Leinsdorf

[rauschwerk]

Hmmm. Perhaps I haven't heard him in the right repertoire. I got to know one or two Prokofiev symphonies via Leinsdorf recordings, but when the Jarvi set came out I realised what I had been missing. I had Symphony2/Kijé on LP and later acquired both on CD because the sound on that LP was pretty hopeless. I really like the vocal version of Kijé but Symphony 6 (coupled with 2) is too matter-of-fact for me.

I sang the Brahms Requiem for him in the late 60s but do not remember being very inspired by that either.

[mathias broucek]

Not a bad price for the Amazon download:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mozart-The-Symphonies-Erich-Leinsdorf/dp/B000BV5RE2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354136278&sr=8-1

... I had no idea this set existed before your post, cloughie!

And it even comes with the rare #37 (composed by Michael Haydn with a slow intro by Mozart)

[Barbirollians]

This is one of my favourite Beethoven Chorals and I fully endorse your comments. I have that same disc http://www.amazon.co.uk/symphony-9-s...140288&sr=1-36

Is his complete Beethoven cycle on the same level as this superb 9th anybody? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Erich-Leinsd...4140439&sr=1-1

Less than a fiver that disc and to be honest I bought it fo A Survivor from Warsaw !

[richardfinegold]

And of course Szell in Cleveland! The sound on Leinsdorf's RCA CDs is much better than it was on LP.

Of course, how could I leave out Szell/Cleveland?

[Stanfordian]

Yes, Leinsdorf is most underrated. I have this Testament disc conducted by Leinsdorf which is quite superb:

Schubert: Mass No 6, D950;
J.S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude, motet for 5-part chorus, BWV227;
Pilar Lorengar (soprano); Betty Allen (contralto);
Fritz Wunderlich & Manfred Schmidt (tenors); Josef Greindl (bass); Choir of St. Hedwig's Cathedral Berlin; Berliner Philharmoniker/Erich Leinsdorf
Recorded live in 1962 & 1964, Berlin on Testament.