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[kishnevi]

And I do not like Brautigam´s Mozart set. Mozarts textures are too thin to stand Brautigam´s often aggressive approach. And his set has since long been surpassed by sets from Badura-Skoda, van Oort, Lubimov and Bilson. I do not know about Brautigam´s Haydn set. Owning Schornsheim´s set and the Brilliant collective set is enough Haydn for me.

I would go for Brautigam's Haydn set, which is as close to "definitive" as you can get IMO.

I also like his Mozart - very good indeed but not as the Haydn. Brautigam's Mozart feels at times a bit too "forced/pushed", somewhat lacking in Mozartian "wittyness". I expect the Mozart set will be superstaged by Bezuidenhout's ongoing cycle.

Q

Thank you both.  My selection of both is rather limited--beyond some scattered individual pieces,  I've only got Hamelin's four CD set for Haydn, and Lili Kraus's set of the Mozart sonatas. 

[haydnguy]

I would go for Brautigam's Haydn set, which is as close to "definitive" as you can get IMO.

I also like his Mozart - very good indeed but not as the Haydn. Brautigam's Mozart feels at times a bit too "forced/pushed", somewhat lacking in Mozartian "wittyness". I expect the Mozart set will be superstaged by Bezuidenhout's ongoing cycle.

Q

I'm late to this party but just wanted to say that I would tend to agree with the Haydn. I don't have that Haydn set but I do have a CD of Haydn keyboard concertos, which to my mind is excellent. So good, in fact, that I loaned my first copy out, didn't get it back and then bought a second copy.  (See below).

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[North Star]

A great piece - I've been meaning to get to know the rest of Mahler's symphonies for well over a year now

E: wrong thread, I was listening to this. 

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Walton and Rubbra: Viola Concertos

I like both these composers, but don't have either concerto:



Anyone heard it?

[The new erato]

Walton and Rubbra: Viola Concertos

I like both these composers, but don't have either concerto:



Anyone heard it?

Yes, and I remember it as very fine, but as for further details, it's been some time.....

[karlhenning]

Haven't heard that rec, but I've got "the Nige" playing the Walton va cto.  Beautiful piece!

[jlaurson]

Walton and Rubbra: Viola Concertos

I like both these composers, but don't have either concerto:



Anyone heard it?

Splendid performances of excellent works (if you are into the darkish side of tonal British 20th Ct. music.)

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Thanks guys - feedback on this disc (not just here) is very positive.

[karlhenning]

On closer thought, the Powell disc of Nido di scatole, Djâmi and St Bertrand de Comminges may be the best introduction. It contains a nocturne (the second piece), a characteristically macabre work, one of his "hits" (the third), and a much less known major one which is unusually for the composer a rather accessably presented suite of 17 pieces.

That's the one wherewith I am taking the plunge today . . . .

[Lethevich]

That's the one wherewith I am taking the plunge today . . . .

Awesome! It's amazing how long every new Sorabji piece takes me to absorb - so many notes

[karlhenning]

Awesome! It's amazing how long every new Sorabji piece takes me to absorb - so many notes

Finding it heavy-laden with noteage, in the best sense.

[Que]

My apologies if this has been discussed before - though I can recall it be mentioned once in a while..



Details about the set HERE.
I kept myself of buying into yet another early music set. But now I have digested the "other" Van Nevel set (by Paul, Erik's uncle), I'm wondering about this set.

I recall Harry, whose expertise in matters of choral music I much value, was not so keen on Erik van Nevel's conducting. I believe several here have this set - could I have your votes, please?

Q

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A few sets I'm going to buy but in the future:

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[The new erato]

A few sets I'm going to buy but in the future:

Future as in tomorrow?

[Brahmsian]

A few sets I'm going to buy but in the future:

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This was the first Parsifal that I had ever heard, MI.  It is absolutely amazing!    

[karlhenning]

You know, this is just why I decided to take the plunge with The Cube three years ago.  I knew it would be a matter only of time before I should find my ears at the ready to appreciate Wagner, and that I should want to hear The Lot.  Even then, on speculation, I felt it was $63 well spent : )

[Mandryka]

A few sets I'm going to buy but in the future . . .

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The Parsifal is good -- maybe Peter Hofman's best recording. Well worth having. It's one of the few recordings which does a really fine job in the second half of Act 2, ehich is key to making sense of the plot (insofar as anyone can make sense of the plot  ) And Amfortas is very moving.

Still I think you can do even better, and you should also maybe consider the  Parsifal recording with Knappertsbusch, Hotter and Vickers. I

The Karajan Ring has an outstanding Siegmund and Sieglinde  but personally I think it's really only for Karajan completists. There are too many important disappointments, like Régine Crespin and Tom Stewart.  My top choice would be the Chereau first production with Boulez conducting on DVD. It's wonderfully sung and the production is really stimulating.  Or on CD rather than DVD, the Solti ring, which is amazing except for a rather disappointing Siegmund and Sieglinde. The famous and much loved Kupfer Beyreuth production with Barenboim is ruined by an atrocious Bruenhilde.

I think you would be much better off with a Karajan Tristan -- either the one with with Vinay or the one with with Vickers; or the Bohm Tristan with Windgassen and Nilsson.

I can't comment on Lohengrin and the Dutchman -- they aren't operas I know very well.

[Keemun]

I am looking for a good set of Brahms' symphonies, and I am considering one of the following sets.  Any thoughts on these or further suggestions?

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[Mandryka]

I am looking for a good set of Brahms' symphonies, and I am considering one of the following sets.  Any thoughts on these or further suggestions?

I like the Rattle. But I think you should give priority to  Kempe on Testament  -- he has all the feeling of Karajan and all the drive of Toscanini.

Most of all I like Furtwangler on Music and Arts -- there is some extraordinary music making in that set.

[karlhenning]

I like the Rattle.

Very interesting!  As I have gotten so accustomed to scorn being heaped upon Rattle (w/ the Berliners) . . . .