At home, David Morriss has some real treasures in his record collection and here he shares with us a personal selection of the rare, the exquisite and the sometimes astounding.
David takes a look at the work of Swiss conductor Michel Corboz – renowned for his soulful conducting of baroque masterpieces. Also, Toscanini giving the world première of Barber’s Adagio for Strings; and Amelita Galli Curci sings Lo, here the gentle lark.
Bonus tracks:
Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Photo by Erich Auerbach, 1929 Photo: Wilhelm Furtwangler Society
Music Details:
JS BACH: Sinfonia from Cantata No 49, Ich geh und suche mit verlangen - Limoges Baroque Ensemble/Christophe Coin (dir) (Astrée AS 128530)
BISHOP: Lo, here the gentle lark - Amelita Galli-Curci (sop) (78) (HMV D.B.258)
VIVALDI: Violin concerto no. in Bb Op9/7, from La Cetra - Felix Ayo (vln), I Musici (Newton 8802034)
LUTOSŁAWSKI: Variations on a theme by Paganini - Martha Argerich & Nelson Freire (pnos) (Philips 464 043)
MAUDE WHITE: The devout lover - Frederick Harvey (bar), orch/Eric Robertson (78) (HMV C.3889)
HOVHANESS: Symphony no. 2, Mysterious Mountain - Chicago SO/Fritz Reiner (RCA 09026-61957)
FOSTER: Hard times come again no more - Thomas Hampson (bar), Jay Ungar (vln), Molly Mason (guitar), David Alpher (pno) (EMI 54621)
BARBER: Adagio for Strings - NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini (Digital download: Pristine Classical 321156)
PUCCINI: O soave fanciulla, from La Bohème - Licia Albanese (sop), Jan Peerce (ten), NBC SO/Arturo Toscanini (Lyrica LRC 01094)
CLERAMBAULT: Caprice, from Suite du deuxième ton - Dame Gillian Weir (organ) (Argo 460 187)
GIOVANNI GABRIELI: Magnificat, Regina coeli, & Ego sum qui sum, from Sacrae Symphoniae (1597) - Lausanne Vocal Ensemble, University Choir & CO/ Michel Corboz (LP Musical Heritage Society MHS 1749)
M-A CHARPENTIER: Overture H.536 - L’Arpa Festante/Michel Corboz (Cascavelle VEL 1030)
MONTEVERDI: Questi vaghi concenti, from Madrigals book 5 - Lausanne Vocal Ensemble & CO/Michel Corboz (Erato B23D-39104)
SHOSTAKOVICH: 2nd movement, from Piano Concerto no. 2 in F - Dmitri Shostakovich (pno), French National Radio Orch/André Cluytens (EMI 724373177)
WAGNER: Senta’s ballad, from The Flying Dutchman - Janis Martin (sop), Chicago Symphony Orch & chorus/Sir Georg Solti (Decca 478 3707)