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.
Baroque Bolivia; a mystery composer; Beethoven recorded deep in the heart of Nazi Germany; Carnival of the Animals with animal sounds from the New York Zoo. Is this a grand finale, or a mad concoction?
Bonus tracks:
Bruno Walter, Arturo Toscanini, Erich Kleiber, Otto Klemperer and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Photo by Erich Auerbach, 1929 Photo: Wilhelm Furtwangler Society
Music Details:
BACH: 3rd mvt from Harpsichord Concerto in E BWV1053 - Karl Richter (hpschd/dir), Munich Bach Orch (Archiv POCA-2020/2)
ARAUJO: Vaya de gira - Ensemble Elyma/Gabriel Garrido (K617 038)
MACHAUT: Douce dame jolie - Hugues Cuenod (ten) (INA 262020)
SAINT-SAENS: Carnival of the Animals - Gary Moore (speaker), recorded sounds from NYC Zoo, Vienna State Opera Orch/Hermann Scherchen (Tahra WEST 3011-3012)
MUSSORGSKY: The Goat - Vladimir Rosing (ten), Myers Foggin (pm) (78 Parlophone SW 6)
MONTEVERDI: Sanctus, from Missa In Illo Tempore - Ensemble Vocal European/Philippe Herreweghe (Harmonia Mundi HMC 901355)
PUCCINI: E lucevan le stelle, from Tosca - Giuseppe di Stefano (ten), orch/Alberto Erede (78 HMV D.B.6580)
SCHUBERT: Impromptu in Gb D.899/3 Ronan O’Hora (Tring TRP067)
WEBER: Hier im ird’shen Jammerthal, from Der Freischütz - Kurt Böhme, Vienna Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwängler (Music & Arts CD1064)
BEETHOVEN: 1st movement, from Symphony no. 5 in C minor - Berlin Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwängler (Tahra FURT 1034/39)
VERDI: Ave Maria, from Otello - Frances Alda, Victor Orchestra (History 2051 38-302)
STRADELLA: Cantata per il Santissimo Natale, excerpt - Eric Tappy, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/August Wenzinger (DG Resonance 445 045)
HANDEL: Organ Concerto in G minor Op 4/1 - Eduard Müller, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/August Wenzinger (Archiv 431 335)
HAYDN: 4th movement, from Symphony no. 95 in C minor - Stuttgart Radio SO/Carl Schuricht (Hänssler 93.140)