Whose complete symphony cycles do you have the most of, and how many?
I'm definitely a marginal player here, but I'll start off:
Shostakovich, 3: Maksim Dmitriyevich; Kondrashin; Haitink
Vaughan Williams, 3: Haitink; Handley; Thomson
Prokofiev, 4: Ozawa; Rozhdestvensky; Martinon; Järvi
Sibelius, 7: Maazel/Wiener; Blomstedt/SFSO; Berglund/Helsinki; Lenny/NY Phil; Vänskä/Lahti; Rattle/CBSO; Maazel/Pittsburgh
Nielsen, 3: Blomstedt/SFSO; Thomson; Schmidt
Sibelius! The reason why-- I sold off my cd collection and the only complete cycle I have on mp3 is the Vanska Sibelius cycle. :D
Pre-ultimate cull it was Mahler followed by Beethoven.
Oh, I love this thread! Great idea, Karl!
You got the ball rolling, let's see if I can let it continue to roll...
Vaughan Williams - Thomson, Boult (Decca and EMI), Handley, Haitink, A. Davis, Daniel/Bakels, Previn, Slatkin
Shostakovich - Haitink, Kitajenko, Barshai, M. Shostakovich, Jansons, Rostropovich, Ashkenazy, Caetani, Kondrashin
Sibelius - all of C. Davis (Philips, RCA, LSO Live), Oramo, Blomstedt, Bernstein, both Maazel, Segerstam (Ondine), Vanska, Jarvi (DG), Inkinen, Barbirolli, Ashkenazy, Rattle, Berglund (middle EMI cycle), Sanderling, Sakari
Nielsen - Blomstedt (Decca), Schonwandt, Jarvi (DG), Kuchar, Rozhdestvensky, Salonen
Prokofiev - Jarvi, Kitajenko, Gergiev, Ozawa, Rostropovich
Bruckner - Chailly, Wand, Barenboim (Teldec), Inbal, Jochum (DG & EMI), Karajan, Maazel, Skrowaczewski, Solti, Haitink, Masur
Tchaikovsky - Abbado, Bernstein, Karajan, Jansons, Rostropovich, Muti, Mehta, Temirkanov, Svetlanov
Blue = favorite cycle
To be continued....
These are my top 3 overpopulated cycles....
[18] - Beethoven : Cluytens, Barenboim, Zinman, Wand, Karajan 50's, Karajan 60's, Karajan 70's, Gardiner, Masur, Harnoncourt, Maag, MacKerras, C. Davis, Klemperer, Haitink, W. Morris, Rattle, Abbado
[13] - Mahler : Chailly, Bertini, Solti, Abbado, Bernstein (Sony), Bernstein (DG), Gielen, Kubelik, Sinopoli, T.Thomas, Gergiev, Rattle, Tennstedt
[09] - Brahms : Karajan, Celibidache, Furtwangler, Sawallisch, Masur, Bohm, Abbado, Bernstein, Klemperer
[08] - Bruckner : Haitink, Jochum (DG), Jochum (EMI), Wand, Karajan, Chailly, Paternostro, Tintner, Celibidache ahem :-[
Such as Shostakovich, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky & Vaughan Williams stroll in at around the 7 mark, poor old Mozart and Papa only have one!! Elgar probably breaks the 20+ mark but as they are only two and a recon third then its hard to count Elgar 8)
Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on January 23, 2012, 10:12:52 AM
Celibidache
I thought we were only dealing with complete cycles not partial ones.
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 23, 2012, 10:17:04 AM
I thought we were only dealing with complete cycles not partial ones.
It is complete, its as complete as Celibidache wanted it to be ;D
Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on January 23, 2012, 10:19:12 AM
It is complete, its as complete as Celibidache wanted it to be ;D
Hmmm....
I have only one cycle of any given cycle if they are four or more symphonies (e.g.: Mahler, Beethoven, etc.). I probably have a couple duplicates of cycles with four symphonies or less (like Schumann or Brahms), but not sure those really count (since the number of cds is so much less). And with Schumann, one of them is a Mahler edition of Schumann's symphonies. It's not quite the same.
Here are a few examples of cycles which I do not yet have (which I guess makes me an anti-cycle collector, if we are talking about having the same conductor and orchestra and/or issued in one package):
Shostakovich (have about a third)
Sibelius (have 5-6 of the symphonies)
Nielson (none)
Prokofiev (two symphonies)
Mozart (I think I have all the symphonies from various performances - perhaps missing a couple, but not by one group)
Glazunov
I guess my philosophy to generally not buy works I already have is on track (more or less)...
Shosty 1 Rostropovich (pending Haitink)
Sibelius 5 Davis, Maazel, Maazel, Segerstam. Ashkenazy
Vaughan Williams 3 Previn, Handley, Boult
Beethoven 4 Karajan (60's), Gardiner, Zinman, Klemperer
Mahler 3 Tennstedt, Inbal, Neumann
Bruckner 4 Inbal, Barenboim, Jochum (DG), Karajan
Tchaikovsky 2 Karajan (70's)[he did others?], Jansons
Rangstrom 1 Rasilainen
Nielsen 1 Blomstedt
Tubin 1 Jarvi
Atterberg 1 Rasilainen
Brahms 2 Solti, Barenboim
Mozart 1 Mackerras
My God, I used to have a heap load more, but they were lost a few years ago in flames... :'( Still, done not bad since then... :D
I try not to think of these things. I've clearly got too many symphony recordings. I may have missed a cycle or two, but below are all of the cases where I have more than one complete cycle.
Update: favorites marked with asterisk
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Mahler (17) - Kubelik I*, Bernstein I & III*, Bertini, Abravanel, Gielen, Levine (incomplete), MTT*, Tennstedt*, Sinopoli, Rattle, Inbal, Chailly, Svetlanov, Maazel, Zinman, Neumann
Beethoven (14) – Chailly*, Morris, Walter (40s/50s on United Archives)*, Furtwangler, Bernstein I, Toscanini ('39* & 50s RCA cycle), Karajan III, Abbado II* & III, Barenboim, Hogwood, Gardiner, Kempe
Brahms (12) – Celibidache I & II, Levine I*, Giulini II*, Furtwangler, Walter I & II, Barenboim, Karajan (70s), Abbado I, Toscanini (50s/stereo), Kubelik*
Schumann (7) – Kubelik II, Bernstein II, Zinman, Barenboim II*, Karajan, Szell, Skrowaczewski
Bruckner (7) – Jochum II, Barenboim I & II, Wand*, Karajan, Tintner, Celibidache II (incomplete)*
Sibelius (5) – Ashkenazy*, Blomstedt, Maazel II, Bernstein, Davis I
Tchaikovsky (3) – Markevitch, Temirkanov*, Karajan
Dvorak (3) – Kubelik*, Suitner, Rowicki
Haydn (2) – Fischer*, Davies*
Schubert (2) – Bohm*, Barenboim
Szymanowki (2) – Wit*, Stryja
Scriabin (2) – Ashkenazy, Muti*
Vaughn Williams (2) – Previn*, Slatkin
Martinu (2) – Neumann, Belohlavek*
Todd,
What's your figure on Beethoven P/Sons? ;)
Quote from: karlhenning on January 23, 2012, 09:48:42 AM
Whose complete symphony cycles do you have the most of, and how many?
I'm definitely a marginal player here, but I'll start off:
Shostakovich, 3: Maksim Dmitriyevich; Kondrashin; Haitink
Vaughan Williams, 3: Haitink; Handley; Thomson
Prokofiev, 3: Ozawa; Martinon; Järvi
Sibelius, 4: Maazel/Wiener; Blomstedt/SFSO; Berglund/Helsinki; Lenny/NY Phil
Of course, I missed:
Nielsen, 3: Blomstedt/SFSO; Thomson; Schmidt
Oh, the perdurable shame of having forgotten Nielsen in this thread! : )
Quote from: AnthonyAthletic on January 23, 2012, 10:45:42 AMWhat's your figure on Beethoven P/Sons? ;)
63 or 64 - can't remember off the top of my head. And no, I don't see a problem with that.
Quote from: Todd on January 23, 2012, 10:49:44 AM
63 or 64 - can't remember off the top of my head. And no, I don't see a problem with that.
LOL, classic ;D
I can't complain either, Mahler 5 for me stands at around the 60+ mark, plus maybe 10 to 15 bootlegs
Favorites in bold (requested by George)
BEETHOVEN 11
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL (1963)
SOLTI CHICAGO
HARNONCOURT COE
KLEMPERER PHILHARMONIA
BARENBOIM STAATSKAP BERLIN
NORRINGTON LONDON CLASS
SZELL CLEVELAND
MAAZEL CLEVELAND
BRÜGGEN 18TH CENTURY
BERNSTEIN VIENNA PHIL
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH PHIL
BRAHMS 14
JOCHUM LPO
MACKERRAS SCOTTISH CHAMBER
KLEMPERER PHILHARMONIA
BARENBOIM CHICAGO
MAAZEL CLEVELAND
DOHNÁNYI CLEVELAND
SZELL CLEVELAND
FURTWÄNGLER VARIOUS (M&A)
FURTWÄNGLER VARIOUS (ARCHIPEL)
SANDERLING STAATS DRESDEN
WAND SONDR
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH PHIL
GIELEN SWR SO BADEN BADEN
ESCHENBACH HOUSTON
BRUCKNER 7
MAAZEL SOBR
CHAILLY CONCERGEBOUW RSO BERLIN
BARENBOIM BERLIN PHIL
WAND KÖLNER RSO
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
JOCHUM STAATS DRESDEN
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH (3-9)
DVORAK 4
SUITNER STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN
ROWICKI LSO
KERTESZ LSO
KUBELIK BERLIN PHIL
ELGAR 7
BOULT LPO
SINOPOLI PHILH
TATE LSO
DAVIS LSO
SOLTI LPO
SLATKIN LPO
BARBIROLLI PHILHARMONIA HALLÉ
MAHLER 14 (16 INCLUDING KONDRASHIN AND LEVINE)
BERNSTEIN NEW YORK (SONY)
BERNSTEIN VARIOUS (DG)
BERNSTEIN VARIOUS (DVD)
MAAZEL VIENNA PHIL
BERTINI KÖLNER RSO
NEUMANN CZECH PHIL
SINOPOLI PHILHARMONIA
RATTLE CBSO
TENNSTEDT LPO
SVETLANOV RUSSIAN STATE SO
INBAL RSO FRANKFURT
BOULEZ VARIOUS
CHAILLY CONCERTGEBOUW
GIELEN SWR SO BADEN BADEN
LEVINE VARIOUS
KONDRASHIN MOSCOW PHIL
MARTINU 3
JÄRVI BAMBERG
NEUMANN CZECH PHIL
THOMSON ROYAL SCOTTISH
NIELSEN 8
SCHMIDT LSO
BLOMSTEDT SAN FRANCISCO
BERNSTEIN/ORMANDY VARIOUS
KUCHAR JANACEK PHIL
ROZHDESTVENSKY STOCKHOLM PHIL
SALONEN SWEDISH RADIO SO
SCHONWANDT DANISH NAT SO
BERGLUND ROYAL DANISH
PROKOFIEV 7
ROZHDESTVENSKY MOSCOW PHIL
OZAWA BERLIN PHIL
JÄRVI SNO
KITAJENKO GÜRZENICH O KÖLN
WELLER LSO
ROSTROPOVICH VARIOUS
GERGIEV LSO
SCHMIDT 4
RAJTER RSO BRATISLAVA
LUISI MDR SO
JÄRVI DETROIT/CHICAGO
SINAISKY MALMÖ SO
SCHUBERT 6
GOODMAN HANOVER BAND
HARNONCOURT CONCERTGEBOUW
IMMERSEEL ANIMA ETERNA
DAVIS STAATS DRESDEN
BLOMSTEDT STAATS DRESDEN
WAND KÖLNER RSO
SCHUMANN 7
GOODMAN HANNOVER BAND
SZELL CLEVELAND
KLEMPERER NEW PHILH
BARENBOIM STAATS BERLIN
BERNSTEIN VIENNA PHIL
SEMKOW ST LOUIS
CHAILLY GO LEIPZIG
SHOSTAKOVICH 4
JANSONS VARIOUS
ROSTROPOVICH NATIONAL SO LSO
BARSHAI WDR SO
KITAJENKO GÜRZENICH O KÖLN
MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY 2
DOHNÁNYI VIENNA PHIL
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
SIBELIUS 18
DAVIS LSO
DAVIS BOSTON
DAVIS LSO LIVE
JÄRVI GOTHENBURG S
BERNSTEIN NY PHIL
VÄNSKÄ LAHTI SO
SANDERLING BERLIN SO
MAAZEL VIENNA PHIL
MAAZEL PITTSBURGH
BERGLUND COE
BERGLUND BOURNEMOUTH
ASHKENAZY PHILHARMONIA
ROZHDESTVENSKY MOSCOW RSO
SEGERSTAM HELSINKI PHIL
RATTLE CBSO
BLOMSTEDT SAN FRANCISCO
SAKARI ICELAND SO
BARBIROLLI HALLÉ
TIPPETT 2
DAVIS LSO (SOLTI/CHICAGO #4)
HICKOX BOURNEMOUTH
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 8
HAITINK LPO
HANDLEY RLPO
PREVIN LSO
THOMSON LSO
BOULT LPO (EMI)
BOULT LPO (DECCA)
SLATKIN PHILHARMONIA
DAVIS BBC
Sarge
Quote from: Scots John on January 23, 2012, 10:40:50 AM
My God, I used to have a heap load more, but they were lost a few years ago in flames... :'( Still, done not bad since then... :D
Your collection's resurrection is mightily impressive, John.
Sarge
Interesting that we've no overlap in Dmitri Dmitriyevich, Sarge!
Quote from: Todd on January 23, 2012, 10:43:33 AM
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Mahler (17) - Kubelik, Bernstein I & III, Bertini, Abravanel, Gielen, Levine (incomplete), MTT, Tennstedt, Sinopoli, Rattle, Inbal, Chailly, Svetlanov, Maazel, Zinman, Neumann
And you didn't post that fact in the Mahler Madness thread? You might have won, dude!
Sarge
Can I ask that folks indicate their favorite(s)? I think it'd be a useful way to find considered recommendations.
Quote from: karlhenning on January 23, 2012, 11:22:06 AM
Interesting that we've no overlap in Dmitri Dmitriyevich, Sarge!
I have a few Kondrashins in my collection. I like his 15th...about as far from Sanderling (my favorite) as one could get interpretively but all the more interesting because of it.
Haitink's cycle is about 50% complete. I've been collecting individually for what, 25 years now? In fact, I ordered Haitink's 14th a few days ago. Should be here any day now.
Sarge
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 23, 2012, 11:23:15 AMAnd you didn't post that fact in the Mahler Madness thread? You might have won, dude!
I do not believe I have read that thread. 2011 was a year of only a few musical foci for me, and one was Mahler symphonies. I added 12 cycles last year.
What would I have won? Please don't say a nice single malt.
Quote from: George on January 23, 2012, 11:24:43 AMCan I ask that folks indicate their favorite(s)? I think it'd be a useful way to find considered recommendations.
Updated mine. Most don't have one favorite.
Quote from: Todd on January 23, 2012, 11:30:19 AM
What would I have won?
A one-way ticket to the looney bin :D
Sarge
Quote from: Todd on January 23, 2012, 11:30:19 AM
Updated mine. Most don't have one favorite.
Thanks! Hope others do the same.
Beethoven (2) - Gardiner, HvK 63 + Celi ;D
Brahms (2) - Eschenbach, Celi
Bruckner (2) - Wand, Jochum + Celi ;D
Mahler (11 ) - Chailly, Gielen, Maazel VPO, Tennstedt LPO, Bernstein Sony, Bernstein DG, Solti, Bertini incl. partials of Klemperer, Levine, Sinopoli
Sibelius (2) - K. Sandeling, Blomstedt
and that's it.... all the rest is just one of each.... :-[
Continued from initial list...
