BBC MM CDs - your favourites

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  • Barbirollians
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 11691

    BBC MM CDs - your favourites

    I am just listening to the Dvorak 9 with BBCSSO/Runnicles. I have to admit not really enjoying much of what I have heard from Runnicles apart from his Wagner/Strauss CD with Christine brewer. This Dvorak 9 strikes me as excellent though - propulsive but not hard driven , but no over sentimental lingering in the Largo .

    I have recently also enjoyed Thomas Hampson in Delius 's Sea Drift and that Henk Neven Winterreise.

    This leads me to ask what are your favourite BBC MM CDS .I can think of three in particular that stand out .

    1. The 1943 radio recording of the Brahms Violin Concerto with Menuhin and Boult . A CD to play anyone who only knows Menuhin from his later more fallible recordings .

    2 An Aldeburgh Fesival song recital with Janet baker and Raymond Leppard that later made its way onto BBC Legends

    3. Katerina Karneus singing Nuits D Ete .

    What are your favourites ?
  • salymap
    Late member
    • Nov 2010
    • 5969

    #2
    Off the top of my head three come to mind

    Elgar Symphony no 2 - Malcolm Sargent/ BBCSO. Live from the Colston Hall,Bristol 1964

    Andre Previn conducts the LSO in Ravel Daphnis et Chloe, both Suites. Strauss Don Quixote

    Tribute to Richard Hickox. Janacek *Sinfonietta and Glagolitic Mass *BBCPhilharmonic and National Orchestra of Wales

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    • Alison
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 6459

      #3
      The very first disc Tchaikovsky 6 BBCSO/ Davis

      Mahler 10 BBCNOW/Wigglesworth

      Imogen Cooper QEH piano recital

      Mahler 6 BBCPO/Mackerras

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      • DoctorT

        #4
        Katarina Karneus singing Nuits d'Ete gets my vote too

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        • Petrushka
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 12252

          #5
          I have every single disc since inception but many remain unplayed However, among those that have been heard several times are:

          Mahler 10 BBCNOW/Wigglesworth - a great disc.

          Bach: Motets BBC Singers/Cleobury

          Shostakovich: Symphony No 4 BBCPO/Sinaisky

          Walton: Symphony No 1 BBCNOW/Otaka c/w Takemitsu; From Me Flows What You Call Time BBCSO/Davis
          "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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          • Alison
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6459

            #6
            A Turangalila from BBCNOW/Thierry Fischer.

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            • Petrushka
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 12252

              #7
              Originally posted by Alison View Post
              A Turangalila from BBCNOW/Thierry Fischer.
              Yes indeed. That's another that's been in my CD player a few times.

              Tippett: Symphonies No 2 & 4. BBCSO/Tippett - another oft-played CD.
              "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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              • makropulos
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 1674

                #8
                Played very recently:
                Mackerras/BBCPO Mahler 6 - absolutely stunning (and already mentioned by Alison)
                Some unusual Sullivan The Rose of Persia (Vol. 7 No. 9) and Cello Concerto/Macbeth/Te Deum (Vol. 9 No. 7)
                Boult/BBCSO Elgar 1 (1976 Proms)

                And several others!

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                • Nick Armstrong
                  Host
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26538

                  #9
                  Originally posted by makropulos View Post
                  Mackerras/BBCPO Mahler 6 - absolutely stunning (and already mentioned by Alison)
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • amateur51

                    #10
                    An astonishing CD of Beethoven piano sonatas op.106 (Hammerklavier) and op. 111by Edith Vogel - both are extraordinary recreative performances imho

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                    • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                      Gone fishin'
                      • Sep 2011
                      • 30163

                      #11
                      Originally posted by amateur51 View Post
                      An astonishing CD of Beethoven piano sonatas op.106 (Hammerklavier) and op. 111by Edith Vogel - both are extraordinary recreative performances imho


                      Many BBC MM CDs have been of outstanding quality - it would be more difficult to list the duds - I even enjoyed the Rachmaninoff CD from earlier this year! Those I've played most frequently over the years include the Mahler #10, Schubert Octet, Handel Dixit Dominus, Tippett 2 & 4 and Schumann Chamber Music discs.
                      [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                      • Northender

                        #12
                        Mozart Violin Sonatas K454, K379 and K526 played by Gyorgy Pauk and Peter Frankl. (BBC MM118)

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                        • visualnickmos
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 3610

                          #13
                          Benjamin Britten
                          Plymouth Town
                          Nocturne

                          Grace Williams
                          Ballads for Orchestra

                          All on one CD

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                          • Northender

                            #14

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                            • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                              Gone fishin'
                              • Sep 2011
                              • 30163

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Northender View Post
                              Mozart Violin Sonatas K454, K379 and K526 played by Gyorgy Pauk and Peter Frankl. (BBC MM118)
                              ... oh, yes; those too!
                              [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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