BBC Music Magazine - Favourite cover CDs

[Bryn]

... Haydn Symphonies (Hogwood) ...

Ah yes. No longer to be found in its jewel case here. It has found its way into a film and paper sleeve, and along with its 'booklet', now resides in the L'Oiseau Lyre Hogwood/AAM Haydn Symphonies box.

[cloughie]

For me a firm favourite is the Manchester based CD MM270 with Schwanenwilms HO Elder, Prokofiev R&J excerpts BBCPO Noseda, Mozart K466 Stott MC Boyd.

[Petrushka]

For me a firm favourite is the Manchester based CD MM270 with Schwanenwilms HO Elder, Prokofiev R&J excerpts BBCPO Noseda, Mozart K466 Stott MC Boyd.

Agree wholeheartedly about the Schwanewilms/Halle/Elder. One of the top performances of the 4 Last Songs of Strauss.

Another top performance comes from Boult and the BBCSO in a 1973 Proms Planets.

[kindofblue]

I think you've nailed it Caliban! And of course, all in the correct order...

[french frank]

I think you've nailed it Caliban! And of course, all in the correct order...

Hello, kindofblue - and welcome!

[MickyD]

Ah yes. No longer to be found in its jewel case here. It has found its way into a film and paper sleeve, and along with its 'booklet', now resides in the L'Oiseau Lyre Hogwood/AAM Haydn Symphonies box.

...and what a crying shame there weren't anymore already recorded for the Decca series.

[gurnemanz]

I only buy the BBC mag occasionally, and when I do, the cover disc is usually the deciding factor, eg the excellent Winterreise with Henk Neven and Hans Eijsackers.

[Acavus]

One of my great favourites, which often crops up in charity shops, is the OAE wind soloists' recording of Mozart's Serenade in B flat for 13 wind instruments K361, directed by Anthony Halstead. Sublime music and superb playing, with a recording to match!

[Stanfordian]

I only buy the BBC mag occasionally, and when I do, the cover disc is usually the deciding factor, eg the excellent Winterreise with Henk Neven and Hans Eijsackers.

Hiya gurnemanz,

A friend of mine, sadly no longer with us, often played this recording at my local Recorded Music Society. She really admired Henk Neven. It's very fine account.

[gurnemanz]

I think it is the work I have most versions of (about 25 on CD).

[Nick Armstrong]

I think you've nailed it Caliban! And of course, all in the correct order...

Ah .... I'd forgotten that in fact Sir Charles gets the order wrong, of course I programme the tracks accordingly when I play it

And second welcome, nay thrice welcome, from me

[Bryn]

Ah .... I'd forgotten that in fact Sir Charles gets the order wrong, of course I programme the tracks accordingly when I play it ...

Are we to take it that you have also edited the first movement to finesse an exposition repeat, and that you have somehow removed the third hammer blow from the final movement?

[Nick Armstrong]

Are we to take it that you have also edited the first movement to finesse an exposition repeat, and that you have somehow removed the third hammer blow from the final movement?

You: just come over 'ere and say that !!

[mathias broucek]

Does CM include the third hammer blow?

Am partial to its inclusion but "only" have two versions that way: Rattle (EMI) and Zander (who does it both ways!)

[Maclintick]

You: just come over 'ere and say that !!

This video stirs memories of one of the most awe-inspiring sights at the 2008 Proms, when the hammer-blows during a Chicago Symphony/Haitink Mahler 6 were resoundingly delivered by the CSO’s comparatively diminutive principal percussionist Cynthia Yeh, wielding a mallet almost as large as herself, & practically levitating as she smashed it onto a large wooden dais – the sort traditionally the territory of performing seals in the more old-fashioned non-PC circuses…. Marvellous !!