The Recordings of Andre Previn

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I would place him as one of the top musicians of all time.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

I hope there'll be another box with the early jazz recordings.

That would be a good idea - there are a couple of such boxes available, but not necessarily from the best remasterings (or, indeed, any "remastering" at all).

It'd be nice to have a Teldec box of his recording for them - some works he hadn't recorded before (a rather superb Brahms Requiem high in my affections) and many re-recordings that got rather a lukewarm response when they first appeared (the RVW London, the Walton First, for example). It'd be interesting to see how they stand up now.

[Barbirollians]

Can I add Prokofiev VCs with both KWC and Shaham.
Dvorak Cello Concerto with Tortelier
Mendelssohn and Bruch VCs with Perlman
VW Symphonies
Rachmaninov 3 and Shostakovich 6
Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Walton and Stravinsky VCs with KWC
Tchaikovsky Swan Lake with Ida H playing the violin solos. What I would give for a recording of those two in the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

To gurnemanz's list- just for starters

[cloughie]

That would be a good idea - there are a couple of such boxes available, but not necessarily from the best remasterings (or, indeed, any "remastering" at all).

It'd be nice to have a Teldec box of his recording for them - some works he hadn't recorded before (a rather superb Brahms Requiem high in my affections) and many re-recordings that got rather a lukewarm response when they first appeared (the RVW London, the Walton First, for example). It'd be interesting to see how they stand up now.

For Teldec read Telarc, ferney! His Richard Strauss recordings are excellent including the wonderful Arleen Auger in the Four Last Songs. Also his Rach S2 with the RPO, whilst not replacing his HMV LSO at the top of the pile, is very good, and in fact one of the first CDs I ever acquired. I also recently bought a great example of his piano playing in ensemble - the coupling of Mozart and Beethoven P&W Quintets with the Vienna Wind Ens.

[AmpH]

Another vote from me for the 4 Richard Strauss Telarc CD's, especially Don Juan and Zarathrustra which are particularly good.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

For Teldec read Telarc, ferney!

- I checked the Brahms Requiem and that was Teldec, so presumed ...

... his Rach S2 with the RPO, whilst not replacing his HMV LSO at the top of the pile, is very good ...

Yes - this is what I was thinking: when they were first released, on full-priced CDs, judgement tended to be severe in that they were expensive, and weren't as good as his earlier versions of the same works. The reputation got rather simplified into "not worth having" - which I'm sure cannot be correct. A super-bargain boxed set would result in much fairer, and more favourable, comments.

(And "the wonderful Areleen Auger" - )

[cloughie]

- I checked the Brahms Requiem and that was Teldec, so presumed ...


Yes - this is what I was thinking: when they were first released, on full-priced CDs, judgement tended to be severe in that they were expensive, and weren't as good as his earlier versions of the same works. The reputation got rather simplified into "not worth having" - which I'm sure cannot be correct. A super-bargain boxed set would result in much fairer, and more favourable, comments.

(And "the wonderful Areleen Auger" - )

I omitted to mention that Telarc recordings were well engineered with outstanding sound quality.

[Barbirollians]

His best R Strauss recording, however , IMHO is his VPO Metamorphosen coupled with the Sonatina No1 for winds.

[BBMmk2]

His best R Strauss recording, however , IMHO is his VPO Metamorphosen coupled with the Sonatina No1 for winds.

Loved his Richard Strauss! I will seek it out!

[bluestateprommer]

This is the earlier thread that I'd wanted to find and revive, in light of yesterday, so my bad there. (This could be a candidate for merger with the 'Andre Previn at 90' thread.) In this light, this quote from David Patrick Stearns' Grauniad obit seems very a propos:

"His London Symphony recordings are often his best, and they are numerous, thanks to such a congenial relationship with EMI that he could phone the company to say that a certain concert was shaping up unusually well, and have a recording team on hand by the end of the week."

One wonders if that same congenial relationship was present also with RCA, since Previn's LSO discography is well represented on both labels, though mainly on EMI between the two, it seems. Other terrific recordings from Previn that I remember from the radio and such include:
* The Planets with the LSO
* Walton 2 / Lambert: The Rio Grande
* Rachmaninov Piano Concertos with Ashkenazy
* Debussy: Images

There are many, many more, of course.

[visualnickmos]

Favourite Andre Previn recordings

If I am forced to pick only one, it would be Rachmaninov's second symphony, with the London Symphony Orchestra.

[Pulcinella]

If I am forced to pick only one, it would be Rachmaninov's second symphony, with the London Symphony Orchestra.

If that's the case, then Walton S1

If not, then......
RVW: Symphonies, especially 3 and 5
Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Chung)
Walton/Stravinsky: Violin concertos (Chung)
Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes (EMI)
Britten: Sinfonia da requiem and Copland: Red Pony Suite (Sony: one of his very first recordings)
....
And I'm sure that others will spring to mind as well as the Rachmaninov already mentioned.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Just one? Well, under that tyranny, the Brahms "German Requiem" with the RPO, the Ambrosian Singers, and Margaret Price & Samuel Ramey.

But over a dozen cherished others - including the RVW Symphonies as a "single"!

[pastoralguy]

If I am forced to pick only one, it would be Rachmaninov's second symphony, with the London Symphony Orchestra.

A terrific choice, nick. I'm very partial to his Scheherazade with the LSO and the wonderful John Georgiadis playing the solo violin part.

[antongould]

If that's the case, then Walton S1

If not, then......
RVW: Symphonies, especially 3 and 5
Prokofiev: Violin concertos (Chung)
Walton/Stravinsky: Violin concertos (Chung)
Britten: Sinfonia da requiem, Four Sea Interludes and Passacaglia from Peter Grimes (EMI)
Britten: Sinfonia da requiem and Copland: Red Pony Suite (Sony: one of his very first recordings)
....
And I'm sure that others will spring to mind as well as the Rachmaninov already mentioned.

Like your thinking pulcers ........