Rachmaninoff Orchestral & Favorite Symphony Cycles

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DavidW

#40
June 10, 2025, 07:06:11 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 09, 2025, 10:48:11 PMInteresting to know. I do like many Slatkin recordings. (Shostakovich, Bernstein, Rachmaninov etc)

His Vaughan Williams is also great IMO, I put his cycle at third after Boult and Previn. Well I guess fourth, since Boult made two different outstanding cycles.

foxandpeng

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June 11, 2025, 01:31:57 PM
Quote from: DavidW on June 10, 2025, 07:06:11 AMHis Vaughan Williams is also great IMO, I put his cycle at third after Boult and Previn. Well I guess fourth, since Boult made two different outstanding cycles.

Previn and Boult are huge gaps for me  in whatever they conducted.

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SonicMan46

#42
June 11, 2025, 03:37:48 PM
Quote from: DavidW on June 10, 2025, 07:06:11 AMHis Vaughan Williams is also great IMO, I put his cycle at third after Boult and Previn. Well I guess fourth, since Boult made two different outstanding cycles.

David et al - is this the Previn set from the '70s that you're ranking toward the top?  Dave

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June 11, 2025, 06:44:12 PM
Quote from: SonicMan46 on June 11, 2025, 03:37:48 PMDavid et al - is this the Previn set from the '70s that you're ranking toward the top?  Dave



You didn't ask me, but Previn's Rachmaninov is excellent.

Irons

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June 11, 2025, 11:20:57 PM
Previn also recorded 2 & 3 for RCA. At the back of my mind later in his career for Teldec too.
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SonicMan46

#45
June 12, 2025, 03:41:21 AM
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on June 11, 2025, 06:44:12 PMYou didn't ask me, but Previn's Rachmaninov is excellent.

Well, et al includes you and anyone else who cares to respond - thanks.  :laugh: Dave

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#46
June 12, 2025, 06:47:10 AM
Quote from: Irons on June 11, 2025, 11:20:57 PMPrevin also recorded 2 & 3 for RCA. At the back of my mind later in his career for Teldec too.

I think you meant Telarc and, yes, Previn only made one Rachmaninov recording for this label:

DavidW

#47
June 12, 2025, 09:03:52 AM
Quote from: SonicMan46 on June 11, 2025, 03:37:48 PMDavid et al - is this the Previn set from the '70s that you're ranking toward the top?  Dave



I was actually talking about RVW. But Previn is my favorite second.

Roasted Swan

#48
June 12, 2025, 01:43:43 PM
Quote from: Der lächelnde Schatten on June 12, 2025, 06:47:10 AMI think you meant Telarc and, yes, Previn only made one Rachmaninov recording for this label:



Of the earlier RCA recordings No.2 was of the (then) standard cut version and No.3 has curiously never made it to CD as far as I know but can be found on YouTube.....


it sounds rather brash as a recording but I haven't listened to it all the way through yet.
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