This Section is dedicated to Classical and semi Classical music. For now we are staying with Orchestral works like the material by Mozart, Liszt, Chopin and Beethoven. Orchestras like the London Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphic Symphony but you will find solo artists who play classical pieces on the guitar, harp, organ, flutes, violin etc.
BEETHOVEN & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
The EMI Series With Eugen Jochum
Beethoven Symphony No. 1 / Symphony No.2
London Symphony Orchestra with Eugen Jochum
EMI Eminence (World Record Club). Made in New Zealand. Catalogue Number: WI 5641 - Issued in 1979. Medium : Vinyl LP.Side 1: Symphony No. 2 in D Major, Op.36 - First Movement: Adagio molto - Allegro con brio. Second Movement : Larghetto. Third Movement : Scherzo (Allegro). Side 2: Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op.21 - First Movement: Adagio molto - Allegro con brio. Second Movement: Andante cantabile con moto. Third Movement: Menuetto (Allegro molto e vivace). Fourth Movement: Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace.
Beethoven Symphony No. 5 - Fidelio Overture.
London Symphony Orchestra with Eugen Jochum
EMI Eminence (World Record Club). Made in New Zealand. Catalogue Number WI 9091 - Issued in 1978. Medium : Vinyl LP. Side 1: Symphony No.5 in C Minor, Op.67 - First Movement: Allegro con brio. Second Movement: Andante con moto. Side 2: Third Movement: Allegro. Fourth Movement: Allegro. Fidelio Overture in E Major, Op.72b.
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 - Coriolan Overture.
London Symphony Orchestra with Eugen Jochum
EMI Eminence (World Record Club). Made in New Zealand. Catalogue Number WI 9340 - Issued in 1979. Medium: Vinyl LP. Side 1: Symphony No. 7 in A Major, Op.92 - First Movement: Poco sostenuto -Vivace. Second Movement: Allegretto.
Side 2: Third Movement: Presto -Assai memo presto. Fourth Movement: Allegro con brio. Coriolan Overture in C Major, Op.62.
RUSSIAN MUSIC - 2 GREAT WORKS
Composer Mussorgysky and TheOdessa Balalaikas
Mussorgsky - Pictures From An Exhibition
The Hungarian State Orchestra Conducted by Gyula Nemeth
Hungaroton (mid 1970's). Made in Hungary. Catalogue # SLPX 11586. Stereo. Medium : Vinyl LP.
Side 1: Pictures From An Exhibition - Promenade 1. The gnome. 2. The Old Castle. 3. Tuileries. 4. Bydlo 5. Unhatched Chickens 6.Samuel Goldenberg and Schmuyle 7. Marketplace At Limoges 8. Catacombs - cum mortuis in ligua mortua.
Side 2: Pictures From An Exhibition continued. 9. Baba- Jaga 10. Great Gate Of Kiev. / Khovantschina - introduction. / Night On The Bare Mountain - Concert fantasy for orchestra.
Mussorgsky was invited to an Exhibition of paintings by an friend who then asked him to write music to express his reactions and feelings about each painting. This album is that completed task and very enjoyable lsitening pleasure too. Classical in form with a Western blues/jazz modernistic feel to it. Very enjoyable. Made in Hungary, this record is a heavy pressing which provides a very full and rich sound. An excellent pressing.
The Art Of The Balalaika
The Odessa Balalaikas
Nonesuch (1982) Made in the USA. Catalogue # D-79034. Stereo.
Medium : Vinyl LP.
Side 1: All The Gossips Left Home / Variations On Themes Of Two Russian Folk Songs / Expanses Of Mt Homeland / Russian Intermezzo / Kalinka.
Side 2: Evenings Near Moscow / What's That Ringing? / Memory Waltz / Glory / Bright Moon / Down The Long Road / Gypsy Fantasy.
The Balalaika is both prince and pauper, an instrument born in a Russian village and breed in the Tsar's palace. In it's construction, the music it plays and it'sa sound, there is a mixture of naivete and sophistication. It has performed with equal effectiveness under the spreading branches of a Linden tree and before the footlights of a Concert stage. Where does this mixed-up childhood leave the Balalaika today? With an identity crisis? A closer look at it's history and a sampling of this record will show how this three-cornered instrument has turned it complex genealogy into a rich source of musical expression.
Sylvia Bonallack started playing the guitar when she was 12 and has performed at St. Paul's in Wellington, New Zealand, taught the skills of guitar playing to many youngsters and recorded two albums for the Tree label. This is her second album and is a program of music for Lute from the 18th Century Romantic period. Pure classical guitar, no other instruments are here, and a selection of music executed with a surprisingly non existence of 'birdies' or 'bridging chords' to get around the more difficult and demanding passages. Also issued by the World Record Club (EMI NZ) to it's members in 1972, the year of it's issue. Critically acclaimed by the local press and used extensively by TV One as fillers when program fell short and they had time to 'kill' until the advertising time of the next program. In this respect, Syliva is perhaps New Zealand's most heard but not known artist as no credit lines were displayed by TV One.
What makes this album interesting is her 'duets' with herself made possible by modern recording techniques. "Greensleeves" starts the program with a duet version and there are two or three other tracks featuring Sylvia performing with .. Sylvia. Critics were impressed by the lack of 'birdies' and the very high quality of the Tree pressings which gave out very little surface noise, making this album one of the purest in that sense.
