Decca's Conductor's Gallery: A Simcha For Historical Recording Collectors

Hot off the presses from Australian Eloquence comes this lovingly assembled, 21-CD collection of historical recordings from the period 1929-49, excellently remastered and beautifully annotated. Some of the material from these 23 conductors will be familiar, but lots of it will not be. All of it, good and less good, is worth hearing. It's a true collector's item, so get it while you can.

[@alanmcginn4796]

Happy new year to this wonderful community.

[@mr-wx3lv]

Happy 2024 David. You bring a measure of down to the earthness to the, sometimes snobbery in classical music. Theres a lot of music out there to explore and digest....

[@DiegoGonzalez-nv9qv]

Happy New Year - Your videos are required daily viewings since they teach and entertain.

[@MickeyCoalwell]

I commend your delight in the early conductors, soloists, ensembles, and performance practices. There is so much these historicals can teach us about the evolution of musical taste and artistry. They are fun!

[@bingbongtoysKY]

happy new years eve Dave!!!! 🎉we love you man!!!!🎉

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

Albert Coates was such a maniac with those tempos. I have that stuff and I love it.

[@leestamm3187]

Among his fairly numerous efforts as a composer Coates wrote an eminently forgettable piano concerto. An old live radio broadcast recording of it is on KZbin, if you care to punish yourself.

[@craggyisland8770]

Can you do a vid on quality of sound recordings through the years? And what you’ve come to learn

[@stefanskoglund2156]

Happy New Year 2024 Thank You for Everything David❤

[@dmntuba]

Hat's off to AE !!! They seem to be the only one that knows what they're doing 👍

[@bbailey7818]

This sounds like a fun collection. That Haydn 95 was the only available recording in the 78 rpm era. I have the Vaughan Williams and Walton symphony sets on shellac. There seems to be no restriction on disc sides and times. Faster, exciting if not driven tempi were perhaps much more common then than now. Even Celi could get a move on. I ordered the set, my last music purchase for 2023. Happy New Year. 🎉 P.S. I finished the box, indispensable for historical mavens. Blech was perhaps the strangest of all. The Humperdinck has some weird tempos in the middle while Blech seems to go into some kind of reverie or trance in the first mvt of the Surprise. It just stops nearly dead in parts. It sounds as if its some sort of 19th century Romanric performance practice quirk.

[@bumblesby]

My interest in historical recordings started with the Ormandy Legacy set. I recently read Adrian Boult's book My Own Trumpet and in it he mentioned several of these conductors. This set showed up and I was excited to get it. I guess I'm on a new (or perhaps old) journey :)

[@pineda6492]

happy new year bro

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Same to you!

[@richardegarr1441]

… ordered… thanks David… and Happy New Year💥💥💥💥💥💥🪇🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂

[@barryguerrero6480]

. . . and you're detractors keep saying all you care about is sound quality, David!