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    On catch up, BBC Radio 3 Sunday Morning... includes Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque. There’s also music by Verdi, Villa-Lobos, and Schubert. https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/m0000d59
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    BBC Radio 3 breakfast classical show https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/play/live:bbc_radio_three
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    Thanks. I'll check those out
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    I enjoyed Manuel Rosenthal's rather ethereal rendering of La Mer by Debussy. Any recommendations for other Rosenthal-conducted performances along similar lines?
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    BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op.93 New York Philharmonic Orchestra, 1942 Bruno Walter, conductor https://archive.org/details/BeethovenSymphonyNo.8-Walter
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    Claude Debussy - Iberia Orchestra of the Theatre National de l'Opera de Paris, Manuel Rosenthal, cond. Ades, recorded 1957-59 https://archive.org/details/DebussyIberiarosenthal
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    Claude Debussy - La Mer Orchestre National de l'ORTF, Jean Martinon, cond. EMI, recorded 1973-74 https://archive.org/details/DebussyLaMermartinon
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    I'm also on Bruno Walter this morning. BRAHMS: Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, 1936 https://archive.org/details/BRAHMSSymphonyNo.3-NEWTRANSFER
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    Igor Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945) and Fireworks - Fantasy for Orchestra, Op. 4 (1908). Igor Stravinsky conducting the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York. Recorded in 1947. https://archive.org/details/StravinskyFirebirdSuite
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    Had to suppress a wooo on this one. https://archive.org/details/sunriseFromAlsoSprachZarathustrareiner
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    Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake excerpts (Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops, 1963) https://archive.org/details/SDRodriansLpTchaikovskysSwanLakeExcerptsarthurFiedlerBostonPops
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    Excellent. Thanks both. I'll check those out.
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    A request: I am trying to get a feel for the affect that a conductor, and their way of interpreting a piece, has on a performance. Does anyone have a good example of two performances of the same piece by different conductors that are both well-regarded yet display relatively clear differences in...
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    STRAVINSKY: Apollo Musagetes 'Orchesrtre de la Suisse Romande Ernest Ansermet, conductor Recorded in 1955 https://archive.org/details/STRAVINSKYApolloMusagetes
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    STRAVINSKY: Pétrouchka The Philadelphia Orchestra Leopold Stokowski, conductor Recorded November 7, 1937 https://archive.org/details/STRAVINSKYPtrouchka-NEWTRANSFER
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    Debussy: The Engulfed Cathedral (La Cathédrale engloutie) New Philharmonia Orchestra Leopold Stokowski, conductor 1965 https://archive.org/details/DEBUSSY-STOKOWSKITheEngulfedCathedral
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    Peter Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a. Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra. Recorded November 10, 1926 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. https://archive.org/details/TchaikovskyTheNutcrackerSuite
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    Recommendations for record shops in London/Paris

    Sounds about right. He was a bit of a grumpy git, but I always found a couple of interesting things there every time I went. Shame it's no longer there.
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    Beethoven. Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67. Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. In four movements: Allegro con brio, Andante con brio, Allegro, Allegro. Recorded in 1939 in studio 8H at Rockefeller Center in NYC. https://archive.org/details/BeethovenSymphonyNo.5
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    Igor Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring The Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Recorded in New York City in January, 1961. Transferred from the original Columbia stereo LP MS 6319. Transfer by Bob Varney. https://archive.org/details/RiteOfSpring_201503
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    Today's classical playlist

    Yeah, I use it on my laptop, but as far as I know the mobile version doesn't stop adverts from appearing on the YouTube app. Anyway, I'm looking forward to contributing to the thread and learning more about classical music.
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    Thanks. I'll check them out.
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    Thanks. Yeah, I've been using YouTube but I'm using a mobile to trigger the play area system and the constant adverts are getting a bit annoying. Found a few bits on archive.org so I'll use a mix of them going forward.
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    Any recommendations for good performances of the classic classical pieces on archive.org? Preferably FLACs. Trying to educate my son (and myself, really) in classical music. Thanks
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    Recommendations for record shops in London/Paris

    Been over a decade now since I was last a regular crate digger in London, but looks like Flashback Records in Islington is still there. There used to be another record shop further down the same street that had a good variety of genres and cheap, unsorted vinyl down on the floor but I can't...
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