Records that never let you down

[EdgeleyRob]

John Ireland

Cello Sonata

Julian Lloyd Webber,John McCabe

Old friend,always rights the wrongs

Not the one I would save from the house fire though,that's

RVW 9,LPO Boult (1958)

Sorry for cheating

[LeMartinPecheur]

The HMV Bournemouth SO/ Silvestri recording of Elgar's In the South. One of my two 'first full-price' LPs bought summer 1972 with my very first pay-cheque after leaving school and before uni. Happy days!

[The other one was the Argo St Johns Cambridge/ Guest disc of Palestrina Missa Assumpta est Maria and Missa Brevis. Not spun anywhere near so often but perhaps I should give it another go...]

[Richard Tarleton]

A number spring to mind but at the top of the heap based on about 10 seconds' thought: the Decca recording by Kondrashin and the Vienna Phil of Dvorak's New World Symphony.

On a completely different note - my first complete opera set, the LPs still playing well after nearly 50 years - Flotow's Marta, with Rothenburger, Fassbender, Gedda and Prey, cond. Heger - pure magic

[MickyD]

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Rameau : Hippolyte et Aricie

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000005E4S

'Pygmalion' for me, in the old Leonhardt recording. I find it spellbinding.

[Howdenite]

Shostakovich The Preludes and Fugues - Alexander Melnikov. Both the one I choose to raise my spirits and the one I'd take with me to a desert island or save from a fire. It has every mood imaginable and plenty of magic.

[HighlandDougie]

Shostakovich The Preludes and Fugues - Alexander Melnikov. Both the one I choose to raise my spirits and the one I'd take with me to a desert island or save from a fire. It has every mood imaginable and plenty of magic.

I couldn't agree more: the music and Melnikov's response to it never fail to move me. I like this set so much that I have a copy in each country.

[Pulcinella]

A hard choice for me (and some good options here, too) but by a hair's breadth RVW Symphony 5 (probably RLPO/Handley, for home town reasons amongst others) just wins over the Tippett Concerto for double string orchestra.
There: I guess I've cheated too, in effect!

[kernelbogey]

Bach, Goldberg Variations: Angela Hewitt.

[DoctorT]

Elgar, First Symphony, Handley

[ARBurton]

Rachmaninov 2nd Symphony - Ashkenazy and the Concertgebouw on Decca.

[Padraig]

I'll go for Bach's Double Violin Concerto, with David and Igor Oistrakh which I had on a 10 inch Archiv LP. I lent that and never got it back. I replaced it with a Classikon CD, with the same soloists and the RPO with Sir Eugene Goossens. I never found out if the two recordings were the same.

[mikealdren]

I'll go for Bach's Double Violin Concerto, with David and Igor Oistrakh which I had on a 10 inch Archiv LP. I lent that and never got it back. I replaced it with a Classikon CD, with the same soloists and the RPO with Sir Eugene Goossens. I never found out if the two recordings were the same.

Probably not, the Oistrakhs recorded the concerto a few times on record and video and the 2/1961 Goosens stereo version is the more famous DG recording but they also recorded it with Konwitschny and the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 4/1957 and that was on a 10" whereas I think the Goosens was only on LP.

Mike

[Nick Armstrong]

Shostakovich The Preludes and Fugues - Alexander Melnikov. Both the one I choose to raise my spirits and the one I'd take with me to a desert island or save from a fire. It has every mood imaginable and plenty of magic.

Now that is a great call

Was listening the other day (not least as I'm trying to learn one of the P&Fs and wanted to hear it done properly ) and marvelled anew at the genius of the work and this performance.

[LeMartinPecheur]

Shostakovich The Preludes and Fugues - Alexander Melnikov. Both the one I choose to raise my spirits and the one I'd take with me to a desert island or save from a fire. It has every mood imaginable and plenty of magic.

I have the discs and also had the very great pleasure of hearing him do the whole lot live in London last December. Not all in one recital: 3 such, morning, afternoon and evening, mixed with a varied(?) diet of five DSCH quartets plus the piano quintet. Quite a day!

[gurnemanz]

Lisa Della Casa, Böhm/VPO - Vier letzte Lieder. On LP it came with Kathleen Ferrier, Three Mahler Ruckert Lieder.