BaL 16.02.13 - Mahler's 6th Symphony in A minor

[verismissimo]

Wonderful list EA - bravo!

Please may I add Stockholm PO/Horenstein (live 1966)

That's the one I've got out, am. Maybe Bernstein later.

[amateur51]

That's the one I've got out, am. Maybe Bernstein later.

I think the Horenstein/Stockholm set gets the tempi judged pretty near perfectly, verismissimo

[teamsaint]

Can anybody claim to have had all the versions of any work on BaL , as per EA's lists?

What I mean of course, is "has anybody got all the versions.....?" any fool can claim to !!

[Alison]

I've got 20 versions so don't even come close.

[Petrushka]

Can anybody claim to have had all the versions of any work on BaL , as per EA's lists?

What I mean of course, is "has anybody got all the versions.....?" any fool can claim to !!

Of those on EA's list I have 30! Plus one or two not included so have 34 in total.

Any advance on 34?

[EdgeleyRob]

Only 3 here

[Petrushka]

Only 3 here

Let's face it, ER, out of my 34 a good proportion of them are likely to be also-rans in the BaL Stakes. You might have the first three home!

[teamsaint]

Of those on EA's list I have 30! Plus one or two not included so have 34 in total.

Any advance on 34?

you (and a few others round here) must be brilliant at putting shelves up.

[Petrushka]

you (and a few others round here) must be brilliant at putting shelves up.

You wouldn't say that if you came round here! I'm hopelessly impractical so what I've got is ready assembled. Either that or CD's are piled up in every available bit of floor space!

[EdgeleyRob]

Let's face it, ER, out of my 34 a good proportion of them are likely to be also-rans in the BaL Stakes. You might have the first three home!

Cards on the table then.

VPO Bernstein (complete set).
VPO Boulez.
BPO Karajan.

[teamsaint]

You wouldn't say that if you came round here! I'm hopelessly impractical so what I've got is ready assembled. Either that or CD's are piled up in every available bit of floor space!

sounds alright to me !!

[Petrushka]

Cards on the table then.

VPO Bernstein (complete set).
VPO Boulez.
BPO Karajan.

All three of those are indeed excellent and I would not be at all surprised of one of them romps home by several lengths. If I had just those three I doubt if I'd need another.

[EdgeleyRob]

All three of those are indeed excellent and I would not be at all surprised of one if them romps home by several lengths. If I had just those three I doubt if I'd need another.

We need Alison to open a book

[teamsaint]

We need Alison to open a book

get your 3 in a tricast, and you would be looking at a nice return !!

[LeMartinPecheur]

I can field the EMI NPO/Barbirolli and the Stockholm Horenstein on LP, plus the BPO/Barbirolli, the Szell and a Mackerras (BBC MM) on CD. Plus Bertini-in-a-box.

Am interested by am51's comment that Horenstein gets the tempi 'pretty near perfectly'. I bought that set after ecstatic reviews in the Gramophone (Derek Cooke?) but was pretty disappointed with it after getting to know the work via the NPO/Barbirolli. If B's 'heroic trudge' in the first mov't is wrong I still want more of it!

Other faster performances I've got used to since, so maybe I ought to give H another spin. I'm not usually wedded to 'the 1st recorded performance I ever bought' but M6 is definitely a big exception!