Vox Dei

[Ken B]

Vox lives on in a bunch of Brilliant boxes, and seems to keep a few things in print. Vox was my life blood in university. So my question is, what were the best things on Vox?

My answer is the Klien Brahms piano music. But I did love the recordings of Frank Martin, sandor's Bartok, which I have on Cd, and many others.

[Daverz]

Vox lives on in a bunch of Brilliant boxes, and seems to keep a few things in print. Vox was my life blood in university. So my question is, what were the best things on Vox?

My answer is the Klien Brahms piano music. But I did love the recordings of Frank Martin, sandor's Bartok, which I have on Cd, and many others.

Did any Frank Martin show up on Vox CDs?  I have the Violin Concerto on a Vox Candide Lp and on a Jecklin CD.

On CD, I'd single out:

Skrowaczewski Bartok, Ravel, and Stravinsky
Abbey Simon's Ravel
Ivan Moravec's Debussy and Chopin
Maria Tipo's Scarlatti
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio
Siegel/Slatkin in Gershwin
Milhaud works for orchestra
Music in Paris in the 1920s
Chavez Symphonies
Firkusny playing Czech piano music
Slatkin's Prokofiev

Some of the Skrowaczewski and Slatkin recordings have also shown up on very expensive Mobile Fidelity SACDs.  I know the Skrowaczewsk recordings, at least, were quad recordings.

I wish they had reissued all of their Haydn Quartet series, which was shared between the Fine Arts Quartet and the Dekany Quartet.  There was a Volume 1 on CD, and then nothing.

[asin]B000001K4H[/asin]

[Ken B]

I never saw any Martin on CD. I have some of the Milhaud, which is great. The Faure chamber music was great too.

[kishnevi]

I have, under the Vox label:
--Saint Saens's piano concertos and other works
--his complete works for solo piano
--Michael Ponti's complete Scriabin (a 5CD set and a 2CD issue of the sonatas, for a total of 7CDs)
--a 2CD set of Gottschalk
There's also Brendel's first Beethoven cycle, but that's available from Brilliant. 

I may have other Vox stuff; the one I'm most keen on (as saying you gotta get it) is Ponti's Scriabin.

[Ken B]

I have, under the Vox label:
--Saint Saens's piano concertos and other works
--his complete works for solo piano
--Michael Ponti's complete Scriabin (a 5CD set and a 2CD issue of the sonatas, for a total of 7CDs)
--a 2CD set of Gottschalk
There's also Brendel's first Beethoven cycle, but that's available from Brilliant. 

I may have other Vox stuff; the one I'm most keen on (as saying you gotta get it) is Ponti's Scriabin.

I really liked Ponti's preludes etc. I never had his sonatas.
I had de Froment's Organ Symphony too, purchased for $2.39 I think.

[vandermolen]

I grew up with Vox/Turnabout LPs.

My first and possibly greatest was Bruckner Symphony 8, Horenstein (on two LPs). As a 16 year old I was very lucky to hear Horenstein conduct this work at the Proms in London (it is on a different BBC CD).

Other highlights were Holmboe Symphony No 8 (a fine performance never released on CD) and Jean Martinon's recording with the ORTF of Prokofiev's Sixth Symphony.

[Karl Henning]

Well, I should begin my revisitation of that set with the Op.111, then, Jeffrey! 

[Cato]

--Michael Ponti's complete Scriabin (a 5CD set and a 2CD issue of the sonatas, for a total of 7CDs)


I may have other Vox stuff; the one I'm most keen on (as saying you gotta get it) is Ponti's Scriabin.

That goes triple! 

I had all sorts of "VOX boxes" in the good ol' days: Rachmaninov piano works, some Mahler symphonies conducted by Jascha Horenstein.

And does anyone remember a Horenstein performance with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder?  Was it a VOX recording?  I cannot find a reference to it right now on the Internet.

[vandermolen]

Well, I should begin my revisitation of that set with the Op.111, then, Jeffrey! 

Oh yes Karl, definitely.