BaL - Long Overdue Works

[verismissimo]

LvB PC 5 was notoriously covered by Joseph Cooper (IIRC) in the early 1970s when he selected Hanae Nakajima!

Mike

I definitely owned this one, my first Emperor. I liked it a lot! :)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I definitely owned this one, my first Emperor. I liked it a lot! :)

[Alison]

Beethoven's Fourth please.

Ps wasn't Bruckner 5 done a couple of years ago ?

William Mival ? Barenboim ?

[Barbirollians]

Yes it was but I cannot see any sign of Bruckner 6

[mikealdren]

I'd already come under the spell of Kempff by then and I was disappointed with the Nakajima when I bought it. Maybe I should give it another spin.

Mike

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I'd already come under the spell of Kempff by then and I was disappointed with the Nakajima when I bought it. Maybe I should give it another spin.

Mike

Not in preference to Kempff (or Brendel, or Perahia, or Kovacevich, or Fleisher, or .... ) but for an impecunious thirteen year-old, it was a very well spent 50p . I wouldn't at all mind hearing it again.

[Barbirollians]

Not in preference to Kempff (or Brendel, or Perahia, or Kovacevich, or Fleisher, or .... ) but for an impecunious thirteen year-old, it was a very well spent 50p . I wouldn't at all mind hearing it again.

Barenboim/Klemperer for me - One of my very first records and one I have played to bits - a much scratched LP was replaced by a tape that snapped and two different CD incarnations.

Took me about fifteen years to appreciate any other performance - Fischer and Furtwangler and Kovacevich Davis being the performances that made me able to appreciate others where Perahia/Haitink and Brendel/Levine had failed

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Barenboim & Klemperer: YES! (And the Fischer/Furtwangler, of course). Brendel/Levine is an odd fish, isn't it? Everybody seems to be trying to get below the surface but with little success.

[cincinnatus]

There are lots of important pieces which haven't featured for 20 years, if ever. Consider the following:-

Allegri - Miserere Bach - Cantata 140 Beethoven - Kreutzer Sonata Berlioz - Harold in Italy

Brahms - Symphony 1 Haydn - 7 Last Words String Quartet Machaut - Messe de Nostre Dame Messiaen - Quartet for the end of time

Mozart - Horn Concertos Prokofiev - Alexander Nevsky Purcell - Funeral Music for Queen Mary Rodrigo - Fantasia for a Gentleman

Schubert - Rosamunde Quartet Shostakovich - Piano Concerto 3 Stravinsky - Petrushka Tallis - Spem in Alium

tchaikovsky - Swan Lake Vaughan Williams - Symphony 2

[mathias broucek]

Shostakovich - Piano Concerto 3

This one could be a while coming.....

[cincinnatus]

This one could be a while coming.....

Whoops! Piano Concerto 2

[silvestrione]

This one came up on the old R3 boards. A few years back I had an email exchange with a producer from CD Review, correcting me on some points, but admitting that the 'Eroica' was one they had to address....we're still waiting. The list compiled at that time included Beethoven 4 (still waiting) and Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor (now done! Hurrah!).

I don't remember an Eroica one ever ( but I did spend five years out of the country in the 70s), but I do remember one on Sibelius 3, years ago, done by Richard Osborne, who certainly liked the Rattle performance, if he didn't choose it (can't remember).

Next Saturday, up comes Sibelius 3 again, and who's doing it.....? Why wasn't he asked to do the Eroica first!

[Ruhevoll]

This one came up on the old R3 boards. A few years back I had an email exchange with a producer from CD Review, correcting me on some points, but admitting that the 'Eroica' was one they had to address....we're still waiting. The list compiled at that time included Beethoven 4 (still waiting) and Schubert Piano Sonata in C minor (now done! Hurrah!).

I don't remember an Eroica one ever ( but I did spend five years out of the country in the 70s), but I do remember one on Sibelius 3, years ago, done by Richard Osborne, who certainly liked the Rattle performance, if he didn't choose it (can't remember).

Next Saturday, up comes Sibelius 3 again, and who's doing it.....? Why wasn't he asked to do the Eroica first!

Is this Nietzche's eternal recurrence?

[BBMmk2]

Organ music, generally speaking, doesn't seem to get a look in, at all on BaL, or CD Review?

[silvestrione]

Organ music, generally speaking, doesn't seem to get a look in, at all on BaL, or CD Review?

Agreed. It would be nice to know what the principles are, by which works are chosen, and chosen again. My impression now is that it has a 'make it up as you go along feel'....'oh, we haven't done that one for a while, have we, let's go for that'...

I'd love to hear one on Bach's Orgelbuchlein, to go no further.

And earlier music? Purcell's string fancies, or trio sonatas? Gibbons is probably one of the great English composers, for goodness sake, and has never figured.

I can see they may want to keep to fairly mainstream repertoire, but it still does not justify the amount of repetition, and the gaps.