Reissues you would like to see

[Barbirollians]

Reviews:

Brahms 1

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...2C+42s.+9d.%29.

Brahms 2

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...2C+43s.+9d.%29.

Brahms 3

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page...2C+43s.+9d.%29.

Brahms 4 - earlier Pye recording

http://www.gramophone.net/Issue/Page/April%201965/39/843325/BRAHMS.+Symphony+No.+4+in+E+minor%2C

Couldn't find the EMI 4th on G's website. My recollection of reviews when these came echoes yours - I thought they'd been received grudgingly, but the reviews above are very positive. Not that it matters if they were not - I have always loved these recordings.

The 2nd has been released on SACD by Esoteric.

http://www.esoteric.jp/products/esot...47/indexe.html

When they were reissued on Royal Classics - Andrew McGregor and guest on CD Review were very sniffy about the tempi and self-indulgence. Looks like crusty old TH was not after all.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

If you hunt around you can find them still pretty cheaply:
Nos. 2 and 3: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Symph...3271748&sr=1-2
No. 1: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Symph...3271748&sr=1-9
No. 4: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brahms-Symph...271748&sr=1-11

That'll get you the whole lot for less than 20 quid if you want them before they reappear from someone else.

I have managed to track them all down and now have the complete set. The 1st symphony took some finding though - not on Royal Classics and not including the Tragic Overture - instead it had Klemperer's recording of the Academic Festival Orchestra.

Thank you, Makropulos and everyone else who helped.

[Barbirollians]

After all the rave reviews - the Tortelier/Sargent Dvorak concerto - appears only available as a download on Naxos.

[johnb]

The Barbirolli Bruckner 8. The BBC Legends CD appears to have been discontinued.

Sejna's recording of Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Tympani. It is on a very old and very worn LP which I picked up 'on spec' when I was a teenager, coupled with Ancerl conducting the Frescos It is the most electrifying performance of the piece that I have ever heard. (I've just realised that it is available from Amazon, but only as an mp3 download.)

[Barbirollians]

There are still some copies available on Amazon but for some reason it is under Brucker !

[makropulos]

Sejna's recording of Martinu's Double Concerto for Two String Orchestras, Piano and Tympani. It is on a very old and very worn LP which I picked up 'on spec' when I was a teenager, coupled with Ancerl conducting the Frescos It is the most electrifying performance of the piece that I have ever heard. (I've just realised that it is available from Amazon, but only as an mp3 download.)

That Double Concerto is a simply marvellous record which I also discovered in my youth (differently coupled - as the fourth side for Ancerl's "Leningrad" Symphony). It has been out on CD before, coupled with two other Sejna performances of Martinu's Third Symphony and the Dvorak American Suite (there's a copy for about £12.00 on amazon.com - rather than the silly price on the uk site) and it also seems to be lurking on a Urania release (http://www.amazon.com/Martinu-Concer...5928606&sr=8-2)

It would be great to have it back in Supraphon's Archive series - hopefully that might happen one of these days. Sejna's Dvorak Fifth Symphony is already on that, and it's glorious.

[Barbirollians]

Looking at this thread four years on I wonder how many have been restored to the catalogue and how many are still awaited ?

The Boult Schubert soon reappeared in that big box .

I second the call for the return of Alfredo Campoli's Decca recordings - I love the records that have appeared on Beulah generally it seems from silent surface LPs especially the Tchaikovsky with Argenta - recording a lot of young soloists producing rather faceless accounts could learn from - it sounds like they are all having great fun .

[cloughie]

For starters

Classical
1 NatPO Gerhardt French Music was on RCA RL25094
2 CSO Levine Petrouchka RL12615
3 NSOL Agoult Claire de Lune SPA111 please top up with the NSOL Boult Bach-Bantock Sheep may safely graze.

Non-classical
1 Georgie Fame Fame at Last
2 Georgie Fame Sweet Things
3 Georgie Fame Sound Venture

The classical items have yet to appear on CD, the Fame just received!

[cloughie]

A glance at the amazon site shows how poorly represented Klezki is in the current catalogue. Maybe a EMI double with RK:Scheherazade/Tsar Saltan and Tchaik:Sym 6/Cap It is overdue!

Perhaps now a Kletzki ICON is overdue!

[BBMmk2]

There's been talk elsewhere on these boards re Andre Previn's RCA recording of RVW's symphonies. This would be very advantageous for RCA to reissue these! I know they still available from the river people, but at those prices!!

[Barbirollians]

Perhaps now a Kletzki ICON is overdue!

Long overdue but Icons have rather dried up under Warner compared to the regularity with which they appeared under EMI .