The Legendary Recordings Thread

[Shrunk]

Glad to hear it! She's playing the piece here in a few months.

Where, and with whom?  I thought she had given up performing concertos. 

[Mark]

It would be a crime if, having begun this thread, I neglected to add this utterly brilliant gem of a recording/performance:

[Bogey]

It would be a crime if, having begun this thread, I neglected to add this utterly brilliant gem of a recording/performance:

Nice call Mark....now you can lock the thread with my blessing.

[Mark]

Nice call Mark....now you can lock the thread with my blessing.

And still my hunt for the pictured release goes on.

[Brian]

Where, and with whom?  I thought she had given up performing concertos. 

Charles Dutoit and the "UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra".

Prokofiev: PC3
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

[Bogey]

And still my hunt for the pictured release goes on.

Ah, but is that the incomplete recording?

[Mark]

Ah, but is that the incomplete recording?

Good question. I don't know.

[Renfield]

Well, I've raved about this enough in the Beethoven 7th thread, so I might as well go ahead and add it to this one.

Indeed, and even though I haven't posted any sort of "legendary" selection of my own, this recording would probably be the first on my list:

[sidoze]

for piano lovers you could add a couple of Feinberg recordings here, such as his WTC and this one:

[Daverz]

Nonsense. The work belongs to Argerich. Hers are the only legendary ones.

This CD has 1/3 of the original Lp Ravel recital from November 1974: Gaspard, the Sonatine, and the Valses Nobles.  There was a previous Galleria CD release that had Gaspard and the Sonatine.  I have a great sentimental attachment to this Lp as it was one of the first classical Lps I ever bought, and I nearly wore it out.  But I really missed that Valses Nobles on CD. 



Luckily, the whole recital has been reissued in Japan, coupled with the PC in G (the Valses Nobles were only previously available on CD in an expensive Argerich box set).

[Daverz]

The 1960s recordings, which may be getting reissued by Sony/BMG if HMV Japan is to be believed that these are the 1963 recordings:

http://www.hmv.co.jp/product/detail/2635681
http://www.amazon.fr/6-Quatuors-cordes-Bela-Bartok/dp/B000P6RB88/

[sadness]

[sidoze]

A used copy of Gilels' Carnegie Hall recital on M&A has come up for sale for $29.99 through US Amazon. The programme is rather pathetic honestly but this CD has long been a collector's item.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001OFO/sr=1-1/qid=1193092574/ref=olp_product_details/002-5763705-7312824?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1193092574&sr=1-1&seller=

[Great Gable]

A used copy of Gilels' Carnegie Hall recital on M&A has come up for sale for $29.99 through US Amazon. The programme is rather pathetic honestly but this CD has long been a collector's item.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000001OFO/sr=1-1/qid=1193092574/ref=olp_product_details/002-5763705-7312824?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1193092574&sr=1-1&seller=

Like a lot of earlier CD releases, I suspect this will get another official release. People should wait - most things come around again.

Has anyone else noticed how Gilels looks like Muhammad Ali on that cover?

[wilhelm]

[mahlertitan]

[FideLeo]

JS Bach: Mass in b minor, Joshua Rifkin conducts the Bach Ensemble

The recording that started it all.  Thanks to Rifkin we have now the option of hearing Bach (and many other Baroque composers) OVPP.

[drogulus]

     

     

     The first is a legendary performance. The second is hugely influential in spite of being one of the worst albums ever made (as these things are usually judged).

[The new erato]

Blue Cheer - known as the loudest group in rock. A program leader on a radio programme once famously introduced them this way ; "This is Blue Cheer - run for your life!"

[Keemun]

What about this recording makes you consider it legendary?  I'm curious because I have it, but I didn't get that impression.  Perhaps I'll have to give it another listen.