BaL 18.01.20 - Beethoven: Symphony no. 1 in C, Op.21

[Lordgeous]

Ah Walthamstow, venue for many wonderful recordings. Still lamenting the loss of Kingsway Hall. Didm't the major record companies club together to try and save it - unsuccessfully of course?

[Wolfram]

Just for the record, I couldn't bring myself to cut and paste the spiel on the BBC website.

OMG! I've just read it. "Chippy 29 year old.....grizzled maestros.....best Haydn" - it's truely awful. About as cool as dad dancing, and just as embarrassing.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

OMG! I've just read it. "Chippy 29 year old.....grizzled maestros.....best Haydn" - it's truely awful. About as cool as dad dancing, and just as embarrassing.

I'm glad it isn't just me.

[cloughie]

This is the recording I bought in order to get to know the work, when it was an O-level set work in 1966. I regretted the fact that the acoustic was so dry, when compared with the recording at school. It was only later, when I bought the Schmidt-Issestedt issue when it first appeared, that I was happy with the sound.

I think at the time I had a 2nd hand copy of the DGG Jochum c/w the 8th. Still a great interpretation of the work in the CD box now!

[Alison]

Mackerras for me. Very satisfying timpani.
One of LvB’s best last movements!

[Bryn]

Mackerras for me. Very satisfying timpani.
One of LvB’s best last movements!

RLPO or SCO?

[Alison]

rlpo or sco?

sco

[Alison]

I have got the RLPO set which I haven’t sampled for years.

[Pulcinella]

This is the recording I bought in order to get to know the work, when it was an O-level set work in 1966. I regretted the fact that the acoustic was so dry, when compared with the recording at school. It was only later, when I bought the Schmidt-Issestedt issue when it first appeared, that I was happy with the sound.

NUJMB, with the Holberg Suite and the Baal Sequence from Elijah as the other two!
Don't remember which recording we were played.
But I do remember not recognising the quote in the exam paper (it was from the Introduction), so I answered questions on the other pieces instead.
Those were the days, eh?

[gurnemanz]

Prompted by this thread to listen to three today.

Konwitschny/Gewandhaus 1963 -old school and good

Klemperer/Philharmonia - live on tour in Vienna in 1960 (favourite so far)

Norrington/LCP 1988 (still a favourite 30 years on)

[pastoralguy]

sco

I was supposed to play on that but I contracted chicken pox!

[Bryn]

I was supposed to play on that but I contracted chicken pox!

Ah, so you chickened out, eh?

[Alison]

I was supposed to play on that but I contracted chicken pox!

How disappointing. One of my favourite bands.

[richardfinegold]

It's just a lovely thing. I owe my enjoyment of it to the LSO under Krips, a performance that is as charming as it is sprightly.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

NUJMB, with the Holberg Suite and the Baal Sequence from Elijah as the other two!
Don't remember which recording we were played.
But I do remember not recognising the quote in the exam paper (it was from the Introduction), so I answered questions on the other pieces instead.
Those were the days, eh?

The Holberg Suite, yes, but definitely not Elijah. The third set work was a hybrid Mozart piano sonatas with two K numbers.