BaL 6.04.19 - Mahler: Symphony no. 4 in G

[vinteuil]

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... a special mention, I hope, for the recording (28/29 May 1930) with Eiko Kitazawa (soprano) and the Tokyo New Symphony Orchestra under Viscount Hidemaro Konoye (parlophone Japan), available in this must-have collection :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00EIPIL2M

[ ... I see it cost me £25 in 2017 : the price seems to have gone up since... ]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidemaro_Konoye

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[BBMmk2]

I have a few of these!

[vinteuil]

Manchester Camerata, Kate Royal, Douglas Boyd *


* download only

... this (the chamber version by Erwin Stein) is also available as a CD :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0009OJ9LS

There is another recording of the Stein chamber version :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00Y1QGMKG

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[LeMartinPecheur]

Oh dear, I've just carried out an inventory and it seems that charity shops down the years have put far too much temptation my way

Abbado (Von Stade)
Abranavel
Horenstein
Klemperer (Schwarzkopf)
Kletzki
Kubelik
Maazel (Battle)
Rattle
Reiner
Szell
Tennstedt (Popp)
Welser-Most

Or there's always Otaka on a BBC MM CD.

So Nicholas Baragwanath shouldn't cry if he fails to sell me another one! But you never know...

[Bryn]

Oh dear, I've just carried out an inventory and it seems that charity shops down the years have put far too much temptation my way

Abbado (Von Stade)
Abranavel
Horenstein
Klemperer (Schwarzkopf)
Kletzki
Kubelik
Maazel (Battle)
Rattle
Reiner
Szell

Or there's always Otaka on a BBC MM CD.

So Nicholas Baragwanath shouldn't cry if he fails to sell me another one! But you never know...

What? No Szell?

[LeMartinPecheur]

What? No Szell?

Yep!!!!!!

[Barbirollians]

Yep!!!!!!

Maazel and the VPO remains my library choice .

I love the Kletzki especially Emmy Loose ,the live VPO Walter with Gueden sadly deleted ,the Horenstein and Szell

[Alison]

I’ve never had Szell ether.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I’ve never had Szell ether.

Can I just clarify, though - LMP does have a copy of the Szell doesn't he? (It's in his list - used to be at the end before the extra two were added).

So many excellent recordings of this work - I'll just add the Karajan/Mathis/BPO to everyone else's splendid choices. (And urge Alison to seek out the Szell at the earliest convenient opportunity: it's very good, and can only enhance the life of anyone who loves the work.)

[Pulcinella]

I’ve never had Szell ether.

Memory faded here: I must have had the LP when I was a student in Canada in the late 1970s, surely?
Just downloaded from the ether into my Sonos system to listen to later.

Only LPO/Lott/Welser-Möst and two BBC MM recordings on the shelves here.
But the BBC ones are BBCSSO/Valdine Anderson/Ion Marin (vol 9, no 8) and BBCSSO/Carolyn Sampson//Donald Runnicles (vol 25, no 8), not Otaka (who was Mahler 5).

[LeMartinPecheur]

LMP does have a copy of the Szell doesn't he? (It's in his list - used to be at the end before the extra two were added).)

Just confirming I do have the Szell. Not too sure where Bryn was coming from; wondered if it was some bad pun about the reviewer Szelling me another version

Sorry my reply to him was ambiguous Alison. You are still on your own and should immediately follow fhg's exhortation!

[LeMartinPecheur]

[T]he BBC ones are BBCSSO/Valdine Anderson/Ion Marin (vol 9, no 8) and BBCSSO/Carolyn Sampson//Donald Runnicles (vol 25, no 8), not Otaka (who was Mahler 5).

Oops sorry, bad lighting in that corner of the LMP library! I appear not to have kept either of the real BBC MM Mahler 4s

[vinteuil]

(And urge Alison to seek out the Szell at the earliest convenient opportunity: it's very good, and can only enhance the life of anyone who loves the work.)

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Just confirming I do have the Szell. ... Alison. You are still on your own and should immediately follow fhg's exhortation!

... and you can pick it up at a bargain price :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B000026FK5

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[Richard Tarleton]

I bought the Szell as an LP in 1972, replaced by the CD around 20 years ago. Of listed singers, saw it with Margaret Price/LSO/Leinsdorf, also in 1972 (most recently with BBC NOW, Rebecca Evans )

[Alison]

It’s ordered, good steer! From memory I have

VPO/Abbado
BPO/Abbado
Cleveland/Boulez
Concertgebouw/Chailly
RPO/Gatti
LSO/Gergiev
Concertgebouw/Haitink x 4
BRSO/Haitink
BPO/Haitink
Mahler CO/Harding
VPO/Maazel
Philharmonia/Maazel
Philharmonia/Mackerras
Pittsburgh/Previn
BBCSSO/Runnicles
Chicago/Solti
LPO/Tennstedt
LPO/Welser-Most

Charity shop candidates are probably Boulez and Gergiev, though having said that I wouldn’t mind giving Pierre another try!

Favourites are VPO/Abbado, the most recent Concertgebouw /Haitink (Schafer), Mackerras, VPO/Maazel and Tennstedt.

Maybe George Szell will sweep the field!