Today's classical playlist

No, but I like what he has to say! Thanks for the link.

Yeah, Teri is great. He finally has a show again, Mondays on WKCR, I believe from about 9:30 a.m. - 12 p.m. He's a very knowledgeable guy, and I was thinking you might have known him, or about him, by your reference to HIP puriists". Out of curiosity, do you know where you encountered that term?
 
One doesn't really look to 1960 Soviet era recordings for an audiogasm, but this sounds pretty decent overall--I can hear some obvious compression/gain-riding and spot mic'ing, but it's perfectly listenable. No, the bass drums don't shake my house the way Andris Nelsons' does, but Kondrashin's is perhaps the most brutally intense version I have heard. The Moscow Philharmonic play as if their lives depended on it.

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Brahms two-CD set on Pilz. I grew up on these sets and discovered some wonderful recordings are sometimes among the best (I kid you not).

I did enjoy this album, though didn't listen critically.

CD 1:
  • Festival Overture
  • Tragic Overture
  • Violin Concerto
All with the Munich Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Helmut Bucher. The violinist on the concerto isn't listed.

CD 2:
  • Symphony No. 2
    • Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Libor Pesek
  • Liebeslieder Waltzes
    • Gächinger Kantorei, conducted by Helmuth Rilling

And then for something completely different:

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Definitely preferred the Brahms!
 
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