Lachian Dances: Ancient Dance ~ Blessed dance ~ Dymak ~ Ancient Dance ~ Celadna Dance ~ Saws
http://www.mediafire.com/?s1a8rdlu3a5602n
The Fiddler's Child ( Ballad for Orchestra ) http://www.mediafire.com/?2e7qaxhfbslg8ua
Jealousy ( Prelude to the Opera 'Jenufa' ) http://www.mediafire.com/?4bbl2db1b7jlb74
The Ballad of the Blanik Hill http://www.mediafire.com/?09pgt3rfnix4s4z
Brno State Philharmonic Orchestra - Jiri Waldhans. Supraphon SUAST 50894 Matrices: E 863/A - E 864/A. 1968 pressing.
The Fiddler's Child ( Ballad for Orchestra ) Stephen Bryant, violin http://www.mediafire.com/?8cpfd8oh44l8wit
From the House of the Dead - Suite arr. Frantisek Jilek http://www.mediafire.com/?zpy34gd6rrzaec3
BBC Symphony Orchestra - Jiri Belohlavek BBC Radio 3 FM. Live from Barbican Hall. 31 October 2000 (Digital MiniDisc transfer)
The Guardian review of the BBC Concert - LINK The Gramophone - 1968 review of the Supraphon LP - LINK
STEREO FLAC files
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Haven't listened to Belohlavek yet, but Waldhans plays on repeat mode. Fascinating and immensely appreciated!
ReplyDeleteThe Belohlavek is one of my favourite MD 'live' R3 recordings and I hope there are 'a few' downloads! The older Brno Bakala is a 'better' performance of the Lach Dances (excellent sound, too) - but Janacek is always Fantastic music - so glad you liked it..
ReplyDeleteThanks for this, great performances and sound!
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to say: I know how much hard work goes into these transfers, and this is great work you're doing.
ReplyDeleteForgive me for my ignorance, but I can't believe there is an Opera for House Of The Dead, it is perhaps my favorite story of his and I love reading it in the Garnett translation. I have to find a copy of this opera, I am honestly floored by this revelation.
ReplyDelete“Well..Janacek's opera should be fairly well-known. I first bought the 1964 Supraphon set (Prague National/Bohumil Gregor) in the mid-70's. Maybe that was the first complete Czech recording; however there was a single mono LP (Supraphon 10095) of 'highlights' - Brno orchestra conducted by Bakala & Vogel. I recorded that 'live' orchestral Suite as that was never on LP. There's likely a few other complete recordings now (I've not heard the Neumann) but only otherwise have Mackerras' 1981 Decca digital. Based on what I heard, the fairly recent performance by Pierre Boulez is probably best-avoided.”
ReplyDeleteTin Ear, I found a CD release of the exact same 1964 production:
ReplyDeletehttp://avaxhome.ws/music/opera_century_20th_janacek_house_dead.html
I am a little tempted to find a DVD of the recent performance just to see the sets and how it's choreographed mostly..
The DVD is likely the Boulez? It really won't match-up to the Gregor, as a performance, (which sounded 'misguided' to me - BBC R3 broadcast). Have been tempted to upload the mono LP mentioned - as Bakala's 'Lach Dances' are superior to the Waldhans here. Also, though I don't have it, Bakala's 1952 "Sarka" is worth 'finding'.
ReplyDeleteYes, I'm just glad to have the Gregor at least in CD...There's snippets of the Boulez performance on youtube apparently which can satisfy my curiosity for the imagery and motions of how it's all staged..
ReplyDeleteThe mono LP would be a fantastic addition to your great blog, I'll keep an eye out for that if you find the time to share it : )
Thanks again for everything, this place is not just a shrine for splendid music but a learning experience.
Supraphon's can take an age to 'de-click' - and that 'unavailable' Bakala 'Lach' is on a late-1950s copy (LPV 201) - another wonderful 'Opera highlights' disc is LPV 450 Jenufa/Vixen/Makropoulos - see the enthusiastic Gramophone review (February 1960 - mis-numbered as LPV 430)
ReplyDeleteI adore this disc and own two copies, one an original red label the other a blue label recut. The red label is superior but still suffers from acidic tone in the higher frequencies.
ReplyDeleteThis Music Parlour transfer is a godsend; a pleasure to listen to throughout. And to hear Blanik Hill without the horrible end of side deterioration that my mediocre equipment delivers is bliss.
Congratulations to all responsible. Might I put in plug for the ClickRepair software I used as a final means to achieve something close to perfection.
I would agree about later Supraphons (quite frequently) being inferior to earlier pressings - usually after about 1973 (?) - though the older Mono's are usually better than 1960's Stereo, IMO.
ReplyDeleteThe Janacek 'brightness' is possibly down to the producer's tastes, as others of his are quite similar.
You have an opportunity to compare 'how good' ClickRepair is - as I've uploaded an unedited rip (FLAC) of side one of the Greek Folksongs as well as my 'hard-labour' edited file/s.
I've not used ClickRepair - but find it difficult to believe it can deal with various defects - which vary in complexity/intensity - without damaging the sound.
If you can 'match' (what is after all an old LP) then let me know - as it would save me a lot of effort!
Thanks again - Jerry
ReplyDeleteAm enjoying this disc a lot. I don't find the sound as bad as Robert Layton did in his gramophone review either.
ReplyDeleteBTW Click-Repair has a facility whereby you can monitor the sound going in or coming out - as the processing is underway - as well as hearing just what's being removed. I've never heard any music programme being obviously removed. But, as they say, YMMV !
Infinitely better than Jilek from the late 1970's, in terms of performances.
ReplyDeleteThe treble is 'glary' - but the stylus (Sterehedron II) on the Stanton was extremely free of treble HF resonances - so that isn't 'emphasised' in these dubs
I face a fundemental Problem when transferring discs - as, without installing the 24/96 DMX6-fire card into the hefty Tower case - and with only a huge Sony pro Trinitron CRT monitor - I can't hear the output via my HiFi(s) whilst editing - ie: via Toslink/CoAx digital. The Dell laptop (Inspiron 6400)supposedly has a digital-out - have the 'dongle', but seems 'nobody' can get this to work - other than, possibly, as the DVD output (and don't have some software to test that theory..).
So, all I can do is to check the CD-RW's after the dubbing - and just a few after the Audacity edit.
However, I can hear the 'slurring' of transients/blurring of 'information' - particularly 'low-level' on dubs where people have stated they only use a 'light' setting.
So, overall, it's 'like it or click-repair it yourself') - or roll-off the bass - or 'sweeten' the sound, etc, etc, etc, etc.
These are simply straightforward 'accurate' copies of an LP.
If I'd made money on this lark I could've ploughed-back some profits (??) into such gizmos as were 'needed': but this is, essentially, just an adjunct to my playing my LP's:..always 'flat'/untinkered-with.
Frank