Your Top 5 Favorite Recordings

[blablawsky]

I'll start:

Elliott Carter, Juilliard Quartet ‎– String Quartet No. 3 / String Quartet No. 2 (1974, Columbia Masterworks)
Anton Webern, Schoenberg Quartet ‎– Chamber Music for Strings (2003, Chandos)
Luciano Berio, BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Juilliard Ensemble, Cathy Berberian ‎– Epifanie And Folk Songs (1971, RCA)
Helmut Lachenmann / Luigi Nono, Quatuor Diotima – Reigen seliger Geister / Fragmente-Stille, an Diotima (2003, Assai)
and Pierrot Lunaire conducted by Arnold Schoenberg

I've italicized composers' names to make the list easier to look at.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

Luciano Berio, BBC Symphony Orchestra, The Juilliard Ensemble, Cathy Berberian ‎– Epifanie And Folk Songs (1971, RCA)

I've got this one on LP. I believe the Epifanie was never reissued on CD, although I may be wrong about that.

Interesting choices. I've never heard Schoenberg's own Pierrot - I have the Weisberg/De Gaetani version.

[blablawsky]

I've got this one on LP. I believe the Epifanie was never reissued on CD, although I may be wrong about that.

Interesting choices. I've never heard Schoenberg's own Pierrot - I have the Weisberg/De Gaetani version.

I first heard that recording of Epifanie after reading David Gable at RMCR talk about it. I'm not a huge follower of Berio but I love this work and this recording specifically. What do you think of it?

Schoenberg's Pierrot is very different from other recordings of it that I've heard. It's lighthearted and haunting, and obviously a lot more lo-fi. This recording seems to have been released many many times but you can listen to it here: https://archive.org/details/SCHONBERGPierrotLunaire-NEWTRANSFER

[mc ukrneal]

Perhaps this will be of interest...
http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,26574.0.html

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I first heard that recording of Epifanie after reading David Gable at RMCR talk about it. I'm not a huge follower of Berio but I love this work and this recording specifically. What do you think of it?

Actually I've listened to the Folk Songs a lot more, Epifanie only once. Don't remember the impression it made, but in view of your praise here, I will go back to it.

[amw]

I'm picking only recordings that I think are unsurpassed (so far) in the given repertoire as well as incredibly satisfying on an artistic level..... (also obviously, much more conventional choices here lol)

Brahms - String Sextets Nos. 1 and 2 - L'Archibudelli [Sony Vivarte]
Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 3, Serenade for Strings - Kirill Kondrashin & the Moscow Philharmonic [Melodiya]
Bartók - String Quartets Nos. 1-6 - Juilliard Quartet [Columbia] [1963]
Schumann - Kreisleriana & Kinderszenen - Martha Argerich [DG]
Schubert - String Quintet D. 956 - Taneyev Quartet & Mstislav Rostropovich [Westminster]

[vandermolen]

Vaughan Williams Symphony 6. Boult, LPO, Decca.
Miaskovsky: Symphony 6. Kondrashin USSR SO (Russian Disc)
Bax: Symphony 3, LSO Downes (RCA)
Weinberg: Symphony 5, Kondrashin Moscow PO (Russian Disc)
Bruckner: Symphony 9. Furtwangler BPO (Heliodor etc)

[San Antone]

Durufle, Requiem | Philip Ledger
Stravinsky, Three Greek Ballets | Robert Craft
Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Piano Works | Peter Hill
Machaut, Messe | Mary Berry
Feldman, The Viola in my Life | Marek Konstantynowicz, viola

[Brian]

Tchaikovsky - Suite No. 3, Serenade for Strings - Kirill Kondrashin & the Moscow Philharmonic [Melodiya]

Tryying this right now! Uh...there's a chord at the end of Serenade's first movement that I really do not remember being there in any other recording