Henry Purcell (arr. Barbirolli)

Suite for Strings, Horns, Flutes and English Horn

I. Allegro maestoso. Allegro (Overture from "The Gordian Knot Untied")

II. Tempo di menuetto (Menuetto from "The Virtuous Wife")

III. Andantino ("Fairest Isle" from "King Arthur")

IV. Andantino giocoso (Air from "Abdelazar")

V. Largo (Lamento from "Dido and Aeneas")

VI. Allegro (Allegro from "King Arthur", second music)

New York Philharmonic / Sir John Barbirolli

(78 rpm transfer; recorded 1938) 

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)

Symphony No. 5 in D major 

(First Recording)

I. Preludio - Moderato

II. Scherzo

III. Romanza - Lento

IV. Passacaglia - Moderato

The Hallé Orchestra / Sir John Barbirolli

(78 rpm transfer; recorded in the Houldsworth Hall, 

Manchester, February 17, 1944 in 

association with The British Council)

J.S. Bach (arr. Arnold Schönberg) 

Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Erich Kleiber

(78 rpm transfer; recorded 1930)

César Franck

Piano Quintet in F minor, M. 7 (Op. 14)

I. Molto moderato quasi lento - Allegro

II. Lento, con molto sentimento

III. Allegro non troppo ma con fuoco

International String Quartet / Alfred Cortot, Piano

André Mangeot, 1st violin / Boris Pecker, 2nd violin

Frank Howard, viola / Herbert Withers, cello

(78 rpm transfer; recorded 1927)

Carl Goldmark: Ländliche Hochzeit, Op. 26

Carl Goldmark (1830-1915)

Ländliche Hochzeit, Op. 26

(Rustic Wedding Symphony)

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I. Wedding March; Variations

II. Bridal Song

III. Serenade

IV. In the Garden

V. Dance

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Robert Heger

(78 rpm transfers; issued by Victor 1931; recorded by HMV Jan. 1929)

Anton Arensky

Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky, Op. 35a

Philadelphia Chamber String Sinfonietta / Fabien Sevitsky

(78 rpm transfer; issued by Victor, 1942)

Edvard Grieg

Holberg Suite, Op. 40

I. Prelude

II. Sarabande

III. Gavotte - Musette

IV. Air

V. Rigaudon

London String Orchestra / Walter Goehr

(78 rpm transfer; recorded by HMV, 1938)

Benn: Artists and Old Age / On Capitalist Realism

Gottfried Benn: Artists and Old Age

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On Capitalist Realism

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Andrei Sinavsky (1925-1997)

Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinavsky) begins his brilliant 1959 essay "On Socialist Realism" (https://www.dissentmagazine.org/wp-content/files_mf/1410896620On_Socialist_Realism_Winter_1960.pdf ) with the following questions:

"What is [Soviet] socialist realism? What is the meaning of this strange and jarring phrase? Can there be a socialist, capitalist, Christian, or Mohammedan realism? ..."

Of course there can.

Therefore, the below five-part primer has been designed as a modest aid for better understanding a sometimes mysterious and complex thought-system — the most globally dominant, widely accepted and practiced form of realism to date.