12 March 2014

24/48: Aeolian String Quartet play... Elgar. Quartet -&- Vaughan Williams. Quartet 1 - Delta/Summit 1963

Sir Edward Elgar:  String Quartet in E minor, op.83 **

I: Allegro moderato  ~  II: Piacevole (Poco andante)  ~  III: Finale (Allegro molto)   
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Ralph Vaughan Williams:  String Quartet no.1 in G minor
I: Allegro moderato  ~  II: Minuet and Trio  ~  III: Romance (Andante sostenuto)  ~  IV: Finale (Rondo capriccioso)  
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The Aeolian String Quartet     
(Sydney Humphreys  &  Raymond Keenlyside, violins - Watson Forbes, viola - Derek Simpson, 'cello)
Summit  TLS 6052   STEREO   Scarce c.1965 LP.  Originally: mono Delta  DEL 12025;  the RVW reissued c.1970 (Revolution RCB 20).   

NOT ON CD   **Slightly re-edited May 2022Excellent performances in very good sound.  Elgar Piano Quintet (Cassini/Aeolian)

1933 Stratton Qt version of Elgar St.Qt. on  HISTORICAL  (+ other Elgar Chamber)    Sleeve-note / labels >>>






9 comments:

  1. Wonderful! I have the Aeolian SQ in a box with Haydn SQ's, a very good quartet! Thanks for sharing, beautiful playing.

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  2. Wonderful post, Frank: marvellous playing, excellent sound, what more could one ask for? A rarity for sure, but worth wide dissemination. Thanks very much!
    Maestro

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  3. Could you possibly upload this, the 1933 Stratton & other Eippy Share, please. I get a Firefox browser update warning on Mega. Can't get the updated FF to install [in Linux Ubuntu}.
    Did manage to install Opera, which Mega says works, but I still get the FF warning. Most fristrating! My stepson is a computer maven, and HE couldn't get th FF update to install.
    Sorry to be a pain in the arse but I'd really like to d/l the above, and gawd nose might be back again to have another go.

    Mike in Plovdiv xxm.harkin@yahoo.com

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  4. Thank you for the pointers! - i'll see about getting those on vinyl in good time (a quick look revealed that some of such vinyls are surprisingly pricy..)

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  5. Maybe I could upload Boult's Sym.4/Wasps.

    However, the vinyl's really aren't worth much (under £3, IMO) and you need the recut LXT's - as original copies are not much good either (AKA: 'rubbish' ).

    http://himahito.web.fc2.com
    shows quite a lot of matrix info - Boult's RVW Symphonies are mostly from LXT 2907 ('R' shows later recuts: the 'bust' sleeves originally are 'Dr' recuts - those L/or N are later -- up to about 1961 - sometimes used for ACL reissues.

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  6. Hah, and what i saw were on both sides of £10 (such as the Collins/Elgar/RVW)!

    And nice if you could upload the Boult! RVW's been a refreshing change from the 'standard repertoire' (including Elgar), as the 'challenges' of grasping the works are quite different (a bit like with Shostakovich - whom i haven't yet much listened to (only know his 5th), so my superficial association could be wrong..)

    Many thanks for your kind advice...

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  7. I'd be MOST grateful if you'd do the 78 chamber works on ZS, just for temporary. No idea when stepson will show up. As I said, I managed
    to install Opera, but for some reason it doesn't kick in.... I must be missing something, as all I get is the update FF warning.

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  8. Might 'have a go'- though the songs on the other side are mostly less interesting (at least those that I jabbed the needle down-upon!)...and nothing similarly-good comes to mind (Janet Baker's Saga LP of English songs doesn't, IMO....though I suppose there's Wilfred Brown's English Folksongs (acc. by John Williams)...or even Osian Ellis' Welsh songs - both on Oiseau-Lyre??

    Will see if anything can be done with the Elgar Pf Qnt (which is really nice): however I've washed it numerous times but the darned 'crackle' resides in the matrices - and, as I despise 'de-click' for LP's, it may not be viable.

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  9. Hello Eric,
    Sadly I don't have the John Ireland/Saga's (looking at a 1966 EMG Guide I see there were 3: XID 5207(Shirley-Quirk) / 5206 / 5230 + a Summit/Delta: LSU 3801 - those 3 being instrumental's): so I wonder how popular (even in the UK) they actually were..

    I do have the Janet Baker (+ the later Saga Schumann,etc) in early '80's German Teldec pressings - but must admit to not being a 'fan' of her singing..

    Re: Ireland. unfortunately I broke the Decca 78's of the Phantasie Trio (Grinke, etc) - but the 1940 Boyd Neel: Concertino Pastorale - Decca X 253-55 -survives intact.

    But I'll see what can be done with the 'mint' Elgar Pf Qnt: Aeolian/Cassini.

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