Dear Geoff,

They are all CDs, and it never ceases to amaze me how much is current even if I had to wait years for the re-issues on LPs and CDs!

A good 80% I would think is currently available, as it seems we have reached a point where (fortunately) just because something is stereo or digital does not mean it priority over the really great music making from the whole recorded epoch.

There are far too many new recordings.

If one consideres that there is no more music making in London, Vienna or Berlin now than in the past and consider how many great artists never did very much in the studio, and now think of all the young Turk's who have repertoire canned before they are fifty! Tehn you begin to see why it is harder to find the real gems.

But it is truely gratifying to see the gramophone at last finding it role as a recorder of great artistry rather than simply a peerveyor of the latest fad.

I have been delighted to be able to send people to things I waited 15 years for, even out of the way, but great music making.

Actually doing this has made me realise things I want to investigate further. So a useful excercise for me, if no one else!

FRedrik

quote:

Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:

Well I have no shame when it comes to things I don't inderstand. Oh and that man. You know the one who did the Brick-layers monologue! Begins with H...

Hoffnung! That is his name if not how to spell it.

I wonder if Adam will let me have a dispensation to proof this lot tomorrow. Doubtful, I suppose.

Fredrik

Schubert

Symphonies

3, 5 and 6. RPO, Beecham
The Unfinished, No 8, in B Minor.
- VPO, Klemperer, live in 1968 or 9
- BPO Futwangler, twice in 1952 and 3
Great C Major
- BBC SO Boult, in HMV Studio in 1934
- BBS CO, Boult live at a 1969 Prom
- Koln Orchestra, Erich Kleiber, live in 1954
- VPO. Furtwangler, live in Stockholm in 1943
- BPO, Fyrtwangler, live in Berlin in 1942 or 3?
- BPO, Furtwangler live in 1953

Pianno Music

Sonata in B flat, D960:

- Curzon
- Schnabel

Sonatas in A, D959, in D, D850, Various Shorts (and some duets with KU Schnabel). Artur Schnabel

Impromtus, D 899 and 935:

- Edwin Fischer withe the wanderer Fantasy and Moment Musiceaux
- Artur Schnabel

Oktett:

- Hausmusik on EMI
- Wiener Oktett

Trout Quintet::

- Curzon and members of the VPO
- Schnable and members of the Pro Arte Quartet

Arpegione sonata, Postropovich/ Britten

Fantasy in C for Violin and Piano

- Szymon Goldberg/ Radu Lupu
- Adolf Busch/ Rudolf Serkin

String Quartets:

- Death and the Maiden, plus two more whose designation I can't remember, and are out at the mo. Busch Quartet

Schumann

Symphonies.

- Boult, LPO, Pye studio, mid fifties
- Kubelic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra
- Sawalisch, Dresden ste Orchestra

Piano Quintet, Schnabel and the Pro Arte Quartet

Smetana

My Country:

- Talich, Czech Phil (1950s)
- Ancerl, Czech Phil (1960s)

That really is it.

there are individual items missing, but none so important that they will hurt.

I hope some of you enjoy the read at least. It has been useful to me, as it ceratainly showed me how artist led is my eventual choice at least on paper, but in reality the choices result from what I find most illuminating to music I know and love.

I find two great performances by say klemperer (like the Choral or Missa Solemnis) far more illuminating than two less fine ones even if they are more contrasted!

All the best from Fredrik

Dear Fredrik,

Thankyou for a wonderful thread (though I'm sorry to hear about your back). I've been away for a few days, but I look forward to having the time to peruse this properly.

regards, Tam

Thanks Tam!

Just as a silly erratum.

I missed out of Handel one of the best representations of Heavy Metal, in that there was a wonderful recording done 200 years to the day of Handel's death of his Fireworks Music with 24 Oboes, 9 French Horns, 6 pairs of timpany, ... [etc, well you get the picture] which reflected what Handel requested for its first performance. Wind Band under Mackerras, which is currently out on Testamant. I don't think any rock band would beat it either for sheer volume or quality actually!

Fredrik

Dear Fredrik!
I was following since the first post and.................it's a lifetime collection!
I decided to copy and paste it in a file and when i'll have to buy a record i'll take a look at it as well.

Thanks for shearing Fred!

Gianluigi

Fred,

No Ravel?

And what about the rest of music in the whole wide world throughout the entire history of human civilization?

