Current Top 10 Most-Played Recordings

[chasmaniac]

Machaut, Mirror of Narcissus, Gothic Voices
Dufay, Flos Florum, Ens. Musica Nova
The Medieval Romantics, Gothic Voices
Bach, Goldbergs, Leopold String Trio
Bach, Cello Suites, Queyras
Bach, Bm Mass, Parrott
Handel, 9 German Arias, Roschmann
Haydn, Symphonies 22-5, Goodman
Haydn, Paris Symphonies, Fey
Jadin, Quatuors, Q. Franz Joseph

[TheGSMoeller]

Machaut, Mirror of Narcissus, Gothic Voices
The Medieval Romantics, Gothic Voices

Great discs!

[chasmaniac]

Great discs!

Glad someone else likes them! I adore that band. Far and away my favourite renditions of medieval music. Lancaster and Valois and The Study of Love could as easily have made the list.

[TheGSMoeller]

Glad someone else likes them! I adore that band. Far and away my favourite renditions of medieval music. Lancaster and Valois and The Study of Love could as easily have made the list.

Inspired to put The Study of Love on right now. 

[Xenophanes]

1.  Bach, Oeuvres pour orchestra. Karl Ristenpart, Orchestre de la chambre de la Sarre,  on Accord 465 893-2. Main works:
   -L'art de la fugue orchestration de Marcel Bitsch et Claude Pas cal
   -Les suites pour orchestre
   -Les concerts Brandenbourgeois

2.  Mozart and Brahms Clarinet Quintets, Reginald Kell, clarinet, Fine Arts Quartet, on Boston Skyline BSD 135.

3.  Haydn, String Quartets, Op. 33, Kodaly Qt., on Naxos 8.550788 and 8.550789.

4.  Beethoven, The Middle String Quartets (Op. 59, 74, and 95), Quartetto Italiano, on Philips 420 797-2.

5.  Haydn, Symphonies No. 104, Mozart Symphonies 35 and 41*, Joseph Krips and *Rene Leibowitz, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, on Chesky CD16.

6.  Schumann, Symphonies 1-4, Antoni Wit, Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, on Naxos 8.553082 and 8.550923.

7.  Debussy, La mer, Nocturnes, Prelude, Ernest Ansermet, L'orchestre de las Suisse Romande, on Decca 414 040-2.

8.  Brahms, Symphony No. 4; Beethoven, Egmont Overture, Rene Leibowitz, Royal Philharmonic, Chesky CD-6.

9.  Mahler, Das Lied von der Erde, Christa Ludwig, alto, Rene Kollo, tenor, von Karajan, BPO, on DG 419 058-2.

10. Beethoven, Violin Concerto, Zino Francescatti, violin, Bruno Walter, Columbia Symphony, on CBS MK 42018.

[Mandryka]

1. Monteverdi Madrigals Book 4 --Raymond  Leppard
2  Bach and Shostakovich Preludes and Fugues -- Olli Mustonen
3. Ravel's Tombeau and other works -- Roger Muraro
4. Brahms Quartets -- Cuarteto Casals
5. Mozart PC 26 -- Kocsis and Rolla
6. Beethoven PC 3 and 4 -- Pletnev and someone
7. Faure's La Chanson d'Eve -- Dawn Upshaw and someone
8. Clavier Ubung 3 -- Walcha (mono)
9. Beethoven Op 59 -- Smetana Quartet on Denon
10. Mozart Quintet K452 -- Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet

[MishaK]

No particular order:

Strauss Alpensinfonie - Luisi/Dresden
Bruckner 4 - Kubelik/BRSO
Moravec live in Brussels
Beethoven 5 & 6 - Antonini/BaselCO
Rosetti/Pokorny/Stich horn concertos - Baborak
CSO Brass live
Brahms 3 - Dohnyani/Cleveland
Sibelius/Prokofiev violin concertos - Vilde Frang
Schubert 9 - Blomstedt/SFSO
Mozart horn concertos - Vlatkovic

[Mirror Image]

A new list of "Current Top 10 Most-Played Recordings" in no particular order:

