[78-L] very unusual "Messiah" and Hermann Scherchen

[Gene Baron]

I find that Hermann Scherchen is always interesting to listen to, even if
(and maybe because) some of his tempi are rather extreme.  I have a memory
of the 1st movement of his Beethoven "Eroica" synphony being amazingly fast,
and this was way before the current fashion of quite fast Beethoven.

Gene
gene.baron at gmail.com



On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> On 3/6/2011 6:01 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> > On 3/6/2011 5:57 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> >> On 3/6/2011 5:10 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> >>> I'm trying to remember when I referred to any Westminster CD reissues
> in the
> >>> last ten years, but anything's possible. The only ones I've ever seen
> have been
> >>> in the Decca Double Decker series, a line which was in the stores for
> about
> >>> five minutes.
> >> Ah, but what a wonderful five minutes it was.  One of the sets was an
> >> almost complete Leroy Anderson.
> >>
> >> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> >> ________________________________
> > And of course I meant MCA Double Decker. There were goodies in that
> series,
> > including the Melvyn Douglas "L'Histoire du Soldat" (from Kapp), Alicia
> de
> > Larrocha's mid 50s Deccas, Scherchen's Westminsters of Liszt Hungarian
> > Rhapsodies and more.
> >
> > dl
>
> And the English and Spanish Peter and the Wolf that might have been
> paired with the Douglas.  These were two CDs in separate jewel boxes
> snapped into a long-box sized plastic CD stand to hold about 25 CDs, all
> for under ten bucks.  A rare bargain in those early days of the CD.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
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