Best made-up beethoven cycle.

[Guest]

If we can agree that no conductor can be the best single "man for all symphonies", then put your own cycle together to take to your desert Island.
here is mine.

Symphony nr 1 - Abbado VPO DGG 1980s
Symphony nr 2 - Thielemann VPO 2012 Blu-ray
Symphony nr 3 - Furtwängler BPO 8 December 1952
Symphony nr 4 - Carlos Kleiber - Concertgebouw 1983 (DVD)
Symphony nr 5 - Karajan BPO DGG 1962
Symphony nr 6 - Furtwängler BPO march 1944
Symphony nr 7 - Carlos Kleiber Concertgebouw 1983 (DVD)
Symphony nr 8 - Furtwängler - VPO Salzburg 30-8-1954 ORFEO
Symphony nr 9 - Furtwängler - LFO Lucerne 22-8-1954.

Numbers 3 , six and nine are written in stone. the others,? for the rest of this year anyway.
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[Nick Armstrong]

Interesting.
For me the Carlos Kleiber/VPO 5 and Bruno Walter 6 would be writ in stone; agreed re CK in 4 and 7. Your 1 & 2 are interesting.
For 9 I err towards the cataclysmic 1942 BPO/Furtwängler...

[jayne lee wilson]

Off the top of me 'ead...

1 - Norrington/SWR live
2 - Leibowitz/RPO (lack of repeats notwithstanding...)
3 - Bruggen/O18C
4 - Zinman/Zurich Tonhalle
5 - Gardiner/ORR live Carnegie Hall 16/11/11
6 - Zender/Saarbrucken RSO
7 - Gardiner/ORR live Carnegie Hall 16/11/11
8 - Scherchen/RPO
9 - Norrington SWR live

(Of course you could just choose Krivine/la chambre philharmonique in all 9. That would do.)

[cloughie]

Probably the antidote to Jayne's.

1 Jochum/BavRSO DG
2 Jochum/BPO DG
3 Klemperer/PO 1956
4 Jochum/BPO DG
5 Dorati/RPO
6 Cluytens/BPO 1956
7 Konwitschny/LGO
8 Jochum/BPO DG
9 Solti/CSO

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

(Of course you could just choose Krivine/la chambre philharmonique in all 9. That would do.)

Works for me, too.

However, in the spirit of the party game

1 - RPO/Groves?
2 - RPO/Beecham?
3 - VPO/Erich Kleiber
4 - Philharmonia/Klemperer
5 - BPO/Karajan ('70s)
6 - ColumbiaSO/Walter
7 - BPO/Karajan ('70s)
8 - BPO/Cluytens
9 - BPO/Karajan ('70s)

[Dave2002]

Yet another go:

1. Walter
2. Klemperer PO
3. Bernstein NYPO
4. Walter
5. Szell/Amsterdam Concertgebouw
6. Cluytens (I thought of following fhg with Walter again, but he's represented twice already)
7. Konwitschny/Leipzig GWO
8. Toscanini
9. Karajan - DG circa 1980 not the digital one, though the digital one is OK.

These aren't the only ones I like, though, but will do for today. There's an element of "gut feel" and a wish to be representative.
The surprise for me is Toscanini - I don't like him so much in some of the others, but he really kicks the 8th into life.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Dave2002;

Spookily, you've included many versions I almost went for (Walter & Klemperer in 1 & 2; Cluytens in 6) and your "Karajan c1980" for No 9 might possibly be the 1977 recording I nominated (with Anna Timowa- Sintow, Agnes Baltsa, Peter Schreier & Jose van Dam).

Don't know the Konwitschny

[Thropplenoggin]

Dave2002;

Don't know the Konwitschny

It's a sensational 7th, worthy of the plaudits it garners from 'those in the know'.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It's a sensational 7th, worthy of the plaudits it garners from 'those in the know'.

(and for Dave, too!)

[makropulos]

Nice idea. Off the top of my head, a few favourites:

No. 1 - Hogwood, AAM (Florilegium)
No. 2 - Van Beinum, COA (Australian Eloquence)
No. 3 - Matacic, Czech PO (Supraphon)
No. 4 - Jochum, BPO (DG)
No. 5 - C. Kleiber, VPO (DG)
No. 6 - Böhm, VPO (DG)
No. 7 - Mackerras, SCO (Hyperion)
No. 8 - Chailly, Leipzig Gewandhaus
No. 9 - Mackerras, RLPO (EMI) or Philharmonia (Hyperion) or OAE (or all three...)

[Alison]

1. SCO/Mackerras

2. VPO/Bernstein

3. BPO/Abbado

4. LSO/Haitink

5. LSO/Haitink

6. LPO/Boult

7. Halle/Loughran

8. LSO/Haitink

9. Stuttgart/Norrington

[Bryn]

1. SCO/Mackerras

2. VPO/Bernstein

3. BPO/Abbado

4. LSO/Haitink

5. LSO/Haitink

6. LPO/Boult

7. Halle/Loughran

8. LSO/Haitink

9. Stuttgart/Norrington

Only three from Bernie, Alison?

[Alison]

Only three from Bernie, Alison?

Would happily take the whole SACD set, Nethers.

Must take a fresh check on the Krivine which I gather is available again.

[Petrushka]

1. BPO/Karajan (1963)

2. BPO/Karajan (1963)

3. VPO/Furtwängler (1944)

4. BPO/Karajan (1963)

5. VPO/Kleiber

6. VPO/Böhm

7. Leipzig Gewandhaus/Konwitschny

8. Leipzig Gewandhaus/Chailly

9. LPO/Tennstedt (1992)

[Nick Armstrong]

9. LPO/Tennstedt (1992)

Wow. Don't know that one... That's the LPO Live as opposed to the earlier (80s?) Prom reading, I think.

How have I missed hearing it?

Thanks!