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"There’s real fire in the belly of this performance –
but the recording is just too dated for me to appreciate, despite all
that Beulah have done to maximise the quality of the transfer."
"Even when the soloist enters in rather softer vein,
the feeling continues that this is going to be a big-boned performance;
it’s an interpretation of an aspect of Brahms that is certainly
defensible. It’s not all in the same manner; there’s some tender
playing, too, especially from Claudio Arrau, and I enjoyed hearing it,
though I wouldn’t choose it as my main recording. I deliberately played
this ‘blind’ but Arrau was certainly one of the pianists I would have
guessed; I almost always enjoyed his performances and this is more
sensitive than those which sometimes led reviewers to pun on his name
and the word ‘row’. The recording still sounds well in this transfer.
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"Nowadays we’re less apt to think of Mozart as the
musical equivalent of a Meissen figurine and I enjoyed van Beinum’s way
with the Haffner a good deal more than my 1950 predecessor...
The recording sounds a bit scrawny, but no more so than you might
expect for a recording of this vintage; there’s no significant surface
noise on this transfer and the ear soon adjusts to the sound quality.
The difference of a couple of years is apparent in the much improved
sound of No.33. This, too, I enjoyed hearing alongside, though not in
preference to, more recent recordings."
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"The reissue of this 1950 classic is very welcome,
archaic diction and all. It almost converted me to the G&S cause.
the reissue of this 1950 classic is very welcome, archaic diction and
all. It almost converted me to the G&S cause; now I’m going to try
the Proms performance of Yeomen to see if that conversion can be
complete.
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Overture
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Whole acts
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ACT 1
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ACT 2
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Individual numbers
ACT 1
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No. 1. When madien loves she sits and sighs
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No. 2. Tower warders under orders
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No. 3. When our gallant Norman foes
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No. 4. Alas I waver to and fro
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No. 5. Is life a boon?
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No. 6. Here's a man of jollity
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No. 7. I have a song to sing O
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No. 8. How say you maiden, will you wed?
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No. 9. I jibe and joke and quip and crack
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No. 10. Tis done! I am a bride
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No. 11. Were I thy bride
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No. 12 Finale
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ACT 2
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No. 1. Night has spread her pall once more,
Warders are ye?
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No. 2. Oh! a private Buffoon is a light-hearted
loon
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No. 3. Hereupon were both agreed
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No. 4. Free from fetters grim
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No. 5. Strange adventure
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No. 6. Hark! What was that, sir?
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No. 7. A man who would woo a fair maid
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No. 8. When a wooer goes a wooing
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No. 10 Finale
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What the critics say
"If I have a desert-island Beethoven symphony, it’s the
Seventh, and the benchmark in my head is Colin Davis’s 1961 HMV
recording with the RPO, now happily restored to us by Beulah" Brian
Wilson at Music Web International reveiwing
Barenboim's recording with the West-East Divan Orchestra
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