BaL 10.03.12 Vaughan Williams' Symphony no. 4 in F minor

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

9:30 Piers Burton Page with a personal recommendation from recordings of Vaughan Williams' Symphony no. 4

Available versions:

Bournemouth SO/Berglund
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
American SO, Leo Botstein
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Adrian Boult
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paul Daniel
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar
Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Roger Norrington (download)
Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Peter Oundjian
London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent (live 1965)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
NBC SO, Leopold Stokowski
London Symphony Orchestra, Bryden Thomson
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Ralph Vaughan Williams

[Roehre]

9:30 Piers Burton Page with a personal recommendation from recordings of Vaughan Williams' Symphony no. 4

Available versions:

Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Paul Daniel
London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Bernard Haitink

I am particularly interested in the choral versions of the work

[Pabmusic]

Here's a few more downloads:

Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Peter Oundjian is available on the TSO
Live label. It's a download from Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...678804&sr=8-20

American SO/Leo Botstein is also available to download: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vaughan-Will...679746&sr=8-38

So is Bournemouth SO/Berglund (to buy or download): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vaughan-Will...0680424&sr=8-1

There's also NBC SO with Stokowski: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B...680603&sr=8-11

There's also a decent recording by del Mar on a BBC MM disc, but I don't have the details with me.

[Pabmusic]

"Bournemouth SO/Berglund" - Have I got that wrong? Is this your RPO/Berglund on EMI? I can't check it at present.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Thank you for the updates. I'll add them when I get home from work. (It's rather tiresome doing it on a phone.)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

"Bournemouth SO/Berglund" - Have I got that wrong? Is this your RPO/Berglund on EMI? I can't check it at present.

I got it from here:

[Pabmusic]

I got it from here:

Yes, I was wrong, it is the RPO - we're thinking of the same one. Thank you.

[BBMmk2]

I used to have the Previn on vynl.

I do hope that either Sir Andrew Davis or Vernon handley get in the running.

[LeMartinPecheur]

This looks like a BaL that I can listen to just 'to enjoy the game'. With the BBCSO/VW, the standard Decca and EMI Boults and the Handley, plus a BBCMM with Del Mar already on my shelves, I'll be surprised if PB-P manages to sell me another one.

But if he does he does! (Finances always permitting)

[EdgeleyRob]

Some wonderful recordings listed there of a truly great masterpiece.
The Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar, is an interesting one.I wasn't aware of it until reading a review in the latest RVW society journal which arrived only yesterday!
Does anyone know this one ? (interesting couplings).

http://www.pentatonemusic.com/pags/5186393/5186393.htm

[Alf-Prufrock]

The Oregon Symphony, Carlos Kalmar

I read that as the Oregon Symphony conducted by Carlos Kleiber! What a leap my heart gave! And of course, what a thud when I realised!

But wouldn't it have been wonderful if Kleiber had conducted Vaughan Williams 4? Or indeed, any British work. (I am now waiting for members to produce for me a long list of British works that Kleiber conducted and recorded !!!)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

But wouldn't it have been wonderful if Kleiber had conducted Vaughan Williams 4? Or indeed, any British work. (I am now waiting for members to produce for me a long list of British works that Kleiber conducted and recorded !!!)

Can't, alas, oblige with "a long list", but this might give a glimpse of what might have been:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pEwhe-3GXU

[Pabmusic]

Can't, alas, oblige with "a long list", but this might give a glimpse of what might have been:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pEwhe-3GXU

The recording is live, from a concert with the Chicago SO on 2 June 1983. The full programme was:

George Butterworth: English Idyll No.1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 33 in B-flat major, K319
Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73

[Parry1912]

Looking forward to this one. I've got Boult (EMI), Previn, Handley and Haitink but I don't think any of them is 100% successful.

[verismissimo]

I only have the remarkable recording of Mitropoulos with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York (note to Eine Alpen).

It's on an ancient ten-inch LP with a wonderful photo-portrait of VW on the cover.