Re: Bernstein/Solti/Karajan OOP

"Curtis Croulet" <calypte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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For someone coming of age in the early '60s with access to LPs
mainly on American labels at a well-stocked suburban department
store, the "top"
orchestras/conductors undoubtedly were:

My personal discovery of classical music came in late 1959. The "top"
conductor-orchestra combos of the time, of those who were actively
recording (I'm excluding popular but deceased figures like Toscanini),
also included Walter/Columbia Symphony, Klemperer/Philharmonia and
Szell/Cleveland.

My omission of Szell/Cleveland was inadvertent; I should have included him along with
Bernstein, Ormandy, Reiner, and Munch. But Klemperer never figured at all in my early
collecting, whether because of availability or for some other reason I no longer recall.
I do remember those Walter/Columbia records, but the only ones that I bought at the time
were his Mahler 9th and a Mozart miscellany.

Small record stores didn't always carry Angel, which
was Klemp's American label, but I bought most of my records in a
department store, May Co. in San Diego store, and they had them.

The first Angel record I ever bought was Michael Rabin's recording of Wieniawski's Violin
Concerto #1 c/w Bruch's Scottish Fantasy. I had to go to a specialist dealer in downtown
Manhattan to find a copy. It would have been in 1963/64.

In
fact, they objected when I asked them to order Klemp's Vox recording
of Beethoven's Fifth rather than Angel (I assume Angel was a simple
matter of ordering from Capitol Records; who carried Vox?).


I didn't discover Vox and the other emerging bargain labels until I went away to college
in 1967, just a short subway ride from Sam Goody's bargain annex across the street from
the main store on 49th Street. 3 LPs for $5 on sale; it was heaven!

Alan
.

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