Reader’s Digest Favourites from the Classics Brahms

[Bryn]

. . . Beethoven did include the repeat at some point, and the removal of it is not well proven. Several great conductors do include the repeat, JEG, Zinman and of course Harnoncourt among them. . . .

Let's not forget Boulez, a student of whom wrote a thesis on the subject which Boulez found sufficiently convincing in its conclusion s to include the repeat in his recording with the New Philharmonia released in 1970. Not, overall, a favourite recorded performance of mine, but one which sparked new engagement with the issue.

[cloughie]

Let's not forget Boulez, a student of whom wrote a thesis on the subject which Boulez found sufficiently convincing in its conclusion s to include the repeat in his recording with the New Philharmonia released in 1970. Not, overall, a favourite recorded performance of mine, but one which sparked new engagement with the issue.

I have to admit that Boulez is not the first conductor I think of as a Beethovenian but I think I only became aware of the repeats in the 5th in the 70s through the recordings by Dorati, C Kleiber, Solti and others so maybe it was Pierre who rocked the boat. He clearly was not either keen enough on Ludwig or encouraged by CBS to record the rest of the symphonies, though there is this 9th!

https://youtu.be/-n4Dq_rHbB0

[Barbirollians]

On now to Rachmaninov which opens with the well known and very good Wild /Horenstein PC No 2 , A rather soupy rendition of the Romance Op 8 from NPO/Gerhardt followed and now the C sharp Minor Prelude by a pianist I have never heard of Sergia Varella-Cid .

There is plenty more of Wild /Horenstein with the 4th concerto and the Rhapsody included. Also a very straightforward and enjoyable old Nimbus Symphony 2 with the BBC Welsh SO and Tadaaki Otaka.

A rather well conducted and not soupy account of Vocalise conducted by Charles Gerhardt himself and as mentioned elsewhere a quite terrific account of Isle of the Dead from RPO/Horenstein.