BaL 29.10.11 Dvorak's Symphony no. 8

[Chris Newman]

Only en passant, when listing a huge litany of unavailable recordings towards the end, when he mystifyingly included a reference to Giulini in Los Angeles, when I think he meant to say Chicago....

Enjoy the glow, Caliban!

K.

I am sure you are correct. I am not aware of a Los Angeles recording. I have Giulini's LPO account which comes with with Nos 7 and 9 and his 1963 Prom with the Philharmonia. Both are wonderfully warm.

[Karafan]

Bruno Walter with the CSO is very good, if you can find a copy. There are some used ones, and maybe even a few new ones if you look around. Not sure if this was one which Sony reissued as an SACD (probably only SACD) bit it might be. There are high prices, but some much more affordable ones if you look around.

Don't think it was Dave - I think I got all the Sony Walter SACDs that were issued and I don't recall this ever making it onto that format. I dug out my standard RBCD copy as a result of this exchange and played it only last night. The sound from 1961 beats that for Colin Davis in the Barbican! And the interpretation is finer, too, in my opinion. Walter really brings a delightful Czech lilt to the piece. (And while I know the LSO disc is cheap, no fill up and a disc lasting 39' is a bit cheeky! Tsk, tsk....)

[Barbirollians]

Heard the VPO/Karajan today coupled with his VPO Brahms 3 - very good if a little Rolls Royce like .

[BBMmk2]

The school orchestra played this last Academic Year(Michaelmas Term) not a bad job, either!

[Alison]

I still can't see or hear why LSO/Davis won this blinding BaL!!! A strange one.

[Barbirollians]

I have come across ,after reading Tom Service's very enthusiastic recommendation in the Guardian , the live Bruno Walter recording in New York from Feb 1948 - it is on Amazon Prime and I have it on a Music and Arts CD . Allowances have to be made for the sound but it is a thriller of an account . Pins one back by the ears.