 In our Spring issue…Lewis Foreman investigates the strange career and the recordings of the conductor Oskar Fried, who until recently has been a half-forgotten figure, but whose art is now seen at its true value. Tully Potter concludes his survey of The Art of Buffo on record, and debates the merits or otherwise of Jascha Heifetz’s recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto with Richard Evans. Jon Tolansky conducted an interview with the American baritone Frank Guerrara not long before his death, and finds that his art is preserved on record more extensively than you might think. Recordings by Wilhelm Furtwängler are examined in two aspects – Bryan Crimp solves the curious case of the duplicated post-war Viennese matrices and John Hunt re-investigates the origins of HMV’s famous Beethoven Ninth Symphony made at the 1951 Bayreuth Festival. Nick Morgan points the way to bargains on Japanese and other overseas websites, while collector news is gathered in from Europe, the Far-East and the USA. Transfer engineer Ted Kendall discusses his approach to restoring old recordings in conversation with David Patmore. Reviews include an encyclopedia of conductors on record; DVDs of Britten’s War Requiem, La favorita, Otello and Andrea Chénier; CDs of Beecham conducting Alwyn, the complete LP Decca recordings of Jean Martinon, Vaughan Williams conducting his Fifth Symphony and Dona nobis pacem, Myra Hess and the Griller Quartet at a wartime National Gallery concert, the idiosyncratic pianism of Ervin Nyiregházi – and much else. Published 12 May. |
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