BaL 4.02.12 - Rachmaninov's Symphony no. 2 in E minor

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

9.30 Building a Library: William Mival with a personal recommendation from recordings of Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2 in E minor

Available versions:


Ireland National Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Anissimov
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy
The Oregon Symphony, James DePreist
The Philadelphia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit
Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iván Fischer
Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Sir Alexander Gibson
WDR Sinfonieorchester, Hans Hadulla
Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Sevilla, Pedro Halffter
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
Philharmonia Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Mariss Jansons
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi
Mansurian Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Kantschieder
Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra, Arnold Kats
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Paul Kletzki
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Pavel Kogan
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Jesús López-Cobos
Berliner Philharmoniker, Lorin Maazel
The Standard Symphony Orchestra (San Francisco), Pierre Monteux
BBC Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka
Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev
Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Valeri Polyansky
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andre Previn
London Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Orchestre National de Bordeaux Aquitaine, Kwamé Ryan
Philharmonia Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling
Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui
Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Pavel Soroki
Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg
SR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeni Svetlanov
Rotterdam Philharmonic, Edo de Waart
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Weller
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman

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London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton


[Arranged as Piano Concerto, by Alexander Warenberg.
Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy, Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra, Theodore Kuchar]


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Mariinsky Orchestra and choir, Valery Gergiev
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle (DVD/Blu Ray)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Sorry about the confusion earlier. I'm looking forward to this one.

[cloughie]

9.30 Building a Library: William Mival with a personal recommendation from recordings of Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2 in E minor

Available versions:



Cleveland Orchestra, Andre Previn

Don't know this one - any clues?

[amateur51]

9.30 Building a Library: William Mival with a personal recommendation from recordings of Rachmaninov's Symphony No 2 in E minor

I don't expect to be popular but there's another performance in the William Steinberg Icon box

http://www.amazon.co.uk/William-Steinberg-ICON/dp/B005AAVFG8/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1327684025&sr=1-1

[PJPJ]

Cleveland Orchestra, Andre Previn

Don't know this one - any clues?

Previn recorded the Second for RCA with the LSO before the EMI recording. Is this the one you mean, EA?

[BBMmk2]

Ah, the EMi, that the one I have, plus Andrew Litton and Vladimir Ashkenazy. The Ashkenazy is the Decca recording he made. Has the Litton been deleated?

[Mr Pee]

The recent recording from Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra is certainly well worthy of the top recommendation.

[Ferretfancy]

I also have a Mercury recording by the Detroit So and Paray, but it's heavily cut.

[gurnemanz]

I came very late to appreciating this work. We heard a good performance in 2010 with Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia at the Anvil, Basingstoke - our first visit to that venue with its superb acoustics.
I now have two recordings: both LSO with André Previn and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky and I would need a lot of convincing to get another one.

[Petrushka]

I have LSO/Previn, LSO/Rozhdestvensky, Russian Nat Orch/Pletnev, Concertgebouw/Ashkenazy, St Petersburg PO/Jansons and RPO/Temirkanov on my shelves as well as the BBCPO/Downes on a BBCMM CD. There was a time, especially in my 20's and 30's when I had a bit of an obsession with this work but haven't heard it for several years now.

Cherished live performances in the 1970's/1980's came from LSO/Previn, Concertgebouw/Kondrashin (the only time I saw him) and Philharmonia/Ashkenazy.

For me, the EMI LSO/Previn wins hands down. The sheer electricity and burning passion leaps off the page and out of the speakers like no other version.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Don't know this one - any clues?

The "Cleveland/Previn" version appears to be an error on the Presto website which I didn't check. It's actually the RPO version. Thanks for pointing this out.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I don't expect to be popular but there's another performance in the William Steinberg Icon box

http://www.amazon.co.uk/William-Stei...7684025&sr=1-1

Many thanks. Duly added to the growing list.

[Mr Pee]

For me, the EMI LSO/Previn wins hands down. The sheer electricity and burning passion leaps off the page and out of the speakers like no other version.

I agree, that's a fantastic performance, and I'm not sure that Jack Brymer's rendition of the slow movement clarinet solo has ever been bettered. But Ivan Fischer/BFO runs it pretty close I think, and in a superb modern recording as well.

This new recording of the 3rd Symphony sounds well worth a listen as well :-

http://www.theartsdesk.com/classical-music/classical-cds-weekly-handel-rachmaninov-andy-findon

[Pabmusic]

There is of course this, from the mid-50s (so I guess it was one of the first recordings): http://www.soundstagedirect.com/sir-...vinyl-lp.shtml

The interpretation is fine, of course, but the LPO wasn't at its best, which does show. It seems to me to be complete (ie: without cuts) but I haven't followed it through with a score.

[PJPJ]

There is of course this, from the mid-50s (so I guess it was one of the first recordings): http://www.soundstagedirect.com/sir-...vinyl-lp.shtml

The interpretation is fine, of course, but the LPO wasn't at its best, which does show. It seems to me to be complete (ie: without cuts) but I haven't followed it through with a score.

One of my favourites! I don't think it's complete - the usual cuts with a playing time of around 49 minutes?