Martinu - Thomson, Jarvi, Belohlavek, Neumann, Valek
Rachmaninov - Ashkenazy, Jansons, Svetlanov, Dutoit, Pletnev
Schubert - Bohm, Marriner, Harnoncourt, Kertesz
Schumann - Bernstein, Karajan, Szell, Harnoncourt, Chailly (orch. Mahler)
Beethoven - Bernstein (Sony), Karajan (60s cycle DG), Harnoncourt, Zinman, Klemperer, Abbado (second DG cycle)
Mendelssohn - Karajan, Abbado, Dohnanyi, Flor, Masur, Ashkenazy
Elgar - Barbirolli, Sinopolli, Davis (LSO Live), Slatkin, Boult (EMI and Lyrita), Solti, Thomson, A. Davis
Honegger - Dutoit, Plasson, Baudo
Blue = favorite cycle
To be continued...
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 23, 2012, 12:30:37 PM
Do Wagner Ring cycles count?
The OP called for symphony cycles. So we shall disallow Wagner : )
Todd/Sarge/Eveyone who has helped identify favorites - Really appreciate that. Identifying a few favorites is quite helpful for me and generates some good ideas (perhaps exploring more than I might have). THANK YOU!!
Quote from: karlhenning on January 23, 2012, 12:36:53 PM
The OP called for symphony cycles. So we shall disallow Wagner : )
Oh, okay...thank you for clarifying, Karl.
Quote from: mc ukrneal on January 23, 2012, 01:01:39 PM
Todd/Sarge/Eveyone who has helped identify favorites - Really appreciate that. Identifying a few favorites is quite helpful for me and generates some good ideas (perhaps exploring more than I might have). THANK YOU!!
Seconded!! :)
Quote from: mc ukrneal on January 23, 2012, 01:01:39 PM
Todd/Sarge/Eveyone who has helped identify favorites - Really appreciate that. Identifying a few favorites is quite helpful for me and generates some good ideas (perhaps exploring more than I might have). THANK YOU!!
That's a good idea. I'm going to go back and highlight my favorites in blue for each composer.
Complete one-conductor cycles :
Beethoven: 5: Mengelberg, Toscanini, Karajan DG2, Leibowitz, Bernstein NYPO ¨
(+ Scherchen nos.1-8, Furtwängler nos.1,3-7,9. Sold Konwitschny, Karajan/EMI, Bernstein/DG, Blomstedt).
Brahms: 3: Karajan/early DG, Boult, Toscanini (actually sold Furtwängler)
Scriabin: 3: Muti, Svetlanov, Golovanov
Sibelius: 3: Rozhdestvensky, Ashkenazy, Davis 1 (excepting the Kullervo. Sold Abravanel and Maazel/decca)
Rachmaninov: 3: Ashkenazy/decca, Weller, de Waart
V-Williams: 2: Boult, Previn
EDIT: Rimsky-Korsakov: 2: Svetlanov, Butt
That said, I´ve probably got 1100 different symphonies, from Haydn and onwards, some of them in up to 10 (15?) versions.
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 23, 2012, 11:19:01 AM
Favorites in bold (requested by George)
I always take Sarge as a template; it's easier that way, given the overlap.
Although I don't think there's a Celi-LvB Cycle, is there?
BEETHOVEN 19?KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL (1970s)
BARENBOIM STAATSKAP BERLINBRÜGGEN 18TH CENTURY
BERNSTEIN VIENNA PHIL
Chailly, Leipzig
Thielemann, ViennaJaervi, BremenVanska, Minnesota
Blomstedt, Staatskapelle
Masur, Leipzig 70s
Fedoseyev, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Radio
Gardiner, ORRJ.v.Immerseel, Anima Eterna
Abbado, Rome (BPh)
Rattle, Vienna
Toscanini, NBC
Haitink, LSO
Jochum, BPh, BRSO
Kletzki, CzPO
...
BRUCKNER 7 1/2MAAZEL SOBR
Haitink CONCERGEBOUW
WAND KÖLNER RSO
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
Jochum BRSO/BPh
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH (3-9)
Jochum Bros. (Eugen & Georg)
Furtwangler (incomplete)
...?
MAHLER 14BERNSTEIN NEW YORK (SONY)
BERNSTEIN VARIOUS (DG)
SINOPOLI PHILHARMONIA
RATTLE CBSO
SVETLANOV RUSSIAN STATE SO
BOULEZ VARIOUS
CHAILLY CONCERTGEBOUW
GIELEN SWR SO BADEN BADENKubelik, BRSO
Gergiev, LSO
MTT, SFSO
Haitink, Christmas (incomplete)
Kondrashin (incomplete)
Kubelik, Audite (incomplete)
SHOSTAKOVICH 4BARSHAI WDR SOKITAJENKO GÜRZENICH O KÖLN
Kondrashin, Moscow PSOHaitink
SIBELIUS 14http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/survey-of-sibelius-cycles.html (http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/survey-of-sibelius-cycles.html)
DAVIS LSO
DAVIS BOSTON
DAVIS LSO LIVE
BERNSTEIN NY PHIL
VÄNSKÄ LAHTI SO
SANDERLING BERLIN SO
MAAZEL VIENNA PHILMAAZEL PITTSBURGH
ASHKENAZY PHILHARMONIASEGERSTAM HELSINKI PHILRATTLE CBSO
BLOMSTEDT SAN FRANCISCO
SAKARI ICELAND SO
BARBIROLLI HALLÉ
Quote from: jlaurson on January 23, 2012, 01:37:39 PM
Although I don't think there's a Celi-LvB Cycle, is there?
Like his Munich Bruckner,
almost complete: 2-9. There are two Fourths (1987 & 1995).
Sarge
Beethoven: 6
Karajan (60s)
Abbado
Chailly
Gardiner
Krips & LSO
Blomstedt (Brilliant Box Set)
Prokofiev: 1
Jaarvi (SNO)
Sibelius: 1
Ashkenazy
Brahms: 1
Karajan (2003 reissue, 80s/70s)
Bruckner: 1
Karajan (spot a pattern yet? :D)
Mendelssohn: 1
Sawallish (Brilliant Box Set)
Tchaikovsky: 1
Muti
Beethoven (5)
Wand
Karajan 1963
Karajan 1977
Szell
Baenboim
Chailly
Quote from: nesf on January 23, 2012, 03:22:58 PM
Sibelius: 2
Karajan
I hate to nitpick, but Karajan never completed Sibelius's symphonies.
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 23, 2012, 04:36:40 PM
I hate to nitpick, but Karajan never completed Sibelius's symphonies.
Noted and removed. :)
Yeah, just checked, I was thinking of the Kamu/Karajan series. Misremembered it as only Karajan.
Quote from: nesf on January 23, 2012, 05:00:02 PM
Noted and removed. :)
Yeah, just checked, I was thinking of the Kamu/Karajan series. Misremembered it as only Karajan.
You know I always found it interesting that Karajan didn't do a complete Sibelius cycle. He would have excelled in the other symphonies I think.
Beethoven symphonies (12 or 13)
Karajan '62
Mackerras/SCO
Abbado (red "Rome" box)
Barenboim
Hogwood (No. 4)
Gardiner
Bruggen
Immerseel (No. 5)
Haitink/LSO Live
Szell
Harnoncourt
P. Jarvi (except #9) (No. 2)
Vanska (I think complete? Not sure)
Sibelius (6)
Ashkenazy
Berglund/EMI
Maazel/Pittsburgh
Davis/LSO Live
Bernstein
Vanska
(favorites varying widely by symphony: 1 Segerstam/Ondine, 2 none, 3 Segerstam/Ondine, Davis/LSO Live, Mustonen, 4 Maazel/Pittsburgh, 5 Bernstein, 6 Ashkenazy, 7 Segerstam/Ondine, Inkinen!)
Beethoven sonatas (3)
Lucchesini
Lipkind
Gilels (incomplete)
Had Kempff, previously
Can you indicate your favorites, please, Brian?
Quote from: George on January 23, 2012, 05:58:17 PM
Can you indicate your favorites, please, Brian?
Edited them in, but especially in the case of Sibelius they're not very clear-cut!
The Beethoven bolded numbers indicate my favorites for particular symphonies.
Quote from: Brian on January 23, 2012, 06:01:26 PM
Edited them in, but especially in the case of Sibelius they're not very clear-cut!
The Beethoven bolded numbers indicate my favorites for particular symphonies.
Thanks, we are on the same page for Barenboim's LvB and Gilels's LvB.
Beethoven:
Gardiner, P. Jarvi, Immerseel, Goodman-Huggett (Hanover Band), Toscanini, Muti, Harnoncourt, Bohm VPO, Karajan 1963, Zinman. Bernstein VPO, the Naxos hotchpot of Central European orchestras 12, no partials at the moment
(I could have sworn I have more, but I can't think of any others!)
Mahler: Bernstein Sony and Bernstein DG, Tennstedt, MTT, Gergiev, Zinman, Inbal, Bertini, the not complete Levine, and large portions of Boulez, Abbado Chicago, and Rattle. 8 plus Levine, and three partials.
Other composers are considerably less. Brahms is probably the nearest: Eschenbach, Rattle, Muti, Gardiner 4 (no very clear favorite)
Schumann--Kubelik, Zinman, Sawallisch, Vonk 4
Everyone else is no more than two, even Bruckner (Jochum EMI and Wand) and Shostakovich (Haitink, Barshai) although I've got all of Gergiev's and Petrenko's, and if those become completed cycles, I'll have four Shosty cycles.
Non symphonies--only Beethoven really counts here. I've got at least two cycles each of the string quartets, the piano trios, the piano concertos, the violin sonatas and the piano sonatas.
ETA:I've also got what Norrington has released as his series of Mahler and Bruckner recordings . and Chaillys Mahler cycle is part of the Presto order that got lost in transit, so I both have and don't have that one.
I have cycles of some other symphonists, but these are the ones who matter most to me (may be incomplete, because I don't keep records of these things!):
SHOSTAKOVICH: Kondrashin, Mravinsky (incomplete), Barshai, Jansons, Rozhdestvensky, Slovak
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Previn, Handley, Thomson, Boult EMI, Haitink
PROKOFIEV: (order of preference) Kuchar, Rozhdestvensky, Weller, Gergiev, Jarvi
SIBELIUS: (all pretty good overall) Collins, Berglund Helsinki, Maazel Vienna, Barbirolli, Karajan (DG & EMI - incomplete), Ashkenazy
MAHLER: Tennstedt, Bertini, Rattle, Bernstein Sony
DVORAK: Pesek, Gunzenhauser, Kertesz, Suitner, Anguelov
BRUCKNER: Karajan (I might 'bold' this if it ever gets remastered!), Tintner, Jochum EMI
You may be interested to know that "Climatic cyclicity with a period of about 35 years is known as the Bruckner cycle."
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on January 23, 2012, 07:14:01 PM
Non symphonies--only Beethoven really counts here. I've got at least two cycles each of the string quartets, the piano trios, the piano concertos, the violin sonatas and the piano sonatas.
Re: Non-Symphonies: If Brahms and Schumann Sys. count as 'cycles', or Bartok Quartets (to me, they don't, at 2 CDs each), certainly Mozart Piano Sonatas & Quartets, Haydn Quartets & Piano Trios, Bach Organ Works, etc. etc. They all make lovely, collectible sets.
Certainly LvB Piano Sonatas are very collectible, as Todd can tell you.
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/beethoven-sonatas-survey-of-complete.html (http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/beethoven-sonatas-survey-of-complete.html)
LvB Sonatas
Schnabel, Kempff I, Kempff II, Backhaus II, Gulda II*, Kuerti, Ashkenazy, Arrau II, D.A.Wehr, Oppitz, Lewis, Brautigam**, Gilels**
LvB SQ4ts
Alexander II, Leipzig Gewandhaus, Takacs, Q.Italiano, Guarneri I, Tokyo I, Tokyo II, Vegh II, Juilliard II...
DSCH SQ4ts
Borodin I, Borodin II, Brodsky, Emerson, Mandelring, Sorrel,...
Haydn SQ4ts
Auryn, Kodaly, Festetics...
Haydn Symphonies
Fischer, Dorati, DRDavies
Haydn Piano Trios
Beaux Arts, Eisenstadt, 1790, Van Swieten
Mozart Keyboard Sonatas
Brautigam, Uchida, Larrocha, Pires II, Eschenbach, Wurtz, Gould...
Mozart Piano Concertos
Perahia, Uchida, Schiff...etc.
Quoteonly symphonic cycles!
fine.
Jawohl.
B R A H M S:
Furtwangler, BPh
Wand, NDREschenbach, Houston SO
Rattle, BPh
Dohnanyi, Philharmonia
Giulini, Philharmonia
Haitink, RCO
Alsop, LSO
Gardiner, ORR
Karajan, BPh (mixed)
Levine, WPh
Janowski, Pittsburgh
Bernstein, WPh, DVD
Maybe Celi, Stuttgart
I had Haitink, LSO, but found it awful and let it go quietly at some point.
Could be interested in the Gielen, but probably nothing else. Well, maybe Jochum / BPh or Kubelik / BRSO.
But I need only one cycle, and that's Wand. And one alternative, and that's Rattle, which is awesome in its own, unique way: http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/03/dip-your-ears-no-100.html (http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2010/03/dip-your-ears-no-100.html)
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on January 23, 2012, 07:14:01 PM
Beethoven:
Gardiner, P. Jarvi, Immerseel, Goodman-Huggett (Hanover Band), Toscanini, Muti, Harnoncourt, Bohm VPO, Karajan 1963, Zinman. Bernstein VPO, the Naxos hotchpot of Central European orchestras 12, no partials at the moment
(I could have sworn I have more, but I can't think of any others!)
Mahler: Bernstein Sony and Bernstein DG, Tennstedt, MTT, Gergiev, Zinman, Inbal, Bertini, the not complete Levine, and large portions of Boulez, Abbado Chicago, and Rattle. 8 plus Levine, and three partials.
Other composers are considerably less. Brahms is probably the nearest: Eschenbach, Rattle, Muti, Gardiner 4 (no very clear favorite)
Schumann--Kubelik, Zinman, Sawallisch, Vonk 4
Everyone else is no more than two, even Bruckner (Jochum EMI and Wand) and Shostakovich (Haitink, Barshai) although I've got all of Gergiev's and Petrenko's, and if those become completed cycles, I'll have four Shosty cycles.
Non symphonies--only Beethoven really counts here. I've got at least two cycles each of the string quartets, the piano trios, the piano concertos, the violin sonatas and the piano sonatas.
ETA:I've also got what Norrington has released as his series of Mahler and Bruckner recordings . and Chaillys Mahler cycle is part of the Presto order that got lost in transit, so I both have and don't have that one.
Karl, wants you to list all of your symphony cycles ---- nothing else, so string quartet cycles, piano sonatas, etc. do not count.
Wonderful thread idea. My collection is rather small at the moment, but it shall continue to grow! So, at the moment, my 'cyclomania' posts would be:
Symphonies:
Mahler: Bernstein DG, Bernstein Sony, Solti, Rattle, Sinopoli, Bertini.
Elgar: Solti, EMI Boult, Lyrita Boult, Barbirolli, C.Davis LSO Live, A.Davis BBCSO, Elder, Elgar Naxos Historical, the Naxos cycle (Hurst for no.1, Downes for no.2), Handley. I think that's it... :)
Beethoven: Haitink, Rattle, Zinman, Karajan DG, Goodman.
Brahms: Rattle, Karajan, Wand
will return with more later... don't get complete cycles too often though, unfortunately.
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 24, 2012, 08:21:17 AM
Brahms: Rattle, Karajan, Wand
will return with more later... don't get complete cycles too often though, unfortunately.
Interesting Elgar-Overkill. ;)
Brahms:
PERFECT TRIUMVIRATE! Nothing really that you'll ever need to add to that, in my opinion.
Symphony cycles, eh?
Johann Ernst Hartmann (Mortensen), complete on one disc!
J Haydn (Fischer)
JC Bach (Halstead)
Mozart (Tate)
Beethoven (Mackerras, Immerseel)
Schubert (Marriner)
Mendelssohn (Abbado)
Schumann (Zinman)
Brahms (Karajan)
Dvorak (Valek)
Vaughn Williams (Handley)
Only one repeat. A tidy and respectable lot, I think.
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 24, 2012, 08:21:17 AM
My collection is rather small at the moment
Pffft!
The EMI Mahler box ought to suit you.
You don't have any Schumann sets, any reason for this?
Quote from: chasmaniac on January 24, 2012, 08:45:12 AM
Symphony cycles, eh?