1. Prokofiev: On the Dnieper, Semyon Kotko Suite, Michail Jurowski, Cologne Radio Symphony Orch., CPO
2. Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante, Sinfonietta, Neeme Jarvi, Raphael Wallfisch - cello, Scottish National Orch., Chandos
3. Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Violin Concertos, Viktoria Mullova, Andre Previn, Royal Philharmonic Orch. Philips
4. Koechlin: Vocal Works with Orchestra, Juliane Banse, Heinz Holliger, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orch., Hanssler Classics
5. Respighi: Belkis - Queen of Sheba, Geoffrey Simon, Philharmonic Orch., Chandos
6. Janacek: Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta, Michael Tilson Thomas, London Symphony Orch., Sony
7. Parry: Complete Symphonies, Matthias Bamert, London Philharmonic Orch., Chandos
8. Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing, Richard Hickox, Bournemouth Symphony Orch., EMI
9. Prokofiev: Piano Concertos 1-5, Vladimir Krainev, Dmitri Kitaenko, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orch., Teldec
10. Bartok: The Wooden Prince, Cantata Profana, Pierre Boulez, Chicago Symphony Orch., Deutsche Grammophon

[madaboutmahler]

A new list of "Current Top 10 Most-Played Recordings" in no particular order:

1. Prokofiev: On the Dnieper, Semyon Kotko Suite, Michail Jurowski, Cologne Radio Symphony Orch., CPO
2. Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante, Sinfonietta, Neeme Jarvi, Raphael Wallfisch - cello, Scottish National Orch., Chandos
3. Shostakovich, Prokofiev: Violin Concertos, Viktoria Mullova, Andre Previn, Royal Philharmonic Orch. Philips
4. Koechlin: Vocal Works with Orchestra, Juliane Banse, Heinz Holliger, Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orch., Hanssler Classics
5. Respighi: Belkis - Queen of Sheba, Geoffrey Simon, Philharmonic Orch., Chandos
6. Janacek: Glagolitic Mass, Sinfonietta, Michael Tilson Thomas, London Symphony Orch., Sony
7. Parry: Complete Symphonies, Matthias Bamert, London Philharmonic Orch., Chandos
8. Vaughan Williams: Job, A Masque for Dancing, Richard Hickox, Bournemouth Symphony Orch., EMI
9. Prokofiev: Piano Concertos 1-5, Vladimir Krainev, Dmitri Kitaenko, Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orch., Telarc
10. Bartok: The Wooden Prince, Cantata Profana, Pierre Boulez, Chicago Symphony Orch., Deutsche Grammophon

Was expecting all the Prokofiev!

My new top 10 played discs for this month would be, in no particular order:
1. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet selections - BPO/Abbado
2. Glazunov: Symphonies 4+5 - USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky
3. Glazunov: The Seasons, Concert Waltzes, Stenka Razin - L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande/Ansermet
4. Beethoven: Piano Trios - Beaux Arts Trio
5. Alkan: Symphony for Piano, Trois Morceaux dans la genre pathetique - Marc-Andre Hamelin
6. Mahler: Symphony no.6 - CSO/Solti
7. Mahler: Symphony no.7 - CBSO/Rattle
8. Strauss: Tone Poems - CSO/Solti
9. Elgar(/Payne): Symphony no.3 - BSO/Daniel
10. Chopin: Nocturnes - Idil Beret

[Mirror Image]

1. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet selections - BPO/Abbado

How did I not see this one coming?

[madaboutmahler]

How did I not see this one coming?

haha You still haven't purchased it yet, despite the extreme enthusiasm from myself, Ilaria and Karl! 

[Mirror Image]

haha You still haven't purchased it yet, despite the extreme enthusiasm from myself, Ilaria and Karl! 

[Bulldog]

New current top 10:

Bach - Violin Sonatas and Partitas/Faust/Harmonia Mundi
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas/Cerovsek/Jumppanen/Claves
Berlioz - Requiem/Norrington/Hanssler Classic
Bruckner - Sym. 7/Blomstedt/Querstand
Elgar/Walton - Piano Qnt./Piano Quartet/CMS Studio Recordings (Lincoln Center)
Leighton - Piano Qnt./Piano Trio/Piano Qt./Markham/Edinburgh Qt./Meridian
Mahler - Sym. 6/Fischer/Channel Classics
Saygun - Complete String Quartets/Quatuor Danel/CPO
Shebalin - String Quartets/Krasni Quartet/Olympia (3 volumes)
Wellesz - Syms. 2 and 9/Rabi/CPO

[Brahmsian]

New current top 10:

Bach - Violin Sonatas and Partitas/Faust/Harmonia Mundi
Beethoven - Violin Sonatas/Cerovsek/Jumppanen/Claves
Berlioz - Requiem/Norrington/Hanssler Classic
Bruckner - Sym. 7/Blomstedt/Querstand
Elgar/Walton - Piano Qnt./Piano Quartet/CMS Studio Recordings (Lincoln Center)
Leighton - Piano Qnt./Piano Trio/Piano Qt./Markham/Edinburgh Qt./Meridian
Mahler - Sym. 6/Fischer/Channel Classics
Saygun - Complete String Quartets/Quatuor Danel/CPO
Shebalin - String Quartets/Krasni Quartet/Olympia (3 volumes)
Wellesz - Syms. 2 and 9/Rabi/CPO

Huh?    Not even one Goldberg Variations recording? 

