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Member	Item		Review/Comment
ppint. 27th Jun 2015		Classical Item Alexis Weissenberg - Bach • Goldberg Variations (1992)	quite. but it's the gill sans-approved classicalcat Way. (see relevant forums - fora ? - topic.)
ppint. 27th Jun 2015		Classical Item Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl - Smetana: Má Vlast (2005)	in front insert booklet & on back insert, but not on the disc, "má vlast" is translated, "my country", and subtitled, "cyklus symfonickych básní", "a cycle of symphonic poems", and the composer's life's dates given, "(1824-1884)". in the "prague spring" of 1968, sincere communist & socialist politicians including dubcek inaugurated and attempted to establish a democratic socialist government for their country, and there was a flowering of the arts, as well as of freedom of expression & democratic co-operation in the then czechoslovakian people's republic. (it was all too brief, being decades before mikhail gorbachev's perestroika reforms in the soviet union: and the prague spring was crushed by the combination of soviet union & some other warsaw pact countries' armies.)
ppint. 27th Jun 2015		Classical Item Anna-Kristina Kaapola, Marianne Beate Klelland, Markus Schäfer, Thomas Bauer, Jos Van Immerseel And Anima Eterna - Classic Fm Presents Beethoven: Symphony No.9 'Choral' (2010)	i've not yet unsealed my copy of this; nor had whoever first bought the 8/2010 ish - and they paid full price!
ppint. 25th Jun 2015		Classical Item Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson - Arnold Bax: 4 Tone Poems (1983)	tracks listed as 01, 02 are side one, tracks 1 & 2; tracks listed as 03, 04 are side two, tracks 1 & 2. as submitted.
ppint. 24th Jun 2015		Classical Item Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson - Arnold Bax: 4 Tone Poems (1983)	"huzzah!" ( i think that's a 45cat permitted ejaculation) - "SECTIONBREAK" works! manythanks(™) -> doormanperdomo (amn't sure when &/or whether to use a "sir", "dame" & similar, especially when the packaging, notes& labels're inconsistent: won't including 'em upset searches?) 25/6/15: *sulk* who stole my "sectionbreak"s & "side"s "1" & "2" ?
ppint. 23rd Jun 2015		Classical Item Robert Plane, Howard Griffiths And Northern Sinfonia - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto • Five Bagatelles • Three Soliloquies From "Love's Labours Lost" • A Severn Rhapsody • Romance • Introit (1998)	"eheu, citizen portevirpetrus; eheu!"
ppint. 22nd Jun 2015		Classical Item Robert Plane, Howard Griffiths And Northern Sinfonia - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto • Five Bagatelles • Three Soliloquies From "Love's Labours Lost" • A Severn Rhapsody • Romance • Introit (1998)	doormanperdomo: eeeek! ok; is there aught so simple to the arcane knowledge of how to set a word, letter or phrase in the title in italics? (the usenet tradition is/was to start italics with a "_" and close them with a second "_" - but neither this, nor the "normal" 45cat "...italics..." works. (does anything?)
ppint. 22nd Jun 2015		Classical Item Robert Plane, Howard Griffiths And Northern Sinfonia - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto • Five Bagatelles • Three Soliloquies From "Love's Labours Lost" • A Severn Rhapsody • Romance • Introit (1998)	mod doormanperdomo: thanks for the formatting.
ppint. 22nd Jun 2015		Classical Item Young Ho Kim, Paul Freeman And Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Freeman And Czech National Symphony Orchestra - Tchaikovsky / Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (1997)	a truly amazing amount of recording information - for a carlton home entertainment "hallmark" label release.
ppint. 22nd Jun 2015		Classical Item J. Bulva, Libor Pesek And Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra Prague - Smetana: The Bartered Bride / Memory Of Pilsen / Libusa: Overture / String Quartet No.1 "from My Life" In E Minor (1992)	mod doormanperdomo: thanks for the formatting work.
ppint. 21st Jun 2015		Classical Item J. Bulva, Libor Pesek And Czech State Philharmonic Orchestra Prague - Smetana: The Bartered Bride / Memory Of Pilsen / Libusa: Overture / String Quartet No.1 "from My Life" In E Minor (1992)	back insert numbers listed tracks 1-6 and then 6-9; i'm not convinced this is of any great significance. the obverse of the disc gives "die verkaufte braut" & "u.a." precedence over "the bartered bride" & "and others", and the composer's name only as "b. smetana" - again, of dubious distinction. sold new by the "booksale" remainder chain @ 99p.
ppint. 20th Jun 2015		Classical Item Robert Plane, Howard Griffiths And Northern Sinfonia - Finzi: Clarinet Concerto • Five Bagatelles • Three Soliloquies From "Love's Labours Lost" • A Severn Rhapsody • Romance • Introit (1998)	- i hadn't even heard of (gerald) finzi, when i saw this - whyever not? - is it just there's so little (relatively) by him, or is (fairly) modern work for the clarinet looked down on? - anyway, "well done, naxos & the northern sinfonia for playing, recording & releasing this one. well done, indeed."
