It’s taken me a little while to complete the first update to my site for 2010. I’ve taken the chance to look both backward and forward. Harking back to some of the anniversaries of 2009, there’s Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and orchestral versions of the Spring Song and Bee’s Wedding, all conducted by Henry Wood. There’s also Wood’s Suite in Five Movements from Purcell’s music. I plan to transfer more Henry Wood sides this year.
Mendelssohn appears too as a filler side to a 1925 electrical recording of Debussy’s String Quartet, played by the Virtuoso String Quartet. There’s more to come from the same players.
The series of Franz André recordings is continued with his sparkling accounts of Bizet’s L’Arlèsienne Suites. There’s still more to look forward to from him as well.
As a small inroad on my Hamilton Harty recordings, I’ve transferred his account of the Cossack Dance from Tchaikovksy’s Mazeppa, coupled with Mengelberg’s Strauss Perpetuum Mobile (just a little late for the New Year’s Day Concert)
Following the Russian theme from Harty, there’s a collection of Balakirev orchestral works, conducted by Konstantin Ivanov, Alexander Gauk and Nikolai Golovanov.
As a final curiosity, an early Winner disc from the British baritone Robert Carr,  recorded around 1913, singing “When love creeps in your heart” and “The trail of the lonesome pine”, in rather more lugubrious fashion than its most famous version.

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Damian