Unfashionable records that you love

[Petrushka]

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.

EMI did a re-make of that recording in 1977 with Mackerras and the LSO augmented for the occasion by a whole host of famous names most of whom, alas, are no longer with us. I have it on LP but not sure if it ever made it to CD.

[makropulos]

EMI did a re-make of that recording in 1977 with Mackerras and the LSO augmented for the occasion by a whole host of famous names most of whom, alas, are no longer with us. I have it on LP but not sure if it ever made it to CD.

The LSO remake did come out on CD, on the HMV shop's own label. Copies here from 1p upwards, which surely has to be worth the price of a stamp...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/HANDEL-FIREWORK-MUSIC-Handel/dp/B000027KDZ

But it's not quite as wonderful as the original Pye (later Testament) version:

https://www.testament.co.uk/shop/product/sbt1253.aspx

which is one of my all-time favourite records. Is it unfashionable now? If so, I don't care - I love it.

Very much share the enthusiasm for Bernstein's VPO Mozart and Haydn too. Wonderful.

And I say all this as someone who is extremely sympathetic to good HIPP performances. But these issues become an irrelevance in the face of that kind of energy and quality.

[MickyD]

Interestingly, Robert King also assembled similar jumbo-size period forces for a recording of the Fireworks Music for Hyperion - can't say that I've heard it, I wonder if it is worth a listen?

[Alison]

Georg Solti's Chicago account of Handels Messiah.

Surprisingly moving and spiritual. Thanks to Petrushka for the introduction.

[Zucchini]

So far and predictably, this is another cardigans & cocoas list of dead people. Can't a performer be unfashionable and still alive?

[teamsaint]

So far and predictably, this is another cardigans & cocoas list of dead people. Can't a performer be unfashionable and still alive?

these are all unfashionably late.......

[richardfinegold]

Do Alfred Deller recordings count as unfashionable?

[Roehre]

Do Alfred Deller recordings count as unfashionable?

Not to my ears (the same applies to the Leppard and Marriner recordings, BBM #12)

[doversoul1]

So far and predictably, this is another cardigans & cocoas list of dead people. Can't a performer be unfashionable and still alive?

Michala Petri and Julian Bream could be seen as unfashionable but who cares?

[Tony Halstead]

these are all unfashionably late.......

Can't a performer be unfashionable and still alive?

1) Raymond Leppard
2) Sir Neville Marriner
in alphabetical order of course

[Petrushka]

Georg Solti's Chicago account of Handels Messiah.

Surprisingly moving and spiritual. Thanks to Petrushka for the introduction.

I was on the verge of mentioning this one myself, Alison. The singing of the Chicago Symphony Chorus is truly superb. An intensely moving account of a familiar score that deserves to be far better known than it is. Those who expect a hard driven approach from Solti couldn't be more wrong.

[Pulcinella]

I have a sneaking admiration for the Bernstein BBCSO Enigma with the very slow Nimrod, if only because he had to cope with some appalling behaviour from the orchestra.

[MrGongGong]

I have a sneaking admiration for the Bernstein BBCSO Enigma with the very slow Nimrod, if only because he had to cope with some appalling behaviour from the orchestra.

Well that's one way of putting it

[pastoralguy]

I have a sneaking admiration for the Bernstein BBCSO Enigma with the very slow Nimrod, if only because he had to cope with some appalling behaviour from the orchestra.

Mmm... I don't think Bernstein was entirely blameless. He was very late and it seemed he had 'dined well...'

[EdgeleyRob]

The Amadeus Quartet.

Those DG complete Beethoven and Mozart boxes,plus some Shubert (the Quintet too) and Haydn,have been part of my life for many years.
They always seem to be dismissed as old fashioned,but I love them.