ppint. 19th Jun 2015		Classical Item Various Artists - Great Romantic Classics (1995)	artists: 1: herbert kraus & vienna mozart ensemble 2: helmut winschermann & german bach soloists 3: hans vonk & dresden state orchestra 4: max pommer & new bach musical academy 5: daniel gerard, piano, janos sandor & budapest philharmonic 6: andras korodi & budapest philharmonic 7: istvan szekely, piano, janos rolla & franz liszt co 8: miklos perenyi, cello; zoltan kocsis, piano 9: max pommer & leipzig rso 10: herbert kegel & dresden philharmonic 11: janos sandor & budapest philharmonic 12: evelyne dubourg, piano 13: adam fischer & hungarian national philharmonic (third attempt to submit item with progressively shorter cd "artist" field entry, gave up correcting individual tracks' credits for same.)
ppint. 18th Jun 2015		Classical Item Various Artists - Mussorgsky: Bilder Einer Ausstellung U.a. / Pictures At An Exhibition	double cd, but classicalcat has no such on drop-down menu. the first 15 tracks are actually by carlo maria giulini and chicago symphony orchestra; track 16 is by kurt sanderling and staatskapelle dresden; track 17 is by arthur fiedler and boston pops orchestra, as is disc2 track 1; disc2 track 2 is by seiji ozawa and san francisco symphony orchestra; track 3 by herbert von karajan and berliner philharmoniker; track 4 by mstislav rostropovich and berliner philharmoniker. after the third time of trying, i gave up giving the separate artist credits for each track - this one item has taken between 2~3 hours to enter into classicalcat.
ppint. 17th Jun 2015		Classical Item Ljubljana Symphony Orchestra, Anton Nanut - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 / Calm Sea & Prosperous Voyage Overture / Bizet: Symphony In C (1988)	n.b. there is no necessary connection between the label name and the family stradivarius. . .
ppint. 12th Jun 2015		Classical Item Sarah Francis And London Harpsichord Ensemble - Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Concertos For Oboe & Oboe D'amore (2002)	(the eccentric kerning of "&oboe d'amore" is as upon the cd, inserts & card slip-case. "sic" and, indeed, "stet" ! :-) )
ppint. 12th Jun 2015		Classical Item Sarah Francis And London Harpsichord Ensemble - Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767): Concertos For Oboe & Oboe D'amore (2002)	the tempi descriptions, etc. in parentheses are mine, extracted from the edited liner-notes: the tracks into which they are separated on the cds would otherwise have nothing to distinguish them. you may prefer to substitute the ordinal numbers of each movement in the concerti.
ppint. 6th Jun 2015		Classical Item Alexander Gibson And Scottish National Orchestra, Norman Del Mar And London Philharmonic Orchestra - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 In F Major, Op.36, Symphony No.5 In E Minor, Op.64, Serenade In C Major For String Orchestra, Op.48, Theme And Variations From (1995)	actually a double cd in a normal twin-cd jewel case, but "double cd" doesn't seem to be a classicalcat drop-down option. alexander gibson (on printed inserts) is sir alexander gibson on the discs, though he conducts, and the scottish national orchestra plays, only upon the first disc, in the fourth symphony. the individual discs also have long nos, though not separate bar-codes: 7243 5 68973 2 8 & 68974 2 7.
ppint. 4th Jun 2015		Classical Item Daniel Barenboim And English Chamber Orchestra - Mozart: Symphony No.40 In G Minor, K.550, Symphony No.41 In C Major, K.551 "jupiter" (1988)	looks as though it/the pairing spent some time on the music for pleasure or classics for pleasure label - perhaps both - until the latter was closed down by emi, and (some of) its catalogue reissued more expensively on hmv/emi's "proper" classical labels. (mfp was originally a collaboration set up by paul hamlyn, he of the incredibly cheaply-produced-but-brightly-colour-covered cookbooks fame, digging his way through hmv/emi historical, ignored (and frequently mono) recordings (and anything else he could lay his hands on cheaply enough). it launched into releasing original recordings of the classical cornucopia by established orchestras, with the costs covered by cigarette company sponsorship - which recordings are not to be sneezed at - and continued this so successfully that the gramophone record company/emi manglement, who'd by then bought out paul hamlyn's 50% share of mfp, felt these were cutting into its mid-price, as well as its full-price classical labels' sales...