Fred

Dear Fred [Simon],

There may be thirty odd records left out, and there is a lovely performance of the Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute and Strings, which I enjoy very rarely and it had slipped my memory. As well as the Daphnis Cloe music, in two performances, soon to be augmentedto three.

As for a wider range, I habitually listen to BBC Radios 3 and 4 and the World Service, and there is quite enough broadness there for me, to add to my existing library, in reality. Though I listen to lots of different music and always have, like Stockhausen, who was a vogue in the 1970s on Radio 3, spellbound, I did not feel it was something I wanted to do nearly so often as learn more about, say, Haydn String Quartets. The absense of something as such ought to be seen as not a judgement on its quality, rather than a long term expression of my preference for other things.

Thanks for reading it through! All the best from Fredrik

Thank-you for taking the time to list all those out Fredrick, it will be a very useful guide in my explorations. If you would care to e-mail me on steve.bull [at] mac.com I have something that you might find useful.

Steve.

Fredrik,

If you haven't already, you should at least try Ravel's G Major Piano Concerto, especially its sublime and magical slow movement.

But my somewhat tongue in cheek question wasn't so much "what about composer Xenakis, Ysaÿe, or Zappa" but, rather, what about jazz, rock, pop, blues, R&B, folk, country, bluegrass, Brazilian, Bulgarian, African, Indian, 16th century, 15th century, etc.? You know, the WWW ... Whole Wide World.

With all due respect, don't you feel that in terms of the total range of human musical expression, your library is a bit on the narrow side?

Regards,
Fred

Dear Fred,

Ravel, I adore, and will gradually investigate more over time now. I have been pulling back from the Romantics, but I mean the heavy Germanic ones like Wagner and even have found less interest in Verdi too. But the French school has gems I have not mined yet, for sure.

As for Rock and Pop, I guess that is like film for me. I enjoy some of it very much and unfortunately find some of it very much not something I want to investiagte more.

I have tried hard to understand Jazz, and perhaps when I have more time again I will make another concerted effort. Geoff P helped very much, and he does know about it. That I call work in progress, even if I am not sure I have found the key.

Interstingly I am sure you know the World Service World Music Programmes where they broadcast things from litterally every corner of the globe, in the middle of thie night! I listen agog to those. If I had the money I would follow some of them up, for sure...

If I ever get really old I would think that you would find my curiosity will have broadened my choices somewhat! I have perhaps another twenty five years of doing what I have already done for thirty five - investigating music, and I would think that it is inevitable that I shall broaden outwards once I have completely understood Bach to my own satisfaction!

But Ravel's Piano Concerto in G is now on the list, five from the top, to get, so I hope I like it Fred. Of course I will!!!


All the best from Fredrik

PS: On pre-Baroque Music, I am very partial to the chuch music performed daily in our Cathedras at Choral Evensong, where set side by side one may find music 600 years apart in date of composition without even an eyelid batted! I adore concerts, Choral Evensong, Jazz gigs, and have even been to small scale Rock gigs, even if I have to say that last will not be repeated, as I always have really dealt badly with loud sounds. I end up with a splitting headache in minutes. Thanks for your thought provoking post from Fredrik.

quote:

Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
As for Rock and Pop, I guess that is like film for me. I enjoy some of it very much and unfortunately find some of it very much not something I want to investiagte more.

I find that to be true for all music, of which there are really only two kinds: good and bad.

quote:

I have tried hard to understand Jazz, and perhaps when I have more time again I will make another concerted effort. Geoff P helped very much, and he does know about it. That I call work in progress, even if I am not sure I have found the key.

The key may well be in much of the catalog of the ECM label.

It also may well be in some of the offerings right here from the Naim label, especially (of course ) these two:
http://www.thenaimlabel.co.uk/artists/simon_main.htm

Regards,
Fred

Dear Fred,

I did this post because I promissed one or two I would do it. I am pleased I did it, because it has made me examine the focus and bredth issue as well!

I think a genuine probe into the soft underbelly of a thing is important.

What I canoot explain is why in a school of about 50, 8 to 13 year old I was the only music nut. My first great music was the Great C Major as a just turned nine year old, and my enthusiasm has never wavered.

I learned the bass because of my enthusiasm for music, starting too late really. I was a terrible pianist as a child, but it did not put me off music. I hated the choir master, though I could sing rather well, but not for him, so I was not in the choir. He was a sadistic son of the dirt, if you see what I mean. I kept well out of his orbit.

