2018 : Your favourite historical ( pre 1968) reissue or live recording of this year

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • Barbirollians
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11752

    2018 : Your favourite historical ( pre 1968) reissue or live recording of this year

    The 4CD Richard Itter collection box of Pierre Monteux recordings and in the same series the BBCSO Mahler 1 with Walter.

    What is yours ?
  • Eine Alpensinfonie
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 20572

    #2
    Any particular reason for choosing 1968?

    I would’ve gone for 1957/8 - when stereo was launched.

    Comment

    • cloughie
      Full Member
      • Dec 2011
      • 22182

      #3
      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      Any particular reason for choosing 1968?

      I would’ve gone for 1957/8 - when stereo was launched.
      I would have gone for 1948/9 when 33s came in!
      Last edited by cloughie; 27-11-18, 15:09.

      Comment

      • jayne lee wilson
        Banned
        • Jul 2011
        • 10711

        #4
        Off-the-top-of, the live choice would be the 10-12/1939 NBC/Toscanini Beethoven Cycle, best heard on the Music & Arts 2013 restoration. Make sure you get that one, not their earlier inferior sounding 2007 release...

        (Mengelberg's 1940 Amsterdam cycle (Pristine best) would be a good, contrasting second choice...)

        For studio recordings one towers above all others:
        Bruckner Symphonies 1-9. Vienna Symphony/Volkmar Andreae. Music & Arts 2009 (wonderful restorational work again) rec. 1953.
        Bruckner from the Viennese fountainhead - responsively quick and alert yet so warmly expressive. If you hear it, your Brucknerian perceptions should be changed for ever....and it gives you the tradition for such recent originalities as Venzago's CPO cycle...

        Comment

        • pastoralguy
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7799

          #5
          My favourite recording is the Yehudi and Hepzibar Menuhin recording of the Lekeu Violin Sonata on the sadly defunct Biddulph label. This is music making at its most volatile and white hot. Yes, there moments of inaccuracy but that only adds to the frisson of a 'live' studio recording.

          Also, the Elgar recordings.

          Comment

          • Barbirollians
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 11752

            #6
            Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
            My favourite recording is the Yehudi and Hepzibar Menuhin recording of the Lekeu Violin Sonata on the sadly defunct Biddulph label. This is music making at its most volatile and white hot. Yes, there moments of inaccuracy but that only adds to the frisson of a 'live' studio recording.

            Also, the Elgar recordings.

            You all lose points as they were not released this year - fab as particularly the Music and Arts Toscanini Beethoven and the Lekeu Sonata recording both are .

            If we are going for favourite ever then I would agree with EA to fix the date at pre stereo - and would promptly nominate not only the Menuhin/Elgar VC but the Paganini 1 with Monte or Enescu I cannot remember off the top of my head - much of the recorded output of Furtwangler etc etc etc

            Comment

            • pastoralguy
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 7799

              #7
              Ah! Got you!

              I made the stupid mistake of not reading the question properly.

              Well, in that case, what about the recordings of Rachmaninov playing through his Symphonic Dances in discussion with Eugene Ormandy? I bought these CDs at tremendous expense, (about £60! ), and have yet to unwrap them although I have heard extracts on Record Review.

              Comment

              • Barbirollians
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 11752

                #8
                Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
                Ah! Got you!

                I made the stupid mistake of not reading the question properly.

                Well, in that case, what about the recordings of Rachmaninov playing through his Symphonic Dances in discussion with Eugene Ormandy? I bought these CDs at tremendous expense, (about £60! ), and have yet to unwrap them although I have heard extracts on Record Review.
                I was fascinated by those but probably not £60 fascinated !

                Comment

                • Braunschlag
                  Full Member
                  • Jul 2017
                  • 484

                  #9
                  If it’s pre-stereo then the answer is most definitely none whatsoever!

                  Comment

                  • jayne lee wilson
                    Banned
                    • Jul 2011
                    • 10711

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
                    You all lose points as they were not released this year - fab as particularly the Music and Arts Toscanini Beethoven and the Lekeu Sonata recording both are .

                    If we are going for favourite ever then I would agree with EA to fix the date at pre stereo - and would promptly nominate not only the Menuhin/Elgar VC but the Paganini 1 with Monte or Enescu I cannot remember off the top of my head - much of the recorded output of Furtwangler etc etc etc
                    The way I construed the sentence was: favourite pre-1968 Historical and/or 1968 live recording... ...!
                    So OK, reissues 2018, rec. pre-'68, right? And do you mean any live recording from this year (2018?)...or pre '68 only? My brain is sorely taxed....

                    Always great to get another plug in for Andreae's Bruckner anyhow...

                    Comment

                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      #11
                      Schnabel's Schubert box.
                      Debussy - his first performers.
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

                      Comment

                      • cloughie
                        Full Member
                        • Dec 2011
                        • 22182

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Braunschlag View Post
                        If it’s pre-stereo then the answer is most definitely none whatsoever!
                        Why? Surely it is the music, performance and recording quality that counts, not whether it comes out of two speakers!

                        Comment

                        • pastoralguy
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 7799

                          #13
                          Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                          Schnabel's Schubert box.
                          I'd forgotten about that box!

                          Comment

                          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                            Gone fishin'
                            • Sep 2011
                            • 30163

                            #14
                            Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
                            I'd forgotten about that box!
                            I think it was you who brought my attention to it!
                            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

                            Comment

                            • pastoralguy
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 7799

                              #15
                              Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                              I think it was you who brought my attention to it!
                              Ah!

                              Comment

                              Working...
                              X