Our Summer BAL 42: Manfred Symphony

[teamsaint]

can I suggest the Manfred Symphony ?

[verismissimo]

can I suggest the Manfred Symphony ?

Can't see that it's been done in recent times. Go for it, ts!

[antongould]

Can't see that it's been done in recent times. Go for it, ts!

Available versions can be a cut and paste job from Apple Music

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

can I suggest the Manfred Symphony ?

It seems you have done.

Haitink for structural control, Muti for passion and noise, and Ondrej Lenard (on NAXOS) for a superb bargain - a really good performance and recording, I think.

I also have the Pletnev - doesn't really stir the beans for me.

[visualnickmos]

It seems you have done.

Haitink for structural control, Muti for passion and noise, and Ondrej Lenard (on NAXOS) for a superb bargain - a really good performance and recording, I think.

I also have the Pletnev - doesn't really stir the beans for me.

This is a real stunner! One of the best bargains I've ever found... Another one I love is Maazel's recording.

[Petrushka]

This is a real stunner! One of the best bargains I've ever found... Another one I love is Maazel's recording.

Oh dear, surveying my shelves I do seem to have rather a lot of Manfreds. Jansons, Chailly, Haitink, Muti, Previn, Pletnev, Petrenko (Vassily), Jurowski and Maazel.

Muti and Previn are both superb as are Maazel and Jurowski. All four are winners in my view but love the earth-shaking timpani in the Muti. Perversely, probably the best Manfreds I've heard were live concerts on R3 and both with Ashkenazy and the Philharmonia.

[Alison]

I've always had a soft spot for LPO/Rostropovich, slow, poised and detailed. A thrilling end to (i) in particular.

[Petrushka]

I've always had a soft spot for LPO/Rostropovich, slow, poised and detailed. A thrilling end to (i) in particular.

I had that on cassette long, long ago but for some reason never got it on LP or CD.

[verismissimo]

Our Summer BAL 42: Manfred Symphony

Please could one of our revered leaders transfer the posts (from No 6 on the Our Summer BALs 2015 thread) relating to the Manfred to here. Thanks.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Will do so asap, as soon as I get home. It's a bit tricky trying to do this particular operation on a phone.

[BBMmk2]

I have Jansons, Nilsons and Litton. Nilsons does it for me here.

[cloughie]

I can't guarantee that this is the complete catalogue or that they are all still available but this might be a useful starter list:

USO Abravanel
LSO Ahronovitch
PO Ashkenazy
CAO Chailly
LSO Goossens
CAO Haitink
OPO Jansons
LPO Jurowski
GurnewitzO Kitajenko
PO Kletzki
RPO Koizumi
CSRSO Lenard
IndianapolisSO Leppard
BoSO Litton
VPO Maazel
LSO Markevitch
LGO Masur
PO Muti
CBSO Nelsons
PhO Ormandy
RLPO Petrenko
RNO Pletnev
LSO Previn
LPO Rostropovich
USSRRTVO Rozhdestvensky
BudPO Saccani
FNRO Silvestri
BoSO Silvestri
LSO Simonov
BPO Svetlanov
USSRSO Svetlanov
LAPO Tilson-Thomas
NBCSO Toscanini

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Posts now merged.

[verismissimo]

Posts now merged.

Many thanks, Alpie. And also thanks to cloughie for a fab list.

This is a work I've always struggled with - and I'm not sure why. I'll try again - with LPO/Jurowski...

[Hornspieler]

My first "encounter" with Manfred was in 1956 with Sir Thomas Beecham and the RPO.
He made several cuts in the last movement, which in hindsight I can quite agree with - as did the orchestra with a shuffling of feet in the first rehearsal.

For me, the benchmark is defined by the woodwind playing in the scherzo and that quartet of Gerald Jackson, Terry MacDonagh, Jack Brymer and Gwydion Brooke was quite superb.

Never recorded, as far as I am aware.

HS