Classical Music - Comments by xiphophilos

Classical Music - Comments by xiphophilos

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Member	Item		Review/Comment
xiphophilos 26th Feb 2023		Classical Item Louis Graveure - The Trumpeter / The Marseillaise (1919)	The Marseillaise is here sung in English, probably with the English lyrics by George Linley (1797-1865). [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 22nd Feb 2023		Classical Item Jan Kubelik - Pierrot's Serenade (1911)	The label diameter is 10.1 cm = roughly 3.976378 inches.
xiphophilos 22nd Feb 2023		Classical Item Renata Tebaldi, Giacinto Prandelli, Hilde Gueden, Fernando Corena, Raphael Arie, Giovanni Inghilleri, Melchiorre Luise, The Orchestra And Chorus Of The Accademia Di Santa Cecilia, Rome - La Bohème Highlights (1953)	This is definitely a US release, as the cover reveals. The ebay seller is from Trenton, New Jersey, which fits as well. Not sure when this particular cover appeared, but we always list the first release year, so 1953.
xiphophilos 3rd Feb 2023		Classical Item Theodore Chaliapine - Midnight Review / The Two Grenadiers (1926)	A side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 3rd Feb 2023		Classical Item Theodore Chaliapine - Midnight Review / The Two Grenadiers (1926)	B side: [YouTube Video]
xiphophilos 31st Jan 2023		Classical Item Waldo De Los Rios - Symphony No. 40 Mozart Adpt. / The Toy Symphony (Minuet) (1971)	It's probably the Orquesta Manuel De Falla that Waldo De Los Rios conducts here, cf. the cover of https://www.discogs.com/release/2389676
xiphophilos 23rd Jan 2023		Classical Item Os-Ke-Non-Ton - By The Waters Of Minnetonka / By The Weeping Waters (1923)	Composer Thurlow Lieurance (1878 - 1963), professor of music and later Dean of Fine Arts at the University of Wichita in Kansas, was a member of the Indianist movement in American classical music that flourished from the 1880s through the 1920s. Its adherents tried to create a new, truly American national music by incorporating Native American musical ideas into Western classical music. For an untrained ear like mine, both songs basically sound like orchestral pieces in the European tradition with violins and cellos, except that there is a flute solo that sounds vaguely "Indian," and the singer is then-famous Mohawk baritone Os-Ke-Non-Ton, born c. 1888 in Caughnawaga [now Kahnawá:ke], QC, Canada. Os-Ke-Non-Ton trained as an opera singer in New York City where he befriended Enrico Caruso. He died around 1955 in Lily Dale, NY.
xiphophilos 21st Jan 2023		Classical Item The Residency-Orchestra (The Hague), Willem Van Otterloo - Akademische Festouvertüre, Tragische Ouvertüre	keebrev, I think you uploaded the right cover, but the wrong labels here.
xiphophilos 12th Jan 2023		Classical Item Wiener Saengerknaben - An der schönen blauen Donau Walzer	This is a 10-inch record, isn't it?
xiphophilos 12th Jan 2023		Classical Item Vladimir de Pachmann - Chopin & Liszt Pieces (1916)	It would be good if the category 78rpm records could also be differentiated by size. Not all Classical 78rpm records are 12 inches in diameter.