Cyclomania ** Symphonies **

[springrite]

Yeah, I'd say that defines my relationship with collecting classical recordings - and not just cycles!

Not to mention making your own cycles!

[eyeresist]

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?

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.

[classicalgeek]

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...

[mc ukrneal]

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.

[Sergeant Rock]

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...

I'd love the Macal/Czech 4 + 8  but, my god, it's 54 Euro from Amazon DE and 64 from Amazon FR 

Sarge

[Karl Henning]

Oh, has paulb started  up his own proprietary label? . . .

[mc ukrneal]

I'd love the Macal/Czech 4 + 8  but, my god, it's 54 Euro from Amazon DE and 64 from Amazon FR 

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#

[jlaurson]

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#

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.

[Sergeant Rock]

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#

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

[eyeresist]

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#

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.

[jlaurson]

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'"

[Karl Henning]

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 . . . .)

[Karl Henning]

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? . . .

[Karl Henning]

And Lenny's Sibelius with Vienna is incomplete, or it would be 8 . . . .

[jwinter]

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...

[rw1883]

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

[Jo498]

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)

[Cato]

Haydn: Fischer, Dorati (LP) etc...

Leider haben Sie die Symphonien von Anton Bruckner und Karl Amadeus Hartmann vergessen!   

[Sergeant Rock]

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 

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

[Brian]

WHAT?!??! THERE'S A FEY MENDELSSOHN CYCLE??!?!?

How did I not know this before wait turn that frown upside down, what a joyful discovery!