Your favorite mono recordings

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Granados: Danzas Espanolas. Luis Galve Raso. Powerful, and yet melancholic, performance. Beauty of the ambivalence.

[Irons]

A spellbinding performance of Bach's 5th Sonata for Violin and Piano. David Oistrakh is in top form but it is the mesmerising playing of his partner Lev Oborin that makes this recording so memorable.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

A spellbinding performance of Bach's 5th Sonata for Violin and Piano. David Oistrakh is in top form but it is the mesmerising playing of his partner Lev Oborin that makes this recording so memorable.

I checked it on Youtube. Exceptional, surreal music.

[Irons]

I checked it on Youtube. Exceptional, surreal music.

I thought you might and delighted you did.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I've not heard the Szell/Huberman for years, but I remember that the two spark it off very well, Furtwangler/Fischer Beethoven PC5 is a bit like that. Here's a list of this sort of thing that I made more than 10 years ago, when I was into that sort of thing more. Some of it may be stereo, I'm not sure. I think today I'd add more Mengelberg -- but, I don't want to think about it too much: been there, done that, and this list is the tee shirt. I'm too cool for 19th century concertos now .



Scherchen's Handel Concerti Grossi Op 6
Ervin Nyiregyhazi playing Liszt Legends
Ervin Nyiregyhazi playing Rachmaninov Symphony 2
Ervin Nyiregyhazi playing the threnodies from Liszt Aneees
Mengelberg's live Beethoven 6
Scherchen's Matthew Passion
Mengelberg's Matthew Passion
Mengelberg's Bach cantatas
Mengelberg's Brahms Violin Concerto
Mengelberg Brahms 1
Anything sung by Erb
Felix Prohaska Bach cantatas with Stich-Randall
Furtwangler's Beethoven 3
Pfitzner's Beethoven 3 and 6
Furtwangler's Beethoven 4
Furtwangler's Brahms 1
Furtwangler's Brahms 2
Furtwangler's Brahms 4
Furtwangler's Tristan (the one with the missing Act 1)
Furtwangler's Metamorphosen
Furtwangler's Gran Partita
Furtwangler's Bruckner 5
Furtwangler's Bruckner 7
Furtwangler's Bruckner 9
Furtwangler's Beethoven 9
Furtwangler playing the Grosse Fuge
Albert Coates playing the Jupiter Symphony
The last 40 minutes of Furtwangler's Matthew Passion
Richter's Christmas Oratorio
Richter's St John Passion
Knappertsbusch's Parsifal with Vickers
Furtwangler's Schubert 9
Furtwangler's Schubert 8
Jurgen Jurgen's Monteverdi Vespers
Mengelberg live Schubert 9
Casals prelude to Cello Suites 5 and 6
Tocanini's Missa Solemnis with Kipnis
Segovia playing the Bach Chaconne
Tureck playing the Goldbergs and Partitas on Great Pianists
The largo from Chopin sonata 3 by Rosenthal
Cortot playing Schumann's Etudes (1950s) and Davidsbundlertanze
Cortot playing Chopin Walzes, nocturnes, sonatas, preludes, etudes and everything else
Edwin Fischer playing the last half of Bk 2 of WTC
Edwin Fischer playing Beethoven Op 110
Casals live cello suite 3
Scherchen playing Haydn 88
Levy playing the big  Liszt sonata
Peter Pears singing the Britten Serenade
Ney/Boehm Beethoven PC5, final movement only
Fischer/Furtwangler Brahms PC2
Arrau playing Op 111 on the VAI DVD
The young Souzay singing Nacht und Traume
Hubermann playing the slow movement of the Beethoven Concerto
Feuermann plaing the Ghost sonata and the Haydn Concerto
Busch Bros playing the Bach double Violin Concerto
Szigetti playing the Bach chaconne
Schnabel in the largo of Mozart PC 27
Schnabel's Brahms Intermeszzi
Schorr singing Wotan in Walkure
Solti's Gotterdammerung
Walcha playing Bach's English Suites
Bruno Walter playing the Mozart Funeral March thing
Hotter/Moore Winterreise
Hotter Bach cantatas
Kipnis Brahms serious songs
When the anti aircraft guns fire in Landowska's Scarlatti

Mandryka, why don't you like the first half of Fischer WTC2? Just curious.

[vandermolen]

Two mono favourites:

[Mandryka]

Mandryka, why don't you like the first half of Fischer WTC2? Just curious.

Can't remember! That was a long time ago.

[Irons]

Furtwangler is a bit before my time record buying wise. However when I first heard his Eine Kleine Nachtmusik of all pieces! I knew what all the fuss is about.

[Florestan]

Everything in this box, particularly Gran Partita and the Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra

[vandermolen]

Greatest Sibelius 4th Symphony IMO

[Mandryka]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe8zb9H9KoY&ab_channel=SadanoriKobinata

This is Cortot playing Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses in 1950 I think - I have it on Vol 23 of the Anniversary Edition. IT seems a minute longer than his other recordings on youtube. Some psychedelic hallucinatory playing towards the end.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe8zb9H9KoY&ab_channel=SadanoriKobinata

This is Cortot playing Mendelssohn's Variations Serieuses in 1950 I think - I have it on Vol 23 of the Anniversary Edition. IT seems a minute longer than his other recordings on youtube. Some psychedelic hallucinatory playing towards the end.

Good, if dark, performance. I'm more familiar with sunny interpretations with eighth notes arpeggios dancing.

[Mandryka]

Good, if dark, performance. I'm more familiar with sunny interpretations with eighth notes arpeggios dancing.

Try Richter if you're feeling brave, it's darker still. It's a bit like a Russian tank rolling across a wildflower meadow in Spring.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Try Richter if you're feeling brave, it's darker still. It's a bit like a Russian tank rolling across a wildflower meadow in Spring.

 

Overall, when I listen to Mendelssohn's piano works, I can understand that he admired JSB. I will check the Richter soon.