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2 hours ago, Larry Kart said:

Yes -- The Steinberg download of Protee can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?u1jecvxczzj

It's the only recording AFAIK that does the work justice, though it would be nice to have a performance of Protee that's this good and that was in top-flight modern sound. Though the Steinberg's sound is OK for its time (it's a live performance BTW), the work is, as some record label used to say, a "sonic spectacular." There may be a modern recording around somewhere, but I don't know of it. BTW the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952 was quite a band.

Thank you for the link. Will have a listen for sure. My introduction to this composer.

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1 hour ago, Referentzhunter said:

cd 1, Claude Debussy's Preludes Book 1 & 2 beginning.

'Dino Ciani'. Alfred Cortot called him miraculously gifted.

'Brilliant Classics', budget label that keeps improving. Little booklet included, nice cover also, cd's in seperate covers with information all conceiled in a nice clamshell-box. Found this in thriftshop for only 1.50 euro and i am very happy with it.

Did forget to mention that the sound on these Brilliant boxes is really good !

 

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Love Ciani - what a brilliant, brilliant pianist! (And also my introduction to these Weber sonatas).

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Mozart Symphony 29 from this set.

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On ‎9‎/‎17‎/‎2019 at 7:53 AM, Larry Kart said:

Yes -- The Steinberg download of Protee can be found here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?u1jecvxczzj

It's the only recording AFAIK that does the work justice, though it would be nice to have a performance of Protee that's this good and that was in top-flight modern sound. Though the Steinberg's sound is OK for its time (it's a live performance BTW), the work is, as some record label used to say, a "sonic spectacular." There may be a modern recording around somewhere, but I don't know of it. BTW the Pittsburgh Symphony in 1952 was quite a band.

The original record is given as being on the "ASCAP" label...Google search returns nothing for this. What's the deal with that?

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30 minutes ago, JSngry said:

The original record is given as being on the "ASCAP" label...Google search returns nothing for this. What's the deal with that?

Ah, it's likely AFM, not ASCAP, and it can be found here: https://www.popsike.com/Pittsburgh-International-Contemporary-Music-Festival-complete-20-record-set/231404166470.html

Talk about something to find in a used bin somewhere for not too much money...eyes wide open going forth!

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20 LPs!

Record #1 - Drinking Song from Sir John in Love / Vaughan Williams ; We Fight Not For Glory from The Testament of Freedom / Thompson (University of Pittsburgh Men’s Glee Club); Psalm XXIII : My Shepherd Will Supply My Need / Thomson ; Immortal Autumn / Finney (Heinz Chapel Choir); Cherubic Hymn / Hanson (The Bach Choir and Carnegie Institute of Technology Student Orchestra and Chorus)

Record #2 - Piano Quintet, Op. 57 / Shostakovich (Juilliard String Quartet) ; Piano Quintet / Piston (New Music String Quartet)

Record #3 - Serenade, for Tenor Solo, Horn and Strings, Op. 31 / Britten ; Music for String Instruments, Percussion, and Celesta / Bartók (String Sinfonia - Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #4 - Rispetti e Strambotti, String Quartet / Malipiero ; Five Movements for String Quartet, Op. 5 / Webern ; String Quartet No. 1 / Piston (Juilliard String Quartet)

Record #5 - Symphony for Strings / Schumann ; Concerto Grosso / Bloch (String Sinfonia - Pittsburgh Symphony, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #6 - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra / Berg (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor) ; String quartet no. 1 / Thomson ; Trio, for violin, viola, violoncello, op. 45 / Schoenberg (New Music String Quartet)

Record #7 - Piano Quartet / Martinu (Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois) ; String Quartet No. 4 / Bartók (New Music String Quartet)

Record #8 - String Quartet, A Minor / Walton ; Sonata for Flute and Piano, D Major, Op. 94/ Prokofieff ; Four Sonnets A Cassandre / Martin (Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois)

Record #9 - Bachianas Brasileiras no. 1 for 8 violoncelli / Villa-Lobos ; Protée : Symphonic Suite No. 2 / Milhaud (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #10 - Symphony for wind instruments / Stravinsky ; Suite for band / Milhaud ; Commando march / Barber ; To you, America / Still ; Bolero / Ravel (arr. by Captain E. Resta) - (United States Military Academy Band, Captain Francis E. Resta conductor)

Record #11 - Quartet no. 2 in A minor (The Walden Quartet of the University of Illinois) / Walton ; Quartet no. 1 / Virgil Thomson (The New Music String Quartet)

Record # 12 - Symphony for band / Harris ; Toccata marizale / Vaughan Williams ; Symphony for band / Hindemith (United States Military Academy Band, Captain Francis E. Resta conductor)

Record #13 - Symphony no. 5 / Honegger ; Lincoln portrait / Copland (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor)

Record #14 - Partita for violin, viola and organ / Piston ; Sonata no. 1 / Hindemith ; Sonata / Krenek (Organ and Choral Concert)

Record # 15 -  Tudor portraits / Vaughan Williams (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Record # 16 - Concerto for piano 4 hands, op. 56 / Persichetti ; Six pieces, for piano, op. 19 / Schoenberg ; Quaderno musicale de Annalibera / Dallapiccola (Piano and Percussion Concert)

Record #17 - Toccata for percussion / Chavez ; Sonata, for piano, 1952 / Ginastera (Piano and Percussion Concert. Conducted by Roy Harris.)

Record #18 - Fugue and chorale / Honnegger ; La nativite du seigneur / Messiaen ; Three chorale preludes / Sessions (Organ and Choral Concert)

Record #19 - Symphony of Psalms / Stravinsky ; Symphony no. 5 / Harris (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)

Record #20 - Alabanzas del adviento, op. 30 / Santa Cruz ; Song of the pioneers / Chajes ; Psalm 103 / Freed ; Dance with me / Ahe ; Passer mortuus est (da Catulla) / Malipiero ; Svenska folkvisor / Rosenberg ; The golden harp, op. 93 / Read ; Shepherd's farewell, op. 35 / Saeverud ; Two French Canadian folk songs. Sainte Marguerite ; Le navire de bayonne / Willan ; Lendas amerindias / Villa-Lobos ; Vocalise (in modo russo) / Lopatnikoff ; A bucket of water / Phillips ; Ave verum corpus / Poulenc ; An immortality / Copland. (All Community Program)

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