1 + 1 + 1 = Dream Ticket?

[Beef Oven!]

Thinking of great orchestral works, excellent orchestras and top flight conductors, and what might have been!

Recordings.

Never happened ......

...... or never will.

Here’s a few:


DSCH 10 + New York Philharmonic + Pierre Boulez

Sibelius 3 + BPO + Herbert von Karajan

Bartok Concerto for Orchestra + Les Siècles + François-Xavier Roth

Peter Maxwell Davies Symphony #1 + BBC Symphony Orchestra + Andrew Manze

Robert Simpson 9 + BPO + Simon Rattle



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[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Elgar: Symphony no. 1 - VPO/Mahler

[Beef Oven!]

Elgar: Symphony no. 1 - VPO/Mahler

Wow! I hadn’t braved thoughts like that!

[Warlock]

Bach:Saint Matthew Passion:BPO/Barbirolli

[pastoralguy]

Elgar conducting his Violin Concerto with Kreisler as soloist as well as his Introduction and Allegro.

[pastoralguy]

Sibelius conducting his Symphonies.

[pastoralguy]

I believe Karajan was interested in conducting Walton 1 and DSCH 8 mit Der Berliner Philharmoniker. Alas, he was too preoccupied re-re-re recording the same repertoire.

[Beef Oven!]

I believe Karajan was interested in conducting Walton 1 and DSCH 8 mit Der Berliner Philharmoniker. Alas, he was too preoccupied re-re-re recording the same repertoire.

DSCH 8 would’ve been interesting (well, the Walton too, I suppose).

[Petrushka]

Walton 1/Sir Georg Solti
Mahler 1, 2, 3, 7 & 8/Herbert von Karajan
Sibelius 3/Herbert von Karajan

Most of all, though, Haydn & Mozart symphonies from Bernard Haitink. It seems astonishing that there are only two Haydn symphonies from him and no Mozart at all apart from a live Prague with the Dresden Staatskapelle. He performs them often, and to great effect, but it is a complete mystery to me why there are so few recordings. There's plenty in various radio archives, of course, and no doubt some will appear in due course, but someone needs to get a move on if he is ever going to set down any commercial recordings.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I believe Karajan was interested in conducting Walton 1 and DSCH 8 mit Der Berliner Philharmoniker. Alas, he was too preoccupied re-re-re recording the same repertoire.

Well, his third recording of the Bruckner #8 (and his fifth of the Beethoven #7, for that matter) is to be more treasured if his cuts in the Walton had been incorporated!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBVXLubqBHg

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

How about Karajan + Rostropovich + BPO = Elgar 'cello Concerto?

[pastoralguy]

How about Karajan + Rostropovich + BPO = Elgar 'cello Concerto?

Now that would have been interesting! However, I believe Rostropovich was reluctant to play the Elgar since, iirc, he felt du Pre had said the last word on the piece.

Karajan doing Elgar would have been very interesting. The Introduction and Allegro with the Berlin Phil's strings...

[Petrushka]

Now that would have been interesting! However, I believe Rostropovich was reluctant to play the Elgar since, iirc, he felt du Pre had said the last word on the piece.

Karajan doing Elgar would have been very interesting. The Introduction and Allegro with the Berlin Phil's strings...

I think I'm right in saying that Karajan expressed an interest in the Elgar 2 and went as far as to look at the score but, alas, nothing came of it.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I think I'm right in saying that Karajan expressed an interest in the Elgar 2 and went as far as to look at the score but, alas, nothing came of it.

Yes - around the time he was preparing the Nielsen #4, he had copies of both Symphonies and other Elgar scores sent to him for study. He returned all of them fairly quickly, except for the Second which interested him most - but then either decided that it wasn't for him, or time ran out for him. An intriguing "might-have-been" (and how about Karajan + Anne-Sophie Mutter + BPO = Elgar Violin Concerto?)

There's Solti and D o G, too, of course ...

[BBMmk2]

Bruckner Symphony no.8/Gustav Mahler/NYPO.