Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Music of the spheres

Bill Zick over on AfriClassical gives us these int...

2009-01-04T09:52:26.614Z

Bill Zick over on AfriClassical gives us these interesting Karajan links -

http://africlassical.blogspot.com/2008/10/young-nigerians-homage-to-herbert-von.html

http://africlassical.blogspot.com/2008/11/updates-on-fesaam-2009-african-chorus.html

John, your description of 'an immediacy of sound a...

2009-01-03T20:27:23.782Z

John, your description of 'an immediacy of sound and enveloping spatial presence' on the Schreker DMM LP almost echoes my reaction to auditioning the Decca Strauss discs.

One of my new year's resolutions was to listen to more LP's from my collection.

Hyperion issued DMM LPs in the 1980s. As I write their beautiful recording of Robin Milford's music with Christopher Finzi conducting the Southern Pro Arte (leader Hugh Bean) and with soloists including oboeist Evelyn Barbirolli.

2009 is the 50th anniversary of Milford's death. I must mark it on the path.

Inexplicably the 1981 Milford disc is not available on CD. Instead Hyperion re-recorded a supplemented programme with different forces in 2003, possibly because the 1981 release contained less than 40 minutes of music.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Milford

I still have a DMM release of Schreker's Chamber S...

2009-01-03T19:34:00.000Z

I still have a DMM release of Schreker's Chamber Symphony. It boasts an immediacy of sound and enveloping spatial presence that would be envied today.