J Haydn (Fischer) :)
Mozart (Tate) :-\
Beethoven (Mackerras WHICH ONE?, Immerseel) :), :D
Schubert (Marriner) :)- :-\
Mendelssohn (Abbado) :(
Schumann (Zinman) :)
Brahms (Karajan) :D
Dvorak (Valek) ???
Vaughn Williams (Handley) :)
Only one repeat. A tidy and respectable lot, I think.
Too bad one cannot introduce Surveys to thread already ongoing.
Would be great if we could all vote on our favorite cycles in one neat thread.
M E N D E L S S O H N:
Karajan, ;D
Dohnanyi, 0:)
Sawallisch, >:(
Masur, :-\
Flor, ;D
Maag, :)
Abbado, :(
Ashkenazy, :-\
I think I want to see that smily face rating system alot more often, it's awesome!! 8)
Updated favs, forgot to add Previn to RVW but now added, don't know why forgot becuase its a great set.
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19814.msg595131.html#msg595131 (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19814.msg595131.html#msg595131)
Nice thread :) My collection is growing up, but it's not still very big at the moment:
Beethoven Karajan, Abbado/BPO
Mahler Bernstein DG, Solti
Sibelius Ashkenazy, Maazel/VPO
Brahms Karajan
Tchaikovsky Karajan
Bruckner Karajan
Schumann Karajan
Nielsen Blomstedt
I will return later......
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 24, 2012, 09:34:13 AM
Wagner Karajan, Solti, Barenboim
They all recorded the symphonies? ; )
Quote from: karlhenning on January 24, 2012, 09:59:54 AM
They all recorded the symphonies? ; )
If only, it would have certainly been very interesting.
I'm sorry, I thought this thread was about cycles in general and not only about symphonies; my mistake :)
No worries! Threads on GMG do tend to spin out centrifugally . . . so I thought I'd have a go at keeping this one on track.
Quote from: DavidW on January 24, 2012, 09:12:32 AM
I think I want to see that smily face rating system alot more often, it's awesome!! 8)
I like it too. But he put some of the smilies next to the wrong name! ;D ;)
Quote from: George on January 23, 2012, 11:24:43 AM
Can I ask that folks indicate their favorite(s)? I think it'd be a useful way to find considered recommendations.
Done (http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,19814.msg595107.html#msg595107), although in the case of Sibelius and Nielsen, I've no clear favorites among the sets I have . . . nor is any a turkey IMO : )
Quote from: jlaurson on January 24, 2012, 08:38:26 AM
Interesting Elgar-Overkill. ;)
Brahms: PERFECT TRIUMVIRATE! Nothing really that you'll ever need to add to that, in my opinion.
:D
Thank you! There are some more Brahms sets I want... but will probably wait a while, maybe until I have all the Mahler cycles available. :D
Quote from: North Star on January 24, 2012, 09:02:01 AM
Pffft!
The EMI Mahler box ought to suit you.
You don't have any Schumann sets, any reason for this?
My collection
really is rather small! Tiny compared to someones like Sarge's.
I probably won't get the EMI Mahler box as I have most of the performances in it. Great for anyone who doesn't though! Hope you are enjoying it.
I do have a Schumann set, actually I have two, the Zinman and the Sawallisch. I left quite a few sets out actually. Back with more later perhaps.
Quote from: chasmaniac on January 24, 2012, 08:45:12 AM
Symphony cycles, eh?
Johann Ernst Hartmann (Mortensen), complete on one disc!
J Haydn (Fischer)
JC Bach (Halstead)
Mozart (Tate)
Beethoven (Mackerras, Immerseel)
Schubert (Marriner)
Mendelssohn (Abbado)
Schumann (Zinman)
Brahms (Karajan)
Dvorak (Valek)
Vaughn Williams (Handley)
Only one repeat. A tidy and respectable lot, I think.
No Mahler?! :o ;)
Quote from: DavidW on January 24, 2012, 09:12:32 AM
I think I want to see that smily face rating system alot more often, it's awesome!! 8)
Yes but is the big grin a positive or negative reccomendation?
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 24, 2012, 10:35:32 AM
:No Mahler?! :o ;)
No Mauler, sorry about that. I was a fan of Haystack Calhoun though. ;D
Quote from: George on January 24, 2012, 10:55:18 AM
Yes but is the big grin a positive or negative reccomendation?
Positive, of course. What else? Grin as in: "You idiot bought into
that crummy cycle being awesome?" No.
I wouldn't really want to define the smilies too much, as they'd be robbed of interpretive nuance that way... but roughly:
0:) Divine
;D Smile inducing
:D Awesome
:) Very naaaaihce!
;) I see where you're going with that
:-\ Mhewwee.
:( Nah, not really successful
::) Oh gawd. 'spose he didn't know better. Beginner's mistake.
>:( Horribilus
:o How could you!
:P It feels a little sour in my mouth
:-X I think I have to hurl.
:'( Makes me cry... why would anyone do that to this music...
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 24, 2012, 09:34:13 AM
Nice thread :) My collection is growing up, but it's not still very big at the moment:
Beethoven Karajan (63 presumably?), Abbado (Berlin I, presumably?) ;D, :)
Mahler Bernstein DG, Solti :), :-\
Sibelius Ashkenazy, Maazel (Vienna, presumably?), ;D, 0:)
Brahms Karajan (early, later, or mix?) :)
Tchaikovsky Karajan :D
Bruckner Karajan :D
Schumann Karajan :-\
Nielsen Blomstedt :D
I will return later......
Since I'm more of a baroque bloke, I do not really hunt after symphony cycles.
YET, I do have some, or so I discovered. ;)
I've got more than 3 of these composers:
Beethoven
Konwitschny
Karajan 60s DG
Leibowitz
Blomstedt
Masur
Kegel
Sawallisch
Zinman
Norrington 1 (LCP)
Brüggen
Van Immerseel
Haitink 3 (LSO live)
Brahms
Van Beinum
Haitink (CO)
Sawallisch
Van Zweden
Chailly
Tchaikovsky
Muti
Litton
Jansons
Pletnev
Mahler
Bernstein 70s (DG-DVD) & 80s (DG-CD)
Haitink
Kubelik
Solti
Tennstedt
Sinopoli
Inbal
Bertini
Rattle
Brilliant Classics mixed boxset
Concerning Mahler: Bertini's definitely my favourite integral, but I enjoy a lot of goodies in each and every set I'm happy to own.
Concerning the lot: there's only one let-down maybe, which is Litton's Tchaikovsky, I'm sorry to say.
Quote from: Marc on January 24, 2012, 11:25:27 AM
Mahler
Bernstein 70s (DG-DVD) & 80s (DG-CD)
Haitink
Kubelik
Solti
Tennstedt
Sinopoli
Inbal
Bertini
Rattle
Brilliant Classics mixed boxset
Concerning Mahler: Bertini's definitely my favourite integral, but I enjoy a lot of goodies in each and every set I'm happy to own.
Concerning the lot: there's only one let-down maybe, which is Litton's Tchaikovsky, I'm sorry to say.
Good to see so much Mahler, Marc!
I actually rather like the Litton Tchaikovsky set - wonderful performances to me!
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 24, 2012, 11:33:27 AM
Good to see so much Mahler, Marc!
I actually rather like the Litton Tchaikovsky set - wonderful performances to me!
I remember missing emotion, commitment and 'bite', especially in nos. 4-6, and also not being all that fond of the sound quality. It's been some time since I last listened to either one of them.
I'd like to add, that I also have two twofers with nos. 4-6 and they're good (Maazel, Wiener Phil) and very good (Mravinsky, Leningrad Phil [stereo DG]).
So: there's still plenty of Pjotr to enjoy in da house, despide the lacklustre (IMHO) Andrew.
Quote from: Marc on January 24, 2012, 11:42:53 AM
I remember missing emotion, commitment and 'bite', especially in nos. 4-6, and also not being all that fond of the sound quality. It's been some time since I last listened to either one of them.
I'd like to add, that I also have two twofers with nos. 4-6 and they're good (Maazel, Wiener Phil) and very good (Mravinsky, Leningrad Phil [stereo DG]).
So: there's still plenty of Pjotr to enjoy in da house, despide the lacklustre (IMHO) Andrew.
Well, I suppose that's fair, especially considering the other recordings of no.4-6 you have. Mravinsky is beyond amazing...
I also have quite a few 'twofers' of no.4-6 which are Karajan, Mravinsky, Pappano. The Litton is the complete cycle I have. Thinking of getting the complete Muti cycle, and also the Andris Nelsons 4-6.
B E E T H O V E N (20?)
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL (1970s) :)
BARENBOIM STAATSKAP BERLIN ;D
BRÜGGEN 18TH CENTURY
BERNSTEIN VIENNA PHIL
Chailly, Leipzig 8)
Thielemann, Vienna ;)
Jaervi, Bremen 0:)
Vanska, Minnesota ;D
Blomstedt, Staatskapelle
Masur, Leipzig 70s
Fedoseyev, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Radio >:(
Gardiner, ORR :D
J.v.Immerseel, Anima Eterna :)
Abbado, Rome (BPh) :D
Rattle, Vienna :-\
Toscanini, NBC ::)
Haitink, LSO :-[
Jochum, BPh, BRSO
Kletzki, CzPO
Pletnev, RNSO 8)
...
B R U C K N E R 7 1/2
MAAZEL SOBR
Haitink CONCERGEBOUW
WAND KÖLNER RSO
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
Jochum BRSO/BPh
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH (3-9)
Jochum Bros. (Eugen & Georg)
Furtwangler (incomplete)
...?
M A H L E R (14)
BERNSTEIN NEW YORK (SONY) :)
BERNSTEIN VARIOUS (DG) 8)
SINOPOLI PHILHARMONIA 8)
RATTLE CBSO
SVETLANOV RUSSIAN STATE SO
BOULEZ VARIOUS :D
CHAILLY CONCERTGEBOUW
GIELEN SWR SO BADEN BADEN ;D
Kubelik, BRSO :)
Gergiev, LSO
MTT, SFSO ;)
Haitink, Christmas (incomplete)
Kondrashin (incomplete) 8)
Kubelik, Audite (incomplete) :D
S H O S T A K O V I C H (4)[/b]
BARSHAI WDR SO :D
KITAJENKO GÜRZENICH O KÖLN
Kondrashin, Moscow PSO 8)
Haitink
S I B E L I U S (15)
http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/survey-of-sibelius-cycles.html (http://ionarts.blogspot.com/2009/05/survey-of-sibelius-cycles.html)
DAVIS LSO
DAVIS BOSTON
DAVIS LSO LIVE
BERNSTEIN NY PHIL 8)
VÄNSKÄ LAHTI SO
SANDERLING BERLIN SO :D
MAAZEL VIENNA PHIL ;D
MAAZEL PITTSBURGH
ASHKENAZY PHILHARMONIA :D
SEGERSTAM HELSINKI PHIL :D
RATTLE CBSO
BLOMSTEDT SAN FRANCISCO :)
SAKARI ICELAND SO :)
BARBIROLLI HALLÉ ???
Gibson :)
Slatkin :-X
Berglund III ChOE 0:)
E L G A R
Barenboim :D
Andrew Davis II
Elder :D
Barbirolli
Boult :)
Colin Davis :P
Solti :-[
So no one makes the cut with Elgar, Jens? And Solti gets a signal thumb's-down. Interesting!
Beethoven: Immerseel
Schumann: Zinman
Brahms: Rattle
Tchaikovsky: Pletnev
Rachmaninov: Jansons
Sibelius: Neeme Järvi
Nielsen: Blomstedt EMI
Quote from: karlhenning on January 24, 2012, 11:58:49 AM
So no one makes the cut with Elgar, Jens? And Solti gets a signal thumb's-down. Interesting!
Huh? Three positive responses to Elgar sets, just not an ecstatic one...
(the rest is Elgar's fault.)And yes, if Solti were the only conductor I had heard in the Symphonies, I'd never have bothered with Elgar again.
Curiously, I kind of really dig his late Elgar recording with the perfectly unidiomatic Vienna Philharmonic.
Quote from: jlaurson on January 24, 2012, 11:12:02 AM
I wouldn't really want to define the smilies too much, as they'd be robbed of interpretive nuance that way... but roughly:
0:) Divine
;D Smile inducing
:D Awesome
:) Very naaaaihce!
;) I see where you're going with that
:-\ Mhewwee.
:( Nah, not really successful
::) Oh gawd. 'spose he didn't know better. Beginner's mistake.
>:( Horribilus
:o How could you!
:P It feels a little sour in my mouth
:-X I think I have to hurl.
:'( Makes me cry... why would anyone do that to this music...
Beethoven Karajan (63 presumably?), Abbado (Berlin I, presumably?) ;D, :)
Mahler Bernstein DG, Solti :), :-\
Sibelius Ashkenazy, Maazel (Vienna, presumably?), ;D, 0:)
Brahms Karajan (early, later, or mix?) :)
Tchaikovsky Karajan :D
Bruckner Karajan :D
Schumann Karajan :-\
Nielsen Blomstedt :D
Beethoven Actually, I've got two Karajan's sets, '63 and 70s; the Abbado is with BPO.
Sibelius Yes, Maazel & VPO.
Brahms Later
You don't seem to love Solti's Mahler and Karajan's Schumann very much, don't you? ;)
Quote from: jlaurson on January 24, 2012, 12:03:46 PM
Huh? Three positive responses to Elgar sets, just not an ecstatic one... (the rest is Elgar's fault.)
Oh, I mistook you. I saw the lack of boldface as the signifier. I tend to filter out most emoticons . . . .
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 24, 2012, 10:35:32 AM
My collection really is rather small! Tiny compared to someones like Sarge's.
I probably won't get the EMI Mahler box as I have most of the performances in it. Great for anyone who doesn't though! Hope you are enjoying it.
I do have a Schumann set, actually I have two, the Zinman and the Sawallisch. I left quite a few sets out actually. Back with more later perhaps.
Well yes small compared to someone like Sarge, but that doesn't mean that the collection is small. And you have a lot of time to catch up. 8)
Besides, if you have most of the EMI Mahler sets performances, your Mahler collection most likely isn't too small.
I will be enjoying the Mahler in one or two weeks since only today I finally managed to edit the credit card info on Amazon.
Quote from: North Star on January 24, 2012, 12:08:54 PM
Well yes small compared to someone like Sarge, but that doesn't mean that the collection is small. And you have a lot of time to catch up. 8)
Besides, if you have most of the EMI Mahler sets performances, your Mahler collection most likely isn't too small.
I will be enjoying the Mahler in one or two weeks since only today I finally managed to edit the credit card info on Amazon."e author=madaboutmahler link=topic=19814.msg595421#msg595421 date=1327433732]
My collection really is rather small! Tiny compared to someones like Sarge
haha :) Well, the Mahler section in my collection is the largest part, closely followed by the Elgar section. :)
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 24, 2012, 12:04:01 PM
Beethoven Actually, I've got two Karajan's sets, '63 and 70s; the Abbado is with BPO.
Sibelius Yes, Maazel & VPO.
Brahms Later
You don't seem to love Solti's Mahler and Karajan's Schumann very much, don't you? ;)
Solti, Mahler, and I have a very complicated relationship. Not a good one. Although Sarge and an open mind have brought me around to crediting his Sixth with respect and keenly perked ears. It is to me what Sarge told me Szell's M6
should be. I hate, hate, hate his
Sixth Eighth and don't care for much of the rest.
Karajan's Schumann is one of the few Karajan-sets where the 'Karajan' sound actually does annoy me on occasion. It's not bad... but I find it exhausting over time. Much rather listen to Barenboim when I like it bold and varnished, or Zinman when I like it zippy, or Gardiner when I want HIP, or the classic Sawallisch when I want it superbly traditional. And for "OTT" I can go to Bernstein/Sony.
I have a touch of, probably irrational, aversion to complete sets, so have very few
4 - brahms
3 - schumann, scriabin, sibelius
2 - beethoven, martinu, shostakovich, tchaikovsky
Continued from my last list...
Brahms - Zinman, Rattle, Bernstein (DG), Solti, Karajan, Bohm, Abbado, Dohnanyi, Muti, Harnoncourt, Barenboim, Haitink (LSO Live), C. Davis
Dvorak - Kubelik, Kertesz, Neumann, Rowicki, Pesek, Suitner
Alwyn - Hickox, Lloyd-Jones
Bax - Thomson, Handley, Lloyd-Jones
Stanford - Lloyd-Jones, Handley
Scriabin - Muti, Ashkenazy, Svetlanov
Rimsky-Korsakov - Jarvi, Svetlanov
To be continued...
