (1953)
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Haydn
Brahms - Violin Concerto/Zino Francescatti
Bruckner- Symphony No. 7 (1968)
Casella - Paganiniana
Castelnuovo-Tedesco - Guitar Concerto No. 1/John Williams
Corelli - Christmas Concerto
Debussy - Iberia (1951)
Dvorak - New World Symphony (1966)
Elgar - Cockaigne Overture
First Chair with music by Griffes, Phillips, Purcell/Clarke, Handel Weber, Beethoven, and Chabrier
First Chair Encores, Vol. I
Gabrieli/Stein - Sonata Pian e Forte
Ginastera - Concerto for String Orchestra
Haydn - Symphonies Nos. 7 (1950) & 100 (1953)
Haydn - Symphony No. 101 (1949) & No. 99 (1954)
Mendelssohn - Scherzo from the Octet
Paganini - Violin Concerto No. 1/Zino Francescatti
Paganini/Ormandy - Moto Perpetuo
Poulenc - Organ Concerto/E. Power Biggs (1962)
Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky (1979)
Prokofiev - Scythian Suite
Rachmaninoff - Symphony No. 3, Vocalise (1954)
Rachmaninoff - The Bells (1954)
Ravel - La Valse (1953)
Ravel - Daphnis et Chloe
Respighi - Feste Romane
Rimsky-Korsakov - Russian Easter Overture (1946)
Rimsky-Korsakov - Sheherazade (1953)
Schoenberg - Theme and Variations
Schoenberg - Verklaerte Nacht
Schubert - Symphony No. 9
Sibelius - En Saga & Tapiola
Sibelius - Four Legends from the Kalevala (1951)
Strauss, J. - Fledermaus music et al. (1956)
Strauss, J. - Waltzes (1934-35)
Strauss, R. - Der Rosekavalier Suite (1947), Death and Transfiguration (1945-46)
Strauss, R. - Suites from Der Rosenkavalier & Die Frau ohne Schatten (1957)
Strauss, R. - Don Juan & Don Quixote (both 1955)
Strauss, R. - Ein Heldenleben (1954)
Tchaikovsky - Pathetique (1953)
Tchaikovsky - Romeo & Juliet, 1812 Festival Overture, Marche Slave
Tchaikovsky - Serenade in C
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5 (1950)
Telemann - Concertos for various instruments
Vaughan Williams - Tallis Fantasia (1963)
Vivaldi - Concerti for 2 Violins/David Oistrakh & Isaac Stern
Wagner - Orchestral Program
Walton - Belshazzar's Feast
Walton - Violin Concerto/Zino Francescatti
Yardumian - Armenian Suite
In the 20 Christmas Tunes from Vintage 78s comments
"Echo-Konzerte" (music by Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi and Roman)/Rudolf Baumgartner
Liszt - A Faust Symphony/János Ferencsik
Liszt - Missa Solemnis/János Ferencsik
Nicolai - Te Deum/Carl Mathieu Lange
In The First Recording of Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony comments
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5/Sir Adrian Boult
Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5/Paul Kletzki
In the Mewton-Wood in Tchaikovsky 1 comments
Haydn - Symphonies No. 30 ("Allelujah") & 31 ("Hornsignal")/Hans Swarowsky
In the Kurtz Conducts Chopin, Villa-Lobos and Herold comments
Berlioz - Harold in Italy/David Oistrakh conducting
Brahms - Piano Concerto No. 2/Gyorgy Sandor, Rolf Reinhardt
CPE Bach program/Jean-Pierre Rampal, Robert Bex, Pierre Boulez
Kabalevsky - The Comedians Suite/Efrem Kurtz
Lecocq - Ballet Suite "Mam'zelle Angot"/Efrem Kurtz
Paganini - Violin Concerto No. 4, Bottesini - Grand Duo/Ruggiero Ricci, Piero Bellugi
Rameau - Suite from Castor and Pollux, Gluck - Suite from Orfée/Charles Mackerras
Schumann - "Fanfares and Fantasy Pieces"/Nobuko Imai, Harold Wright, Harris Goldsmith
Villa-Lobos - Little Train of the Caipira/Artur Rodziński
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Link to the "Big Apple Bash":
https://mega.nz/#!fMk3FaKQ!oPAm3tXAMMJ1q6Zb3Tuy_ZRajeQncQuatjiP5W-E_Bw
Many many thanks Buster for the all the beautiful music that you so enthusiastically and kindly share with us.
Additionally I really appreciate all your efforts trying to keep up to date with 8H Haggis's contributions. He really likes to "squirrel" his files away in remote corners of your blogspot.
Other than your regular UPDATES or laboriously "trawling" through all your files every couple of days - is there a simpler way of ensuring that I do not miss the 'deadline' of the self-destruct/time limited Zippyshare files? I have already missed quite a number of his files as they have already 'expired', and I am sure that they will not updated by 8H(?).
