Unfashionable records that you love

[Barbirollians]

It is confession time ! A place for those records that are now unfashionable but that you love .

May I start with those late VPO/ Bernstein Mozart recordings of 40& 41 . Although probably enough to send Savonarola type Hippites into apoplexy - to my ears two sensationally fine right to the heart of the music performances .

[Beef Oven!]

[Petrushka]

I've never cared two hoots for fashion. Those Bernstein Mozart discs are excellent and I love loads of Karajan performances that would be declared 'unfashionable' by the HIPP brigade.

In short there are far too many for me to list, Barbirollians!

[Beef Oven!]

I've never cared two hoots for fashion. Those Bernstein Mozart discs are excellent and I love loads of Karajan performances that would be declared 'unfashionable' by the HIPP brigade.

In short there are far too many for me to list, Barbirollians!

Bernstein's Mozart 40 & 41 rocked back then, and they rock now!!

[MickyD]

I still have great affection for Karl Richter's Bach - he was the first person to open my ears to the great man. I will never forget the thrill of hearing his B Minor Mass for the first time, and those handsome blue and silver Archiv boxes also remain in the memory!

[Roehre]

I still have great affection for Karl Richter's Bach - he was the first person to open my ears to the great man. I will never forget the thrill of hearing his B Minor Mass for the first time, and those handsome blue and silver Archiv boxes also remain in the memory!

You are talking about the mid-1970s Archiv Bach Edition I think? My introduction to JSBach too.
Richter at that time was still considered rather modern in his approach of Bach's music.
His lean style was quite different from e.g. Karajan's from about the same time.
The HIP "movement" just started to bloom those days (Harnoncourt's/Leonardt's Cantata-project had reached around Cantata 60 methinks, around volume 15 or so of the 2LP per volume Telefunken Edition)
Traditionalists those years called Richter's style the sewing-machine-style.

[MickyD]

Yes, that's the set, Roehre! I was sadly never able to afford the whole set; at the time the Archiv boxes were imported and wildly expensive. Happily I managed to later find a coffee-table sized book that collected all the LP booklets from the set, plus all the beautiful artwork of contemporary German prints. But then, as you say, the HIP movement kicked in and I immediately progressed to Harnoncourt and Leonhardt, too. What an exciting time it was!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I don't care a jot for fashion, but here goes:-

Munchinger's and Richter's Bach
Weingartner's, Bernstein's and Schmidt-Isserstedt's Beethoven
Beecham's, Solti's, Bohm's and Bernstein's Mozart
Marriner's Corelli/Handel
Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven & Clementi played on a Steinway Model D
Stokowski's and Elgar's Bach orchestrations
Above all - Beecham's Messiah

[Don Petter]

Traditionalists those years called Richter's style the sewing-machine-style.

Could have been down to the singers?

[Nick Armstrong]

Could have been down to the singers?

[JFLL]

....VPO/ Bernstein Mozart recordings of 40& 41 . ....

And Bernstein's Haydn! I like particularly his no. 88 'conducted' for long stretches with no arms/hands (see YouTube).

[BBMmk2]

Every recording that Raymond Leppard and Sir Neville Marriner did with the ECO and ASMF!!

[visualnickmos]

Could have been down to the singers?

Oh - brother!

[LeMartinPecheur]

Menuhin's Royal Fireworks Music - wonderful pomp and grandeur, though not rated by Penguin Guide

[hafod]

Menuhin's Royal Fireworks Music - wonderful pomp and grandeur, though not rated by Penguin Guide

Which prompts mention of the famous (infamous?) Mackerras version which apparently assembled almost every horn, trumpet, oboe, and bassoon player in London late one night in April 1959. I still greatly enjoy it.