Side Two: Toccata and Fugue in D major, BWV 912 / French Suite No.5 in G major, BWV 816
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Decca SDD 272 (original issue SXL 2259) 1972 LP/matrices: ZAL 4894 -3W / ZAL 4895 -2W Recorded: Side One: 30 January 1959 / Side Two: 24/25 March 1960 - West Hampstead Studios 2/1
Templeton: Bach Goes to Town / Malcolm: Bach Before the Mast //
Paradies: Toccata / Daquin: The Cuckoo /
Rimsky-Korsakov (arr: Malcolm): The Flight of the Bumble-Bee
Decca CEP 5502 (mono) 1962 45 EP/matrices: EFF 2499 / 2500 -1C
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Recorded: 24/25 March 1960 - West Hampstead Studio 1 George Malcolm, harpsichord Sleeve-notes >>>
Thank you, Frank, the 45 in particular was absolutely delectable. Igor Kipnis also recorded "Bach Goes to Town" on the harpsichord but I like Malcolm's better.
ReplyDeleteInitially this was prompted by SATYR's dubbing of Malcolm's older Scarlatti mono recital (an LP I've never been able to 'get to grips with') - and the Bach recital really was fine (fascinating changes in registration...).
DeleteI was tempted to use some 'noise reduction' on the 45 as they are rarely particularly quiet - though the tape-to-disc transfer was@ high level - which disguised some 'crackle'.
Malcolm certainly provides virtuoso playing (not heard the Kipnis version: in fact don't recall having/heard a single Kipnis LP !!)
This was truly a delight to encounter. I've been looking for a recording, any recording, of "Bach Before the Mast" since the first and only time I heard it on a Kieth Emerson LP sometime in the early '80s.
ReplyDeleteThe transfers are wonderful and Malcolm's virtuosity is marvelous
Many Thanks
There's another Malcolm composition (don't have: never seen) of Mozart Variations (in HMV CLP1120) from 1957.
Delete(A 2009 Decca discography shows this in Decca ('Weekend'; 2CD set?) issued 1995 - 444 390.2DWO - with additional later CD releases?)