Favorite Conductors in Recordings from Non-Major/Budget Labels

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

You are welcome to include conductors who recorded for major labels as well as minor labels. Photos are very welcome.

My list:

David Lloyd-Jones
Jean-Luc Tingaud
Enrique Batiz
Kuchar
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[Brian]

Nice to see a shout out for Enrique Bátiz.

I haven't heard any of his recordings in a long time, but this morning saw high praise for a recording of Mahler 4 by Anton Nanut, who used to appear on ultra-ultra-ultra bargain labels like Pilz and Laserlight.

[Holden]

Rene Leibowitz - for Readers Digest/Chesky

[Todd]

Maurice Abravanel, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and Leonard Slatkin for Vox come to mind. 

Naxos can no longer really be considered either budget or non-major.

[DavidW]

Naxos can no longer really be considered either budget or non-major.

Agreed.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Maurice Abravanel, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and Leonard Slatkin for Vox come to mind. 

Naxos can no longer really be considered either budget or non-major.

Good names! I was thinking about Slatkin too. As for Stanisław Skrowaczewski, are you suggesting the Bartok and/or Ravel recordings?
You sound right about Naxos.

[Jo498]

Skrowaczewski and Zinman on Arte Nova/Oehms although of course they had recorded for major/non-budget labels BEFORE these budget recordings. Also Robert Craft on Naxos; these recordings weren't even produced by Naxos. The same holds for a lot of Brilliant discs/boxes.

[Irons]

A real coup for such a small label as Unicorn to hire Jascha Horenstein.

[Todd]

As for Stanisław Skrowaczewski, are you suggesting the Bartok and/or Ravel recordings?

Those, plus the Mozart he recorded with Walter Klien.  He recorded more for the label.  I suspect it is all good.

[MusicTurner]

Agree concerning most of those already mentioned, and will exclude for example Chandos, BIS, Melodiya and Supraphon labels ...

D'Avalos for ASV;

Pommer and Roegner for Eterna-Berlin Classics;

Yinon for CPO and Koch;

and those controversial, uneven eccentrics, Scherchen and Rodzinski (primarily Westminster).

[Roasted Swan]

Rene Leibowitz - for Readers Digest/Chesky

Good Shout!!

[Roasted Swan]

Gunter Neuhold's Ring Cycle - absurdly good!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A real coup for such a small label as Unicorn to hire Jascha Horenstein.

Nice! I like his Walton recording.

[André]

Gunter Neuhold's Ring Cycle - absurdly good!

+1

[Spotted Horses]

A agree that Naxos is no longer non-Major or Budget, but Antonin Wit recorded for them when they were.

[DizzyD]

Rene Leibowitz - for Readers Digest/Chesky

Yeah, the Leibowitz transcription of the Bach Passacaglia and Fugue in that old Reader's Digest box set was the first classical music to catch my ear as a kid, along with Liszt's Totentanz which I heard on our local classical station.

[Brian]

You know who else conducted for Naxos in its early days?



1987 session!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

You know who else conducted for Naxos in its early days?



1987 session!

Very interesting! I will check it out!

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Maurice Abravanel, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, and Leonard Slatkin for Vox come to mind. 

Naxos can no longer really be considered either budget or non-major.

I checked the Ravel works by SS. They sound vg like his Bartok set.

[Roasted Swan]

I checked the Ravel works by SS. They sound vg like his Bartok set.

Those 3 Ravel discs are really excellent - and in very good analogue sound as well.  Minnesota were a good band then as well.  His Stravinsky is also very fine - but not easy to find these days at a reasonable price.