BaL 12.12.15 - Sibelius: Symphony no. 1 in E minor

[cloughie]

Ah!

Surname rhymes with the Zombies' keyboard player!

Way back when I first heard it I thought it rather a dull reading when compared to the lively Collins recording.

[verismissimo]

How about Talcum? (as in powder)

Would that be Bengt Talcum, Micky? Lesser known contemporary of Sibelius. Wonder what Roehre thinks of his tone poems?

[Barbirollians]

Returning to the topic I was able to pick up a pristine second hand copy of the Barbirolli for 34p from an Anazon marketplace seller . Coupled with an amazingly well recorded and great fun Capriccio Espagnol and copies are still available search for Columbia Masters Vol 1

[Nick Armstrong]

Returning to the topic

[Barbirollians]

The 1942 Barbirolli recording is stupendous !
Bar the recording quality on a par with the RPO second .

[Barbirollians]

The 1942 Barbirolli recording is stupendous !
Bar the recording quality on a par with the RPO second .

The recording is very good and with very little hiss for 1942 though .

[seabright]

Mention of Barbirolli led me to You Tube and even as I type I'm listening to his Halle Orchestra Sibelius 1 and really like it. As to the ones in my own collection, I have Bernstein / NYPO; Sargent / BBC SO; Colin Davis / LSO (RCA); Stokowski / His SO as well as the later National Philharmonic recording; Serebrier / Melbourne Symphony; and one 'historic' version, the 1941 Ormandy / Philadelphia 78s on 'Biddulph.' That's quite enough Sibelius Ones for any collection, partly for storage reasons, but not least because I wasn't at all taken with the BAL reviewer's final choice.

The Barbirolli / Halle on You Tube is taken from the stereo LP's two sides ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_m4klZMOMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Sh2bQStZo

[Barbirollians]

Mention of Barbirolli led me to You Tube and even as I type I'm listening to his Halle Orchestra Sibelius 1 and really like it. As to the ones in my own collection, I have Bernstein / NYPO; Sargent / BBC SO; Colin Davis / LSO (RCA); Stokowski / His SO as well as the later National Philharmonic recording; Serebrier / Melbourne Symphony; and one 'historic' version, the 1941 Ormandy / Philadelphia 78s on 'Biddulph.' That's quite enough Sibelius Ones for any collection, partly for storage reasons, but not least because I wasn't at all taken with the BAL reviewer's final choice.

The Barbirolli / Halle on You Tube is taken from the stereo LP's two sides ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_m4klZMOMA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Sh2bQStZo

I yield to no one in my love for the Halle/Barbirolli complete set . As a cycle I find it the most convincing of those I have - even seeing off the Bournemouth SO/Berglund and both of Sir Colin Davis's LSO sets .

The 1942 Sibelius 1 and the 1960 RPO Symphony No 2 have an energy and verve that makes them an essential supplement to the integral cycle and as individual performances top the accounts in the complete set .

[Madame Suggia]

It was the SNO Gibson LP for me

Just recently picked up a second hand copy of this performance on CD & loving it all over again

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

[QUOTE=Barbirollians;526617]I yield to no one in my love for the Halle/Barbirolli complete set .

For Symphony no. 1, I prefer the earlier Pye version.

[Barbirollians]

[QUOTE=Eine Alpensinfonie;526967]

I yield to no one in my love for the Halle/Barbirolli complete set .

For Symphony no. 1, I prefer the earlier Pye version.

Don't know it but I cannot imagine that it can better the 1942 NYPO account - especially for 34p plus p and p .

[Barbirollians]

The Kletzki with the vintage Philharmonia is wonderful - such superb individual contributions.

[HighlandDougie]

The Kletzki with the vintage Philharmonia is wonderful - such superb individual contributions.

Not, alas, included in this forthcoming - and quite interesting - release:

https://www.amazon.fr/Philharmonia-Orchestra-Legend-Wilhelm-Furtwangler/dp/B07YTCDY6V/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=philharmonia+orchestra&qid=1573214270&s=music&sr=1-1

[jayne lee wilson]

The unavoidable, must-hear, new No.1 for No.1 ....

Sibelius Symphony No.1. En Saga.
Gothenburg SO/Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Alpha 24/96 (2019) via Qobuz Studio/or CD.

...there's a review of mine here somewhere from earlier....glorious disc, can't wait for the cycle to continue....
(But as for Metro/YNS.... the less said....draw a discreet veil....)

Shame more people don't seem to know or at least appreciate the COE/Berglund....

[Nick Armstrong]

The unavoidable, must-hear, new No.1 for No.1 ....

Sibelius Symphony No.1. En Saga.
Gothenburg SO/Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Alpha 24/96 (2019) via Qobuz Studio/or CD.

...there's a review of mine here somewhere from earlier....glorious disc, can't wait for the cycle to continue....
(But as for Metro/YNS.... the less said....draw a discreet veil....)

Shame more people don't seem to know or at least appreciate the COE/Berglund....

Agreed wholeheartedly re Rouvali & Berglund, both of which I have and love. (I’ve avoided the YNS)

The French ‘critiques de disques’ considered this piece back in May. I failed to spot the Rouvali in the blind listening to their shortlist of 6 - it was one of the first to be eliminated, proving perhaps the futility of judgements based on a 4 minute extract. The critiques preferred Berglund/Bournemouth, Bernstein/Vienna, Vanska/Lahti and the ‘winner’, Segerstam/Helsinki...

I meant to investigate the latter but haven’t done so.