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BaL 9.03.24 - Schubert: Symphony No 9, Great
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostI have lots Barbirolli ( both versions prefer the 1960s one) Krips, Furtwangler,Solti ,Savall ( probably favourite to win and very good) , Erich Kleiber ( another cracker) , Beecham,Boult,Blomstedt ,Jochum, Abbado,Bernstein(DG). Too many though I like them all.
This Symphony has always seemed to me to have inspired the vast symphonic canvases of Bruckner.
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostThe Mackerras/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment version is very fine. And Roy Goodman with the Hanover Band has often been commended, too.Last edited by EnemyoftheStoat; 03-03-24, 14:59.
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For me, my first encounter with the work. Boult with the LPO which I borrowed from our local library on tape which I then played until the library asked for it back as there was a queue of other borrowers demanding it! That recording was one of the first budget CDs I ever bought so I must listen to it soon.
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostI finally tracked down a Seraphim copy of the Barbirolli /Halle Schubert 9 . It was never reissued by EMI - Warner in the Uk until the big centenary box as I recall. It remains right at the top for me.
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Like others, I think Le Concert des Nations/Savall is highly fancied. Not a huge choice on my shelves in comparison to some here, but of modern instrument versions I rate COE/Abbado very highly. OAE/Mackerras is fine but now sounds austerely monochrome beside Savall. If I need to wallow in an old-fashioned late-20th century interpretation, then Dresden SK/Davis fits the bill, though in common with many of his contemporaries Sir Colin makes an unmarked accelerando between his stately first movt andante and the allegro proper.
To test my suspicion that here in the UK this piece has rather fallen out of favour with either the concert-going public, or with conductors & promoters, I consulted the Proms website, which confirmed that between 1963 -- 1992 it was played 23 times, then from 1993 -- 2023 played 10 times, and not at all between 2017 and 2023. In the 1960s Schubert's Great C Major was a yearly fixture.
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostI finally tracked down a Seraphim copy of the Barbirolli /Halle Schubert 9 . It was never reissued by EMI - Warner in the Uk until the big centenary box as I recall. It remains right at the top for me.
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Pleased to see others have made the case for Haitink ahead of me. His Concertgebouw recording from the seventies was hard to obtain for a while.
My dad has a cassette tape of a BaL from around 1980 where John Warrack reviewed and Sir Bernard was the winner.
One recording I never much cared for was the BPO/Rattle; well received at the time, nobody seems to remember it now.
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Originally posted by Alison View PostPleased to see others have made the case for Haitink ahead of me. His Concertgebouw recording from the seventies was hard to obtain for a while.
My dad has a cassette tape of a BaL from around 1980 where John Warrack reviewed and Sir Bernard was the winner.
One recording I never much cared for was the BPO/Rattle; well received at the time, nobody seems to remember it now.
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Originally posted by Maclintick View PostLike others, I think Le Concert des Nations/Savall is highly fancied. Not a huge choice on my shelves in comparison to some here, but of modern instrument versions I rate COE/Abbado very highly. OAE/Mackerras is fine but now sounds austerely monochrome beside Savall. If I need to wallow in an old-fashioned late-20th century interpretation, then Dresden SK/Davis fits the bill, though in common with many of his contemporaries Sir Colin makes an unmarked accelerando between his stately first movt andante and the allegro proper.
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Karl Böhm/BPO was my introduction to this piece, together with the 5th on a DG Walkman cassette, performances that still stand up. Interested to hear the well reviewed Savall, but if I were placing a bet for today I might put a small one on Blomstedt's latest Leipzig version on DG even in this crowded field of great performances.
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