For Shakespeare’s birthday back in April, I made available the Scherzo from Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream music, in a 1911 recording conducted by Landon Ronald. To complement this, I’ve now transferred the Ronald’s early recordings of the Overture, Nocturne and Wedding March, together with his later electrically recorded version of the Nocturne. I’ve included the […]
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Landon Ronald’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
Posted by Damians78s on June 5, 2016
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2016/06/05/landon-ronalds-midsummer-nights-dream/
400 years
Although I have had not had a great deal of time to work on recordings for this site recently, I could not let the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death pass unmarked. There are several spoken word Shakespeare recordings to be found on site and music based on his works (just enter Shakespeare in the search […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2016
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2016/04/23/400-years/
A Night at the Proms with Henry Wood
On Friday 17th July the BBC Proms began. It’s 120 years since the first Proms season, and for the first fifty seasons, Sir Henry Wood did the lion’s share of the conducting. Wood’s discography is large, and includes many works he performed at the proms. In 1934, Columbia made a compilation record of excerpts of […]
Posted by Damians78s on July 19, 2015
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2015/07/19/a-night-at-the-proms-with-henry-wood/
Albert Coates conducts choral music
April 23rd is St George’s Day, Shakespeare’s birthday, and more importantly for this site, the anniversary of Albert Coates’s birth. For this year’s Coates tribute, we have two early electrical choral recordings: excerpts from Mendelssohn’s Elijah, and unaccompanied spurious Bach! Georg Gottfried Wagner – Blessing, Glory and Wisdom (attr. J.S. Bach, BWV Anh 162) Sung […]
Posted by Damians78s on April 23, 2013
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2013/04/23/albert-coates-conducts-choral-music/
Franz André – Bizet’s Arlèsienne Suites; Ivanov, Gauk, Golovanov – Balakirev; Henry Wood – Purcell, Mendelssohn; Hamilton Harty – Tchaikovsky; Mengelberg – Johann Strauss II; The Virtuoso String Quartet – Debussy’s Quartet, Mendelssohn; Robert Carr – “The trail of the lonesome pine”, “When love creeps in your heart”
To begin the New Year, I’m looking back as well as forwards. Mendelssohn and Purcell had anniversaries in 2009, so you can hear works by them, conducted by Henry Wood. There’s also a movement from one of Mendelssohn’s String Quartets, as a filler for the Virtuoso Quartet’s recording of the Debussy String Quartet. There will […]
Posted by Damians78s on January 3, 2010
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2010/01/03/franz-andre-bizets-arlesienne-suites-ivanov-gauk-golovanov-balakirev-henry-wood-purcell-mendelssohn-hamilton-harty-tchaikovsky-mengelberg-johann-strauss-ii-the-virtuoso-stri/
Landon Ronald – Glazunov Chopiniana, Mendelssohn Songs without words,Grieg Lyric Suite (1925 & 1933); Arthur De Greef, Landon Ronald – Liszt Concerto No.1, Saint-Saens Concerto No.2; Daisy Kennedy, Hamilton Harty – Beethoven Romance in G
The flurry of Landon Ronald recordings continues, again with accompaniments for Belgian pianist Arthur de Greef (1862 – 1940). De Greef’s recording of Liszt’s 1st Piano Concerto was not the first ever (that honour fell to Anderson Tyrer on Edison Bell Velvet Face, with Adrian Boult conducting), but is important as a recording of a […]
Posted by Damians78s on August 28, 2009
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2009/08/28/landon-ronald-glazunov-mendelssohn-grieg-de-greef-liszt-saint-saens-concertos-daisy-kennedy-harty-beethoven-romance/
Benno Moiseiwitsch and John Drinkwater
Regular visitors to this site will not be surprised to find a recording conducted by Landon Ronald. In this case, for the anniversary year, it’s Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No.1 with Benno Moiseiwitsch. The other item is a spoken word recording – the poet and playwright John Drinkwater reading some of his own works. The two […]
Posted by Damians78s on March 27, 2009
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2009/03/27/benno-moiseiwitsch-and-john-drinkwater/
Mendelssohn with Harty, Mendelssohn’s Walpurgisnacht, Golschmann’s Shostakovich, Raybould, Goossens, Heger, Frank Mullings and Salvatore Salvati
This latest update sees a site redesign, and a number of new transfers on site. In the orchestral arena, we have Harty’s sparkling account of Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony (afflicted by swish), Golschmann’s early 1950s LP recording of Shostakovich’s 5th Symphony, overtures conducted by Clarence Raybould (on Regal), and Eugene Goossens (on Edison Bell), and a […]
Posted by Damians78s on February 22, 2009
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2009/02/22/mendelssohn-with-harty-mendelssohns-walpurgisnacht-golschmanns-shostakovich-raybould-goossens-heger-frank-mullings-and-salvatore-salvati/
Mario Rossi conducts Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony, Robert Easton sings Mendelssohn and Gounod
As Mendelssohn’s 200th birthday arrives, it seems apt to provide a few more items by this wonderful composer. Thus we have a symphony, and a wonderful bass aria which was much loved by English speaking singers, yet seems sadly neglected now. Mendelssohn – Son and Stranger – I am a roamer Gounod – Philemon and […]
Posted by Damians78s on February 3, 2009
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2009/02/03/mario-rossi-conducts-mendelssohns-italian-symphony-robert-easton-sings-mendelssohn-and-gounod/
Malcolm Sargent conducts Mendelssohn’s Ruy Blas and Horenstein conducts Haydn’s Surprise
2009 brings the bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, for which we have Malcolm Sargent conducting Ruy Blas, and the bicentenary of Haydn’s death, with Jascha Horenstein conducting the Surprise Symphony. Both recordings are 80 years old in 2009. Download – Mendelssohn – Ruy Blas Overture – Malcolm Sargent (mp3 files – right click the link, then […]
Posted by Damians78s on January 1, 2009
https://music.damians78s.co.uk/2009/01/01/malcolm-sargent-conducts-mendelssohns-ruy-blas/