But when I started to play the bass I hardly expected to get good enough to play for money, or even eventually quite good money - freelance - and be invited to teach the instrument. That sounds like a fairy story, but my left hand got arthritis, and I could not stand to play in a downward spiral technically, which ultimately also means musically beyond a certain point.

Thus my music passion is only heightened, for now I am as impotent as I was before playing the bass.

Yes I do need to broaden a bit, but not too much I think. I would rather depth to too much breadth.

At the moment the real issue is money to fund many purchases of new recordings, and this must be the least important thing I do with what I have I would think!

Anyway, goodnight and thanks, from Fredrik

Albinoni

Two Oboe concertos
- Evelyn Rothwell, Halle Orchestra, Barbirolli

Adagio (Arr Giazotto)
- Private recording.

Beatles
The Beatles/ 1967-1970

JS Bach

Mass In B Minor
- Leonhardt
- Richter

Six Partitas, Six French Suites, Six English Suites, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, French Overture and Italian Concerto, Goldberg Variations. The Well Temperered Clavier, 15 Two Part Inventions, and 15 Three Part Inventions
- Helmut Walcha - Harpsichord (Ammer)

Six French Suites
- Thurston Dart - Clavichord.
- ... plus alternatives, Hogwood - Harpsichord

Goldberg Variations
- Pierre Hantaii.- Harpsichord
- Leonhardt - Hapsichord.

Organ Works (incomplete mono set) and The art Of Fugue
- H Walcha - Organs at Lubeck, Cappel and Alkmaar from Bach's time.

Art Of Fugue
- Rubsam - Organ
- Munchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
- Morrony - Harpsichord

Toccatas in C Minor and in D, BWV 911/2, Prelude and Fugue (Book One) in D, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Italian Concerto, Concerto in C for two Keyboards
- Artur Schnabel - piano, with Karl Ulrich Schnabel - piano 2, and the LSO under Boult.

Fantasy and Fugue in C Minor, BWV 906, Fantasy and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 904, Saint Anne Prelude and Fugue (Arr Busoni), Adagio (Arr Bach from Marcello's Oboe Concerto in C Minor) Ricercare in Six Parts (Arr Fischer for strings)
- Edwin Fischer piano and conductor.

Brandenberg Concertos
- HM Linde Consort
- Scholar Cantorum Basiliensis, and August Wenzinger
- Adolf Busch Chamber Players
- Kujiken, live radio recordings
- No live at the QEH, HM Linde in 1985
- No 2 and No 5. Philharmonia, with Edwin Fischer
- No 3. Four private recordings.
- No 5. Private recording.

Orchestral Suites
- Adolf Busch Chamber Players
- Kujiken
- Klemperer, and the Philharmonia in 1954
- No 2, HM Linde
- Nos 2 and 4, Klemperer, in Budapest, live in 1948/9
- No 1, Busch, live in New York Town Hall in 1943 in a published private recording of Frau Busch's.
- Nos 1and 2, live at the QEH in 1985. HM Linde
- No 3 live in Berlin in 1948, BPO Furtwangler.

Solo Keyboard Concertos
- Perahia and ASMF
- Edwin Fischer in No 2 in E, No 1 in D Minor, No 4 in A Major, No 5 in F Minor.
- Nos 1, 4 and 5. MJ Pires woth the Lisbon Gulbenkian Orchestra under Corboz
- No 1, Soloist with HM Linde consort live at the QEH in 1985.
- No 1, E Istomin with Adolf Busch Chamber Players

Multi-keyboard Concertos
- Concerto in F for three Keyboards, BWV 1065 R Serkin, M Horzowsky R Laredo with the Marboro festval Orchestra under A Schneider
- Concerto in Cfor Three Keyboards, BWV 1064 E Fischer R Smith D Matthews with the Philharmonia
- Concerto for Two Keyboards A and KU Schnabel, LSO, Boul, and C Haskil and G Anda, Philharmonia, Galiera

Violin Concertos
- Grumiaux
- Oistrack
- Busch
- Double Concerto - Soloist with Kujiken in two performances, one live and the other in a studio.
- Arnold and Alma Rose with a Chamber Orchestra probably drawn from the VPO in 1927.