Do hope you do not mind me requesting RE-UP's as I go back through all your uploads that I haven't previously visited. BUT there is so much to read and enjoy. Such fascinating insightful comments and anecdotes AND so many files that really "hit my solar plexus" of nostalgia and musical edification.
May you continue with this musical nirvana for a long time to come.
I'm so indebted to you.
Cheers,
Douglas (UK)
Thanks, Buster! Appreciate the plug! Merry Christmas to you and your many followers!
Thanks to David for something very different and very nice with this mix of New Year's music from a golden era. Much-appreciated to you and to Buster for this forum!
Cannot find the Kurtz/Rodzisnki items in the "More Limited Time Uploads' section; Please help!
Thanks 8H for the Ormandy cornucopia - wonderful, wonderful
Nigel
I am doing NO FURTHER UPLOADS so you need NOT worry about this, Douglas. Thanks for your interest & encouraging remarks; but when this project becomes a trial to my nerves I believe its time is over.
8HH
Thank you for your reply containing this disappointing announcement - ie. the news that you are going to take a rest. Do hope that I have not contributed to this sad situation?
I'm sure that many people will also be upset and dismayed on hearing about your enforced rest and wish you all the best.
You seem to have such an immense repository of recorded material that is spot on/ coincides with my own interests.
Do hope that you have a well earned rest and that you will soon be in a situation to share your reminiscences and the valuable recordings that you have in your archives with us again.
Would be nice to maintain contact. Any chance of a PM? Not sure if Buster would allow this? How would it be possible to establish such a link?
As you live in Utah, an area that I have never visited - would be brilliant to visit the galleries and the Utah orchestras, and of course yourself. I have so many recordings of the Utah SO-Abravanel that it would be interesting to visit the source.
It would great to reminisce with you.
One way or another please keep in touch.
Many many thanks for the enjoyment that you have provided.
Take care.
Cheers,
Douglas (UK)
PS. what is your opinion on the three mega volumes (1x40, 1x59 and 1x65) reissues of Westminster Legend recordings that were recently issued?
Thanks a million Buster and 8H-H for all these captivating posts.
An incredible opportunity to discover in excellent transfers and to listen to rare recordings, some of them will be probably never released again.
For instance, this fantastic Nonesuch series not to say about the Ormandy saga...
These posts definitely feed my work as a musician.
A BEDFORD FALLS CHRISTMAS: HOMECOMING
I'll be 77 on the same day Mozart turns 263 years old, January 27, 2019. Seven is a very profound number and I'll be receiving two of them as a birthday gift. It's the only gift I'm likely to receive since I've reached pensioner status and live, almost solely, on Social Security. This has been my case for several years now since I'm a journalist and my home, the Guttenberg Galaxy, imploded in 2009, taking with it my last full-time job and slowly eroding meaningful freelance work.
Even though I'm Jewish, I'm a sucker for Christmas, especially because J.S. Bach, G.F. Handel and I. Berlin composed some of their best music for December 25th. I'd be a fool not to listen to and relish it. Since I was born on a January 27th which marked the turning point in Hitler's failed conquest of Russia, I associate particularly cold, harsh, snowy but, ultimately, victorious winters with my Baltimore nativity. They say Mozart's grave is unmarked; I say it's just covered in snow--like everyone else's at this time of year, or once upon the wintry times not so long ago when I was young.
This year I expect a bitingly cold season as Arctic weather gets chased south by climate change. Given my bleak weather and wherewithal expectations, I have prepared a nostalgic mix for penurious sentimentalists like myself who remember pre-MasterCard Christmases funded completely by savings accounts and piggy banks, ones rooted in wishes no department store or its Santa could make come true.
America was at war and homecoming and homesickness were the major maladies of the time. They didn’t stop at war’s end, just morphed into the Korean War and McCarthyism. I’ll never forget reading about Americans who fought in Spain being hauled before Senate and House committees, accused of being “premature anti-fascists” (a euphemism for “Communist”).
So this mix is heavy on love and longing—especially of a familial sort which, as any Philip Roth fan knows, is not a Jewish specialty. Nevertheless, It’s a celebration of “family values”—albeit under duress.
I call it: “A Bedford Falls Christmas: Homecoming,” in homage to the America Frank Capra affirmed in “It’s A Wonderful Life” where George Bailey saw how much worse the world would be without him and went on living to prevent it becoming Pottersville. The songs reflect the values of the world his humanity saves: needs based on compassion not consumption. Hope you enjoy. Remember availability is limited to one week at WeTransfer.
https://we.tl/t-ZHHMMMHzlw
Dear 8H, Profuse thanks for the Ormandy, but please transfer his 1953-or-so Columbia LP of Paul Hindemith. Ormandy's first recording of "Music for Brass" is my all-time favorite version.
I wanted to thank 8H and Buster very much for this and the other recordings and information in the last few months. It took quite some effort to organize and get the photo album covers and amass these wonderful recordings./They are nothing short of a treasure.
Richard - You are very welcome. Our man 8H is a wonder.
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