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 24, 2012, 09:34:13 AM
Beethoven Karajan, Abbado/BPO
Mahler Bernstein DG, Solti
Sibelius Ashkenazy, Maazel/VPO
Brahms Karajan
Tchaikovsky Karajan
Bruckner Karajan
Schumann Karajan
Nielsen Blomstedt
Quoting myself and continuing the list:
Rachmaninov Ashkenazy/RCO
Prokofiev Weller/LSO
Dvorak Kubelik/BPO
Schubert Sawallisch/Dresden Statskapelle
Elgar Solti/LPO
Shostakovich Haitink/LPO-RCO
Martinu Neumann/CPO
Scriabin Ashkenazy/DSO
Mendelssohn Karajan
Symphonic music falls a bit outside my most important field of interest, nevertheless I am a devoted Beethovenian.
Recently I counted 39 Beethoven symphony sets on my shelves.
Other than that I have:
Brahms: 4
Schubert : 1
Nielsen: 5
Quote from: (: premont :) on January 25, 2012, 03:50:26 AM
Recently I counted 39 Beethoven symphony sets on my shelves.
Zowie!Quote from: (: premont :)Nielsen: 5
Excellent! No wonder we get on so well! : )
My 2 pence, I usually collect one symphony cycle per composer. The only MULTIPLE SYMPHONY Cycles I have are (from what I can remember):
Mahler:
Bertini, Solti
Shostakovich:
Jansons, Haitink
Bold indicates preference.
Quote from: karlhenning on January 23, 2012, 12:36:53 PM
The OP called for symphony cycles. So we shall disallow Wagner : )
:( this is most displeasing!
marvin
Mahler: Kubelik
Brahms: Solti
Tchaikovsky: Karajan
Schubert: Harnoncourt
Schumann: Muti
Bruckner: Jochum
Sibelius: Jarvi
Prokofiev: Gergiev
Shostakovitch: Barshai
Borodin: Ashkenazy
Rimsky-Korsakov: Svetlanov
Kalinnikov: Jarvi
That's pretty much all I have as "complete symphonies".
Quote from: (: premont :) on January 25, 2012, 03:50:26 AM
Symphonic music falls a bit outside my most important field of interest, nevertheless I am a devoted Beethovenian.
Recently I counted 39 Beethoven symphony sets on my shelves.
Other than that I have:
Brahms: 4
Schubert : 1
Nielsen: 5
:o Gosh... congratulations!
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 24, 2012, 07:52:11 PM
Continued from my last list...
Brahms - Zinman, Rattle, Bernstein (DG), Solti, Karajan, Bohm, Abbado, Dohnanyi, Muti, Harnoncourt, Barenboim, Haitink (LSO Live), C. Davis
You have so many Brahms cycles, John! Barely ever see Brahms come up in your listening activity though!
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 25, 2012, 08:47:48 AM
You have so many Brahms cycles, John! Barely ever see Brahms come up in your listening activity though!
I don't listen to Brahms much. I do like his symphonies a lot, but I'm more interested in other composers. I did go through a little Brahms phase a year or so ago, but that quickly faded out.
Quote from: (: premont :) on January 25, 2012, 03:50:26 AM
Symphonic music falls a bit outside my most important field of interest, nevertheless I am a devoted Beethovenian.
Recently I counted 39 Beethoven symphony sets on my shelves.
Wow, that's really great! :o
Quote from: (: premont :) on January 25, 2012, 03:50:26 AM
Recently I counted 39 Beethoven symphony sets on my shelves.
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 25, 2012, 08:47:48 AM
:o Gosh... congratulations!
Quote from: Lisztianwagner on January 25, 2012, 09:45:32 AM
Wow, that's really great! :o
Great but... Suppose you are blindfolded. Could you tell (a) the difference between the Eroica from set 12 and the Eroica from set 31 and (b) who conducts what orchestra on them? ;D
Quote from: Florestan on January 25, 2012, 09:49:47 AM
Great but... Suppose you are blindfolded. Could you tell (a) the difference between the Eroica from set 12 and the Eroica from set 31 and (b) who conducts what orchestra on them? ;D
This sounds like a fun game actually! :)
Maybe we need to resurrect that clips game for that purpose! :D
Quote from: DavidW on January 25, 2012, 10:00:02 AM
Maybe we need to resurrect that clips game for that purpose! :D
Sounds like a good idea! Who's up for it? ;D
Quote from: Florestan on January 25, 2012, 09:49:47 AM
Could you tell (a) the difference between the Eroica from set 12 and the Eroica from set 31 and (b) who conducts what orchestra on them? ;D
I will probably not always be able to tell the names of the performers. Add to this, that I haven´t had the time to listen to all of these recordings yet. And it is interesting to be able always to find a recording I haven´t heard, when I want to listen to a Beethoven symphony. And actually I do not find that one must be completely aware of the identity of the performers to enjoy the interpretation.
Quote from: (: premont :) on January 25, 2012, 11:36:43 AM
I will probably not always be able to tell the name of the performers. Add to this, that I haven´t had the time to listen to all of these recordings yet.
But actually I do not find that one must be completely aware of the identity of the performers to enjoy the interpretation.
But, to be able to return to an interpretation which one has found particularly enjoyable . . . .
Quote from: karlhenning on January 25, 2012, 11:38:48 AM
But, to be able to return to an interpretation which one has found particularly enjoyable . . . .
This is of course what I most often do, and this explains to some degree, why I still have unlistened-to Beethoven symphonies on my shelves.
Sibelius (3): Vanska, Berglund, Barbirolli
Beethoven (3): Karajan 63, Gardiner, Klemperer
Schumann (3): Gardiner, Chailly, Mehta
Shostakovich (3): Barshai, Jansons, Haitink
Bruckner (2): Chailly, Jochum EMI
Brahms (2): Jochum DG, Karajan
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 24, 2012, 07:52:11 PM
To be continued...
These three words should end most of your purchase/collection-related posts!
Well phooey, premont, now I'm going to have to go home and count up my Beethoven sets tonight... ;D
I know I had at least 30 when I counted them last, but that was probably 5 years ago. I haven't bought much in that vein lately, though, so you may still be ahead. I've got Brahms, Mahler, and Bruckner well into the double-digits too (and don't get me started on LvB piano sonatas, but that's another thread)...
It's not healthy, I know, but it's better than spending it on heroin or horse races I suppose, and my 8 year old daughter likes Mahler & Prokofiev, so I must be doing something right! 8) Not many "vices" can give you and your family a lifetime of listening pleasure.
Give me a little time to tally things up. What's the grand prize, Karl? A life-size dancing banana?
Quote from: jwinter on January 25, 2012, 01:05:14 PM
Well phooey, premont, now I'm going to have to go home and count up my Beethoven sets tonight... ;D
Nice to see that avatar again. It's been almost three months since your last appearance! Don't be such a stranger.
Sarge
Here are all (I think...) the complete symphony boxsets I own. Some of my dad's are here as well. ;) Mostly mine.
Beethoven - Haitink LSO, Karajan 1963, Rattle, Zinman, Goodman.
Bruckner - Barenboim
Dvorak - Pesek
Elgar - Solti, Elder, Boult EMI, Boult Lyrita, Barbirolli, C.Davis LSO, A.Davis BBCSO, Elgar Naxos Historical, Naxos set (Hurst for no.1, Downes for no.2), Handley. (think that's it...)
Mahler - Solti, Rattle, Bernstein DG, Bernstein Sony, Sinopoli, Bertini
Martinu - Jarvi
Nielsen - both Blomstedt
Prokofiev - Jarvi
Rachmaninov - Ashkenazy
Roussel - Dutoit
Schubert - Harnoncourt
Schumann - Sawallisch, Zinman
Taneyev - T.Sanderling (on Naxos)
Tchaikovsky - Litton. (and for 4-6, Karajan, Mravinsky, Pappano)
Vaughan Williams - Haitink
Ones I particularly love are highlighted.
Collection still growing... and quite a few of these I have not had the chance to listen to in full yet!
Quote from: springrite on January 25, 2012, 12:41:58 PM
These three words should end most of your purchase/collection-related posts!
:P That's so true! HA!
Quote from: jwinter on January 25, 2012, 01:05:14 PM
my 8 year old daughter likes Mahler & Prokofiev, so I must be doing something right! 8)
:)
I think Beethoven (Zinman, Karajan, not-quite-complete Furtwangler) and Brahms (Juchum, Furtwangler) are the only two composers that I have more than one complete set. I am such a junior collector, as you know...
Quote from: madaboutmahler on January 25, 2012, 01:16:41 PM
Collection still growing... and quite a few of these I have not had the chance to listen to in full yet!
Is there a poster who has at least a few multiple set who would NOT say this?!? :)
Quote from: jwinter on January 25, 2012, 01:05:14 PM
[....]
It's not healthy, I know, but it's better than spending it on heroin or horse races I suppose [....]
Spending some money on horse races is fun!
Especially if you back the winner. :P
Like I did once, in 2009:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mon_Mome
And you know what?
I spent the winnings on .... compact discs IIRC .... it's all gone. :'(
Ain't life beautiful?
Quote from: jwinter on January 25, 2012, 01:05:14 PM
... my 8 year old daughter likes Mahler & Prokofiev, so I must be doing something right!
Whenever I listen to music not through my headphone, Kimi would say: "Daddy, can you turn of this garbage and play some Beethoven or Boulez?"
Is this normal for a 3 1/2 year old???
Quote from: springrite on January 25, 2012, 01:29:25 PM
Whenever I listen to music not through my headphone, Kimi would say: "Daddy, can you turn of this garbage and play some Beethoven or Boulez?"
Is this normal for a 3 1/2 year old???
What's that:
normal?
Young children aren't prejudiced. I wish I'd never lost that feeling.
Quote from: Marc on January 25, 2012, 01:32:35 PM
What's that: normal?
Young children aren't prejudiced. I wish I'd never lost that feeling.
My son at 2 would enthusiastically clap along, pretend to conduct and have a good time with any classical I threw at him. At 5, he routinely tells me he hates the vast majority of the pieces I used to play for him (though he will sing the March from the Nutcracker Suite at volume if given half an opportunity). I'm seeing it begin again with my 2 year old daughter coming over and demanding classical be put on the speakers if it hasn't happened already every morning and seems happy even with relatively dissonant (for my tastes) music. She'll develop her own tastes too though and soon enough will be demanding certain pieces and telling me to turn off others.
ARNOLD: Penny
BALAKIREV: Golovschin, Svetlanov '90s
BEETHOVEN: Barenboim, Bernstein '60s, Blomstedt, Cluytens, Edlinger/Halasz, Ermler/Gibault/Herbig/Leppard/Wordsworth (RPO house label), Ferencsik, Gardiner, Goodman, Harnoncourt, Hogwood, Karajan '60s, Karajan '70s, Karajan '80s, Kegel, Klemperer late '50s, Konwitschny, Krips, Leibowitz, Mackerras '90s, Masur '70s, Masur '80s-'90s, Menuhin, Muti, Nelson, Norrington, Sawallisch, Szell, Wand, Zinman
BERWALD: Goodman
BORODIN: Gunzenhauser
BRAHMS: Loughran, Rajter
BRUCH: Conlon
BRUCKNER: Jochum/Skrowaczewski (Brilliant Classics' version on license from Oehms and EMI)
DVOŘÁK: Bělohlávek/Jansons/Järvi
GLAZUNOV: Otaka/Polyansky
HAYDN: Fischer
KALINNIKOV: Kuchar
MENDELSSOHN: Abbado
MOZART: Mackerras, Pinnock
RACHMANINOV: Jansons
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Anichanov, Butt
SCHUBERT: Muti
SCHUMANN: Konwitschny, Levine 70s, Marriner '90s, Masur, Sawallisch, Zinman
SIBELIUS: Berglund '80s, Davis '90s
TCHAIKOVSKY: Muti
Bold means that the cycle is noticeably favoured over the other(s) that I've heard. Even after having tried out 30 cycles of Beethoven, I have no obvious favourite. Each of them has at least one symphony where its performance disappointed me at least a bit.
Quote from: Florestan on January 25, 2012, 09:49:47 AM
Great but... Suppose you are blindfolded. Could you tell (a) the difference between the Eroica from set 12 and the Eroica from set 31 and (b) who conducts what orchestra on them? ;D
Speaking for myself: a.) Absolutely. b.) I doubt it. Perhaps in a couple instances that are either fresh in the memory or very unique.
We can do that, actually... let's take a quote from the Eroica, say something from the 1st movement (but not the beginning), a section ~3 minutes long (will vary, depending on performance), remove any meta-data from the file (iTunes should be able to do that), and then plunk 20 samples on a disc that I could upload on mediafire, for others to burn and listen to. Of course they could still laboriously compare with their own collection and thus 'cheat', if they wanted, but for those interested in figuring out how / whether they can distinguish orchestras/conductors, it might be fun.
Quote from: chung on January 25, 2012, 07:05:07 PM
ARNOLD: Penny
BALAKIREV: Golovschin, Svetlanov '90s
BEETHOVEN: Barenboim, Bernstein '60s, Blomstedt, Cluytens, Edlinger/Halasz, Ermler/Gibault/Herbig/Leppard/Wordsworth (RPO house label), Ferencsik, Gardiner, Goodman, Harnoncourt, Hogwood, Karajan '60s, Karajan '70s, Karajan '80s, Kegel, Klemperer late '50s, Konwitschny, Krips, Leibowitz, Mackerras '90s, Masur '70s, Masur '80s-'90s, Menuhin, Muti, Nelson, Norrington, Sawallisch, Szell, Wand, Zinman
BERWALD: Goodman
BORODIN: Gunzenhauser
BRAHMS: Loughran, Rajter
BRUCH: Conlon
BRUCKNER: Jochum/Skrowaczewski (Brilliant Classics' version on license from Oehms and EMI)
DVOŘÁK: Bělohlávek/Jansons/Järvi
GLAZUNOV: Otaka/Polyansky
HAYDN: Fischer
KALINNIKOV: Kuchar
MENDELSSOHN: Abbado
MOZART: Mackerras, Pinnock
RACHMANINOV: Jansons
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Anichanov, Butt
SCHUBERT: Muti
SCHUMANN: Konwitschny, Levine 70s, Marriner '90s, Masur, Sawallisch, Zinman
SIBELIUS: Berglund '80s, Davis '90s
TCHAIKOVSKY: Muti
Bold means that the cycle is noticeably favoured over the other(s) that I've heard. Even after having tried out 30 cycles of Beethoven, I have no obvious favourite. Each of them has at least one symphony where its performance disappointed me at least a bit.
Some interesting stuff here, nice to see some "historical" names also -
Leibowitz in Beethoven is great, I think, brisk like
Vänskä perhaps, and a good stereo sound (in the 9th some interesting details seem to be minimized in the CD transfer, they are heard better in the LP-version).
Rajter was a conductor of the old school; one never hears about his Brahms cycle. What is your general impression of that ? He also made a
Franz Schmidt cycle but very late in his carreer, and the alternatives I know there of the Schmidt 4th (Mehta, Moralt) do seem more intense than Rajter ...
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 25, 2012, 01:09:20 PM
Nice to see that avatar again. It's been almost three months since your last appearance! Don't be such a stranger.
Sarge
Thanks Sarge! All is well, I've just been rather busy with work & parenting of late. For a while I've been on a bit of a blues tangent music-wise (actually listening to Howlin Wolf as I type this). I've never been a 100% classical guy.
Anyway, here's the list so far. I'm only listing multiple symphony sets for a composer -- no single CDs.
I count 35 different conductors in complete sets in Beethoven, so I have to tip my hat to premont, although I do have multiple sets from a few folks. Favorites are bolded as requested -- I tried to keep it down to a select few, otherwise there's not much point. Favorites are also related solely to the complete sets -- for instance, Furtwangler did some outstanding Beethoven, but most of it is outside his complete set from EMI.
The details for the curious....