Solo and accompanied Violin Music:
Solo Partitas and Sonatas
- Grumiaux

Accompanied sonatas
- Grumiaux

Adagio from the Sonata in G
- Arnold Rose from 1927

Saint John Passion
- Gardiner

Saint Matthew Passion
- Leonhardt
- Furtwangler
- Jacques

Magnificat
- Corboz
- Klemperer live in 1948 in Budapest

Iche Habe Genug
- Hotter

Cello Suites
- Fournier

WF Bach
Concerto for two Harpsichords in F Ton Koopman and Tina Mathot

Beethoven
Symphony No 1 in C
- BPO, Furtwangler, live, 1954
- VPO, Furtwangler, live, 1952
- VPO , Furtwangler, HMV Studio, 1952

Symphony No 2
- Philharmonia, Klemperer, EMI studio, 1958 or 59

Eroica symphony No 3, in E Flat
- VPO, Furtwangler, live in 1944,
- VPO, Erich Kleiber, Decca Studio in 1954?
- Phhilharmoinia, Klemperer, EMI Studio, later recording.
- BPO, Furtwangler in 1950, and in 1952.

Fourth Symphony in B Flat
- Philharmonia, Klemperer, EMI Studio in 1958
- VPO, Furtwangler, live in Munich in 1952
- VPO, Furtwangler, HMV Studio in 1952

Fifth Symphony in C Minor
- BPO, Furtwangler live in 1943, and in 1954 (also live in Paris in 1954).
- Concertgebow, Erich Kleiber, Decca studio in 1954?
- Philharmonia, Klemperer EMI Studio, 1954
- VPO, Klemperer live in 1968 or 69.

Pastoral Symphony No 6 in F
- Philharmonia, Klemperer, EMI Studio in 1958
- Concertgebeow, Erich Kleiber, Decca Studio in 1954?
- BPO, Furtwangler, live in 1944, and 1954

Seventh Symphony in A
- Philharmonia, Klemperer, EMI Studio in 1954 or 55
- Philharmonia, van Beinum, live in RFH in 1958 or 59.
- BPO, Furtwangler, live in 1943 and in 1953
- VPO, Furtwangler, HMV Studio, 1950
- VPO, Furtwangler, live at Salzburg in 1954
- Stockholm Phil, Furtwangler, live in 1948

Eighth Symphony in F
- BPO, Furtwangler, live in 1953
- VPO, Furtwangler, live at Salzburg in 1954
- Stockholm Phil, Furtwangler, live in 1948

Choral Symphony No 9
- Philharmonia, Klemperer, live in 1958 and 1961
- Philharmonia, Klemperer, EMI Studio, 1958.
- Philharmonia, Furtwangler, live at Lucerne in 1954
- Stockholm Forenings Orkester, Furtwangler live in 1943
- VPO, Furtwangler, live in 1953 (?)
- BPO, Furtwangler, live in London in 1937.

Missa Solemnis
- Klemperer, twice. Vox in Vienna, and the EMI set

Theatre Music
- Egmont, complete, VPO, Szell
- Overture, two songs and Funeral March, Nilsson, Klemperer
- King stephen Incidental Music. Hugarian forces on Hungaraton.

Overtures
- Klemperer's set
- Coliolan, twice from Furtwangler

Piano Concertos
- Schnabel, LSO/ LPO, Sargent 1932-35
- Serkin, live in Italy in the late 50s, orchestra unknown, but this is very fine.
- Emperor, Curzon, VPO, Knappertsbusch
- Emperor, Edwin fischer with the Philharmonia under furtwangler
- Third and Fourth, Fischer with the Philharmonia (directing as well)
- No 4, Dame Myra Hess, LPO, Boult, live at a Prom in 1960.
- No 1, Geza Anda, Philharmonia, Galliera

Violin Concerto and Romances
- Menuhin, live in 1947 with the BPO, in 1947 an EMI Studio with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, and with the Phlharmonia in London in 1953, all accompanied by Furtwangler.
- Erich Rohn, BPO, Furtwangler live in 1944
- Josef Suk, Philharmonia, Boult EMI Studio, late 60s.
- Romances played by Menuhin in 1953 and Oistrack in 1962.

Piano sonatas
- Complete plus The Diabelli Variation several sets of Bagatelles, and other things. Artur Schnabel
- Late Sonatas, Nos 27 to 32, Solomon.
- No 9, No 23, and 31 played by Edwin fischer. I esed to have another, but it has gone!

