QUALITON highlights for June (U.S.)

Please note that Qualiton is not currently shipping to Tower, so I cannot say when these will appear in your local stores.

QUALITON June 2003 Classical release highlights (U.S.)

Bruckner: Sym 5 (Live 1953) Hans Rosbaud, S.O. des Sudwestfunk Baden-Baden ARCHIPEL 0129

Nielsen: Sym 2-Four Temperaments, Sym 5 Osmo Vanska, BBC Scottish S.O. BIS 1289

Bellini: Ernani fragments (World premiere) Morandini, Savoia, Pellegrini, Saudelli, Batatunashvili Franco Piva [cond], Oltenia P.O. BONGIOVANNI 2337

Borboudakis: Chorochronos I & II Evlogitária E-Cassiopeia Peter Sadlo [perc], Modern Art Percussion Ens CAVALLI 417

'American Music for Piano Duo' Persichetti: Son for 2 pianos; Cto for Piano Four Hands Barber: Souvenirs (four hands version) Diamond: Cto for 2 Solo Pianos Fennimore: Crystal Stairs Georgia & Louise Mangos [pianos] CEDILLE 069

Halffter: Complete Songs Elena Gragera [mezzo}, Anton Cardo [piano] COLUMNA MUSICA 0086

Penderecki: Te Deum; Lachrimosa Jadwiga Gadulanka [sop], Ewa Podles [mezzo], Wierslaw Ochman [tenor], Andrej Hiolski [bar] Krzysztof Penderecki [cond], Polish Radio S.O. & Chorus DUX 0402

Leoncavallo: La Nuit de Mai {symphonic poem} Gustavo Porta [tenor], Paolo Vaglieri [cond, Savona S.O. DYNAMIC 423

J.C. Bach: Sonatas B.20-27,47a (2 CDs) Erika Petofi [vln], Csilla Valyi [cello], Miklos Spanyi [tangent piano] HUGAROTON 32149/50

Wagner: Tristan & Isolde (Munich 1956 – 3 CDs midprice) Braun, Treptow, Klose, Frantz Erich Kleiber [cond] MYTO HISTORICAL 032075

Ravel: Cto for Left Hand Strauss: Alpensinfonie Robert Casadesus [piano], Dmittri Mitropoulos [cond], VPO Salzburg Festival 1956/57 ORFEO 586021

Mozart: Arias 'Exultate Jubilate' Olga Makarina [sop} ROMEO 7223

Mahler: Sym 1-Titan. Sym 9 (2 CDs) Mariss Jansons, Oslo P.O. SIMAX 1270

Janáček: Piano Son 1.X.1905 On an Overgrown Path 1 & 2 In the Mist Reminiscence Charles Owen [piano] SOMM RECORDINGS 028

Pierre Maurice: World Premiere Recordings La nuit tous les chats sont gris Overture Pechêur d'Islande Francesca da Rimini Daphné Perséphone Fugue pour instruments à cordes Adriano [cond], Moscoe S.O. STERLING 1053

Mozart: Sym 38-Prague Vorisek: Sym op.24 Jiři Belohlavek, Prague Philharmonia SUPRAPHON 1713

Brahms: Piano Cto 2 (Live Prague May 23.1950) Saint-Saens: Piano Cto 5 (Live Moscow 1952) Sviatoslav Richter [piano], Kyrill Kondrashin [cond], Czech P.O., Moscow Youth Orch, URANIA 4213

Gene Frazier Tower Records Database Classical Coordinator

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Well, that only means that Tower will lose the business.

Are these not the same items recently reissued on an EMI Double fforte?

Thanks for posting these. AFAIK, there's only one recording of the 5th with Rosbaud, as per the Bruckner discography

Rosbaud Southwest German Radio Sym 1960 (not 1953) Arkadia CD746.1 ................ 75:53 - 20:11 16:51 14:49 24:02

It's probably Rosbaud's weakest Bruckner recording.

I wonder what the source for the above is. Comments on sound quality appreciated.

According to Geffen, the Brahms has also been released on Multisonic. How is this? It sounds pretty promising...

In the Qualiton bulletin it is listed as the being the first issue of this recording in any format. It's likely been unavailable because there is a significant glitch in the broadcast recording near the end of the first movement that could not be corrected. My apologies for neglecting to mark this as a premiere.

Gene Frazier Tower Records Database Classical Coordinator

Indespensibly reckless and thrilling.

No, it's just another chapter of their version of Perils of Pauline. My local record store went to the brink and then stepped back. To restock they have had to resort to one-stop suppliers (at higher cost) and are only slowly getting permission from major distributors to place orders again. In days gone by Qualiton was notorious for demanding cash or shopping COD for small orders, and it looks like Tower might be on probation at the moment. These things change, and hopefully, improve.

My reason for not shopping at Tower is that they circulated a holiday sale leaflet and I could find NOTHING that referred to their classical stock.

Ignore me, I ignore you.

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Indeed; probably what I would choose if I could keep only one recording of the piece. I've no idea how the Urania transfer compares to the Multisonic (which is what I have).

MDT and Amazon.co.uk list the upcoming Archipel release as being by SWF Stuttgart, not SWF Baden-Baden. Also, a Rosbaud discography

Thanks to you both! Sounds like a good companion to the Kondrashin/Oistrakh Brahms VC.

I listened to the Archipel disc today and find the performance to be just as tired and uninspired as the one on the Arkadia disc