Beethoven 35 conductors:Abbado BPO,
Abbado Rome DVD,
Barenboim, Bernstein NYPO, Bernstein VPO, Blomstedt, Bohm, Cluytens, Davis, Dohnanyi, Ferencsik, Furtwangler, Gardiner, Haitink, Harnoncourt, Hogwood, Jochum, Karajan 50s, Karajan 63,
Karajan 70s, Karajan 80s, Kegel, Kempe,
Klemperer, Kletzki, Krips, Masur,
Monteux, Norrington, Sawallische,
Scherchen, Schmidt-Isserstedt,
Szell,
Toscanini 39, Toscanini 50s, Vanska, Walter mono, Walter Columbia, Wand, Weingartner, Weller, Zinman
Brahms 23 conductors:Abbado, Barenboim, Bernstein NYPO, Bernstein VPO, Bohm, Chailly, Davis,
Furtwangler, Haitink, Harnoncourt,
Jochum mono, Karajan 60s, Karajan 70s, Kempe, Klemperer, Marriner, Rattle,
Sanderling,
Solti, Stokowski, Szell, Toscanini,
Walter Columbia, Wand, Weingartner
Bruckner 12 conductors:Barenboim,
Celibidache Munich, Chailly, Haitink, Jochum SD, Karajan, Maazel, Masur, Paternostro,
Skrowaczewski, Tintner,
WandDvorak 5 conductors:Kertesz, Kubelik, Neumann, Rowicki, Suitner,
Haydn 2 conductors:Dorati, FischerMahler 14 conductors:Abbado, Bernstein Sony,
Bernstein DG, Bernstein DVD, Bertini, Chailly, Haitink,
Inbal, Kubelik,
Levine (partial), Maazel VPO, Maazel NYPO, Neumann,
Sinopoli, Solti, Tabakov, Tennstedt
Mendelssohn 2 conductors:Abbado, Masur
Mozart 5 conductors:Bohm, Ter Linden, Mackerras, Pinnock, Tate (+
Davis & Krips if you count sets of just the mature ones)
Nielsen 3 conductors:Blomstedt, Jarvi, Schmidt
Prokofiev 3 conductors:Gergiev,
Kuchar, OzawaRachmaninov 2 conductors:Ashkenazy, Rozhdestvensky
Schubert 6 conductors:Blomstedt, Bohm, Davis, Goodman, Karajan, Marriner
Schumann 7 conductors:Barenboim,
Bernstein VPO, Chailly, Haitink, Kubelik,
Szell, Zinman
Shostakovich 3 conductors:
Barshai, Haitink,
KondrashinSibelius 6 conductors:
Ashkenazy, Bernstein,
Blomstedt, Davis,
Maazel VPO, Segerstam
Tchaikovsky 5 conductors:
Dorati, Karajan, Markevitch, Muti,
Svetlanov
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 25, 2012, 01:09:20 PM
Nice to see that avatar again. It's been almost three months since your last appearance! Don't be such a stranger.
Sarge
Heartily seconded.
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 25, 2012, 01:09:20 PM
Nice to see that avatar again. It's been almost three months since your last appearance! Don't be such a stranger.
Sarge
I strongly second this!
Hey,
J! :)
Aw shucks :-[ , thanks guys :-*
It should be obvious from the post above why my Discover Card and I have stayed away of late... but I'm now pretty firmly past the "rapid acquisition phase" of classical CD collecting. I've got plenty of music to listen to, all the major repetoire bases are covered, so now I'm enjoying what I have, and using my public library to fill in the occasional small gap via ripping to itunes -- I've even grabbed a few of those Beethoven sets that way over the years.
Still, I do feel a little "my pile of CDs is bigger than your pile, so nyah!" by posting to this thread... I do hope I'm not compensating... ;D
Quote from: springrite on January 25, 2012, 01:29:25 PM
Whenever I listen to music not through my headphone, Kimi would say: "Daddy, can you turn of this garbage and play some Beethoven or Boulez?"
Is this normal for a 3 1/2 year old???
Is she also doing calculus on her spare time and reading Proust? ;D
Quote from: jwinter on January 26, 2012, 06:07:17 AM
I count 35 different conductors in complete sets in Beethoven, so I have to tip my hat to premont,
I do not look at in that way, and I think it is much more interesting to know which ones and which ones are the favorites, than to know the total count:
So here are the 43 ones I own (favorites in bold):
Gardiner
Krivine
Hogwood
van Immerseel
Goodman/HuggettBrüggen
Norrington (EMI)
HarnoncourtMacKerras IMacKerras II
Zinman
Weingartner
Toscanini (NBC studio recording)
Walter I (New York)
Walter II (Columbia)
Bernstein I (New York)
Muti (Philadelphia)
Wänskä
Klemperer (EMI studio set)
Klemperer (live, Philharmonia in Vienna)
Ansermet
Schuricht
Scherchen
Leibowitz
Krips
Davis (Dresden)
Haitink (LSO live rec)
Karajan (Philharmonia 50es)
Karajan (Berlin 60es)
Karajan (Berlin 70es)
Wand (Hamburg)
Skrowaczewski
Jochum II (Concertgeb.)
Sawallisch (Concertgeb.)
KletzkiKonwitschny
Kegel
Blomstedt
Masur I (Gewandhaus)
Cluytens
Böhm (Vienna Philh.)
MaagEdit: Forgot to list Barenboim
Only have Kletzki in Beethoven´s 2nd but am considering more, the LPs are often cheaply available - the 2nd is good and he does some really funny things in the Finale ... :)
I was surprised I have quite a number of sets, especially if I count those who only composed 1 symphony. I will have to get a complete set of Haydn symphonies.
Boyce, 2, Faerber, Mallon
Mozart, 1, Pinnock
Beethoven, 4, Ansermet, Suitner, Karajan 1962, Leibowitz
Schumann, 3, Wit, Szell, Haitink
Mendelssohn, 1, Dohnanyi
Bizet, 1, Beecham
Lalo, 1, Beecham
Berwald, 1, Kamu
Weber, 1, Georgiadis
Franck, 2, Monteux, Akiyama (Can one have a "set" of a single symphony?)
Brahms, 1, Walter
Bruckner, 1, Tintner
Tchaikovsky, 1, Jansons
Mahler, 1, Chailly
Sibelius, 1, Maazel VPO
Rachmaninoff, 1, Ormandy
Elgar, 1, Downes/Hurst (on Naxos. Maybe this doesn't count as a set!)
Willson, 1, Stromberg
Weill, 1, Alsop
Apart from mathematically, though — a single element does not a *set* make. Right? : )
I am a newbie with GMG forum. I don't have so much boxset
Beethoven: Karajan 62, Klemperer EMI, Szell, Furtwangler (several boxset from EMI, Music and Arts, Tahra), Toscanini, Bohm, Gardiner, Barenboim,Jochum, Ansermet, Abbado
Brahms: Furtwangler (EMI, Music and Arts), Klemperer, Bruno Walter 60s, Jochum DG, Karajan 60, Szell, Giulini (EMI) Giulini( DG Vienna), Celibidache EMI, Dorati, Rattle, Sanderling.
Mozart: only the late symphonies boxset von Bohm, Szell, Klemperer, Mackerras, Gardiner
Haydn: not the complete boxset,
Schubert: Bohm, Karajan, Abbado, Wand
Schumann: Szell, Sawalisch, Gardiner, Karajan, Bernstein
Tchaikovsky: Jansons, New Brilliant's boxset. and late symphonies from Mravinsky, Karajan, Monteux, Fricsay
Bruckner: Jochum (DG and EMI), Karajan (DG andEMI), Celibidache,Furtwangler (not complete)
Mahler: EMI, DG complete edition,Brilliant box, Bernstein,Kubelik.
Sibelius: Maazel, Barbirolli, Sanderling, Sergerstam, Bernstein Sony
Shostakovich: Barshai, Mravinsky (Meloyia, not complete)
Dvorak: Kerstesz, Kubelik
Mendelssohn: Flor, Karajan
Rachmaninov: Jansons
Borodin: Rozhdestvensky
Nielsen: Blomstedt (EMI)
Martinu: Jaarvi
Berwald: Daugaard
Scriabin: Muti
Re cycles:
Can this be the Boulez cycle - boxed at last:
[asin]B004NO5HLG[/asin]
??
Quote from: The new erato on January 27, 2012, 06:14:46 AMCan this be the Boulez cycle - boxed at last:
I certainly hope so. I haven't bought a new Mahler cycle in almost two months!
I'm seriously surprised that DG hasn't put Boulez's Debussy and Ravel recordings in a box set yet. Seems like a logical set to me. :-\
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 27, 2012, 07:05:35 AM
I'm seriously surprised that DG hasn't put Boulez's Debussy and Ravel recordings in a box set yet. Seems like a logical set to me. :-\
It's Debussy year. There will be no lack of Debussy sets, from Boulez as well as from others. I'm passing on the current Naxos set, waiting to evaluate what appears....I'm hoping for some good sets of the songs.
Quote from: The new erato on January 27, 2012, 06:14:46 AM
Re cycles:
Can this be the Boulez cycle - boxed at last:
[asin]B004NO5HLG[/asin]
??
MMMMM, something tells me this a placeholder, and God alone knows what's on it.
Quote
Audio CD (December 31, 2020)
Number of Discs: 1
Format: Import
Label: Roc-A-Fella
ASIN: B004NO5HLG
AmazonUK has been listing it for a little while, with a price that's sort of expensive for one CD but very cheap for a whole set, if that's what it is--and no indication of what's on it. Last time I looked ( a couple of weeks ago) not only did Presto and MDT have no listing for it, but neither did DG's own website.
However, we can assume that we won't actually need to wait almost nine years to find out.
Quote from: trung224 on January 27, 2012, 06:12:12 AM
I am a newbie with GMG forum. I don't have so much boxset
Beethoven: Karajan 62, Klemperer EMI, Szell, Furtwangler (several boxset from EMI, Music and Arts, Tahra), Toscanini, Bohm, Gardiner, Barenboim,Jochum, Ansermet, Abbado
Brahms: Furtwangler (EMI, Music and Arts), Klemperer, Bruno Walter 60s, Jochum DG, Karajan 60, Szell, Giulini (EMI) Giulini( DG Vienna), Celibidache EMI, Dorati, Rattle, Sanderling.
Schubert: Bohm, Karajan, Abbado, Wand
Schumann: Szell, Sawalisch, Gardiner, Karajan, Bernstein
Tchaikovsky: Jansons, New Brilliant's boxset. and late symphonies from Mravinsky, Karajan, Monteux, Fricsay
Bruckner: Jochum (DG and EMI), Karajan (DG andEMI), Celibidache,Furtwangler (not complete)
Mahler: EMI, DG complete edition,Brilliant box, Bernstein,Kubelik.
Sibelius: Maazel, Barbirolli, Sanderling, Sergerstam, Bernstein Sony
Dvorak: Kerstesz, Kubelik
Greetings!
Which box sets - per composer - do you prefer the most?
Hören Sie, z.B. am liebsten
Sibelius/Segerstam oder
Sibelius/Maazel oder...?
With one composer I always really like 3-4 box sets, because i like the extreme interpretation and sound. For example, I love Karajan, Jochum, Furtwaengler and Celibidache box but I hate the so so interpretation of Solti or Barenboim (early with CSO).
With Beethoven, I love the box sets from Karajan 60, Klemperer, Furtwangler (Music and Arts), Szell.
With Brahms, my preference is Giulini (Vienna), Furtwangler (Music and Arts), and sometimes Celibidache (EMI)
With Tchaikovsky 4-6 , I prefer Mravinsky and Monteux
Quote from: karlhenning on January 27, 2012, 03:19:12 AM
Apart from mathematically, though — a single element does not a *set* make. Right? : )
That's a matter of definition and usage. But I was a little tongue in cheek there, as I like to point out that there are ambiguities at the fringes of classification schemes, which Aristotle pointed out long ago.
Some of my sets are not in a single box, either, but on several separate records or CDs or LPs with the same performers, notably the Beethoven symphonies with Ansermet, which I have complete both on LPs and CDs, and Leibowitz, which takes several CDs. Also, the Berwald and Schuman Symphonies on Naxos are on separate CDs. Then I slipped in the Naxos Elgar Symphonies on 2 separate CDs with two different conductors but the same orchestra.
Quote from: Xenophanes on January 29, 2012, 04:16:22 PM
That's a matter of definition and usage. But I was a little tongue in cheek there, as I like to point out that there are ambiguities at the fringes of classification schemes, which Aristotle pointed out long ago.
Very good.
Quote from: chung on January 25, 2012, 07:05:07 PMBALAKIREV: Golovschin, Svetlanov '90s
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Anichanov, Butt
Interesting. Golovschin was actually my introduction to Rachmaninov (reissue on Point Classics). I must return to them again, particularly as the Ashkenazy set has lost its lustre for me (Prev and Svet are in my sights for this).
I wasn't aware of a Rimsky cycle by Anichanov, must look out for it.
Quote from: Mirror Image on January 24, 2012, 07:52:11 PM
Rimsky-Korsakov - Jarvi, Svetlanov
If you've a spare couple of dollars, you should try Kitajenko on Chandos. He is my favourite in 1, and his Antar is fine. The "extras" are less well played, but handy I suppose if you haven't collected them.
I'm not much of a cycle collector. Here's what I have. Favorites indicates with asterisk.
Beethoven: Karajan '63, Barenboim*, Toscanini (vinyl), Solti II, Cluytens, Furtwängler, Haitink/LSO, partial cycles by Schuricht, Kubelik, and Antonini*.
Berlioz: Davis
Brahms: Abbado I* (vinyl) & II (CD), Barenboim*, Dohnanyi I*, Karajan 70s, Levine I, Solti, Rattle, Furtwängler, Toscanini, Haitink/BSO, van Beinum, Jochum, Suitner, Wand*.
Bruckner: Barenboim I* (vinyl & CD) & II, Haitink, Wand*. Thinking of adding Inbal and Skrowaczewski.
Debussy: Martinon.
Dvorak: Kubelik.
Haydn: partial cycles by Dorati and Kuijken*.
Mahler: Kubelik*, Solti, DG's complete Mahler anniversary edition.
Martucci: Avalos.
Mendelssohn: Karajan.
Schmidt: N. Järvi.
Schumann: Barenboim I & II*, Haitink, Kubelik/BPO.
Scriabin: Muti.
Shostakovich: Barshai.
Sibelius: Davis II.
Strauss: Kempe
Tchaikovsky: Muti.
Vaughan Williams: Boult I*, Haitink.
Webern: Boulez.
I think that's it.
Quote from: karlhenning on January 23, 2012, 09:48:42 AM
Whose complete symphony cycles do you have the most of, and how many?
I'm definitely a marginal player here, but I'll start off:
Shostakovich, 3: Maksim Dmitriyevich; Kondrashin; Haitink
Vaughan Williams, 3: Haitink; Handley; Thomson
Prokofiev, 3: Ozawa; Martinon; Järvi
Sibelius, 4: Maazel/Wiener; Blomstedt/SFSO; Berglund/Helsinki; Lenny/NY Phil
Nielsen, 3: Blomstedt/SFSO; Thomson; Schmidt
Lord 'a' mercy, but I'm going to make it five Sibelius cycles, as I found the 5-CD Pittsburgh Symphony box for $17 including shipping . . . .
BEETHOVEN - The Symphonies - Gardiner, Symphonie Revolutionnaire et Romantique 5XCD
- The Symphonies - Bohm, Vienna Philharmonic LP box
- The Symphonies - von Karajan, BPO LP box (1960's)
SCHUBERT - The Symphonies - Bruggen, Orchestra of the 18th Century 4XCD
BORODIN - Complete Orchstral Music - Tjeknavorian, National Philharmonic Orchestra LP box
those are the only complete ones I have
Here my major symphony cycles - nearly all in digital format, from CDs ripped and sold, or downloads from a variety ;) of sources. Obviously I haven't listened to every symphony from every cycle, but favorites from what I have heard are in blue.
EDIT: The asterisks indicate 'near-cycles' - I couldn't not include Bruckner/Celibidache or Mahler/Levine, among others!