Violin Sonatas
- Haskil/ Grumiaux

Cello Sonatas
Fournier/ Schnabel

String Quartets
- Vegh (complete)
- Busch Quartet in the EMI and US Columbia series.. [which I must have loaned a fortnight ago and have dissappeared!]
- Opus 18 No4 in C Minor, Ous 74 [No.10 in the Cannon], and Opus 131 [14], Rose Quartet.

Fidelio
- Salzburg live in 1950. Flagstad, Patzak,, and so on with the VPO under Furtwangler

Borge
Victor Borge at The Palladium!

Bizet
Symphony in C,
- Beecham

Carmen and Arlesinenne Music,
- Beecham

Brahms
Symphonies
- LPO, Boult, Pye Studio in 1954
- LSO/ LPO, Weingartner, EMI Studios between 1938 and 1941
- Philharmonia, Klemperer, EMI
- BPO/ VPO, Furtwangler, EMI release os Radio Tapes from 1948 to 1952
- Philharmonia, Toscanin, live in the RFH in1952 ish.
- BPO, Furtwangler in Nos 1 and 3 from 52 and 53.

Piano Concerto in D Minor
- Solomon
- Curzon

Piano concerto in B Flat
- Edwin Fischer
- Solomon

Violin Concerto
- Oistrack for DG in 1954
- Oistrack in about 1960 for EMI with Klemperer

Double Concerto
- Suk, Navarra, Czech Phil, K Ancerl
- Boskowsky/ Brabec, VPO, Furtwangler, live in 1952
- Schneiderhan/ Starker, RIAS Orchestra, Fricsay

Requiem
- Klemperer for EMI
- Furtwangler live in 1948 with nice unknown (nowadays) Soloists, and Stockholm.Phil. [terrible recording].

Clarinet Quintet
- Reginald Kell twice, with the Busch Quartet in 1937, and with the Fine arts Quartet [US based] in about 1960.

Horn Trio
- Abrey Brain, Adolf busch and Rudolf Serkin, on EMI

String Quartet in C Minor
- Busch Quartet

Vioin Sonatas
- Giaconda de Vito/ Edwin Fischer

Bruckner
Symphony No 4
-Jockum, BPO, DG Studio, and Dreden state Orch, under Boehm, EMI Studio, 1935

Fifth
- BPO and VPO, Furtwangler, in 1942 and 1951, both live
- Dresden state Orchestra, Boehm, EMI Studio, 1936.

Sixth
- Fragments only and not worth mentioning.

Seventh
- VPO, Knappertsbusch, 1949, live.
- Dresden State, Boehm, live from 1940s.
- BPO, Furtwangler, 1949 live, issued by EMI

Eighth
- VPO Furtwangler 1944, and BPO, Furtwangler 1949, both live

Ninth
- Columbia Symhpony Orchestra, Bruno Walter
- BPO, Furtwangler, live in 1943

Corelli
12 Grand Concertos, opus 6,
- Pinnock

Couperin
Concerts Royeaux 1 to 4
- Kijken et al
Eighth Odre and Third and Fourth Concerts from Les Concerts Royaux
- Laurence Cummings - Hapsichord, and Reiko Ichise - Gamba.
Second Quartet for two Harpsichords, and Les Nations - Imperereale
- Koopman and Mathot

Dvorak
Symphonies Nos 6, 7, & 8 in the series made for HMV in London
- Czech Phil, Vaclav Talich

New World Symphony, with the same artists for Supraphon in 1949. This is the better of two they made within a year, the second being on tape, but both artistically and technically the 78 set wins. The best I know in the music.

Cello Concerto
- Fournier, Philharmonia,, Kubelic
- Navarra, National symphony Orchestra, Schwarz
- Rostropovich, Czech Phil, Talcih
- Rostropovich, RPO, Boult

Violin Concerto
- Josef Suk, Czech Phil, K Ancerl

Piano Quntet
- Schnabel, Pro Arte Quartet
- Serkin, Busch Quartet

Elgar
The Elgar Edition on EMI. 9 CDs from 1994 of the complete (surviving) Electrical Recordings by Elgar between 1926 and 1934.

