I wondered what are forumites favourite Sibelius symphony cycles?
In my impecunious youth I collected individual records - Barbirolli’s EMI No1 ( on a noisy EMI Eminence cassette) much better on CD, Davis’s Boston No 2 which has never done much for me , Rattle’s 3 and 7, HVK’s EMI 4 and 5 which I thought were pretty dynamite , Rattle’s 5 with the Kennedy VC ( which I also liked ) Karajan’s EMI 6 which I understand was highly rated but found impenetrable and Ashkenazy’s coupling of the Seventh and Tapiola which I consider one of his finest records.
Other recordings have displaced many of these in my affections the Reader’s Digest Barbirolli 2 , Colin Davis’s RCA Third for example but as a cycle I have recently been listening to Rattle’s CBSO set which is now available very cheaply and have been very impressed by the First and Second which strike me as very serious and thoughtful accounts and it has been good to reacquaint myself with his Third. I prefer it to my other complete cycles with Davis,Ashkenazy,Gibson and Berglund(BSO).
What is your favourite Sibelius cycle ?
In my impecunious youth I collected individual records - Barbirolli’s EMI No1 ( on a noisy EMI Eminence cassette) much better on CD, Davis’s Boston No 2 which has never done much for me , Rattle’s 3 and 7, HVK’s EMI 4 and 5 which I thought were pretty dynamite , Rattle’s 5 with the Kennedy VC ( which I also liked ) Karajan’s EMI 6 which I understand was highly rated but found impenetrable and Ashkenazy’s coupling of the Seventh and Tapiola which I consider one of his finest records.
Other recordings have displaced many of these in my affections the Reader’s Digest Barbirolli 2 , Colin Davis’s RCA Third for example but as a cycle I have recently been listening to Rattle’s CBSO set which is now available very cheaply and have been very impressed by the First and Second which strike me as very serious and thoughtful accounts and it has been good to reacquaint myself with his Third. I prefer it to my other complete cycles with Davis,Ashkenazy,Gibson and Berglund(BSO).
What is your favourite Sibelius cycle ?