What are you re-evaluating?

[not edward]

Yeah, unless you're concerned about sound quality (which is a bit claustrophobic at times in the Wergo set), the Wergo is the way to go.

Maybe amazon.co.uk will misprice the Wergo again (I got it back in my Edinburgh days when they had it labelled at 11.99 and I think quite a few people from a predecessor board to this one took advantage of this when I passed the mistake on).

However, my single favourite Hartmann performance is the Fricsay recording of the 6th (my favourite Hartmann symphony) that's been reissued coupled with Blacher's Paganini-Variations on DG's Musik...sprache die Welt series.

[Brian]

Dvorak: Symphonies 1, 2, 3 & 4 with Kertesz/Kubelik/Valek.

I have often found with sets of Dvorak's symphonies, in the past I start at the end and work back...on with the New World down to the 5th, and have ignored the first 4 for too long.  Over the last week or two I have done the first 4 a couple of times and although great as they may be they don't reach the heights of his 5/6 or his final 3.  Good music, worth a re-run.

I'm actually reconsidering these pieces too, in a way (since I already liked 2, 3, and 4). The Kertesz performances of the first four are lovely, but the best come in a new box by conductor Ivan Anguelov; I recently heard the Second and Fourth and my jaw hit the floor. Anguelov makes the case that the Second is an authentic expression of Dvorak's Czech roots, a bucolic and wholly Bohemian symphony in the same vein as the classic Eighth. It isn't as good a symphony as 8, of course, but he proves his point convincingly!    I'm glad you're re-evaluating these works; they certainly merit more attention than they get. (except perhaps the First? But Anguelov makes even that one sound good.)

[Mark]

Brian, do you have a link to that Anguelov set? Cheers!

[George]

Anyway, what are you re-evaluating at the moment?

All that has been taught to me.  0:)