Bax [3]: Handley, Lloyd-Jones, Thomson
Beethoven [59]: Abbado I/Berlin PO, Abbado II/Vienna PO, Ansermet, Asahina, Barenboim, Bernstein I/NY Phil, Bernstein II/Vienna PO, Blomstedt, Böhm, Cluytens, Colin Davis, Dohnanyi, Furtwängler, Gardiner,*Giulini/La Scala, Goodman/Huggett, Haitink II/Concertgebouw, Haitink III/London SO, Harnoncourt, Herreweghe, Hogwood, Immerseel, Jochum I [DG], Jochum III/Concertgebouw [Philips], Karajan I/Philharmonia 1950s, Karajan II/Berlin PO 1960s, Karajan III/Berlin PO 1970s, Karajan IV/Berlin PO 1980s, Kegel, Klemperer, Kletzki, Konwitschny, Krips, Kubelik, Leibowitz, Maazel, Mackerras I/Liverpool, Mackerras II/Scottish CO, Mengelberg, Norrington I/London Classical Players, Norrington II/Stuttgart, Ormandy, Pletnev, Rattle, Royal Philharmonic/various conductors, Sawallisch, Scherchen, Schuricht, Solti I/Chicago 1970s, Steinberg, Szell, Toscanini I/1939, Toscanini II/1949-1952, Tremblay, Vänskä, Walter II/Columbia Symphony, Wand, Weingartner, Weller, Zinman
Brahms [37]: Abbado, Barenboim, Bernstein I/NYPO, Bernstein II/Vienna PO, Böhm, Boult II/1970s, Celibidache/Munich, d'Avalos, Dohnanyi I/Cleveland, Furtwägler, Gardiner, Giulini/Philharmonia 1960s, Haitink I/Concertgebouw, Haitink II/London SO, Harnoncourt, Jochum I [DG], Kertesz, Klemperer, Levine I/Chicago, Mackerras, Masur, Muti, Rattle, Rickenbacher, K. Sanderling I/Dresden, K. Sanderling II/Berlin SO, Sawallisch I/Vienna SO, Schmidt-Isserstedt, Solti, Svetlanov, Szell, Toscanini I/NBC Symphony, Toscanini II/Philharmonia, van Beinum, Walter I/NY Phil, Walter II/Columbia Symphony, Wand
Bruckner [16½]: Asahina I/various orchestras, Asahina II/Osaka, Barenboim II/Berlin, *Celibidache/Munich, Chailly, Haitink, Inbal, Jochum I [DG], Jochum II/Dresden [EMI], Karajan, Maazel, Masur, Paternostro, Skrowaczewski, Solti, Tintner, Wand/Cologne Radio
Dvorak [8]: Anguelov, Andrew Davis, Järvi, Kertesz, Kubelik, Neumann II/1980s, Rowicki, Suitner
Elgar [10]: Barbirolli, Barenboim, Andrew Davis, Colin Davis, Elder, Handley, Menuhin, Sinaisky/BBC Phil (from radio broadcasts), Sinopoli, Slatkin
Haydn [2]: Dorati, Fischer
Mahler [23½]: Abbado, Abravanel, Bernstein I [Sony], Bernstein II [DG], Bertini, Boulez, Chailly, de Waart, Haitink, Inbal, Kubelik [DG], *Kubelik [Audite], *Levine, Maazel I/Vienna PO, Maazel II/Bavarian Radio (from radio broadcasts), Neumann, Ozawa, Rattle, Sinopoli, Solti, Svetlanov, Tabakov, Tennstedt, Tilson Thomas
Martinu [3]: Järvi, Neumann, Thomson
Mendelssohn [6]: Abbado, Ashkenazy, Flor, Karajan, Masur, Sawallisch
Mozart [8]: Arigoni, Böhm, Hogwood, Leinsdorf, Mackerras, Marriner, Pinnock, Tate
Nielsen [6]: Berglund, Blomstedt I/Danish Radio, Blomstedt II/San Francisco, Kuchar, Schmidt, Schonwandt
Prokofiev [6]: Gergiev, Järvi, Martinon, Ozawa, Rostropovich, Weller
Rachmaninov [13]: Ashkenazy I/Concertgebouw, Ashkenazy II/Sydney, de Waart, Gergiev/London (from radio broadcasts), Jansons, Maazel, Ormandy, Otaka, Previn, K. Sanderling, Slatkin, Svetlanov I (from LP transcriptions), Svetlanov II [Canyon Classics]
Schubert [13]: Abbado, Blomstedt, Brüggen, Goodman, Harnoncourt, Karajan, Kertesz, Maag, Marriner, Menuhin [EMI], Muti, Suitner, Wand
Schumann [24]: Barenboim II/Berlin, Bernstein II/Vienna PO, Chailly, Dohnanyi, Gardiner, Haitink, Herreweghe, Karajan, Konwitschny, Kubelik I/Berlin PO, Kubelik II/Bavarian Radio, Levine I/Philadelphia, Marriner, Masur, Mehta, Muti II/Vienna PO, Rozhdestvensky, Sawallisch I/Dresden, Sinopoli, Solti, Szell, Vonk, Zinman I/Baltimore, Zinman II/Zurich
Scriabin [5]: Ashkenazy, Golovanov, Inbal, Muti, Svetlanov
Shostakovich [11]: Barshai, Haitink, Inbal, Jansons, Järvi [Chandos and DG], Kitajenko, Kondrashin, Rostropovich, Rozhdestvensky, Maxim Shostakovich, Slovak
Sibelius [19]: Ashkenazy I/Philharmonia, Barbirolli, Berglund II/Helsinki, Bernstein, Blomstedt, Colin Davis I/Boston, Colin Davis II/London [RCA], Collins, Gibson, Järvi II/Gothenburg, Maazel I/Vienna PO, Maazel II/Pittsburgh, Oramo, Rattle, Rozhdestvensky, Sakari, K. Sanderling, Saraste, Watanabe
Tchaikovsky [18]: Abbado, Abravanel, Bernstein, Caetani, Dorati, Haitink, Jansons, Karajan, Maazel, Marriner, Masur, Muti, Noseda (from radio broadcasts), Pletnev, Rostropovich, Rozhdestvensky, Svetlanov [Canyon Classics], Temirkanov
Vaughan Williams [5]: Boult II [EMI], Haitink, Handley, Previn, Slatkin
I also have a bunch of other cycles with just one complete commercial recording: Atterberg, Malipiero, Milhaud, Moyzes, Parry, Stanford, Villa-Lobos, Wellesz, and so on...
WOW :o
and it's only the "Major" ones.... ;D
Quite right, wow! :o ;D
Quote from: Papy Oli on March 22, 2012, 01:24:46 PM
and it's only the "Major" ones.... ;D
Well, it's hard to know the exact cutoff point for 'major' - I went with cycles for which I had three or more
intégrales, save for Haydn. And I do have the Russell Davies Haydn cycle in the digital backlog, but I haven't read great things about it, so I'm not in a hurry to fast-track (i.e. enter it in the spreadsheet and tag it) it into the official catalog.
I'd also feel like this was more to boast about 8) if I had these all in CD form, which would cost a not-so-small fortune, of course.
But, as I always say, quantity over quality... oh, wait... no, that's right ;D
Wow, impressive list, classicalgeek. You give me and Harry a run for our money. :) Perhaps a fair question would which cycles do you actually own the CDs of? As a collector, digital downloads are unacceptable for me.
Quote from: Mirror Image on March 22, 2012, 01:40:58 PM
Wow, impressive list, classicalgeek. You give me and Harry a run for our money. :) Perhaps a fair question would which cycles do you actually own the CDs of? As a collector, digital downloads are unacceptable for me.
Heh, well, unfortunately, the answer to that question is 'very few' :( I agree, it would be much more impressive to have the actual physical media! So I don't really give you and Harry a run for your money :) - I'd love, love, LOVE to have a CD collection like many of the people here (I saw on another thread that Harry has 24,000+ :o - that's my fantasy come true!) I've looked over the pictures on the 'What does your collection look like and how do you organize it?' thread with a mix of awe and jealousy...
Off the top of my head (and I'm sure there are a few more), here are the ones I have on actual CD (my CD collection numbers fewer than 800): Beethoven and Schumann/Konwitschny (from the Berlin Classics box), Beethoven/Bernstein/NY Phil, Brahms/Mackerras, Bruckner/Masur, Bruckner/Paternostro, Prokofiev/Rostropovich, Schubert/Suitner, Schumann/Barenboim, Sibelius/Watanabe, Tchaikovsky/Marriner, Tchaikovsky/Temirkanov. And there are many more that I once had on CD, but ripped to digital and later sold the discs.
So not a lot, but I'm glad to have the music digitally all the same!
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 22, 2012, 02:07:58 PM
Heh, well, unfortunately, the answer to that question is 'very few' :( I agree, it would be much more impressive to have the actual physical media! So I don't really give you and Harry a run for your money :) - I'd love, love, LOVE to have a CD collection like many of the people here (I saw on another thread that Harry has 24,000+ :o - that's my fantasy come true!) I've looked over the pictures on the 'What does your collection look like and how do you organize it?' thread with a mix of awe and jealousy...
Off the top of my head (and I'm sure there are a few more), here are the ones I have on actual CD (my CD collection numbers fewer than 800): Beethoven and Schumann/Konwitschny (from the Berlin Classics box), Beethoven/Bernstein/NY Phil, Brahms/Mackerras, Bruckner/Masur, Bruckner/Paternostro, Prokofiev/Rostropovich, Schubert/Suitner, Schumann/Barenboim, Sibelius/Watanabe, Tchaikovsky/Marriner, Tchaikovsky/Temirkanov.
So not a lot, but I'm glad to have the music digitally all the same!
I don't own as much as Harry :D, but I've probably amassed around 6,000, if I want to give a conservative guess, classical recordings within a three or four year period. My Dad has quite a large collection too, so I'm not even combining ours because he likes and collects many composers I do not. I will say that my collection is heavy on 19th and 20th Centuries. I don't listen or particularly care for earlier Classical periods, though I do have a pretty good collection of Vivaldi recordings that may surprise people here. I even own a Mozart symphony cycle, which even surprises me! :) Anyway, yeah, there's nothing like holding a CD booklet in your hands and looking at the artwork and listening to the CD through a stereo system. I'm certainly not against digital music files as I do a lot of listening on my iPods. I've ripped a lot of CDs to them, so I would dishonest to say I don't enjoy it. It's certainly more convenient then trying to hunt for the recording! 8)
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 22, 2012, 01:19:07 PM
endless list
Wow! is my second thought
The first is that you miss Ter Linden in Mozart.
Quote from: mszczuj on March 22, 2012, 02:55:21 PM
Wow! is my second thought
The first is that you miss Ter Linden in Mozart.
Not to worry, the Brilliant Classics Mozart box (in digital form), which contains ter Linden's cycle, is in the backlog! :D
Again, my personal caveat:Quote from: karlhenning on January 23, 2012, 09:48:42 AM
I'm definitely a marginal player here . . . .
But an adjustment wants making:
Prokofiev, 3: 4: Ozawa; Rozhdestvensky; Martinon; Järvi
I still probably prefer Ozawa, but I am certainly enjoying making the acquaintance of this Rozhdestvensky cycle, which I feel certain pulls ahead of Martinon.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 22, 2012, 04:11:51 PM
Prokofiev, 3: 4: Ozawa; Rozhdestvensky; Martinon; Järvi
I still probably prefer Ozawa, but I am certainly enjoying making the acquaintance of this Rozhdestvensky cycle, which I feel certain pulls ahead of Martinon.[/font]
I remember liking Ozawa in the 6th (an underrated work in my opinion), not sure about the others. Järvi is probably my favorite overall, actually, though I don't care for his First. I don't have the Rozhdestvensky, though it seems to be well-regarded. The one I'm really curious about is Kosler/Czech Philharmonic - it's nearly impossible to find, CD or digital! Has anyone here heard it? (I might check if there's a Prokofiev thread going...)
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 22, 2012, 04:29:33 PMThe one I'm really curious about is Kosler/Czech Philharmonic - it's nearly impossible to find, CD or digital! Has anyone here heard it? (I might check if there's a Prokofiev thread going...)
I mentioned the Kosler cycle in the Prok thread a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it does seem to be MIA. I hope it's not one of those sets that goes extinct completely. There aren't enough existing cycles for that to happen!
I'm afraid I disagreed with most of your choices for the cycles, but that's okay. I will mention Pesek's Dvorak cycle on Virgin as one I think you might enjoy. It comes with a lot of tasty extras too.
Quote from: eyeresist on March 22, 2012, 05:48:41 PM
I mentioned the Kosler cycle in the Prok thread a couple of weeks ago.
So you did, and we all vomited. I remember distinctly.
Gergiev...give him a chance. :(
Otherwise I choose Ozawa for a complete set.
Quote from: karlhenning on March 22, 2012, 06:08:15 PMSo you did, and we all vomited. I remember distinctly.
But my post was flawless! I defy you to point to any flaw in that post.
Quote from: TheGSMoeller on March 22, 2012, 06:18:17 PM
Gergiev...give him a chance. :(
He's one I haven't warmed up to yet, not just in Prokofiev. I find him a bit... mannered, I suppose. Though his breakneck finale of the Prokofiev First is pretty exciting! His Shostakovich isn't bad either, come to think of it...
Quote from: karlhenning on March 22, 2012, 06:08:15 PM
...we all vomited...
I save my vomiting for the conversations that go as follows:
Random person (could be a co-worker, or someone I'm meeting at a social gathering): "You listen to classical music? Me too - I just love [Andrea Boccelli/Josh Groban/Il Divo]. Don't you?" ???
Me: "I'm not really in to that style. My favorite composer is probably Mahler."
Them: "Who?" >:(
Anyhoo... I'm getting off topic here - maybe this is one for the 'Stereotypes' thread. But either way, it's pretty vomit-inducing...
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 22, 2012, 08:09:17 PMHe's one I haven't warmed up to yet, not just in Prokofiev. I find him a bit... mannered, I suppose. Though his breakneck finale of the Prokofiev First is pretty exciting! His Shostakovich isn't bad either, come to think of it...
There are a number of conductors I dislike - Gergiev is one for whom, if we criticise him, we're less likely to be lambasted by the cognoscenti. Myself, I think he bullies the music. I picture him with a heavy cudgel in his hand, bashing the music to drive it forward. :P
Quote from: eyeresist on March 22, 2012, 08:22:48 PM
There are a number of conductors I dislike - Gergiev is one for whom, if we criticise him, we're less likely to be lambasted by the cognoscenti. Myself, I think he bullies the music. I picture him with a heavy cudgel in his hand, bashing the music to drive it forward. :P
I find that drive successful in some pieces, not so much in others.
Perhaps it's more of the LSO's playing that I endorse over Gergiev. But I still think it's a solid Prokofiev set, certainly wouldn't praise it as the best set, and there are many individual symphony discs that are of higher caliber.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_nFAGnx0hN1U/TLugTdMz0YI/AAAAAAAABq4/MPM2ed_6y38/s1600/Valery+Gergiev.jpeg)
"Bring me my cudgel. It's time to whip this Andante into shape."
I find that Gergiev's earlier work (mostly with the Kirov Orchestra) to be some of his best on record. I have been very disappointed with his LSO Live and Mariinsky recordings, although his performance of Shostakovich's The Nose should get a special mention, but other than this, I think Gergiev's problem lies with his own conducting schedule. He's a busy guy that yields mediocre results. What this tells me is he doesn't spend enough time rehearsing and getting to know the music he's conducting. He just sort of blasts his way through the music with no kind of direction or attention to the deeper, emotional aspects of the music.
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 22, 2012, 01:19:07 PM
Here my major symphony cycles - nearly all in digital format, from CDs ripped and sold, or downloads from a variety ;) of sources[....]
Dude, you keep the mania in Cyclomania. Thanks for coming aboard!
Quote from: eyeresist on March 22, 2012, 05:48:41 PM
I'm afraid I disagreed with most of your choices for the cycles, but that's okay.
That's the beauty of life, isn't it? No two people, and no two tastes in music, are exactly alike. :)
Quote from: eyeresist on March 22, 2012, 05:48:41 PM
I will mention Pesek's Dvorak cycle on Virgin as one I think you might enjoy. It comes with a lot of tasty extras too.
Yes - I've been after that one for a while! I once had the single CD with Symphony no. 2 and 'My Home', which I ripped and sold, but I do remember enjoying it. Eventually, I'll get a hold of the complete cycle.
There's actually a Dvorak cycle that, similar to Kosler's Prokofiev, intrigues me largely by being so elusive: Zdenek Macal's with the Milwaukee Symphony on Koss Classics. I don't even know if the label exists anymore! There's no box available, only individual discs on the secondhand market, and many of them are quite pricey; no sign of the cycle in the classical download world, either. Anyone here familiar with it?
Quote from: karlhenning on March 23, 2012, 05:39:43 AM
Dude, you keep the mania in Cyclomania. Thanks for coming aboard!
