Favourite Bernard Haitink recordings

[Barbirollians]

After buying a secondhand copy I would add Haitink’s Concertgebouw Brahms 4 - a particularly fine Scherzo.

[Petrushka]

After buying a secondhand copy I would add Haitink’s Concertgebouw Brahms 4 - a particularly fine Scherzo.

I played that the other night. No-one builds up the tension to the final great climax quite like Haitink does. His very last performance with the Concertgebouw, in January 2019, was of this very symphony and it can be heard on the Dutch Radio 4 website here: https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/0...zart-en-brahms

[Barbirollians]

I played that the other night. No-one builds up the tension to the final great climax quite like Haitink does. His very last performance with the Concertgebouw, in January 2019, was of this very symphony and it can be heard on the Dutch Radio 4 website here: https://www.nporadio4.nl/concerten/0...zart-en-brahms

His Brahms now generally download only like so many recordings nowadays .

I have been able get second hand copies of his Concertgebouw Brahms cycle in the Silver Line Philips reissues cheaply . The First is outstanding to my ears. I also was very impressed by the Second . Not quite so taken with his account of the Third - it’s good but not quite the rush of Walter ,Boult live in ICA Classics or Furtwangler.

[cloughie]

His Brahms now generally download only like so many recordings nowadays .

I have been able get second hand copies of his Concertgebouw Brahms cycle in the Silver Line Philips reissues cheaply . The First is outstanding to my ears. I also was very impressed by the Second . Not quite so taken with his account of the Third - it’s good but not quite the rush of Walter ,Boult live in ICA Classics or Furtwangler.

Have you heard any of the Boston Brahms cycle?

[gurnemanz]

I will always have a soft spot for his Mahler 4 with Elly Ameling - my first ever CD purchase, bought the same day as my first CD player.

[Barbirollians]

I will always have a soft spot for his Mahler 4 with Elly Ameling - my first ever CD purchase, bought the same day as my first CD player.

Elly Ameling singing Mozart was one of my first CDs .

[Barbirollians]

Have you heard any of the Boston Brahms cycle?

No I don't know those .

I have completed my LSO Live Haitink Beethoven cycle - I had2, 4,6,7 and 8 . All of those are good but I think his LSO 1st and 5th are belters especially the latter - a particularly good scherzo and finale.

Looking forward to the Eroica and Choral.