Cyclomania ** Symphonies **

[Todd]

And 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.

Can 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.

[Sergeant Rock]

What would I have won?

A one-way ticket to the looney bin 

Sarge

[George]

Updated mine.  Most don't have one favorite.

Thanks! Hope others do the same.

[George]

A one-way ticket to the looney bin 

Sarge

[George]

[08] - Bruckner :...Celibidache ahem 

[Sergeant Rock]

I refuse not to count Celi 

Sarge

[George]

I refuse not to count Celi 

Sarge

Exactly. 

[Papy Oli]

Beethoven (2) - Gardiner, HvK 63 + Celi 

Brahms (2) - Eschenbach, Celi

Bruckner (2) - Wand, Jochum + Celi 

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....

[Mirror Image]

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...

[Karl Henning]

Do Wagner Ring cycles count?

The OP called for symphony cycles. So we shall disallow Wagner : )

[mc ukrneal]

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!!

[Mirror Image]

The OP called for symphony cycles. So we shall disallow Wagner : )

Oh, okay...thank you for clarifying, Karl.

[George]

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!! 

[Mirror Image]

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.

[DieNacht]

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.

[jlaurson]

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 BERLIN
BRÜGGEN   18TH CENTURY
BERNSTEIN VIENNA PHIL
Chailly, Leipzig
Thielemann, Vienna
Jaervi, Bremen
Vanska, Minnesota
Blomstedt, Staatskapelle
Masur, Leipzig 70s
Fedoseyev, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Radio
Gardiner, ORR
J.v.Immerseel, Anima Eterna
Abbado, Rome (BPh)
Rattle, Vienna
Toscanini, NBC
Haitink, LSO
Jochum, BPh, BRSO
Kletzki, CzPO
...


BRUCKNER 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)
...?

MAHLER 14

BERNSTEIN NEW YORK (SONY)
BERNSTEIN VARIOUS (DG)
SINOPOLI  PHILHARMONIA
RATTLE CBSO
SVETLANOV RUSSIAN STATE SO
BOULEZ VARIOUS
CHAILLY CONCERTGEBOUW
GIELEN SWR SO BADEN BADEN
Kubelik, BRSO
Gergiev, LSO
MTT, SFSO
Haitink, Christmas (incomplete)
Kondrashin (incomplete)
Kubelik, Audite (incomplete)


SHOSTAKOVICH 4

BARSHAI WDR SO
KITAJENKO GÜRZENICH O KÖLN
Kondrashin, Moscow PSO
Haitink


SIBELIUS 14
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 PHIL
MAAZEL PITTSBURGH
ASHKENAZY PHILHARMONIA
SEGERSTAM HELSINKI PHIL
RATTLE CBSO
BLOMSTEDT SAN FRANCISCO
SAKARI ICELAND SO
BARBIROLLI HALLÉ

[Sergeant Rock]

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

[nesf]

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? )

Mendelssohn: 1
Sawallish (Brilliant Box Set)

Tchaikovsky: 1
Muti

[George]

Beethoven (5)

Wand
Karajan 1963
Karajan 1977
Szell
Baenboim
Chailly

[Mirror Image]

Sibelius: 2
Karajan

I hate to nitpick, but Karajan never completed Sibelius's symphonies.