Symphony Number One in A Flat
- LPO, Boult, HMV,Studio, 1949
- BBC Philharmonic, George Hurst Naxos Studio in 1992
- BBC SO, Boult. Prom from 1975

Second symphony in E Flat
- BBC SO, Boult, HMV Studio at Bedford in 1944
- BBC Philharmonic, Edward Downes, Naxos studio in about 1992, and also live from a Prom in about 1988!

Elgar/Payne
- Symphony No 3, Bournemouth, Daniel [Not a very good idea].

Violin Concerto
- Sammons, New Queen's Hall Orchestra, Henry Wood, Columbia Studio in 1929

Cello Concerto
- Andre Navarra, Halle, Barbirolli
- Tortellier, BBC SO, Sargent, HMV Studio in 1954.
- Anthony Pini, LPO, van Beinum, Decca studio 1950

Enigma Variations
- LPO,Boult, HMV Studio 1953

Falstaff
- LPO, Boult, HMV Studio, 1950
- Natinal Youth Orchestra, Christopher Seaman, IMP Studio in about 1986. Brilliant
- LPO, Boult HMV Studio in 1960s

Saguine Fan and Other Shorts
- LPO, Boult, HMV Studio, 1960s

Concert Overtures
- In The South, and Froissart, LPO, Boult, 1953
- Cockaine, LPO, van Beinum, Decca Studio 1949/50

Violin Sonata
- Sammons Murdoch, Columbia studio in 1935

Dream Of Gerontius
- H Nash an co, Sargent and the Huddersfield Chorus, with the Liverpool Phil in April 1945 for EMI
- Gedda, Boult Philharmonia, in HMV Studio, 1976.

FaurÈ
Requiem
- Rutter

Greig
Symphony
- N Jarvi, Gothenberg for DG

Piano Concerto
- Solomon, Philharmonia, Menges

Flgstad sings Greig and Scandinavian Melodie, MHV Studio, 1919 to 1948. Great Recordings Of The Century issue

Peer Gynt
- Beecham

Holberg Suite (String Version)
- Norwegian chamber Orchestra twice. In 1979 with the beautiful but small complete string music on BIS, and live at the 1985 Edinburgh festival with Iona Brown.

Piano sonata in E Minor etc
- Robert Riefling - piano.


Handel
Messiah
- Pinnock

Concerti Grossi opus 3
- Pinnock

Concerti Grossi, opus 12
- Busch chamber Player, US Columbia studio in 1946
- Pinnock
- No 11 and 12 Bath festival Orchestra, Menuhin.

Water Music
- Pinnock
- Menuhin, Bath festival Orchestra

Fireworks Music (Original scoring for very large wind band).
- Mackerras

Haydn
Paris Symphonies
- Austro-Hugarian Haydn Orchestra Adam Fischer no 82-87

88 in G
- BPO, Furtwangler, DG Studio in about 1950
- Adam Fischer as above with the symphonies through to 92 (this is a great and unsung patch!).

London Symphonies (93 to 104)
- Concertgebeouw, Davis, for Philips
- RPO, Beecham, for EMI
- Adam Fischer as above

Symphony Number 104 in D, The London
- Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra. amazing!

Trumpet concerto
- Edvard oOe Antonsen, ECO, Tate, A nice bunch of concertos by Hummel, Tartini, and others, this is also the finest version of the Haydn I have come across.

Oboe Concerto in C Major
Evelyn Rothwell [Lady Barbirolli], Halle orch, Sir John B. This is part of a bouquet of concertos, which are the most wonderful music making. Others represented include Coreli, Pergolesi, Cimarosa, and Marcello. The highlights are the Marcello (which I have in Bach's arrangement played by Fischer in the Adagio alone]. These were re-released by Dutton.

Three Violin Concertos
- Standage, Pinnock

Three PIano Concertos
- Leif Ove Andsnes

Cello Concertos in D and C
- Truls Mork, Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown
- In D: Fournier, Lucerne strings under Baumgartner
- In C: Milos Sadlo, Prague Chamber Orchestra, Alois Klima

Piano sonatas
- John McCabe, for Decca

String quartets
- Sis quartets opus 33, Six, opus 71/74, Six opus 76, Two opus 77, and Last Seven Words From The Cross: Tatrai Quartet. on Hungaraton
- 27 Quartets (plus two by Hoffstetter!), including all the really big late works: - Pro Arte Quartet HMV 1930s Studio.
- Two quartets opus 77 and two fragments opus 103: Moaiques Quartet.

