Re: UPLOAD! Two Guila Bustabo Recordings

On Jun 2, 9:28 pm, Frank Forman <chec...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
UPLOAD! Two Guila Bustabo Recordings

http://www.filefactory.com/file/5ixups22pj8v/n/F2359b_Bustabo_Pag1_on...

http://www.filefactory.com/file/2udyrdwvy7lh/n/F0779a_Hodgman_Bee_VC_...

I am pleased to offer the only two Bustabo recordings that are not in the
A Classical Record re-release of a two LP set privately issued by the
legendary collector, Tom Clear.

One is one of those mysterious Royale LPs that were given only anonymous
performers, but Tom Clear was quite positive that this was a genuine
broadcast of Bustabo, though likely not the same performance of the
Paganini that was in his compilation.

The second derives from an off-the-air recording of a broadcast of the
Beethoven concerto, conducted by the great Willem Mengelberg. There has
been considerable dispute over the date of the original concert, whether
it might be 1940 November 6 or 1943 May 6, but he late Ronald Klett opted
for the later date, on which Mengelberg also conducted the Eroica in not
very good sound but dynamic all the same. This date, too, have been
disputed.

In any event, I was quite smitten by the performance of the concerto, even
though I burnt out on the work from overexposure to it decades ago. I
agree with B.H. Haggin's assessment: "The Violin Concerto Opus 61 would be
regarded with less awe if the name Beethoven were not attached to it: much
of the first movement is feeble and platitudinous, and the finale is one
of the silliest pieces of music ever written" (Music on Records, Oxford
University Press, 1938, p. 12. This is the first book devoted to assessing
recordings ever written.)

My favorite of the Beethoven is not this one, or even any of the three
studio recordings of Szigeti, who pronounced it "the concerto." For me
"the" concerto is the Brahms violin concerto and "the" performance is the
studio with Szigeti, Harty, and the Hallé Orchestra.

This performance has been issued on a Japanese CD, King KICC 2060, which I
have turned into an mp3 file, in much better sound. The loud bang
against a microphone is on the King issue, too, as well as on two other
airchecks other collectors sent me.

The Royale recording, to my knowledge, has never been released in any other
form.

I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday I shall furnish the FileFactory
URL for a collection of 1594 Columbia and Victor M-sets. This will be my
major music legacy. Alas, I have to exclude CD and LP issues less than
fifty years old. Since Bill, in many, many cases, discarded his 78s when
CDs became available, there is an incredible wealth of recordings that I
can't share. But there is a huge number of badly neglected performances
along with routine ones and the semi- and non-classical music that
comprised more and more of Victor and Columbia's M-sets.

So please browse freely! There being so many files, it would not make
sense for me to zip them, though I can always zip together recordings of
the like of Monteux and Mitropolous on request.

I'll send a big spreadsheet indicating which cassette side they can be
found on, as well as a quite preliminary combined listing of the Columbia
and Victor M sets. Alas, uploading by FTP is so slow it may take more than
a week before they are all on FileFactory. So you sampling will be limited
for a while. I'll send an announcement when they are all finally in place..

Remember, though, that these records have historical value in that they
document how Americans heard classical music during the electric era.
Recordings were how Americans got most of their music, outside the largest
cities, and the choice was usually between the latest Columbia and the
latest Victor M-set. Records exceeded radio broadcasts as well as concerts
as the source of classical music for the vast majority of Americans.

Please reupload the Paganini( the first link). I don't have account
with filefactory and when I click on the link
http://www.filefactory.com/file/5ixups22pj8v/n/F2359b_Bustabo_Pag1_on...
I get a message "All free download slots are in use. You can download
this file immediately by upgrading to FileFactory Premium. Otherwise,
please feel free to try again shortly. Retry Download" That happens
already for 3 days. The other link works fine and I never had problems
with other Frank Forman's links. I'll really appreciate if somebody
could reupload Paganini to any file share. Thanks


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