Records that never let you down

[Ferretfancy]

The very first Mozart piano concerto I got to know, K488 with Wilhelm Kempff and the Bamburg SO conducted by Ferdinand Leitner. It still gives great pleasure.

As an alternative I'd choose Kleiber's classic recording of Figaro, introduced to me by my partner when we first met in 1961. We were together for 55 years, but I lost him to cancer in June.

Thoughts that lie too deep for tears.

[Howdenite]

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!

I was there too. Not a day I will ever forget.

[Stanfordian]

The very first Mozart piano concerto I got to know, K488 with Wilhelm Kempff and the Bamburg SO conducted by Ferdinand Leitner. It still gives great pleasure.

As an alternative I'd choose Kleiber's classic recording of Figaro, introduced to me by my partner when we first met in 1961. We were together for 55 years, but I lost him to cancer in June.

Thoughts that lie too deep for tears.

Hiya Ferretfancy,

Thank you for sharing that personal information. Yes, both are recordings that I admire greatly too!

[Padraig]

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

Thank you, Mike.
I would have liked to think that I had recaptured my first experience of BWV 1043. I was never much good at orchestras and conductors but at the time the Oistrakhs were 'the man'; and that, and Bach, sealed my choice.

[Barbirollians]

The very first Mozart piano concerto I got to know, K488 with Wilhelm Kempff and the Bamburg SO conducted by Ferdinand Leitner. It still gives great pleasure.

As an alternative I'd choose Kleiber's classic recording of Figaro, introduced to me by my partner when we first met in 1961. We were together for 55 years, but I lost him to cancer in June.


Thoughts that lie too deep for tears.

FF deepest condolences - two great records to remember by .

[Stanfordian]

A recording that never lets me down is:

Schubert 'Trout' Quintet played by Clifford Curzon and members of Wiener Octet.
Recorded in 1957 at Sofiensaal, Vienna on Decca.

[antongould]

FF deepest condolences - two great records to remember by .

From me too FF .......

[silvestrione]

The very first Mozart piano concerto I got to know, K488 with Wilhelm Kempff and the Bamburg SO conducted by Ferdinand Leitner. It still gives great pleasure.

As an alternative I'd choose Kleiber's classic recording of Figaro, introduced to me by my partner when we first met in 1961. We were together for 55 years, but I lost him to cancer in June.

Thoughts that lie too deep for tears.

55 years....how does one cope. I feel for you.

I love that Mozart Kempff 488....bought it in the mono version of the LP in Auckland in NZ, 46 years ago!

[hmvman]

Well, this echoes my comments on the passing of Neville Marriner a few weeks back. His 1971 set of the Bach Suites for Orchestra with the ASMF. I still play my LP set, purchased with birthday money in 1976. Never fails to uplift my spirits!

[Daniel]

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.

Indeed. I commented on this recording on the 'What Are You Listening to Now' thread recently, it's a lovely disc that almost from the first few notes felt right to me, it feels like every bar has some kind of felicity to enjoy. I love the way he sometimes carries the thought of the Prelude into the Fugue, so that they feel like two different aspects of the same being.

[pastoralguy]

Nigel Kennedy playing the Elgar violin concerto. Both versions are terrific but, by a whisker, the first the LPO under the late, great, Todd Handley.

[Petrushka]

Nigel Kennedy playing the Elgar violin concerto. Both versions are terrific but, by a whisker, the first the LPO under the late, great, Todd Handley.

That brings back a memory from 1985 when I saw Nigel Kennedy and Vernon Handley in the Elgar Violin Concerto at the RFH. I went backstage afterwards and had a chat with Nige. He was totally normal looking at that time with none of the weird stuff that came later and was friendly and charming. Got absolutely no idea what was in the rest of the concert but I'll have the signed programme somewhere.

[gradus]

Brazil, Jobim. Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland Big Band at Ronnies in 1969. Caruso singing La Donna e Mobile on a 78 transfer released by Supraphon in the sixties,nobody has sung or can sing that cadenza like him. Ashkenazy Rach 3 /LSO Previn. Rach Vespers USSR Ministry of Culture Choir under Polyansky - the same forces that did a late night Prom performance in the eighties. Tristan/Bohm at Bayreuth. Horowitz playing Schumann Arabeske at Carnegie Hall.

[verismissimo]

Adelina Patti singing 'Ah, non credea mirarti' from Bellini's La sonnambula in 1906. She was 63. Miraculous.

[Barbirollians]

Brazil, Jobim. Kenny Clarke and Francy Boland Big Band at Ronnies in 1969. Caruso singing La Donna e Mobile on a 78 transfer released by Supraphon in the sixties,nobody has sung or can sing that cadenza like him. Ashkenazy Rach 3 /LSO Previn. Rach Vespers USSR Ministry of Culture Choir under Polyansky - the same forces that did a late night Prom performance in the eighties. Tristan/Bohm at Bayreuth. Horowitz playing Schumann Arabeske at Carnegie Hall.

Erm what happened to the one record rule ?