Classical Music for Aficionados

Helsinki Phil is a wonderful Band . I heard then do a Sibelius 2/ Vanska few years ago , didn’t come down for a week .
Perahia  is excellent on Schubert as well .

Not to mention Perahia’s lovely perusal of the complete Mozart Piano Concertos when he was a kid!

I have been listening to" Murray Perahia: The First 40 Years
It is 68 cds, everything he recorded before 2010.
Here is a description:
https://www.allmusic.com/album/murray-perahia-the-first-40-years-includes-bonus-dvds-mw0002415783

Jim, you never stop me from being amazed with your encyclopedic
knowledge of all things classical pianistic


One man in a hundred thousand !I send you a clip of a man among the very best singers and human beings every born in the USA, who was also beloved in Scotia and Wales.

Wouldn’t surprise me if you have seen it or him , but just in case.......
P.S . Joe hill was the greatest US Unionist of American miners , was charged with murder of someone in Utah , our most conservative state, and was hung in a matter of days .
https://youtu.be/B0bezsMVU7c?t=4


How beloved he was in Wales .

https://youtu.be/H1hLPRnmAjw?t=6   { press the left bottom v starter not the big red one on top)

Goodness me Len , Paul Robeson now there's a name from the past. As a kid in the fifties we had an old box of 78s in a cupboard and there were 2 or 3 Robesons there. I loved Ol Man River of course but the one that I was always playing was Trees which I really loved at the time . Of course father didn't like me playing the 78s too much as it played havoc with the stylus that was more suited to 45s and 33 1/3 but I didn't care it was better than his pipe band records so there was an uneasy truce that if I played my stuff when he was out it was OK. You know That film of him in Wales , I remember seeing it in a local cinema in it must have been about 1960 and I enjoyed it so much I hid in the toilets so as to see it again.
I have to say though that McCarthyism really crippled Robeson and they hit him where it hurt by making it impossible for him to get roles in films and in theatres. We all as counties have heinous things that we would rather forget, the Brits have a terrible past with imperialism look at what we did to India, appalling.

Now you talk about me knowing things, you are quite an erudite gent yourself. You have a nice week my friend and keep your "lugs" tuned.