Courtesy of Dictionary.com:
"Mania (noun): excessive excitement or enthusiasm; craze."
Yeah, I'd say that defines my relationship with collecting classical recordings - and not just cycles!
I suspect I'm not alone here in that regard ;D
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 23, 2012, 10:04:45 AM
Yeah, I'd say that defines my relationship with collecting classical recordings - and not just cycles!
Not to mention making your own cycles!
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 23, 2012, 09:57:53 AMThere's actually a Dvorak cycle that, similar to Kosler's Prokofiev, intrigues me largely by being so elusive: Zdenek Macal's with the Milwaukee Symphony on Koss Classics. I don't even know if the label exists anymore! There's no box available, only individual discs on the secondhand market, and many of them are quite pricey; no sign of the cycle in the classical download world, either. Anyone here familiar with it?
I've seen a couple of cheap copies of his 8th about. I didn't realise he'd done the whole cycle. From a quick look at Amazon, it looks like he's been doing a second cycle with the Czech PO on Exton.
Quote from: eyeresist on March 24, 2012, 10:46:56 PM
I've seen a couple of cheap copies of his 8th about. I didn't realise he'd done the whole cycle. From a quick look at Amazon, it looks like he's been doing a second cycle with the Czech PO on Exton.
I read about the Koss cycle in some of my Fanfare magazine back issues (1990-1992), otherwise I wouldn't have known about it! The reviews were mixed - I believe the 4th was well-received. I've seen the Exton one around - any time you see the early Dvorak symphonies getting recorded, it's a good indication of a cycle in progress! :) Unforturantely, Exton discs tend to be very expensive, and aren't often available for downloads...
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 26, 2012, 10:14:26 AM
I read about the Koss cycle in some of my fanfare back issues (1990-1992), otherwise I wouldn't have known about it! The reviews were mixed - I believe the 4th was well-received. I've seen the Exton one around - any time you see the early Dvorak symphonies getting recorded, it's a good indication of a cycle in progress! :) Unforturantely, Exton discs tend to be very expensive, and aren't often available for downloads...
Mdt have a sale on Exton. It's not that great, but may be a bit cheaper right now.
Quote from: classicalgeek on March 26, 2012, 10:14:26 AMI've seen the Exton one around - any time you see the early Dvorak symphonies getting recorded, it's a good indication of a cycle in progress! :) Unforturantely, Exton discs tend to be very expensive, and aren't often available for downloads...
I'd love the Macal/Czech 4 + 8 but, my god, it's 54 Euro from Amazon DE and 64 from Amazon FR :o
Sarge
Oh, has paulb started up his own proprietary label? . . .
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 26, 2012, 11:20:16 AM
I'd love the Macal/Czech 4 + 8 but, my god, it's 54 Euro from Amazon DE and 64 from Amazon FR :o
Sarge
There is a used copy for just under $30 that ships from Japan at Amazon US. Don't know how much it would cost to ship to you...
EDIT: And this Japanese site (But I never used, so no idea if reliable): http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281# (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281#)
Quote from: mc ukrneal on March 26, 2012, 11:38:46 AM
There is a used copy for just under $30 that ships from Japan at Amazon US. Don't know how much it would cost to ship to you...
EDIT: And this Japanese site (But I never used, so no idea if reliable): http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281# (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281#)
CDJapan is
very reliable.
I use(d) them here and there, because the Japanese keep everything in print... especially single discs elsewhere available only in boxes, if at all... and was always very satisfied.
Quote from: mc ukrneal on March 26, 2012, 11:38:46 AM
There is a used copy for just under $30 that ships from Japan at Amazon US. Don't know how much it would cost to ship to you...
EDIT: And this Japanese site (But I never used, so no idea if reliable): http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281# (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281#)
Quote from: jlaurson on March 26, 2012, 11:47:53 AM
Thanks to both of you. But even with shipping by slow boat, it will still cost around 35 Euro. Too much for a single disc, even for a crazy collector like me.
Sarge
Quote from: mc ukrneal on March 26, 2012, 11:38:46 AMThere is a used copy for just under $30 that ships from Japan at Amazon US. Don't know how much it would cost to ship to you...
EDIT: And this Japanese site (But I never used, so no idea if reliable): http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281# (http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=OVCL-281#)
HMV Japan also have some:
http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/search/list/?adv=1&genre=700&target=DETAIL_CLASSIC&keyword=dvorak+macal&catnum=&label=exton&x=0&y=0
Most items are part of a "Buy 3, get the discount price" deal, but yeah, they'll cost about $30 each. I note there are two different releases of the 9th - don't know if they are different performances.
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 26, 2012, 12:04:18 PM
Thanks to both of you. But even with shipping by slow boat, it will still cost around 35 Euro. Too much for a single disc, even for a crazy collector like me.
Sarge
"So, Mrs. Rock, how would you feel about a trip to Japan for our anniversary?
And do we still have that old, enormous travel-trunk in the attic? Just wonderin'"
Another adjustment wants making:
Sibelius, 5: Maazel/Wiener; Blomstedt/SFSO; Berglund/Helsinki; Lenny/NY Phil; Vänskä/Lahti
. . . thanks to the ridiculously cheap digital availability of the Vänskä/Lahti set. (And before long a sixth will come in . . . .)
Quote from: karlhenning on January 23, 2012, 09:48:42 AM
Whose complete symphony cycles do you have the most of, and how many?
I'm definitely a marginal player here, but I'll start off:
Shostakovich, 3: Maksim Dmitriyevich; Kondrashin; Haitink
Vaughan Williams, 3: Haitink; Handley; Thomson
Prokofiev, 4: Ozawa; Rozhdestvensky; Martinon; Järvi
Sibelius, 7: Maazel/Wiener; Blomstedt/SFSO; Berglund/Helsinki; Lenny/NY Phil; Vänskä/Lahti; Rattle/CBSO; Maazel/Pittsburgh
Nielsen, 3: Blomstedt/SFSO; Thomson; Schmidt
Gosh, just goes to show . . . I had forgotten (until seeing Jens's refreshed listing) that I also have Sir Simon Rattle's cycle.
And now: Maazel/Pittsburgh has landed. O DavidRoss! How ever did I find my feet on this path? . . .
And Lenny's Sibelius with Vienna is incomplete, or it would be 8 . . . .
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on March 26, 2012, 12:04:18 PM
Quote from: jlaurson on March 26, 2012, 11:47:53 AM
Thanks to both of you. But even with shipping by slow boat, it will still cost around 35 Euro. Too much for a single disc, even for a crazy collector like me.
Sarge
Not to veer off topic, but I just spent a couple of days going through and sorting my comic book collection. About halfway through my pile of Joe Kubert Sgt. Rock covers, I had to stop and put on some Mahler. Klemperer, of course. :) Strange how associations can seep into the brain...
What a great thread, so I'm going to try and bring it back! Looking at all these previous posts tells me I still have some serious holes to fill. Here's my tally:
Alfven
Jarvi
Arnold
Penny
Atterberg
Rasilainen
Barber
Alsop
Beethoven
Blomstedt (Brilliant)
Gardiner
Kletzki
Konwitschny
Asahina (91/92 Osaka)
Abbado (DG)
Weingartner (Naxos)
Zinman
Barenboim (Warner)
Toscanini (M&A)
Leibowitz
Karajan (Memories)
Scherchen
Kempe
Tennstedt (Memories)
Brahms
Sanderling (Berlin Classics)
Svetlanov (Scribendum)
Toscanini (Testament)
Celibidache (EMI)
Bernstein (DG)
Various (Andante)
Bruckner
Chailly
Karajan
Jochum (DG)
Asahina (Victor)
Sieghart/Eichhorn/Guschlbauer
Paternostro
Tintner
Solti
Maazel
Wand (Cologne)
Skrowasczewski
Chavez
Mata
Dvorak
Suitner
Kubelik
Elgar
Barbirolli
Slatkin
Gade
Jarvi
Gerhard
Perez
Glazunov
Polyansky
Hartmann
Various (Wergo)
Holmboe
Hughes
Kalinnikov
Kuchar
Langgaard
Dausgard
Magnard
Sanderling
Ossonce
Mahler
Bernstein
Tennstedt
Miaskovsky
Svetlanov
Nielsen
Schmidt
Peterson-Berger
Jurowski
Pettersson
Combo of Bis/CPO
Prokofiev
Jarvi
Rachmaninoff
Ashkenazy
Rangstrom
Jurowski
Sallinen
Rasilainen
Schubert
Goodman
Schumann
Gardiner
Bernstein (DG)
Sawallisch (EMI)
Scriabin
Muti
Shostakovich
Kondrashin
Barshai
Rozhdestvensky
Sibelius
Maazel
Sanderling
Rozhdestvensky
Simpson
Handley
Sumera
Jarvi
Tchaikovsky
Svetlanov (Warner)
Svetlanov (Scribendum)
Toch
Francis
Tubin
Jarvi
Vaughan Williams
Thompson
Boult (EMI)
Boult (London)
Handley
Previn
Haitink
Walton
Daniel
Haydn: Fischer, Dorati (LP)
additionally "Paris": Bernstein, Marriner, Harnoncourt, Fey
"London": Harnoncourt, Scherchen, Herbig
Beethoven: Scherchen, Leibowitz, Karajan 1962, Wand, Cluytens, Norrington/Virgin, Gielen/EMI, Harnoncourt, Brüggen/Philips, Bernstein (combined from NY: 2-5,7 and Vienna: 1,3,6,8,9), DVD: Järvi
almost complete: Weingartner (missing 1+2), Toscanini (missing 6), Furtwängler (missing 2+8)
Schubert: Davis/Dresden, Harnoncourt, Keitel
Schumann: Szell, Klemperer, Bernstein/DG, Levine/DG, Gardiner
Berwald: Björlin
Brahms: Furtwängler, Toscanini, Walter, Jochum/DG, Sanderling/RCA, Klemperer, Wand/RCA, Karajan (latest twofer, mix of 70s and 80s), Giulini/Vienna,
Tchaikovsky: Markevitch (+ an absurd number of 4-6, only about two of which I bought on purpose, namely Mravinsky and Fricsay, the others came somehow in boxes or as couplings)
Dvorak: Kertesz
Borodin: Davis, Roshdestvensky
Mahler: Gielen, (Levine w/o 2+8)
Sibelius: Ashkenazy/Decca
Nielsen: Schonwandt, Roshdestvensky, (Bernstein 2-5)
Skrjabin: Muti
Vaughan Williams: Handley
Shostakovich: Janssons (+ 9/15 with Roshdestvensky)
Quote from: Jo498 on January 29, 2016, 11:40:10 AM
Haydn: Fischer, Dorati (LP) etc...
Leider haben Sie die Symphonien von
Anton Bruckner und
Karl Amadeus Hartmann vergessen! :o ;)
Update from the last time I posted four years ago:
Favorites in bold (requested by George)
ARNOLD 1
PENNY NATIONAL SO IRELAND
ATTERBERG 1
RASILAINEN VARIOUS GERMAN RADIO ORCHESTRAS
BAX 2
Thomson LPO
Handley BBC
BEETHOVEN 13
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL (1963)
SOLTI CHICAGO
HARNONCOURT COE
KLEMPERER PHILHARMONIA
BARENBOIM STAATSKAP BERLIN
NORRINGTON LONDON CLASS
NORRINGTON STUTTGART
SZELL CLEVELAND
MAAZEL CLEVELAND
BRÜGGEN 18TH CENTURY
BERNSTEIN VIENNA PHIL
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH PHIL
BÖHM/VIENNA PHIL
BERWALD 2
JÄRVI GOTHENBURG S
KAMU HELSEINGBORG SO
BRAHMS 14
JOCHUM LPO
MACKERRAS SCOTTISH CHAMBER
KLEMPERER PHILHARMONIA
BARENBOIM CHICAGO
MAAZEL CLEVELAND
DOHNÁNYI CLEVELAND
SZELL CLEVELAND
FURTWÄNGLER VARIOUS (M&A)
FURTWÄNGLER VARIOUS (ARCHIPEL)
SANDERLING STAATS DRESDEN
WAND SONDR
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH PHIL
GIELEN SWR SO BADEN BADEN
ESCHENBACH HOUSTON
BORODIN 2
ROZHDESTVENSKY STOCKHOLM
GUNZENHAUSER CSR SO
BRUCKNER 7
MAAZEL SOBR
CHAILLY CONCERGEBOUW RSO BERLIN
BARENBOIM BERLIN PHIL
WAND KÖLNER RSO
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
JOCHUM STAATS DRESDEN
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH (3-9)
DVORAK 6
SUITNER STAATSKAPELLE BERLIN
ROWICKI LSO
KERTESZ LSO
KUBELIK BERLIN PHIL
NEUMANN CZECH PHIL
ANGUÉLOV SLOVAK RSO
ELGAR 9
BOULT LPO
SINOPOLI PHILH
TATE LSO
C.DAVIS LSO
A.DAVIS BBC
SOLTI LPO
SLATKIN LPO
BARBIROLLI PHILHARMONIA HALLÉ
ELGAR LSO
FRANKEL 1
ALBERT QUEENSLAND SO
GADE 1
JÄRVI STOCKHOLM
GÁL 1
WOODS ORCHESTRA OF THE SWAN
GLAZUNOV 1
ROZHDESTVENSKY USSR MofC SO
HARTMANN 1
KUBELIK/LEITNER SOBR
HONEGGER 1
BAUDO CZECH PHIL
IVES 1
LITTON DALLAS
KALINNIKOV 2
SVETLANOV USSR ACADEMY SO
BAKELS MALAYSIAN PHIL
LANGGAARD 2
STUPEL ARTUR RUBINSTEIN PHIL
DAUSGAARD DANISH NAT RSO
LLOYD 1
LLOYD BBC OR ALBANY
MADETOJA 1
SAKARI ICELAND SO
MAHLER 14 (16 INCLUDING KONDRASHIN AND LEVINE)
BERNSTEIN NEW YORK (SONY)
BERNSTEIN VARIOUS (DG)
BERNSTEIN VARIOUS (DVD)
MAAZEL VIENNA PHIL
BERTINI KÖLNER RSO
NEUMANN CZECH PHIL
SINOPOLI PHILHARMONIA
RATTLE CBSO
TENNSTEDT LPO
SVETLANOV RUSSIAN STATE SO
INBAL RSO FRANKFURT
BOULEZ VARIOUS
CHAILLY CONCERTGEBOUW
GIELEN SWR SO BADEN BADEN
LEVINE VARIOUS
KONDRASHIN MOSCOW PHIL
MAGNARD 2
SANDERLING MALMO
OSSONCE BBC
MARTINU 3
JÄRVI BAMBERG
NEUMANN CZECH PHIL
THOMSON ROYAL SCOTTISH
MELARTIN 1
GRIN TAMPERE PHIL
MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY 3
DOHNÁNYI VIENNA PHIL
KARAJAN BERLIN PHIL
FEY HEIDELBERG
MIASKOVSKY
SVETLANOV VARIOS RUSSIAN ORCHESTRAS
MOZART 1
PINNOCK ENGLISH CONCERT
NIELSEN 9
SCHMIDT LSO
BLOMSTEDT SAN FRANCISCO
BERNSTEIN/ORMANDY VARIOUS
KUCHAR JANACEK PHIL
ROZHDESTVENSKY STOCKHOLM PHIL
SALONEN SWEDISH RADIO SO
SCHONWANDT DANISH NAT SO
BERGLUND ROYAL DANISH
BOSTOCK RLPO
PETTERSSON 1
VARIOUS CONDUCTORS, ORCHESTRAS ON CPO
PROKOFIEV 8
ROZHDESTVENSKY MOSCOW PHIL
OZAWA BERLIN PHIL
JÄRVI SNO
KITAJENKO GÜRZENICH O KÖLN
WELLER LSO
ROSTROPOVICH VARIOUS
GERGIEV LSO
KOSLER CZECH PHIL
ROTT 5 ;D
P.JÄRVI
DAVIES
WEIGLE
ALBRECHT
SEGERSTAM
RUBBRA 1
HICKOX BBC WALES
SCHMIDT 4
RAJTER RSO BRATISLAVA
LUISI MDR SO
JÄRVI DETROIT/CHICAGO
SINAISKY MALMÖ SO
SCHUBERT 6
GOODMAN HANOVER BAND
HARNONCOURT CONCERTGEBOUW
IMMERSEEL ANIMA ETERNA
DAVIS STAATS DRESDEN
BLOMSTEDT STAATS DRESDEN
WAND KÖLNER RSO
SCHUMANN 7
GOODMAN HANNOVER BAND
SZELL CLEVELAND
KLEMPERER NEW PHILH
BARENBOIM STAATS BERLIN
BERNSTEIN VIENNA PHIL
SEMKOW ST LOUIS
CHAILLY GO LEIPZIG
SHOSTAKOVICH 4
JANSONS VARIOUS
ROSTROPOVICH NATIONAL SO LSO
BARSHAI WDR SO
KITAJENKO GÜRZENICH O KÖLN
SIBELIUS 18
DAVIS LSO RCA
DAVIS BOSTON
DAVIS LSO LIVE
JÄRVI GOTHENBURG S
BERNSTEIN NY PHIL
VÄNSKÄ LAHTI SO
SANDERLING BERLIN SO
MAAZEL VIENNA PHIL
MAAZEL PITTSBURGH
BERGLUND COE
BERGLUND BOURNEMOUTH
ASHKENAZY PHILHARMONIA
ROZHDESTVENSKY MOSCOW RSO
SEGERSTAM HELSINKI PHIL
RATTLE CBSO
BLOMSTEDT SAN FRANCISCO
SAKARI ICELAND SO
BARBIROLLI HALLÉ
SIMPSON 1
HANDLEY/TAYLOR VARIOUS ORCHESTRAS
STENHAMMAR 1
JÄRVI GOTHENBURG S
TCHAIKOVSKY 1
MARKEVITCH LSO
TIPPETT 2
DAVIS LSO (SOLTI/CHICAGO #4)
HICKOX BOURNEMOUTH
TUBIN 1
JÄRVI VARIOUS ORCHESTRAS
TOURNEMIRE 1
ALMEIDA MOSCOW SO
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS 9
HAITINK LPO
HANDLEY RLPO
PREVIN LSO
THOMSON LSO
BOULT LPO (EMI)
BOULT LPO (DECCA)
SLATKIN PHILHARMONIA
DAVIS BBC
ROZHDESTVENSKY USSR MOC
WHAT?!??! THERE'S A FEY MENDELSSOHN CYCLE??!?!?
