BaL 1.03.14 - Beethoven Symphony no. 7 in A

[Tony Halstead]

Did Antonia de Sancha work there then ?

[EdgeleyRob]

And don't forget Rare Records Ltd.

Of course.
I think the Piccadilly shop was Marshall's Records ?? or I may have imagined it !

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Yes, I think it was Marshalls.

[verismissimo]

I don't have those three but I do have two of the three Toscanini recordings in Alpie's list:

BBC SO, Arturo Toscanini (1935)
NY Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini (1936)

which I shall enjoy revisiting this coming week.

I've been listening to the 1936 Toscanini and the 1941 Karajan (with the Staatskapelle Berlin) and have been surprised by their extensive similarities, amongst these the lightness and swiftness of phrasing and attack.

[Karafan]

C Kleiber's VPO 7 would be a safe and excellent choice though. I have a soft spot for the Philharmonia/Ashkenazy and the RPO/Davis too , also the experimental stereo Klemperer .

For me, Barbs, I can't think of Carlos K. in the seventh without forming a mental image of him conducting the Concertgebouw - he is at the very apex of his powers and he directs them so wonderfully (and with such evident and unbridled joy!) - it is a real treat for anyone who has not seen it! (The fourth ain't too shabby, either!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3-jlAamGCE

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Another excellent version is Colin Davis's RPO recording fron the early 1960s. This was my first ever version, bought with the record token - first prize in the school Christmas Carol competition. I've never won a composing competition since that day in 1963.

[Barbirollians]

Another excellent version is Colin Davis's RPO recording fron the early 1960s. This was my first ever version, bought with the record token - first prize in the school Christmas Carol competition. I've never won a composing competition since that day in 1963.

Yes now available in the Davis ICON box . I don't know if there are any copies of the Forte reissue knocking around where it is coupled with a cracking Schubert 9 from Szell

[Bryn]

Yes now available in the Davis ICON box . I don't know if there are any copies of the Forte reissue knocking around where it is coupled with a cracking Schubert 9 from Szell

I first had it in its World Record Club LP guise, and was glad to find it included in the Icon box.

[cloughie]

I first had it in its World Record Club LP guise, and was glad to find it included in the Icon box.

Bryn - That ICON box of early Colin Davis is excellent - I like the Siegfried Idyll and the Mozart Syms - I think the Beethoven 7 was on HMV Concert Classics SXLP20038 - the LSO Krips was on WRC!

[Bryn]

Bryn - That ICON box of early Colin Davis is excellent - I like the Siegfried Idyll and the Mozart Syms - I think the Beethoven 7 was on HMV Concert Classics SXLP20038 - the LSO Krips was on WRC!

Thanks for the correction. Yes, with the Fidelio Overture and Brahms St Anthony Variations. All so long ago. I got the Icon box when it came out.

[richardfinegold]

Another excellent version is Colin Davis's RPO recording fron the early 1960s. This was my first ever version, bought with the record token - first prize in the school Christmas Carol competition. I've never won a composing competition since that day in 1963.

Well, those lists that you compose for the BALs have to be worth some kind of award.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Well, those lists that you compose for the BALs have to be worth some kind of award.

That's very kind of you, but I long for the day when they choose something like Elgar's King Olaf.

[Karafan]

That's very kind of you, but I long for the day when they choose something like Elgar's King Olaf.

Brilliant, Alpie!

[Prommer]

Re Kleiber 7th's, there's more so try this one for size:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19L5lqpmM2w

As it is a video and recorded live in 1986, with the Bavarian State Opera Orchestra, it is an interesting companion piece to the Concertgebouw performance that Karafan directed us to. The other movements are there, plus LVB 4 and two Strauss encores, if you get carried away.

Not issued on any label, just a television broadcast, so it won't be in contention re BAL.

Interestingly, despite his 'ownership' of the piece in many ways, it was Kleiber's conducting of the LSO (deputising for Karl Bohm) in the 7th on 9th June 1981 which drew the critics' ire, and led to his abandoning the concert stage in London for ever (though he returned to the ROH).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Listen to the programme at this very moment - what an obnoxious, pig-headed, narrow-minded, priggish, self-opinionated…