Classic Single CD Pairings in your collection

[teamsaint]

i would very much like to find a brilliant coupling of the Dvorak American suite with something else(anything else brilliant!)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

i would very much like to find a brilliant coupling of the Dvorak American suite with something else(anything else brilliant!)

http://www.allmusic.com/album/dvor%C3%A1k-american-suite-silent-woods-prague-waltzes-mazurka-mw0001943481

http://www.amazon.com/Dvorak-Symphony-No-American-Suite/dp/B0000041YK

http://www.amazon.com/Dvorak-Symphony-No-American-Suite/dp/B0000062DO

http://www.arkivmusic.com/classical/album.jsp?album_id=187569

... all "all-Dvorak", so not really fitting into Thread.

[teamsaint]

Thanks Ferney..."All Dvorak" fits my idea of brilliant all day long !!
I would love to know, though, how good old Brilliant classics managed to churn out a 40 CD set and exclude the American suite !!

Sorry, went off topic.

[antongould]

Elgar Cello Concerto (Du Pre) and Sea Pictures (Baker) with Barbirolli. Perhaps a bit obvious, but none the worse for that.

Was Cockaigne also on the LP? It is on the download I happened to purchase on Saturday evening! A very fine performance too,IMHO, much better than this year's Prom?

[aeolium]

A classic pairing and a simply gorgeous CD

I agree, ER, and the wind players on that Perahia/ECO Wind Soloists disc are superb: Neil Black, Thea King, Anthony Halstead, Graham Sheen. They really should be named on the cover, along with Perahia.

[teamsaint]

I agree, ER, and the wind players on that Perahia/ECO Wind Soloists disc are superb: Neil Black, Thea King, Anthony Halstead, Graham Sheen. They really should be named on the cover, along with Perahia.

I used to go to the same piano teacher as Graham Sheen.
Perhaps I should have tried the same bassoon teacher instead !!

[jayne lee wilson]

Exton CD of Svetlanov/USSRSO live in Moscow with:
Ciurlionis, Glazunov, Debussy... "The Sea"

Haydn 6,7&8 - Concentus, Harnoncourt.

Mendelssohn 3&5. Staatskapelle Dresden live, Davis...

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Was Cockaigne also on the LP? It is on the download I happened to purchase on Saturday evening! A very fine performance too,IMHO, much better than this year's Prom?

No, Cockaigne was coupled with Barbirolli's stereo EMI Enigma Variations.

[Barbirollians]

Ida Haendel's Britten and Walton Concertos !

[Petrushka]

The inevitable Schumann and Greig piano concertos coupling my own favourite being the classic Bishop(-Kovacevich), Colin Davis recording. Still sounds great after 40 years.

[pastoralguy]

Ida Haendel's Britten and Walton Concertos !

Also the Testament disc of the Elgar and Sibelius concertos with Sir Simon and the CBSO.

[Barbirollians]

Also the Testament disc of the Elgar and Sibelius concertos with Sir Simon and the CBSO.

Magnificent record and who would believe that a year after the Sibelius BBC pensioned her off and after the Britten in 1994 she never played the Proms again .

If we are going for really obvious couplings - I say Solomon in the Grieg/Schumann and Menuhin/Kurtz & Susskind or Milstein and Barzin in the Mendelssohn/Bruch

[mathias broucek]

The Hollywood Quartet: Schubert String Quintet in C / Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht

[martin_opera]

i would very much like to find a brilliant coupling of the Dvorak American suite with something else(anything else brilliant!)

This is great.

[akiralx]

The just reissued DG CD of Claudio Abbado conducting Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite 2 and Debussy's Nocturnes c/w his recording of Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy. The sound of the Boston SO (Abbado's only recordings with them) on this CD is phenomenal!