<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV>May 1, 2002 </DIV> <DIV></DIV>The Furtwaengler part of The Smidth Pages: ...
Henning Smidth
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May 1, 2002 6:56 pm
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Two individuals closely associated with Willem Mengelberg just died. Guila Bustabo -- the former Wunderkind whose Beethoven and (even better) Bruch Concerto...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
May 3, 2002 2:05 am
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[Not Furtwangler-related, but of some adjacent interest maybe -- splendid historical recordings. . .] Contents: Schumann-Kinderszenen (the 1930 version) ...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
May 21, 2002 6:13 pm
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N.B. Unlike what was implied in my posting, the Brahms-Haendel Variations on Naxos are a different, earlier recording than the one published by Testament. One...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
May 22, 2002 3:17 am
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According to the French newspaper Liberation, WF's (and also Karajan's) letters are to be auctioned in Berlin (at Stargardt's) on June 11 and 12. There are...
Jean-Marc Binet
jean-marc.binet@...
May 23, 2002 7:28 pm
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... Had Furtwangler lived 120 years, he's be rich now, eventually. . . . ... That comes as a shock -- I would have never guessed! ... Cher Jean-Marc, According...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
May 23, 2002 8:33 pm
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It is good news to hear that Naxos are making some of Benno Moiseiwitsch's recordings available. I came across two CDs of the Rachmaninov 2nd Piano Concerto in...
Mikhial Gorbochov
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May 24, 2002 7:02 am
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Michael Wolfson
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May 31, 2002 8:32 am
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Michael Wolfson
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May 31, 2002 8:32 am
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Hello all, while listening recently to the Gebhard release of Furtwängler's 1950 La Scala "Ring" I looked through Henning Smidth Olsen's 1973...
Michael Wolfson
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May 31, 2002 8:34 am
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Henning Smidth
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May 31, 2002 7:57 pm
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Henning Smidth
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May 31, 2002 9:24 pm
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Srothenbe@...
May 31, 2002 9:36 pm
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<html><div style='background-color:'><DIV> <P>According to notes in a Tahra issue, the Parsifal was never broadcast but the Meistersinger was broadcast twice,...
Manny Nadelman
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Jun 1, 2002 2:48 am
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investire@...
Jun 1, 2002 6:32 am
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[Note: apologies to those who might be annoyed by CC-ing some of my Furtwanglerless contributions here -- hopefully this is still of some interest to the...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
Jun 6, 2002 2:20 am
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In his "The Delights of Music", Neville Cardus reprints his review of a London performance of "Tristan und Isolde", sung by Flagstad and Melchior, conducted by...
Philip Walsh
bf779@...
Jun 8, 2002 11:01 pm
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[The following is a review, written by Neville Cardus, of a concert which took place in Manchester on December 4, 1935. The piece was reprinted (pages 29-32)...
Philip Walsh
bf779@...
Jun 8, 2002 11:01 pm
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... Flagstad's London debut took place on May 18, 1936--according to Harold Rosenthal's history of the house, and several other sources. It was not recorded,...
David Hamilton
davidham@...
Jun 9, 2002 12:22 am
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First, I want to thank David for his clarification of the question of the several Flagstad-Melchior Tristan recordings from the 1930's. Further to my original...
Philip Walsh
bf779@...
Jun 10, 2002 11:54 am
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I would appreciate the opportunity to have a copy of your article on the famous Tristan conflation. Isn't it curious that so many companies seem to have fallen...
musiccritic@...
Jun 10, 2002 3:52 pm
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Hello, I recently came across a Die Walkure on the Arkadia label (catalog no. hp 610.3 - cd cover has a blazing sunset against a red backdrop) in a Tower...
peter.byon@...
Jun 19, 2002 5:28 am
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He was quite old -- 96 or so. In my opinion (which was the same when Hansen was alive, this is not an opportunist obituary-like inflation), Hansen was the sole...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
Jun 24, 2002 7:30 pm
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I hardly think that Conrad Hansen's memory needs to be (or can be) enhanced by the trashing of the reputations of other artists. This is very unlike your...
Ronald E. Grames
rgrames@...
Jun 24, 2002 9:35 pm
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Hofmann's ... peace. Please read all of this despite my deviations from the "score." Haste makes embarrassing mistakes. Ron G. ... From: "Ronald E. Grames"...
Ronald E. Grames
rgrames@...
Jun 24, 2002 9:57 pm
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... It is my opinion that Brendel's reputation is largely undeserved. Others probably disagree. It's all for the better. ... The precept of "live and let live"...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
Jun 24, 2002 10:40 pm
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Trying to avoid the Brendel discussion, I have been trying to locate the Hansen/Fricsay Brahms. I had read that it would be released on CD on the Nomos label....
Alan Carrier
alancarrier@...
Jun 24, 2002 11:17 pm
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<Gregor Benko is alive. The story can be checked upon. It might have taken place at a time at which Hofmann's legacy wasn't widely available on CD as it is...
Ronald E. Grames
rgrames@...
Jun 25, 2002 12:10 am
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... Well, the participants seem to have been two: Gregor Benko and Alfred Brendel. The former related the story in a first hand testimony. Is there any...
Samir Golescu
golescu@...
Jun 25, 2002 2:00 am
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Those seeking more information on Conrad Henson's life and recordings may want to go to http://www.xs4all.nl/~rabruil/remhansen.html. Ron Grames ... * POSTED...