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What's New for June
New Ringtone and Price Reduction
Monks
sing a Gergorian Chant Amen New
All our ringtones have
been halved in price from US# 3 to only 1.5
New from iTunes
1PD45 The Genuis of Antonin Dvorak
Cello Concerto
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"
Although not currently available
on compact disc you will be able buy these tracks at iTunes
watch this page for link to appear when the album is ready to download
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New from Beulah Extra
Reviewes of these tracks
quoted below are by Brian Wilson at Music
Web International
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"The music is attractive – though it’s got
little or nothing to do with Shakespeare’s play, it’s unjustly
neglected – the performance makes it sound enjoyable and the Beulah
transfer of the recording is miraculously good for its age, with
near-silent surfaces. Incredulous that it could have been made as long
ago as 1932"
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the
transfer sounds fine, with a good but not excessive dynamic range
between the opening, which Munch handles as delicately and sensitively
as any version that I’ve heard, and the climaxes where the performance
packs plenty of power without going over the top. You may wish to set
the volume slightly lower than usual.
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Beecham’s way with lollipops, especially those
of French origin is legendary – and he’s conducting a French orchestra
here, as well as having played the piano duet version with Fauré
himself. Charming music, some of the most beautiful ever composed for
or about children – older listeners will recall with nostalgia the use
of the opening berceuse as the theme tune of Listen with Mother –
winningly conveyed and sounding very well in this transfer.
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"a thoroughly idiomatic performance in a recording which sounds exceptionally good for its age."
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Munch’s
Rapsodie Espagnole is not, so far as I am aware, otherwise available in
the UK at present, though it was available in the latter days of RCA
and it has as much claim as any ... to be the kind of recording which
should never be unavailable.
The sound in this transfer is good.
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" I enjoyed this selection. The performances
are in the best Viennese tradition and the recordings have worn well."
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" Sir Malcolm Sargent with the Pro Arte
Orchestra is the ideal interpreter of the Pirates of Penzance
Overture."
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" The Reiner Marche Slave sounded rather too
bright on its first appearance but it sounds
much smoother in the Beulah transfer, with no loss of detail. The
performance is thoroughly idiomatic and exciting. "
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1st movement
2nd movement
3rd movement
4th movement
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" Yevgeny Mravinsky’s Tchaikovsky Fourth has
rightly achieved almost legendary status, along with his recordings of
Symphonies Nos. 5 and 6. For me, performances of Tchaikovsky’s last
three symphonies don’t come any better than this ... You will either
love or hate the performances for the sheer Russian-ness of the brass
in particular and the white-hot energy of Mravinsky’s direction.
It remains only for me to say that the Beulah transfer is excellent and
that I can hear no appreciable difference between it and the
amazon.co.uk download of the DG release; in fact, as the Beulah is at
320kb/s and the Amazon at 256k or slightly less, younger and keener
ears may well score in favour of the Beulah."
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3rd movement
4th movement
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" This is a sound performance with power where
it’s needed and there’s tenderness, too, while the recording still
sounds fine. The third movement goes with real abandon and the
lamentoso aspect of the finale is all the more effective for not being
overdone. The tempi are remarkably similar to those chosen by Mravinsky
on his classic version of this symphony with the Leningrad PO (DG)."
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"The solo playing is excellent; though the
support which she receives from the VSOO is not as good as that offered
by Pierre Monteux and the Concertgebouw Orchestra on an earlier
recording which she made with them (available from Guild and
Audiophile), it’s perfectly adequate. The mono recording, which dates
from around 1959, sounds fine."
New Video Download
More inland waterways
titles
just
released:
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Take
to the Boats (1962)
This BTF documentary depicts the uses made of the
inland waterways in the early 1960s. The boats and fashions have
changed and the commercial traffic using narrow boats has all but gone,
but much else is unchanged. The Zoo Water Bus still navigates the
Regents Canal. Hire boats for partying, although bankers these days
will want more spectacular venues than the Bank of Bangkok staff of
1962 experienced. There is still a trip boat at Newark, though it does
not offer a five day trip form Nottingham to Lincoln as featured n this
film. There are some changes with the passage of time . Upton on Severn
Water Festival has down graded from an ox roast to a pig roast and
Coventry Cathedral is not new any more.
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