Roger Hecht responds to Don Satz: >> I am embarking on a little review project of some recordings of Bruckner's >> 4th and 8th Symphonies prompted by my acquisition of the EMI Gemini 2-CD >> set conducted by Karl Tennstedt. I have quite a few versions of each >> work and plan to enhance my collection. Toward that end, I'd like to >> include versions that other list members are particularly fond of. What >> are your preferred recordings of each of the two symphonies? It would >> be good to know your reasons, but a simple listing is also fine. > >You'll get the usual suspects--multiple recordings of Jochum, Karajan, >Haitink, Skrowaczewski, Schuricht (8), lots of others, but just in case >no one mentions them, Bohm 4 for sure, 3, as well, though his 7 & 8 are >not as good. Also consider Solti's underrated 7th with the VPO. Also >check out Celibidache and Giulini (slow). And Klemperer 4 (but not 8). Well, I'll offer the first Jochum (1949 Hamburg) which is his only recording of the Haas edition; Horenstein's 1954 Vox (first recording of the Nowak) and his 1970 live Prom performance (BBC Legends), JH's only performance of the Haas. And of course the 1944 Furtwaengler. >For curiosity, the "original versions" before the popular revisions of >4 and 8 with Russel Davies or Inbal (not so much Tintner). I'd personally take Tintner before the Inbal, even more I'd take the old NYO Canada/Tintner Jubal LP, probably recorded just before the Inbal too, which would make it the premiere recording. I don't know the Russel Davies. Donald Satz wrote: >I am embarking on a little review project of some recordings of Bruckner's >4th and 8th Symphonies prompted by my acquisition of the EMI Gemini 2-CD >set conducted by Karl Tennstedt. BTW M. le Pedant points out that that is presumably *Klaus* Tennstedt. I don't know his brother Karl. Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html