A need to indulge

[Barbirollians]

Do you have recordings that you sometimes feel the need to indulge in ? It is not necessarily your favourite performance . In fact listening dispassionately there may be things about it of which you disapprove but sometimes you just feel like indulging in its excess ?

I wondered about this as I was listening this morning to Jessye Norman's Four Last Songs recording - I know she billows about on great waves of sound and that much more often I will turn to Jurinac or della Casa in this music but today it seemed absolutely right .

Any recordings do this for you ?

[Pabmusic]

Do you have recordings that you sometimes feel the need to indulge in ? It is not necessarily your favourite performance . In fact listening dispassionately there may be things about it of which you disapprove but sometimes you just feel like indulging in its excess ?

I wondered about this as I was listening this morning to Jessye Norman's Four Last Songs recording - I know she billows about on great waves of sound and that much more often I will turn to Jurinac or della Casa in this music but today it seemed absolutely right .

Any recordings do this for you ?

Sorry, Barbs, but that's rather how I regard Barbirolli in Elgar. I simply couldn't do without it, but not in large doses. I love the last Enigma (especially what he does with the divided violins in W.N.) but...

[richardfinegold]

Most Horowitz recordings would fit your description.
There was a Hungarian Pianist whose name I will undoubtedly misspell-Nyerichadazi-who made Horowitz sound HIPP in comparison and whose Liszt is a guilty pleasure.
Igor Kipnis recordings. Not PC these days, but great fun.

[ostuni]

The Bernstein Rosenkavalier.

[Ferretfancy]

The Bruno Walter stereo set of the last Mozart Symphonies, wonderfully old fashioned and indulgent, but I love the affection for the Music.

[Barbirollians]

Sorry, Barbs, but that's rather how I regard Barbirolli in Elgar. I simply couldn't do without it, but not in large doses. I love the last Enigma (especially what he does with the divided violins in W.N.) but...

Name your seconds Pabs !!!

[Barbirollians]

The Bruno Walter stereo set of the last Mozart Symphonies, wonderfully old fashioned and indulgent, but I love the affection for the Music.

Sounds good - in which case I recommend Oistrakh and the BPO in the Mozart Violin Concertos

[Nick Armstrong]

Do you have recordings that you sometimes feel the need to indulge in ? It is not necessarily your favourite performance . In fact listening dispassionately there may be things about it of which you disapprove but sometimes you just feel like indulging in its excess ?

I wondered about this as I was listening this morning to Jessye Norman's Four Last Songs recording - I know she billows about on great waves of sound and that much more often I will turn to Jurinac or della Casa in this music but today it seemed absolutely right .

Any recordings do this for you ?

You got it in one, Barbie!

We may face in opposite directions over Gluck and Ferrier, but we are ad idem about that Jessye/Masur Four Last Songs!

[Nick Armstrong]

Oistrakh and the BPO in the Mozart Violin Concertos

In this category one might put the Oistrakh père et fils Bach Double Concerto... except I just think it's great, irrespective of indulgence or fashion!

[kea]

I feel this way about Rachmaninov's piano concertos in general... also Liszt etudes.

[pastoralguy]

Sounds good - in which case I recommend Oistrakh and the BPO in the Mozart Violin Concertos

I can still see myself standing in Shandwick Place in Edinburgh on a cold November Friday afternoon in 1978 waiting for a number 31 bus with those clutched under my sweaty 15 year old arm pit having bought them at Rae Mackintosh...

Happy days.

[Barbirollians]

I can still see myself standing in Shandwick Place in Edinburgh on a cold November Friday afternoon in 1978 waiting for a number 31 bus with those clutched under my sweaty 15 year old arm pit having bought them at Rae Mackintosh...

Happy days.

On this glorious sunny evening I am tempted to play some of them right now .

[cloughie]

Ahronovitch's Tchaik Manfred - totally wayward and pulled about but thrilling because of that. Stoki's arrangement of the Great Gate of Kiev is another.

[Ferretfancy]

Ahronovitch's Tchaik Manfred - totally wayward and pulled about but thrilling because of that. Stoki's arrangement of the Great Gate of Kiev is another.

Yes! What about Stokey's Symphonic Synthesis on Boris Godunov? The one he did for Decca Phase 4 is the one to have, full frontal stereo!

[BBMmk2]

I cannot do without Abbado.I need to hear at least one recording of his, during the week!