Bruno Galeron ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I'd also like to buy more recent recordings for these symphonies.  I have
>some of them on Naxos (3,5,7 and 8) with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
>and they are really nice but not great.  I have also the Sinfonia Antartica
>on Chandos with Bryden Thomson and the LSO.  It is an excellent recording
>except for the organ which is too distant.

Actually Bakels' Antartica is genreally reckoned to be mre than 'really
nice'.  I think I tend to agree.

>So, could you recommend me complete, recent and great recordings for
>Vaughan Williams symphonies?

It's the 'recent' that cause me problems.  You should hear Vaughan
Williams' own recording of the 4th (BBC SO 1938) though and Barbirolli's
various 2s and 5s.

Deryk Barker
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