Our Summer BAL 16: Berlioz Harold in Italy

[verismissimo]

Time for a re-run for me. I've had Lincer/NYPO/Bernstein and Imai/LSO/Davis for years.

What might refresh the palate?

[Richard Tarleton]

Time for a re-run for me. I've had Lincer/NYPO/Bernstein and Imai/LSO/Davis for years.

What might refresh the palate?

I started in late 60s with Menuhin/Davis. I now have Gérard Caussé/JEG/OrchR&R which is pretty good with the added bite of the HIPP performance. Coupled with Tristia op 18.

[verismissimo]

I now have Gérard Caussé/JEG/OrchR&R which is pretty good with the added bite of the HIPP performance. Coupled with Tristia op 18.

Think I'm too prejudiced against JEG to risk that one, RT.

[vinteuil]

I have the Davis; my current preference wd be the Eliahu Inbal/RSO Frankfurt with Yuri Bashmet, viola.

It's in the very good Brilliant box of 11 CDs, "Berlioz Edition", with Inbal and the Frankfurters. My current most regularly used Berlioz.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

my current preference wd be the Eliahu Inbal/RSO Frankfurt with Yuri Bashmet, viola.

It's in the very good Brilliant box of 11 CDs, "Berlioz Edition", with Inbal and the Frankfurters. My current most regularly used Berlioz.

Mine, too.

(By the way, veri; I, too, am generally a Jegosceptic, but do find him excellent in Debussy and Berlioz. His Harold is very good, well worth a sampling. )

[vinteuil]

I now have Gérard Caussé/JEG/OrchR&R which is pretty good with the added bite of the HIPP performance. Coupled with Tristia op 18.

... thanks for the hint. I see it might be available on amazon for a fiver. I ca'n't not investigate...

[Don Petter]

For my usual oldie's choice I would propose Primrose/Beecham. (And there is an interesting Riddle/Beecham on BBC Legends.)

[Barbirollians]

I have the Davis; my current preference wd be the Eliahu Inbal/RSO Frankfurt with Yuri Bashmet, viola.

It's in the very good Brilliant box of 11 CDs, "Berlioz Edition", with Inbal and the Frankfurters. My current most regularly used Berlioz.

Which Davis though ? There are three at least - Menuhin, Imai and the LSO Live one .

[verismissimo]

Anyone heard Primrose/NBC/Toscanini?

[Thomas Roth]

This is fantastic:

Antoine Tamestit (viola)
Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble/Marc Minkowski
rec. April 2011, Opéra Royal de Versailles
NAÏVE V 5266

[BBMmk2]

Which Davis though ? There are three at least - Menuhin, Imai and the LSO Live one .

I amrather fortunate enough to have the box set of the Berlioz Edition du Bicentenniere, which amiongst others, has a really good [erfoprmance opf Nobuko Imai plkaying haeold in Italy. Well worth acquiimng the whole box if you can!

[Barbirollians]

This one rather died a death but I am a firm fan of the old Menuhin/Davis from 1962 although I enjoyed his LSO Live version too .

I do not have the Primrose /Toscanini but his recording with Koussevitsky is pretty special .

[Don Petter]

Primrose/Beecham has always been special for me.

[umslopogaas]

Well, well ... I didnt know I had this many. All on LP:

Pretre and the LSO with Trampler
Davis and the Philharmonia with Menuhin
Bernstein and orch. Nat. de France with McInnes
Mehta and the Israel P.O. with Benyamini
Maazel and the Cleveland O. with Vernon
Markevitch and the Berlin P.O. with Kirchner (mono)
Davis and the LSO with Imai

Its so long since I played any of them that I wouldnt really like to pick a favourite, but Davis and Menuhin must be a classic.

[richardfinegold]

Anyone heard Primrose/NBC/Toscanini?

That was my first into to the piece, but not for 40 years or so. Koussevitsky and Boston is my favorite historical recording.
I am forgetting the violist at present, but I think it was Trampler