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SteelyTom said:
I'd overlooked the Klemperer records-- his Fourth is good, too.
Yes, you're right; without the Abbado/LFO release I would have probably remembered it, too, but that recording just emptied the table of all other recordings for me.
But it is a pleasure that I should remember to re-experience sometime soon again. Thanks for reminding.
-PT
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Post by jazz1 March 19, 2012 (182 of 549)
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Post by Naun March 20, 2012 (183 of 549)
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old-dog-newtricks said:
Just had a look at a UK mail order suppliers 'pre-order chart' and good to see all these titles feature [...] Incidentally the same supplier was showing 7 SACDs out of 20 titles in his top twenty sales chart last week.
I was looking at such a list also, probably the same one, and I see that right now 11 out of their top 14 pre-orders are SACDs, 8 of them being EMI Signature titles. As you say, not very scientific maybe but still quite encouraging.
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Post by MacClaus March 20, 2012 (184 of 549)
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Which are the most essential EMI Signature Collection SACDs from the first batch?
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MacClaus said:
Which are the most essential EMI Signature Collection SACDs from the first batch?
Oistrakh/Szell's Brahms and du Pré/Baker/Barbirolli's Elgar.
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MacClaus said:
Which are the most essential EMI Signature Collection SACDs from the first batch?
* Seconding the Oistrakh Brahms disc, or BEETHOVEN Triple Concerto BRAHMS Double Concerto, Violin Concerto. David Oistrakh, Mstislav Rostropovich, Sviatoslav Richter, Berliner Philharmoniker / Herbert von Karajan, Cleveland Orchestra / George Szell.
along with:
* SCHUBERT Lieder. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerald Moore, Karl Engel.
* DVORAK / GRIEG / SCHUMANN Piano Concertos. Sviatoslav Richter, Orchestre National de l’Opera de Monte-Carlo / Lovro von Matacic, Bayerisches Staatsorchester Munchen /Carlos Kleiber
None of these represents the best work by these artists (or even the best sound they've been accorded in recordings), but by universal standards (and not their own) they are all quite Olympian. And if you don't mind listening to more historical (in the chronological sense, but in part also in terms of performance practice) performances, definitely including these as well:
* MENDELSSOHN Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4 Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer.
* MOZART The Last Six Symphonies. Nos. 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41 Philharmonia Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra / Otto Klemperer. (Really quite impressive stuff that very much grows on you, if you come to them open-minded.)
* DEBUSSY Complete Piano Works. Walter Gieseking. (Whatever you think of him, it's just stupendous playing and one of the greatest Debussy discs anywhere, anytime.)
Everyone else will add the Elgar/Delius set but they're not my cup of tea (the one concession to subjectivism in this minilist).
Although I guess that's about the same as saying that basically all of them are more or less essential.
-PT
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Post by MacClaus March 20, 2012 (187 of 549)
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Post by nucaleena March 20, 2012 (190 of 549)
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MacClaus said:
I can't see the Brahms...
Its the very first item on the list at the link you posted (naughty, naughty posting a link to a vendor who doesnt support this site) under Beethoven...Brahms.
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