Best Grieg/Schumann recording?

[Parry1912]

I can't claim to have heard half of those mentioned above but I would take Perahia ahead of Bishop/Bishop-Kovacevich/Kovacevich any time.

[Barbirollians]

How did I forget Solomon ? Must dig out by Eminence LP

[Sir Monty Golfear]

The Bishop / Davis version is a great performance.

Have you tried John Ogdon and Paavo Berglund ?

Or Jorge Bolet and Chailly ?.

Howard Shelley on Chandos is very good , but is very fast !

[amateur51]

I forgot to mention Michelangeli's astonishing Grieg concerto on BBC Legends - a rare recording that suggests that he was a man of flesh and blood after all.

[amateur51]

How did I forget Solomon ? Must dig out by Eminence LP

[LeMartinPecheur]

Have you tried John Ogdon and Paavo Berglund ?

I was given it by a neighbour: it's certainly worth hearing - once! SMG: your mention isn't surely a recommendation??

[Sir Monty Golfear]

I was given it by a neighbour: it's certainly worth hearing - once! SMG: your mention isn't surely a recommendation??

Just a listen ....not a recommendation !. Was giving you different options according to how you like your Schumann.

[Chris Newman]

My favourite Schumann PC comes as part of a generous package on a double Decca Eloquence.

Schumann:
Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'
Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70 Edmund Leloir (horn)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 Maurice Gendron (cello)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Manfred Overture
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
To get Gendron and Lipatti on the same disc is luxury and the Lipatti is live.

For the Grieg I go for Leaf over Antsnest (as a friend calls him) with Mariss Jansons though I like his first version as well with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Ole Kristian Ruud.
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[silvestrione]

My favourite Schumann PC comes as part of a generous package on a double Decca Eloquence.

Schumann:
Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 'Spring'
Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61
Adagio and Allegro in A flat major, Op. 70 Edmund Leloir (horn)
Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129 Maurice Gendron (cello)
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54 Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Manfred Overture
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
To get Gendron and Lipatti on the same disc is luxury and the Lipatti is live.

For the Grieg I go for Leaf over Antsnest (as a friend calls him) with Mariss Jansons though I like his first version as well with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Ole Kristian Ruud.
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I have this and value the package, but, be warned, the sound on the Lipatti is dire!

[Ferretfancy]

silvestrione

Yes, it's a great pity that the Lipatti with the Suisse Romande has awful sound, but there is his version with Karajan. The Ansermet performance of the 2nd Symphony was the first to make me realise how good the piece is, up to then I had never come to terms with it compared to the other three. I wish I could value the Manfred Overture, but maybe I'll get to appreciate it eventually.

[rauschwerk]

For the Grieg I go for Leaf over Antsnest (as a friend calls him) with Mariss Jansons though I like his first version as well with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Ole Kristian Ruud.

The Andsnes/Janssons has been justly compared to Lipatti's versions and I don't feel the need for other recordings on my shelves. (I once heard Andsnes say that his English friends call him 'leg over' Andsnes.)

I'm not really a fan of Brendel's later (digital era) work but he made an excellent recording of the Schumann with Abbado in the late 70s.

[Gordon]

For the Grieg, I've just remembered Clifford Curzon ................including a nice coupling with Franck's Symphonic Variations, Boult conducting.

That Franck piece with Curzon was Decca's first published stereo recording made in December '55 [the Grieg with Fjeldstad was from '59]. The first "serious" stereo recording was made in December '54 .....the Grieg PC with, guess who?....Winifred Atwell!! Available in the mono on a Pristine CD or download. Not a bad version.

[Sir Monty Golfear]

That Franck piece with Curzon was Decca's first published stereo recording made in December '55 [the Grieg with Fjeldstad was from '59]. The first "serious" stereo recording was made in December '54 .....the Grieg PC with, guess who?....Winifred Atwell!! Available in the mono on a Pristine CD or download. Not a bad version.

That's an interesting fact about Winifred Atwell .
As anyone mentioned Ivan Moravec on supraphon ?.....not sure if still available though.

[Chris Newman]

That Franck piece with Curzon was Decca's first published stereo recording made in December '55 [the Grieg with Fjeldstad was from '59]. The first "serious" stereo recording was made in December '54 .....the Grieg PC with, guess who?....Winifred Atwell!! Available in the mono on a Pristine CD or download. Not a bad version.

Here's a taster of the other Winifred Atwell:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INKKluIRrzI

Winifred's Grieg PC is conducted by Stanford Robinson.

[Ferretfancy]

That Franck piece with Curzon was Decca's first published stereo recording made in December '55 [the Grieg with Fjeldstad was from '59]. The first "serious" stereo recording was made in December '54 .....the Grieg PC with, guess who?....Winifred Atwell!! Available in the mono on a Pristine CD or download. Not a bad version.

Gordon

Gordon
Decca's first ever stereo recording was Rimsky Korsakov's Antar, made in the Victoria Hall Geneva with Ansermet and the Suisse Romande on 12th /13th May 1954
The engineer was Roy Wallace, and the performance can be found on CD with fascinating background notes about the sessions. I'm not sure if the mono was issued on LXT, but the recording did did appear on vinyl coupled with The Golden Cockerel on an Eclipse LP. I don't know whether this was stereo or elecronically enhanced mono.

Listening to the CD,which is on Decca Legends, it still sounds remarkably good. Ansermet was said to have remarked that it like being there, and of course it is very close sound, but impressive still with a convincing stereo spread. The performance has been rivalled, but not beaten.