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Yes, I did, and I assume that Swedish law is the same as English in respect of off-air recordings being in the public domain - i.e. I wouldn't be breaking any laws by putting the recording online.

However, the broadcast is still available for listening at the link in my first message.  The spoken introduction begins at 19"30'.  The sound is good apart from one unfortunate drop-out of about 2 seconds in the 4th movement.

DF

Concertzender Hilversum-now-Amsterdam apparently indefinitely or 4 years anyway...

I must look into that one too - however do you find the programme you want?  And think - if BBC Radio 3 went down that road, we'd all be able to listen to the complete works of Mozart - forever!!!

Have now just listened to the first minute of Örtagårdsmästaren - saving the full experience for after bedtime stories.  O dear me it's beautiful - about as far ahead of the old Rosenberg recording as, well, the CD version of Johannes uppenbarelse is.  An evening spent listening to that while looking at a picture of Erika Libeck Lindahl - that'll do nicely, thanks.

DF

Another London symphony for me - Haydn 104.

DF

All,

A Swedish contact has alerted me to a broadcast of Rosenberg's 5th symphony (Hortulanus/Örtagårdsmästaren) on Swedish Radio on Tuesday 21st June.  Not from the scratchy old "Rosenberg conducts Rosenberg" CD, but a live performance from 1992 which he (contact) rates very highly.  If you go to http://sverigesradio.se/sida/tabla.aspx?programid=163&date=2011-06-21 and expand Klassisk förmiddag with the '+' sign, you'll see it.  I shall be at work and I'm not sure whether Sveriges Radio offers a listen again service, but if anyone were to record it and put it on MediaFire, I'd fall upon it with a glad cry.

DF

Edit - Yes, there is a listen again option - on the page for the actual programme the "Senaste sändningen" (last broadcast) button does just that.

Re the Sullivan Te Deum - yes, I was confusing the Prince of Wales's illnesses - the appendix operation came much later in his life, when he was no longer Prince of Wales but King Edward, and after Sullivan's death.

Interesting article, thank you, from the Deutsche Sullivan Gesellschaft, although I find the parallel that it tries to draw with the use of "popular" elements in the finale of Beethoven 9 a bit suspect.  I would agree with the footnote that one lays oneself open to a charge of hypocrisy if one accepts Beethoven's decision to incorporate such elements (the Turkish march) but not Sullivan's (the military band) - yes, I wouldn't want to restrict any composer's freedom to make decisions, but perhaps how they're implemented counts for something as well.  I'm not sure that Sullivan's merry tune quite scales the heights of Beethoven's cosmic rejoicing (or, to take another example, the lah-lahing episode in the finale of the Gothic).

I see as well that Sullivan's Boer War Te Deum is available on a commercial recording, conducted once again by Ron Corp.  I must have a listen.

DF

Hindemith's Mathis der Maler symphony has at least two: one in the slow intro to the first movement ("Es sungen drei Engel", the score says) and one right at the end of the finale ("ALLELUIA").

And two which probably aren't real chorales at all:

The Schnittke concerto for piano and strings features a wonderfully luminous Russian-Orthodox sounding passage which appears twice, on both occasions being hacked to pieces by the soloist with fists and forearms;

Valen's violin concerto ends with a beautifully restrained chorale-like passage for full-ish orchestra.

DF

Many thanks to all responsible for posting the Sullvan Te Deum.  I was a singer on that recording, an extra drafted in from Ron Corp's BBC Club Choir to augment the London Choral Society.  I remember thinking at the time that it was probably the worst piece of music ever written, and time hasn't removed it from that peak of my estimation.  The whole piece cries out for quotation, but the bit (almost exactly 30' in) where a military band makes an entry playing a perky little tune which, amazingly, fits exactly against the hymn-tune St Anne which has been pressed into service along the way, ranks among the most hilarious.  The piece was written to celebrate the Prince of Wales's recovery from his appendix op, and the story goes that when he heard it he began to wonder whether recovery had been the wisest option - or perhaps I just made that up.  Anyway, listening again reminded me what fun we all had recording it.  Haven't laughed so much for a long time.

DF