Tony Duggan ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>No.1: My own favourites are Kubelik (DG), Horenstein (Unicorn) and
>Horenstein (Vox, coupled with a fine Bruckner 9th) and Walter (Sony).
>There is also a live Kubelik recording from 1972 on Originals (not to
>be confused with DG Originals) that is superb but very hard to find.
Actually that Kubelik is 1975 and there is a recording fro 1981 floating
around the underground which is possibly even better. But I must stop
tantalising....
I hope, BTW, that you mean the mono (1953 or 4) Walter and not the 1961
stereo remake. Otherwise I go along with your choices.
>No.2: Klemperer (both the EMI 1962 studio version and the live Amsterdam
>recording from 1951), Scherchen (Millennium), Kubelik (DG), Walter (Sony),
>Boulez (Originals) and Barbirolli (Arkadia).
I think I'd take the 1965 Munich Klemperer over the 1951 Concertgebouw and
I'd add the *first* (1962) Bernstein.
>No.3: Horenstein (Unicorn), Adler (Harmonia Mundi), Kubelik (DG),
>Barbirolli (BBC Legends).
No arguments, although I'd add Bernstein (Sony).
>No.4: Horenstein (Chief, Seraphim), Kletzki (Royal), Mengelberg, Szell
>(Sony).
Ditto.
>No.5: Barbirolli (EMI), Boulez (DG), Scherchen (Millennium), Shipway
>(Tring), Inoue (ASV) Mackerras (EMI). There is also Walter and the NYPO
>in mono from 1947 on Sony.
Isn't the INoue on the RPO's own RPO label - or has it moved?
>No.6: Boulez (DG), Nanut (Zyx and others), Horenstein (Unicorn, Music
>and Arts), Barbirolli (EMI) and Thomas Sanderling (RS), Szell (Sony.)
All this agreement is getting worrying...
>No.7: Horenstein (Descant, Music and Arts), Scherchen (Millennium),
>Scherchen (Music and Arts),Rattle (EMI).
Not for the newbie or the fainthearter, but Scherchen's 1965 Toronto SO
performance is wilder than any other (and BRO currently has this M&A disc
for some silly price).
>No.8: Horenstein (BBC Legends). No other will do for me now. No other
>comes close.
Yup.
>No.9: Horenstein LSO 1966 (Music and Arts), Klemperer (EMI), Walter (both
>the Sony 1961 and the Vienna 1938 live recording on Dutton) and Barbirolli
>(EMI).
Oh stop it!
>No.10: Wigglesworth on a BBC magazine disc.
I like this and the Rattle, but I still prefer the Sanderling (Ars Vivendi)
to either.
>As you see, not a Bernstein in sight.
I like his Concertgebouw 1st (although not as much as he used to) first
NYPO 2nd and 3rd and LSO 8th (sentiment to some extent). But I'll agree
that he is not the greatest Mahlerian of the century by some way.
And very far from being the sole authority, as some would have us think.
Deryk Barker
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