BaL 22.01.11 - Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

[Nick Armstrong]

To whet your appetite for BaL, here's a snippet from a live performance by the BPO conducted by Miles Malleson, oh I apologise, Semyon Bychkov

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK7z2NhUrsQ

If an important criterion is that the performance should blow your socks off, I have to report that my slippers wind up behind my computer and my socks don't come back to earth for at least 4 hours whenever I watch this clip

Gee wizz, that is a tremendous clip!!! Thanks!

PS I see what you mean about Miles Malleson. Bychkov really has an ideal face for CD, doesn't he....

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Despite already having 11 versions of the work (I can't help it ) Saturdays BAL could well prove expensive.

[gradus]

Thanks amateur51 for posting that BPO excerpt. Wow!! Wish I'd been there.

[Petrushka]

Despite already having 11 versions of the work (I can't help it ) Saturdays BAL could well prove expensive.

I also have 11 versions, EA, but I would think it highly unlikely that the chosen version will be one that neither if us has. I will listen with pleasure on Saturday rather than worrying about the state of my bank balance. This has already been dented after recommendations on here and it's still only January!

[Mr Pee]

the BPO conducted by Miles Malleson

Perhaps I'm showing my age, or alternatively my relative youth, but....who the heck is (or was) Miles Malleson???

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Available versions:

1. Orchestre National de France – Kurt Masur
2. LSO- Haitink
3. Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra – Jansons
4. Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester – Welser-Most
5. Staatskapelle Weimar – Wit
6. Academic Symphony Orchestra of Leningrad – Mravinski
7. E.C. Youth Orchestra –Judd
8. L.A.P.O. – Mehta
9. Orchestre de l’Opera National de Paris – Jordan
10. RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin – Bohm
11. WDR Sinfonieorchester – Bychkov
12. Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra – Janowski
13. RPO – Kempe
14. Staaskapelle Dresden – Sinopoli
15. Deutsches Symphonie-Orchestra Berlin – Nagano
16. Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra – Fruhbeck de Burgos
17. Berlin State Opera Orchestra – Fried
18. RLPO – Schwarz
19. Royal Scottish Nation Orchestra – Jarvi
20. VPO – Previn
21. BPO – Karajan
22. Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra – Solti
23. VPO – Thielmann
24. Bayerisches Staatsorchestet – Strauss
25. Czech Philharmonic Orchestra – Askenazy
26. VPO Mitropoulos
27. Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra – Schuricht
28. Residente Orchestra Den Hague – Jarvi
29. Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra – Mitropoulos
30. Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich – Zinman
31. Staatskapelle Dresden – Kempe
32. VPO - Ozawa

Please add others if there are any:-

33. "Blomstedt's 1990s recording with the San Francisco SO"
34. ?

[Barbirollians]

Kempe in Dresden for me .

[amateur51]

Perhaps I'm showing my age, or alternatively my relative youth, but....who the heck is (or was) Miles Malleson???

Nowt to do with age, Mr Pee ....

http://www.actonians.co.uk/Authers/Miles_Malleson.htm

[Rolmill]

Please add others if there are any.

I have (and like) Blomstedt's 1990s recording with the San Francisco SO - maybe not as exciting as some, but very well played and pretty good recording too. I believe Kazimierz (sp?) Kord also recorded it with the Warsaw PO more recently.

[Nick Armstrong]

Nowt to do with age, Mr Pee ....

http://www.actonians.co.uk/Authers/Miles_Malleson.htm

Note esp his WONDERFUL performance as the hangman in Kind Hearts and Coronets

[BBMmk2]

EA, who's your favourite?

[Richard Tarleton]

Please add others if there are any.

I enjoy an occasional spin of Karajan/BPO's live May 1972 RFH perf. on Testament.

[StephenO]

A difficult choice. Having said that, I've only got three versions - Haitink, Wit and Dresden/Kempe. I suppose, of the three, Haitink is the one I'd least happily be without. And it has the best cover!

[BBMmk2]

Judging a book by it's cover :)

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA, who's your favourite?

RPO/Kempe