Seasons
- Colin Davis

Creation, in English
- BBC forces.
- Hogwood

Almost all the Masses in performances by George Guest.

Janacek
Sinfonietta and Four Preludes
- Pro Arte Orchrestra, Mackerras

Massanet
Meditaton From Thais
- Albert Sammons and Gerald Moore, violin and piano, English Columbia Studio 1928. This is part of a recital that takes in the Sinfonia Concertante of Mozart with Tertis and the Elgar Sonata. These three pieces represent the high point of this new Naxos issue.

Mozart
Symphonies
Very early Ones
- Prague Chamber Orchestra, Mackerras Magic stuff!

25, 29, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38 to 41
- Philharmonia, Klemperer with such rarities as the Masonic Funeral Music.

35, 36, 38 to 41
- BPO, Boehm

35, 36, 38, 39, and 41
- VPO Kubelic, HMV Studio

39 in E Flat
- BPO, Furtwangler live in 1943

40 in G Minor, Vienna Phil
- Furtwangler, HMV Studio 1947/8

Piano Concertos:
No 9 in E Flat, and 23 in A
- Haskil, VSO, Paul Sacher
- Haskil and Otto Ackermann, live in the 1950s in No 9

No 6, 17 and 21
- Geza Anda, Cam Ac des Salzburger Moozarteums

No 14 in E Flat
- R Serkin, Busch Chamber Players

No 19 and 27
- Haskil, Fricays with the BPO and Bavarian Radio Orchestras.

No 20 and No 13
- Haskil, with Fricsay and Baugmgartner

No 27
- Koln Guerzenich Orchestra and Otto Klemperer, live performance

No 20 and 24
- Haskil, Lamoureux Orchestra, Markevitch

No 23 and No 24
- Solomon, Philharmonia
No 22 and No 25
- Brendel, Vienna Orchestras
- Paul Angerer. (on Vox, now owned by IMP)

Violin Concertos
- Grumiaux, LSO, Davis
3, 4 and 5
- Szymon goldberg, Philharmonia, Walter Susskind

Horn concertos
- Civil, Philharmonia, Klemperer
- Brain, Philharmonia, Karajan

Adagio and Fugue for Strings:
- Busch Chamber Players, EMI Studio in 1938
- Klemperer and the Philharmonia, EMI Studio in 1955

Mass In C Minor
- Gardiner

Requiem
- Vienna State Opera Soloists, VPO, Bruno Walter
- Vienna Boys Choir, Men of Saint stephen's cathedral, VSO, Hans Gillesberger. Plus some nice extras, including a wonderful reading of Haydn's gloriously sunlit Te Deum.

Solemne Vesperes di Confessore
- H Rilling

Don Giovanni
- 1950 at Salzburg, Soloists of the VSOC, VPO, Furtwangler
- 1954, new production as above
- Glyndbourne Festrival production under Fritz Busch 1936

Cosi Fan Tutti
- 1935 in Glyndbourne, as above

Marriage Of Figaro:
- Salzburg performance, from 1953
- 1955, Glyndbourne production under Vittorio Gui..

Magic Flute
- 1951 Salzburg recording, as above.

A handful of Piano Sonatas
- Haskil and Edwin Fischer.

Mendelssohn
Italian symphony
- Guido Cantelli, Philharmonia

Elijah
- Sargent, Huddersfield Chorus, and Harold Williams as Elijah. Columbia from 1948.

Oktett
- Members of the VPO, led by Willi Boskowsky. Coupled with Beethoven's Septet not mentioned earlier.

Rachmaninov
Second Piano Concerto and Variations on a Theme of Paganini
- Moiseievich, Philharmonia, Hugo Rignold, HMV late fifties.

Symphonic Dances
- Private recording.

Schubert
Symphonies 3, 5 and 6
- RPO, Beecham

The Unfinished, No 8, in B Minor.
- VPO, Klemperer, live in 1968 or 9
- BPO Futwangler, twice in 1952 and 3

Great C Major
- BBC SO Boult, in HMV Studio in 1934
- BBS CO, Boult live at a 1969 Prom
- Koln Orchestra, Erich Kleiber, live in 1954
- VPO. Furtwangler, live in Stockholm in 1943
- BPO, Fyrtwangler, live in Berlin in 1942 or 3?
- BPO, Furtwangler live in 1953

