Extra Tracks
Below are tracks from our library that never made it onto one of our compact discs. They can be downloaded here as high quality 320kbs AAC encoded (MP3) files.
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Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
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" I find the piano colour a little low in softer parts; and I think, in the first movement, both artists might pull a rather longer stroke. The sense of going is not quite so strong as I like it -- the sweep of things. Every note of the clarinet is sweetly reproduced (the lower register with fine power), and the piano's sustainment in the trio of the second movement shows the player's sense of style and the reproducers' ability to feel just what is the right proportion to balance the clarinet, and be sufficiently full, without overbearing. The finale is a set of ripe variations. In the evening sunshine, which has no glare, we may figure two friends sitting watching, with breath-freeing comfort, the frets of the world. Yet, as we hear they can still strike a youthful spark one from the other; and the artist's sense of life's multitudinousness breaks out with a brave fling." W. R. A. writing in the Gramophone July 1937
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"The great virtues of Kulenkampff were his sweet lyrical tone and his exquisite phrasing. He came of a generation that was not afraid to scoop a little but to my mind even his scoops are musicianly. He could also play with considerable passion... As with all 78s, there are tiny fluffs here and there, and traces of faulty intonation, but this is nevertheless glorious playing by both artists. The last page of the slow movement is really tremendous, and touched with inspiration; the phrase may be trite, but it's exact." R.F. reviewing the LP re-issue in Gramophone May 1965
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Eight songs by Brahms:
- Treue Liebe Op. 7 No. 1
- Am Sonntag Morgen Op. 49 No. 1
- Auf dem Kirchhofe Op. 105 No. 4
- Wie Melodien ziecht es Op. 105 No. 1
- Alte Liebe Op. 72 No. 1
- Bei dir sind meine Gedanken Op. 95 No. 2
- Wir wandelten Op. 96 No. 2
- Dein blaues Auge Op. 59 No. 8
sung by Kirsten Flagstad with Edwin McArthur (piano).
Recorded in August 1956 at Decca Studio No2, West Hampstead, London.
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" An extremely fine performance in many ways with plenty of weight and sense of purpose. The playing of the Vienna Philharmonic is both sensitive and splendidly alive; the slow movement is throughly felt and eloquently phrased. Krips's reading combines strength and tenderness, power and lyrical feeling, " R.L. writing in the Gramophone June 1972
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