ppint. 4th Jun 2015		Classical Item The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock - Joseph Haydn: Missa In Angustiis In D Minor "Nelson Mass", Te Deum In C Major (1987)	woops - and the opening phrases of the sections the words of the "te deum" are separated into, likewise. (the divisions are elaborated upon inside the 32pp booklet, but not in the track-listing on its back cover, nor in that upon the back insert of the package, neither of which mention the "benedictus" - and not even the division into tracks is mentioned on the disc, itself.) the membership of the english concert choir, grouped by their voices, and that of the english concert, and their period-authentic instruments, is given also, plus 3pp liner-notes in english on the mass and the the deum by edward olleson, translated into german by horst leuchmann, into french by alain jomy, into italian by paolo petazzi, 5pp full-page b+w illos including photo I of paintings & engravings including of horatio nelson, our hero (but not of emma, lady hamilton), and 10pp of the latin texts of mass & the deum plus translations into german, english & french effectively complete the booklet.
ppint. 3rd Jun 2015		Classical Item Ernest Graf And The Great Symphony Orchestra Of The Vienna Opera - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1989)	you expected more recording, production (etc.) info from me? - it's from pickwick, silly!
ppint. 3rd Jun 2015		Classical Item English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard - Bach, 3 Concerti Per Cembalo, BWV 1052, 1053, 1044 (1974)	soloist is raymond leppard, harpsichordist as well as wearing his conductor's hat.
ppint. 2nd Jun 2015		Classical Item Mariko Honda, Keith Clark And Slovak Philharmonic, Peter Michalica, Richard Zimmer And Philharmonia Cassovia - Tchaikovsky • Dvorák: Violin Concertos (1992)	according to eclassical.com, i have performers & conductors the right way round - and this album has been reissued on the naxos label, cat# 8.571067 1/1/2007.
ppint. 2nd Jun 2015		Classical Item Mariko Honda, Keith Clark And Slovak Philharmonic, Peter Michalica, Richard Zimmer And Philharmonia Cassovia - Tchaikovsky • Dvorák: Violin Concertos (1992)	there is no certain indication on disc or package inserts which of each of the names coupled with the orchestras and the concertos' composers is the soloist, and which, the conductor: they may be correctly listed above, or they may both be reversed: i must look all four up and check which are the violinists and which, therefore, most likely the maestros. "maestri" ? the first and second movements of the dvorák are listed as given (& vice-versa), as both being upon track 4 of the cd. a lot of naxos label cds bear performances © hnh international ltd: but n.b. i do not know whether there is (or was) any connexion between lydian and the naxos label, music co. or people.
ppint. 1st Jun 2015		Classical Item Various Artists - Britten: Four Sea Interludes (2008)	the pieces whose composer credits read "rossini, orchestrated benjamin britten" (the soirées musicales & matinées musicales) are pieces created and orchestrated by britten from themes and fragments taken from pieces composed by rossini, rather than whole rossini compositions, songs or movements, etc. orchestrated by britten. i'm not sure how to indicate this in 45worlds-composer-credit-ish.
ppint. 1st Jun 2015		Classical Item Kyung Wha Chung, Orchestre Symphonique De Montréal, Charles Dutoit - Tchaikovsky/mendelssohn: Violin Concertos (1982)	tracks listed above as 01-02 = side 1, tracks 1 & 2; 03 = side 2. (i'm guessing that the original lp had the tchaikovsky divided onto two tracks just so, and the mendelssohn occupying side two uninterrupted, so the music on the cassette was automatically presented in the same way on the cassette. bicbw...)
ppint. 1st Jun 2015		Classical Item Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert Von Karajan - Sibelius: Finlandia • Tapiola • Valse Triste • The Swan Of Tuonela (1984)	tracks listed above as 01-02 = side 1, tracks 1 & 2; 03-04 = side 2, tracks 1 & 2. on lps and cds it's more usual to list the separate movements of e.g. a concerto or a symphony as individual tracks: the movements of the tone poems are not so-listed on this cassette nor on (or in) its card insert (nor the stapled-in paper booklet).
ppint. 31st May 2015		Classical Item The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock - J. S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos • Cembalokonzerte (1981)	The concerto in e major, bwv 1053, is split in two, its first track being the last on side one, but the tape requiring to be fast-forwarded to its end to ensure all of its second track is heard after the cassette is turned over, or the direction of play reversed, and play of side 2 begun.
ppint. 31st May 2015		Classical Item Wynton Marsalis, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Raymond Leppard - Haydn / Hummel / L. Mozart: Trumpet Concertos (1983)	tracks listed above as 01-05 = side 1; tracks listed as 06-08 = side 2.
ppint. 30th May 2015		Classical Item Various Artists - Britten: Four Sea Interludes (2008)	no recording engineer is credited for track 1, (p) 1971 universal international music b.v. tracks 16-19 (p) 1959 by decca, 6-15 (p) 1982 by decca, 2-5 (p) 1988 by deutsche grammophon. insert booklet includes 4pp liner-notes on britten, his music and the pieces, by julian haylock.

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