[Bulldog]

Huh?    Not even one Goldberg Variations recording? 

I don't know why I've got this reputation of always playing the Goldbergs.  Actually, I've been playing the WTC much more than the Goldbergs in the past couple of years.  Wait, they're not on my list either.  Guess I'm moving on.

[DieNacht]

1. Sorabji Etudes 44-62/Ullén. Not the easiest kind of music, but quite attractive, and I really try to know these works. Seriously,
I don´t see why these 100 Etudes shouldn´t eventually become a part of the piano canon like Liszt´s Transcendental Etudes.
The recorded sound is good, and so is his playing, although you now and then perhaps feel that a few "rhetorical" points could be made,
but this is a pioneering project, no doubt of immense difficulty, and there is no performance tradition yet.
2. Bartok Piano Concerto no.2 - Farnadi/Scherchen and Richter/Svetlanov. Both very interesting, to my ears. Richter has to get
started, it seems, but then it works ...
3. Felix Glonti: Symphonic Meditations on a Theme by Petrarca, for cello and orchestra. I just like this obscure, dark piece.
Downloadable from the website dedicated to the composer,  in poor sound quality.
4. Beethoven piano sonatas, in various recordings (Yudina, Levy, Richter, a newly bought Rubinstein LP with the 23rd, and others.)
5. Scriabin Sonatas 5-10 /Ashkenazy. Always nice.
6. Scherchen: String Quartet. Haven´t got to know it much, but better and less clinically dry than expected, rather Beethovenian.

On the waiting list: Mozart Symphonies, various recordings.

that´s about it, concerning the latest days ...

[Lisztianwagner]

My updated Top 10 

1. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen - Karajan/Berlin Phil
2. Mahler: Symphony No.8 - Bernstein/Vienna Phil
3. Mahler: Symphony No.6 - Bernstein/Vienna Phil
4. Respighi: Pines of Rome - Karajan/Berlin Phil
5. Shostakovich: Symphony No.12 - Petrenko/RLPO
6. Strauss: Don Quixote - Karajan/Berlin Phil
7. Liszt: Les Preludes - Barenboim/Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring - Abbado/LSO
9. Koechlin: Le buisson ardent - Heinz Holliger/Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
10. Sibelius: Violin Concerto - Hilary Hahn/Salonen/Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

[Brahmsian]

I don't know why I've got this reputation of always playing the Goldbergs.  Actually, I've been playing the WTC much more than the Goldbergs in the past couple of years.  Wait, they're not on my list either.  Guess I'm moving on.

Don't worry Don, it's probably just me reading into things too much.     I just know the Goldberg Var. are one of your favorite works, and I did not realize you had been playing the WTC more than the Goldbergs.

[madaboutmahler]

I seem to have forgotten to make November's list....

Oh well, on with December!

Novak: Lady Godiva, De Profundis, Toman and the Wood Nymph (BBCPO/Pesek on Chandos)
Mahler: Symphony no.4 (CSO/Solti on Decca)
Mahler: Symphony no.5 (RCO/Chailly on Decca)
Mahler: Symphony no.6 (CSO/Solti on Decca)
Mahler: Symphony no.7 (CBSO/Rattle on EMI)
Mahler: Symphony no.9 (BPO/Rattle on EMI)
Debussy: Piano Music (Fergus-Thompson on Decca)
Casella: Symphony no.3 (WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln/Francis on CPO)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (BPO/Rattle on EMI)
Respighi: Belkis, Metamorphosen (Philharmonia/Simon)

[Jared]

This is a tricky one, because I haven't been counting... but the top 10 would look something like this:

Monteverdi: Vespers 1610 (McCreesh)
Handel: Messiah (McCreesh)
Monteverdi: Book of Madrigals VIII (Leppard)
Haydn: Stabat Mater (Heltay)
Schubert: Trout Quintet (Hagen/ Schiff)
Schubert: String Quintet (Lindsays)
Haydn: Piano Trios (Beaux Arts)
Brahms: Piano Quartets (Beaux Arts)
Brahms: String Quartets (Qt Italiano)
Haydn: Complete Masses (Hickox)... from late Nov/ early Dec

make of that what you will...