Your Favourite LPO Label Recording

**Madame Suggia** · 26-02-13, 21:39

Mahler: Symphony No 2 Jurowski

Mahler: symphony 6 Tennstedt

**LaurieWatt** · 26-02-13, 21:58

Originally posted by Petrushka View Post

What a treasure trove the LPO label is turning out to be! Alongside brand new recordings from Jurowski and others in enterprising repertoire there are wonderful performances from Haitink and Tennstedt. Not the least attraction for me is that I had the great good fortune to be present at a surprising number of them! Hats off then to Laurie Watt, of this parish, for facilitating so many of these treasures.

My favourites in no particular order are:

1. Mahler: Symphony No 2 Tennstedt

2. Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 4 & 5 Jurowski

3. Mahler: Symphony No 8 Tennstedt

4. Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 Haitink

5: Elgar: Symphony No 1/Sea Pictures Handley

6 & 7. Two discs (there's also a third, I think) of music by Turnage

8. Holst: The Planets Jurowski

9. Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe Haitink

10. Tchaikovsky: Manfred Jurowski

There's plenty more too. Which ones are your favourites?

I am probably disqualified from adding some of my favourites, but will do so anyway. Big thanks though to Petrushka for introducing the subject. Of the above, both the Tennstedt Mahler 2 and 8 were an immense struggle for different reasons to get into the commercial arena. I love them both - indeed, i know of no perfomance of No 2 which comes near it. I am particularly fond of Haitink's Shostakovich 10. I would add Tennstedt's Bruckner 4, not because it is definitive, but because it features some truly great horn playing from Nick Busch, one of the finest principal horns of our time. The performance of the Verdi Requiem under the baton of Jesus Lopez-Cobos, with Margaret Price on superlative form, is outstanding, to the surprise of some including me at the time. I decided not to go to the performance, but, what the hell, why not record it. I love the recent Sibelius disc with Paavo Berglund conducting the 5th and 6th Symphonies and the Swan. Also Mackerras's Dvorak 8 and Symphonic Variations. The RFH performance which the orchestra recorded preceded sessions for EMI Eminence. In the concert Sir Charles adopted the Czech Phil practice if doubling the second main woodwind subject after the initial variations on its tutti return with all four horns! Andrew Keener wouldn't let him do that for the recording, and so I could go on.

**jayne lee wilson** · 26-02-13, 22:04

Mark-Anthony Turnage Volume 3, Orchestral Works with Jurowski, Marin Alsop and Markus Stenz. Brilliant 5-work sequence it's hard to stop listening to.
Jurowski also has a very good Honegger album, 4th Symphony and Christmas Cantata.

(Come on Laurie, how about some 24-bit downloads?)

**amateur51** · 26-02-13, 22:14

Originally posted by LaurieWatt View Post

I am probably disqualified from adding some of my favourites, but will do so anyway. Big thanks though to Petrushka for introducing the subject. Of the above, both the Tennstedt Mahler 2 and 8 were an immense struggle for different reasons to get into the commercial arena. I love them both - indeed, i know of no perfomance of No 2 which comes near it. I am particularly fond of Haitink's Shostakovich 10. I would add Tennstedt's Bruckner 4, not because it is definitive, but because it features some truly great horn playing from Nick Busch, one of the finest principal horns of our time. The performance of the Verdi Requiem under the baton of Jesus Lopez-Cobos, with Margaret Price on superlative form, is outstanding, to the surprise of some including me at the time. I decided not to go to the performance, but, what the hell, why not record it. I love the recent Sibelius disc with Paavo Berglund conducting the 5th and 6th Symphonies and the Swan. Also Mackerras's Dvorak 8 and Symphonic Variations. The RFH performance which the orchestra recorded preceded sessions for EMI Eminence. In the concert Sir Charles adopted the Czech Phil practice if doubling the second main woodwind subject after the initial variations on its tutti return with all four horns! Andrew Keener wouldn't let him do that for the recording, and so I could go on.

Please do, LaurieWatt - great stories

**Alison** · 26-02-13, 22:30

It's lovely to have Britten's Our Hunting Fathers with Heather Harper. Feel like putting it on right now . . .

**AmpH** · 26-02-13, 22:49

Britten's War Requiem under Kurt Masur - one of my favourite recordings of this work.

**Petrushka** · 26-02-13, 22:53

Originally posted by Alison View Post

It's lovely to have Britten's Our Hunting Fathers with Heather Harper. Feel like putting it on right now . . .

I know I was present at a performance of this with the LPO and Haitink and Harper but it was definitely in the RFH. I cannot for the life of me remember the date or the rest of the programme.

The programme book will be in my archive somewhere......

**Petrushka** · 26-02-13, 22:58

Originally posted by LaurieWatt View Post

I am probably disqualified from adding some of my favourites, but will do so anyway. Big thanks though to Petrushka for introducing the subject. Of the above, both the Tennstedt Mahler 2 and 8 were an immense struggle for different reasons to get into the commercial arena. I love them both - indeed, i know of no perfomance of No 2 which comes near it. I am particularly fond of Haitink's Shostakovich 10. I would add Tennstedt's Bruckner 4, not because it is definitive, but because it features some truly great horn playing from Nick Busch, one of the finest principal horns of our time. The performance of the Verdi Requiem under the baton of Jesus Lopez-Cobos, with Margaret Price on superlative form, is outstanding, to the surprise of some including me at the time. I decided not to go to the performance, but, what the hell, why not record it. I love the recent Sibelius disc with Paavo Berglund conducting the 5th and 6th Symphonies and the Swan. Also Mackerras's Dvorak 8 and Symphonic Variations. The RFH performance which the orchestra recorded preceded sessions for EMI Eminence. In the concert Sir Charles adopted the Czech Phil practice if doubling the second main woodwind subject after the initial variations on its tutti return with all four horns! Andrew Keener wouldn't let him do that for the recording, and so I could go on.

Archive LPO performances on my wish list include a Proms Missa Solemnis under Solti in 1982 and Britten's War Requiem in 1976 under Haitink. Any chance, Laurie?

**Alison** · 26-02-13, 22:59

My dad reckons there were two performances under Haitink. The first was in the RFH with Bruckner 8 and the second at the Proms with Mozart 41 and Dvorak 7.

**Alison** · 26-02-13, 23:02

The Missa Solemnis under Eschenbach is really quite impressive.

**Petrushka** · 26-02-13, 23:04

Originally posted by Alison View Post

My dad reckons there were two performances under Haitink. The first was in the RFH with Bruckner 8 and the second at the Proms with Mozart 41 and Dvorak 7.

It must have been the former. Bit odd for me to recall the Britten and not the Bruckner, but what a fabulous programme in both cases. The performance on the LPO label is, of course, the Proms one from 1979.

**Alison** · 26-02-13, 23:10

Yes it does sound like the RAH. (The RFH was the previous November).

**Petrushka** · 26-02-13, 23:25

On order, and due to land on my doormat any day now, is a Shostakovich 8 from the LPO and Rozhdestvensky given at the RFH in 1983 and at which I was present. I vividly recall that concert and am champing at the bit to be able to hear it again! (Mozart PC 25 was in the first half, I think).

http://shop.lpo.org.uk/shop/Recordings/detail.asp?10215,0,0,0,0

**Roehre** · 26-02-13, 23:45

Haitink's Liszt 13 symphonic poems and his Shostakovich symphonies, especially 4, 10 and 15, from the beginning and the end of the 1970s.

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