{"id":104,"date":"2010-10-26T11:58:28","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T16:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=104"},"modified":"2010-10-26T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T22:22:19","slug":"rheinberger-concerti-for-organ-with-e-power-biggs-an-lp-treasure-found-and-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"Rheinberger Concerti for Organ with E. Power Biggs &#8211; an LP treasure found and restored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Rheinberger: Two Concerti for Organ\/Heroic Music for Organ, Brass and Percussion\" href=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/Organ-Keyboard.php\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107\" title=\"KHCD-2010-052-cover\" src=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/KHCD-2010-052-cover1-627x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"816\" srcset=\"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/KHCD-2010-052-cover1-627x1024.jpg 627w, http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/KHCD-2010-052-cover1-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/KHCD-2010-052-cover1.jpg 1188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>I had been searching for E. Power Bigg&#8217;s recording of Joseph Rheinberger&#8217;s Two Concerti for Organ ever since my LP copy finally became unplayable. Sony has, of course, seen fit not to release it on CD; for that matter, the vast majority of E. Power Biggs&#8217; recordings, both mono and stereo, have not seen the light of day since CBS\/Columbia Masterworks\u00a0became Sony Classical. Quite a shame; this particular recording beats any recorded version since, interpretively and sonically. The LP copy I found during my Denver trip was near-mint, so restoration was completed very quickly. I added another LP to fill out the CD &#8211; this one from a Columbia 2-LP collection entitled &#8220;Heroic Music for Organ, Brass and Percussion&#8221;, derived from recordings made in early 1959 and\u00a01962, featuring The New England Brass Ensemble conducted by Richard Burgin, with Biggs on organ. The first half of the 2-LP set, music of Frescobaldi and Gabrieli, \u00a0had been reissued on\u00a0 &#8220;The Antiphonal Music of Gabrieli&#8221; CD (which also had the Philadelphia\/Cleveland\/Chicago Brass ensembles recorded in 1968)\u00a0in 1996 on the Sony\/Masterworks Heritage inprint, and again as a\u00a0budget CD in 2005.\u00a0The second half of the set compiled arrangements of music by Clarke, Handel, Purcell, and Telemann. That LP yielded a good selection of exciting, well-played companions to the Rheinberger concerti. I&#8217;ll be posting the CD on Klassic Haus later this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had been searching for E. Power Bigg&#8217;s recording of Joseph Rheinberger&#8217;s Two Concerti for Organ ever since my LP copy finally became unplayable. Sony has, of course, seen fit not to release it on CD; for that matter, the vast majority of E. Power Biggs&#8217; recordings, both mono and stereo, have not seen the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/klassichaus.us\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}