With respect, I beg to differ...

[Serial_Apologist]

Which of the three? All of them?

Whichever one it is, it must surely be the one that prompted Dudley Moore's "Little Miss Britten" skit in "Beyond the Fringe".

[Serial_Apologist]

My pet hate would be the 1960s Solti coupling of Bartok's Music for Strings, Celesta etc with the Miraculous Mandarin Suite

[Zucchini]

Totally agree re:
Everything Ferrier
Hewitt zzz Bach
Horrible slushy Du Pre everything

[visualnickmos]

I can't stand the famous recording of the Elgar cello concerto
I'm not 100% sure that it's the playing OR the whole narrative around it
and it's NOT that I hate her playing OR Elgars music (though he did set some terrible poetry at times ) but it just comes over as overblown and indulgent


(hides behind sofa)

Slightly off-topic, so I'll keep this very brief; Her not-so-famous recording with her husband is (IMVVHO) far more piquant - NOT in the least 'slushy'. I know exactly what you mean; you may well totally disagree..... I thought it was worth mentioning, that's all.

Apologies for veering off-road !

[MrGongGong]

Slightly off-topic, so I'll keep this very brief; Her not-so-famous recording with her husband is (IMVVHO) far more piquant - NOT in the least 'slushy'. I know exactly what you mean; you may well totally disagree..... I thought it was worth mentioning, that's all.

Apologies for veering off-road !

Thanks for that
I'll check it out

Would be good to hear it

[johnb]

I enjoy her live recording with Barbirolli and the BBC SO on tour in Prague - available on Testament.

[hmvman]

Dorati's Haydn symphonies.

Anything by Maria Callas.

[cloughie]

Thanks for that
I'll check it out

Would be good to hear it

For me after many years of really liking the work and particularly the duPre/Barbirolli, but also Navarra/Barbirolli and Fournier/Szell among others, through over-exposure I have fallen out of love with it.

[cloughie]

Dorati's Haydn symphonies.

Anything by Maria Callas.

Love Dorati’s Haydn but I’m with you all the way with Callas!

[LMcD]

Which of the three? All of them?

Well, I certainly didn't enjoy the recording which Martin Handley played this morning - Brain/Pears/Boyd Neel String Orchestra.
For me. nobody can equal Robert Tear's recording with Alan Civil and the Northern Sinfonia under Sir Neville Marriner.

[Barbirollians]

Rather than comment on many of the bizarre choices on this thread

I shall just add one of my own F X Roth’s wildly over praised recording of the Symphonie Fantastique the instruments sound great but the performance is episodic and dull.

[Nick Armstrong]

Beethoven variation works for piano (yes, including the Diabelli)

[LMcD]

Beethoven variation works for piano (yes, including the Diabelli)

As it happens, today's streamed Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concert included a delightful set of variations on a theme by Count Waldstein!

[Nick Armstrong]

As it happens, today's streamed Wigmore Hall Lunchtime Concert included a delightful set of variations on a theme by Count Waldstein!

That’s what reminded me!

[Darkbloom]

I find the Carlos Kleiber Beethoven 5 and 7 the least interesting of his studio recordings and not a patch on the live recordings available. I keep returning to them expecting to change my mind, but they never grab me. I can't point to anything wrong with them, but I have never understood why they are routinely praised so highly. It actually bothers me a bit because I think I must be missing something that others are able to hear.