Piano Music
Sonata in B flat, D960
- Curzon
- Schnabel

Sonatas in A, D959, in D, D850, Various Shorts (and some duets with KU Schnabel)
- Artur Schnabel

Impromtus, D 899 and 935
- Edwin Fischer withe the wanderer Fantasy and Moment Musiceaux
- Artur Schnabel

Oktett
- Hausmusik on EMI
- Wiener Oktett

Trout Quintet
- Curzon and members of the VPO
- Schnable and members of the Pro Arte Quartet

Arpegione sonata
- Postropovich/ Britten

Fantasy in C for Violin and Piano
- Szymon Goldberg/ Radu Lupu
- Adolf Busch/ Rudolf Serkin

String Quartets
- Death and the Maiden, plus two more whose designation I can't remember, and are out at the mo. Busch Quartet

Schumann
Symphonies.
- Boult, LPO, Pye studio, mid fifties
- Kubelic, Bavarian Radio Orchestra
- Sawalisch, Dresden State Orchestra

Piano Quintet
- Schnabel and the Pro Arte Quartet

Sibelius
Symphonies:
- Barbirolli, and the Halle, with such things as the Korelia suite, and Finlandia.
- Anthony Collins and the LSO,which cycle was done for Decca between about 1952 and 55
1, 2, 3, and 5
- Kajanus, who was recomended by Sibelius to make these pioneering and still wonderful recordings. Also contains Tapiola, whicxh is still unsurpased, and other splendid rarities.
4, 6 and 7
- LPO and RPO under Beecham.

Violin Concerto
- Heifetz, LPO Beecham. EMI Studio pre 1939.

Viennese Strauss Family
150th Vienna Phil Anniversary set of Walzes, Polkas etc. La Creme de la creme, of the histrory of this bands association with the Dance Kings of the World!

New Year's Day Concerts,
1979
- Boskowsky's swansong.
1989
- Carlos Kleiber's only time in the concert. Both very special.

Smetana
My Country
- Talich, Czech Phil (1950s)
- Ancerl, Czech Phil (1960s)

Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen
- Krauss with the Bamberg SO

Horn Concertos 1 and 2
- Brain Philharmonia, Sawalisch

Don Juan
- Two performances from Furtwangler

Till Eulenspiegel
- BPO Furtwangler once.

Tchaikowsky
Pathetic Symphony
- Furtwangler, BPO, in HMV
Studio in 1938

Violin Concerto
- Oistack in Dresden in 1954

Nutcracker suite
- BBC SO, Sargent

Vaughan Williams
Sereneade to Music, Lark ascending, English Folk song Suite etc
- LSO/ LPO, Boult

Wagner
Four discs of various preludes and overtures
- all with the BPO or VPO under Furtwangler

Walton
Walton conducts walton, which contains a very great deal of the important big works.

First Symphony:
- LSO, Previn
- LSO, Harty for Decca in 1935

Beshazaar's Feast
- Liverpool Phil, Huddersfield, Walton in 1942

Second Symphony
- Cleveland Orchestra, Szell.

Webber
Die Freischutz
- Salzburg Festival 1953. VSOC, VPO, Furtwangler.Still about the best in this.

An almost perfect version, edited with help. Fredrik

quote:

Originally posted by Beano:
Blimey Fredrik, hope you've got this lot insured!

Yes Fredrik, I am almost tempted to burgle you myself. I know where you live. - many thanks for your list of gems which now exists on my hard drive for much future reference.

Frederick i have to salute you, never mind the patience it must have taken to assemble that collection but to document it for all..
I posted a little while ago about places to start with music of a more classical bent. This seems to be a fantastic overview and as good as the many "my first..." threads. Thank you so much.

Wow, Fredrik !
What a treasure you have burried here (in the often sandy grounds of this forum...)

A reference, indeed, and worth while building a benchmark to my own collection. Thank you !

cheers
Stefan

quote:

Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:

...Though I listen to lots of different music and always have, like Stockhausen, who was a vogue in the 1970s on Radio 3, spellbound...

Fredrik,

Did you know that, on his "Desert Island Discs", when Alan Civil was asked to choose his book, he said something along the lines of

"I'd really like to take with me a full score of Karlhienz Stockhausen's 'Gruppen'. Then I'd have plenty of time to study it at my leisure and I could work out whether he was kidding me or I was kidding him."

Thank you for the wonderful list, I'm sure that it will become a reference point in this place.

Kevin