BaL 25.01.25 - Brahms: Violin concerto

[HighlandDougie]

I've just (re)found on my shelves the Weltblick 3CD set of Ida H and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in various concerti, including the Brahms with Kiril Kondrashin conducting. To my shame, it's still shrink-wrapped.

[silvestrione]

Whilst browsing through my Lp overspill, prompted by the 'Does anyone still use or like vinyl?' (and possibly the 'On the way to the charity shop') thread, I came across a Brahms Violin Concerto that I don't think has been mentioned, Pinchas Zukerman with Daniel Barenboim conducting the Orchestre de Paris (DG 2531 251)
Having just put it on I'm very pleased I came across it! Zukerman's tone is beautiful, and Barenboim's accompaniment sensitive - a might slow for today's taste perhaps - and the orchestra fine, if not the equal of Berlin or Vienna.
Faultless surfaces too....what a find this would be in a charity shop.....it's not going there!!

Are those real threads? If so, where are they are? (I may be being naive and missing a joke there)

[Roger Webb]

Are those real threads? If so, where are they are? (I may be being naive and missing a joke there)

Yes they are real threads, and are both together at present (top of page two), although the one in brackets is actually called, 'Music recordings that had to go to the charity shop'!

[pastoralguy]

Indeed, - the Mendelssohn that is coupled with the Brahms is particularly lovely. I am sure I have told this story before but I once came home late from work and turned on Radio 3 to hear a sensational Tchaikovsky concerto in the late 1980s/early 1990s and Ida H was announced as the soloist with the CBSO/Rattle but there is no sign of it on BBC Genome unless of course she was a replacement for an indisposed soloist or my memory is playing tricks with the orchestral accompaniment.

Wow! That would be terrific to hear.

[Barbirollians]

BBC Genome does recall her playing the Sibelius with Rattle and the Berlin Phil in 1992 - now that is something I should like to hear .