David Harbin ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Can I throw my hat into the ring and name my favourite Bruckner recordings? >Perhaps others out there can suggest their own favourite list: Certainly. >1. Unsure. Possibly the new Tintner when it is released. Haitink or Sawallisch on Orfeo. >2. Karajan/BPO Konwitcshny (Berlin Classics), Georg Jochum (Tahra), but I much prefer the 1872 Carragan edition, Eichhorn (Camerata) and Tintner. >3. Tinter/RSNO = FRSO/Inbal Haven't heard this yet. Which version? I prefer 1877/8 and either Haitink (VPO) or (surprisingly) Sinopoli (Dresden). >4. Celibidache/Munich PO Good choice. I like the recent Klemperer reissue but I think my favourite is (one of) Asahina's. >5. Welser Most/LPO = Furtwangler/BPO (1942) Well I like the W-M, but don't think it's in the same league as Furtwaengler, or Konwitschny or Horenstein. >6. Tinter/NZSO (despite the playing) Furtwangler/BPO (1942 again) You didn't mention that the Furtwaengler, great though it is (and actually Nov 1943 BTW) is missing its first movement. I think Tintner's earlier recording (on Deutsche Schallplatten) was actually better than his Naxos disc. But my favourites remain Klemperer (by some margin) and Sawallisch. >7. Knappertsbusch/VPO (1949). No contest Well, I don't think I've heard this, but no contest? Not from Furtwaengler, Rosbaud, Jochum, Abendroth, Boehm, Kabasta and many others? (Actually, I just found that I have the Kna 1949 in my collection - I must listen again, but it's obviously not one of my favourites) >8. Wand/NDRSO (1987 live Lubeck Cathedral) Horentsein/LSO I've never quite understood the appeal of Wand from his commercially-released recordings, not even this one, good though it is. (Odd thing is, I have some off-air recordings of 5 & 9 which are wonderful). Horenstein, yes, but also his 1955 Vox, Furtwaengler (1944), and the "usual suspects" Jochum, especially his 1949, Abendroth, Schuricht, et al. >9. Giulini/VPO (1989) Furtwaengler (1944), Horenstein (Vox), Jochum's 1950s recording. And, especially for its Samale/Mazzuca/Philips finale, Kurt Eichhorn on Camerata. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]