Bob Draper ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >Felix Delbrueck said: > >>If this is the case, then I can also very much recommend Furtwaengler's >>DG recording of no. 88 - maybe too slow for some tastes, but with a >>wonderful rhythm and swing in the outer movements, and a very beautiful >>slow movement. ... > >I haven't heard the Furtwaengler 88 but the best version I"ve heard is Karl >Bohm with the VPO on DG Privilege. > >Didn't Furtwaengler record any other Haydn? There are 3 extant recordings of Haydn 88: VPO Stuttgart 22/10/51, BPO 5/12/51 (the DG studio) and RAI Turin, 3/3/52; 2 of 94: VPO Stockholm 25/9/50 and VPO 11,12,17/1/51 (HMV studio); and one of 104: Orquestra del Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires 14/4/50. The supposed wartime 104 isued by Melodiya and then by Discocopr and DG (in the wartime box) has been identified as the BRO/Alfons Dressel Mercury recording. Consequently, the only two studio recordinga re owned by different companies. >I wonder if other group members find it as annoying as I do when record >companies mix works by different composers on the same CD. Not usually. I can't think of a better pairing than the Debussy and Ravel quartets, for example, the latter being inspired by the former. OTOH I could have done without Crumb's Black Angels c/w Schubert's DEath and the Maiden on a disc by hmmmm? Mainly because I dislike the Crumb. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]