How did I not know this before :( :( :( wait turn that frown upside down, what a joyful discovery!
Quote from: Brian on January 29, 2016, 12:36:46 PM
WHAT?!??! THERE'S A FEY MENDELSSOHN CYCLE??!?!?
There is, on Hänssler...and it's thrilling (well, different, just like the Hobbit's Haydn).
(http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/jan2013/mendelssohn1fey.jpg) (http://photos.imageevent.com/sgtrock/jan2013/mendelssohn3fey.jpg)
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Sarge
I have the Hartmann-Box on Wergo, but I was not sure about that because it is not all conducted by the same person.
I also have all symphonies of Mendelssohn, Prokofieff (I think.. not really familiar with them except 1 and 5...), Bruckner (and probably Mozart and maybe CPE Bach (not sure how many there are besides the great Hamburg 6+4)) but never from one conductor.
Even with the Gielen Mahler I was somewhat cheating because I bought them all separately on two different labels but they are all with the same conductor and orchestra and I bought the 5th only to get it complete, maybe I'll get rid of that one, the last time I listened to it I was not that fond of it. But despite not having a Bruckner cycle from one conductor I have about 9 recordings of the 7th and about 6 of the 5th and 8th.
Other cycles:
Bach:
Brandenburg Concerti: Britten, Leppard, Harnoncourt 80s (60s on LP), Goebel/MAK, Akademie f. Alte Musik, Giardino Armonico
WTC I: Fischer, Gould, Richter, Gulda, Horszowski, Koroliov, Jaccottet, Ross, Levin
WTC II: Fischer, Gould, Richter, Gulda, Shepkin, Jaccottet, Koopman, Dantone, Levin
Handel: op.6 Scherchen, Pommer, Marriner, Harnoncourt, Hogwood, Manze, de Vriend
Haydn: String Quartets: Angeles Quartet
op.33 Apponyi, Buchberger, Casals, Weller, Auryn
Mozart
"Haydn Quartets": ABQ, Hagen, Petersen, Melos
String quintets: Griller (lacking the early one), Melos, Smetana/Suk, Talich
Piano Concertos: Bilson/Gardiner, Barenboim/EMI (I prefer diverse recordings on single discs and hardly listen to those in these two boxes...)
Beethoven
Pianos sonatas: Schnabel, Gulda, Arrau, Gilels, Heidsieck, Lucchesini (+ many singles)
violin sonatas: Heifetz, Francescatti/Casadesus, Frank/Frank, Kremer/Argerich, Faust/Melnikov, Ferras/Barbizet
cello sonatas: Casals/Serkin, Rostropovitch/Richter, Tortelier/Heidsieck, Vogler/Canino, Wispelwey/Lazic
string quartets: Juilliard 1960s, Vegh/Naive, Melos/DG, Musikverein/Platz, Hungarian (stereo),
"almost" cplte: Budapest 30s/40s (no 18/5, 59/1, 133), Hagen (except their most recent disc), Emerson (w/o op.18), Petersen (no op.18/5, 59/1+3, 74)
Bartok quartets: Hungarian, Hagen, Tokyo, Juilliard (1960s)
Shostakovitch quartets: Borodin (Chandos 1-13), Borodin/Melodiya, Sorrel, Brodsky
As I wrote elsewhere, I think these are way too many in some cases... and some are going to be culled in the months to come...
Quote from: Sergeant Rock on January 29, 2016, 12:32:54 PM
Update from the last time I posted four years ago:
Favorites in bold (requested by George)
Thanks, buddy! :)
Not suprisingly, we have a lot of common ground:
Quote
BEETHOVEN 13
BARENBOIM STAATSKAP BERLIN
SZELL CLEVELAND
BRAHMS 14
WAND SONDR
BRUCKNER 7
CELIBIDACHE MUNICH (3-9)
DVORAK 6
KERTESZ LSO
ELGAR 9
BOULT LPO
SCHUBERT 6
HARNONCOURT CONCERTGEBOUW
WAND KÖLNER RSO
SCHUMANN 7
SZELL CLEVELAND
SIBELIUS 18
BERNSTEIN NY PHIL
For the purposes of this thread I'm defining a cycle as "more than one CD" and discounting mix-and-match cycles. I've also discounted any discs from the Bernstein Symphonic Edition that I never bothered to rip. Partial cycles are those that include a majority of the symphonies by the composer but have not been completed; not completed cycles of which I only own part.
Atterberg Rasiläinen/CPO
Bax Handley/Chandos
Beethoven Fricsay/DG [partial] // Gardiner/Archiv // Howard/Hyperion // Martynov/Zig-Zag [partial] // Norrington/EMI (4 1/3 + single discs)
Bernstein Bernstein/DG
Berwald Järvi/DG
Brahms Jochum/EMI // Thielemann/DG (2 + single discs)
Chaikovsky Bernstein/Sony // Jansons/Chandos (2 + single discs)
Chávez Mata/Vox
Dutilleux Tortelier/Chandos (+ single disc)
Dvořák Kertész/Decca // Neumann/Supraphon (2 + single discs)
Enescu Andreescu/Olympia // Rozhdestvensky/Chandos (2 + a single disc + the completed 4th and 5th symphonies on CPO)
Farrenc Goritzki/CPO
Foerster Bäumer/MDG
Foss Rose/BMOP
Frankel Albert/CPO
Fuchs Müssauer/Thorofon
Gade Hogwood/Chandos
Gál Woods/Avie
Gerhard Bamert/Chandos
Gernsheim Köhler/Arte Nova
Goldmark Butt/ASV
Guarnieri Neschling/BIS
Hamerik Dausgaard/Dacapo
Hanson Schwarz/Delos
Harbison various conductors/BSO
Hartmann various conductors/Wergo
Haydn Hogwood/L'Oiseau-Lyre & BBC Music Magazine [partial] (+ 2 sets of the London and 2 of the Paris symphonies)
Holmboe Hughes/BIS
Honegger Dutoit/Erato
Ives Litton/Hyperion // Tilson Thomas/Sony (2)
Jadassohn Griffiths/CPO
Kabalevsky Oue/CPO
Krenek various conductors/CPO (+ a single disc)
Landowski various conductors/Erato
Langgaard Dausgaard/Dacapo
Lutosławski Lutosławski/Polskie Nagrania // Salonen/Sony (2)
Madetoja Storgårds/Ondine
Magnard Ossonce/Hyperion
Malipiero de Almeida/Naxos
Martinů Bělohlávek/Onyx
Melartin Grin/Ondine
Mendelssohn Abbado/DG [numbered symphonies] // Goodman/RCA [string symphonies] (1)
Myaskovsky Svetlanov/Warner
Nielsen Bernstein/Sony [partial] // Blomstedt/Decca // Chung/BIS [partial] // Oramo/BIS // Schmidt/don't remember [LP] // Schønwandt/Dacapo (5 1/3)
Nosyrev Verbitsky/Olympia
Nystroem various conductors/BIS
Onslow Goritzki/CPO
Pettersson various conductors/CPO
Prokofiev Järvi/Chandos (+ single discs)
Raphael various conductors/CPO [partial]
Rautavaara various conductors/Ondine
Ries Griffiths/CPO
Riisager Holten/Dacapo
Rimsky-Korsakov Polyansky/Chandos
Roussel Dutoit/Erato
Rubbra Hickox/Chandos
Saint-Saëns Martinon/EMI
Schat various conductors and orchestras/Composer's Voice
Schmidt Järvi/Chandos
Schubert Minkowski/Naïve (+ single discs)
Schumann Chailly/Decca // Gardiner/Archiv // Holliger/Audite // Ticciati/Linn (4 + a single disc)
Shebalin various conductors and orchestras/Olympia
Sibelius Blomstedt/Decca (+ single discs)
Simpson Handley/Hyperion
Spohr Shelley/Hyperion
Stenhammar Järvi/BIS
Svendsen Mikkelsen/CPO
Tippett various conductors/Decca
Tubin Volmer/Alba
Ustvolskaya Malov/Megadisc
Valen Eggen/BIS
Vaughan Williams Haitink/EMI
Vermeulen various conductors and orchestras/Composer's Voice
Vierne Roß/Audite
Walton Litton/Decca
Weingartner various conductors/CPO
Wellesz Rabl/CPO
Yun Ukigaya/CPO
Possibly a bit excessive. (Don't we have a "spoiler" tag?)
I forgot some:
Kraus/Concerto Köln (apparently not complete because I have another disc "Vol.3 from a Naxos series, probably a mess with alternative versions)
Balakirev/Svetlanov (Melodiya/BMG)
Rimsky-Korsakov/Butt (Brilliant)
Magnard/Plasson (EMI)
Honegger/Plasson (EMI)
Ives/Litton (hyperion)
Weill/Bertini (EMI)
Stravinsky/Stravinsky (without the early one, though)
Bernstein/Bernstein (DG)
I wonder how many "symphonies" are usually counted for Hindemith and whether I have them all (not from one conductor, though).
Some cycles of which I bought one or (usually) more discs but stopped on purpose because boredom or happy with a few representative works or just could not be bothered and stuff became unavailable, or there had never been a complete set available:
Sammartini
F.X. Richter (one of my favorites of the mid 18th century, though)
J. Chr. Bach
Boccherini
Michael Haydn
Onslow
Ries
Spohr
Gade
Glasunov
Myaskowsky
Krenek
Schulhoff
Lajtha
Wellesz
Simpson
Henze
I have a few volumes of the Kraus/Concerto Köln series but don't know if it's complete or even partially complete, thus didn't include it. (Anyway I'm missing at least one volume) Some of my favourite non-Mozart/Haydn classical era symphonies though. There are also undoubtedly a few other cycles of which I stopped acquiring volumes as well (Boccherini, CPE Bach, Lajtha, Henze—have all but No. 9, because I really disliked it when first hearing it—etc) and I certainly don't need all of the volumes of the Spohr, Gade, Tubin, Rautavaara, Atterberg, Pettersson etc cycles but it's nice to have them just as a library-building thing.
Tracking down all the single-disc 'cycles' (Borodin, Weill, Kalinnikov, Arensky, Lilburn etc) would probably take ages. Offhand I can remember the following "frankencycles" though:
Bruckner (partial)
2 - Pinnock/Linn
3 (original) - currently awaiting an interlibrary loan of Blomstedt/Querstand
3 (final) - Szell/CBS
4 (original) - currently awaiting Young/Oehms
4 (final) - Honeck/Reference
5 - Davies/Arte Nova // Dohnányi/Cleveland
5 (Schalk) - Knappertsbusch/Decca (I don't strictly need this, but it's fun)
6 - Eichhorn/Camerata // Norrington/Hänssler // Sawallisch/Orfeo // Stein/Decca
7 - Herreweghe/HM // Norrington/Hänssler // Wand/RCA
8 - Chailly/Concertgebouw/Decca // Jochum/ORF // Païta/Lodia
9 - Rattle/EMI
Mahler
1 - Bernstein/Sony (from the box—didn't like) // Hengelbrock/Sony (new acquisition, not yet listened)
2 - Bernstein/Sony (from the box—don't like the symphony particularly, though)
3 - Salonen/Sony
4 - Fischer/Channel
5 - Kondrashin/Melodiya
6 - Bernstein/Sony (from the box—unsatisfied with) // Kubelik/Audite
7 - Klemperer/EMI (perverse, but I couldn't bring myself to get rid of) // Bernstein/Sony (from the box—somewhat better, but more routine I think)
8 - Solti/Decca
9 - Neumann/Berlin Classics
10 - Harding/DG
Shostakovich (partial)
1 - Haitink/Decca // Kondrashin/Melodiya
2 - Kondrashin/Melodiya
3 - Kondrashin/Melodiya
4 - Kondrashin/Melodiya
5 - Sanderling/Berlin Classics // Kondrashin/Melodiya
6 - Kondrashin/Melodiya
8 - Sanderling/Berlin Classics
9 - Haitink/Decca
11 - Kondrashin/Melodiya
12 - Kondrashin/Melodiya
14 - Currentzis/Alpha
15 - Sanderling/Berlin Classics
(I don't know why I never bothered to get the whole Kondrashin set, maybe that's a thing to do for the future, not that I am particularly interested in Shostakovich's symphonies)
Schnittke
0 - Hughes/BIS
1 - Rozhdestvensky/Chandos
2 - Rozhdestvensky/BBC Radio Classics
3 - Jurowski/Pentatone
4 - Kamu/BIS
5 - Chailly/Decca
6 - Polyansky/Chandos
7 - Polyansky/Chandos
8 - Rozhdestvensky/Chandos
9 - Davies/ECM
Some symphonic cycles I have are only available as "frankencycles" eg Ruders (the first two on Dacapo, the next two on Bridge) or Weinberg incomplete (divided between Naxos, Chandos, Melodiya and Toccata Classics at the moment). There is a complete Hindemith cycle of the non-concertante orchestral works I believe (including all 5 orchestral symphonies—Mathis der Maler, E-flat, Symphonia serena, Harmonie der Welt & Pittsburgh—and the two Sinfoniettas, but maybe not the B-flat symphony for wind band), that being Werner Andreas Albert's on CPO.
Borodin is almost always two discs, I think, because the three symphonies do not fit onto one, despite there only being a fragment of the 3rd. Balakirev's can be put on one, but my issue is on two with fillers.
I think the Naxos Kraus symphony series has 4 volumes and is as complete as the current state of Kraus scholarship allows whereas the two discs with the Concerto Köln give the 8 most important works. I agree that he is the most interesting symphony composer of the ca. 1780s after Haydn and Mozart I have heard, mainly because with his serious "Gluckian" (this sound silly...) style he is rather different from Haydn and Mozart, therefore not sounding like "lesser" Haydn or Mozart (as Michael often does).
And FX Richter ist the most interesting of the 1740s/50s but I am far less familiar with what else was around at that time.
I checked that I have about 8 or 9 symphonies from the Berlin period of CPE Bach; this seems reasonably complete together with the 10 from Hamburg, so I will not get out of my way to find more.
If you like Kondrashin, get at least his Mahler 7th, probably the 6th as well (it's the only Mahler of his I know but they are very interesting and fairly unique).