Your Top 10 HIP Recordings

[Bogey]

Any genre goes and how HIP is defined is up to you.  Just wanted to have a thread where one could turn to when considering purchasing HIP recordings instead of digging them out of all the other HIP threads.

[Gurn Blanston]

Hard to know where to start. Here's one for getting on with:

The last 3 pianoforte sonatas of Beethoven - Paul Komen

Komen is a great performer by any standards, and his Beethoven interpretations are as good as it gets. This is one of those disks where the tone color of the instrument is merely a bonus.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Not too many but this is definitely one of them:

[Bulldog]

Beethoven's Cello Sonatas played by Coin and Cohen on Harmonia Mundi.

[mozartsneighbor]

10 requires some reflection -- but this just off the top of my head.

[Bogey]

i dont think i could come up with 10...but a few that come to mind are..

koopman's brandenburgs

Is this one available James?

[Bogey]

10 requires some reflection -- but this just off the top of my head.

That's not a problem.  Either way they come in works.  What I am doing is choosing ones that I want a first of or another recording for my shelf.  Then I am cross referencing them at Arkiv Music and making an HIP wishlist there.  So, if more come to mind, please post.  Thanks to the efforts so far folks.

[Brian]

Hard to know where to start. Here's one for getting on with:

The last 3 pianoforte sonatas of Beethoven - Paul Komen

Komen is a great performer by any standards, and his Beethoven interpretations are as good as it gets. This is one of those disks where the tone color of the instrument is merely a bonus.

I absolutely agree about this recording - a truly amazing disc; my favorite performances of the last three by a wide margin. Putting it on now 

I am also a very big fan of the Mozart "Jupiter" Symphonies of Rene Jacobs and John Eliot Gardiner, Roger Norrington's second Beethoven symphony cycle (a hybrid with the SWR Orchestra; HIP style, modern instruments), and Das Neue Orchester's performance of the Kalliwoda Symphony No 5 under Christoph Spering, a ground-breaking/revelatory CD if there ever was one.

[david johnson]

beecham's 'messiah' 

dj

[Que]

Any genre goes and how HIP is defined is up to you.  Just wanted to have a thread where one could turn to when considering purchasing HIP recordings instead of digging them out of all the other HIP threads.

Bill, Bill, that's a (very) though one!

Since I consider HIP for Medieveal, Renaissance and Baroque music simply the standard, I will only mention HIP recordings that "compete" with non-HIP.

What comes to mind right now (I'll post another list later... ) and in random order:
1. LvB - cello sonatas by Bijlsma/ Van Immerseel (Sony)
2. LvB - piano trios nos. 3 & 5 by Staier/Sepec/Queras (HM)
3. LvB - three last piano sonatas by Paul Komen (Globe)
4. Mozart/Brahms - clarinet quintets by Jean-Claude Veilhan/ Quintette Stadler (K617)
5. Haydn - masses by Bruno Weil (Sony)
6. Schubert - piano trios by ensemble La Gaia Scienza (Winter & Winter)
7. Mozart - concertos with fortepiano by Jos van Immerseel/ Anima Eterna (Channel Classics) 
8. Mozart - Great Mass in C minor by Hogwood (Decca)
9. Haydn - string quartets by the Festetics Quartet (Arcana)
10. Schubert - piano sonatas D960 & D946 by Van Immerseel (Northwest Classics)

Q

[adamdavid80]

No Bilson or Staier?   

[Gurn Blanston]

No Bilson or Staier?   

They both work very well for me, especially Staier. His Dussek sonatas are especially nice, as well as his Beethoven Sonatas and Trios with Sepec and Queyras.



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Listening to:
BPO / von Karajan - Korsakov Symphonic Suite "Scheherezade" Op 35 Pt 1

[mozartsneighbor]

No Bilson or Staier?   

I was just about to recommend some Staier...

[Que]

No Bilson or Staier?   

I'm not big on Bilson, but Staier is a favourite of mine.
I could easily have mentioned his Schubert - which is absolutely superb - and his Mozart piano concertos (the few that he has recorded). The Haydn is still on my wish list.

I would have liked a complete Mozart concertos cycle and a complete Schubert pianoworks with him! Unfortunately Warner (Teldec) ditched him when the CD market slowed down - a very, very stupid decision. 

Q

[mozartsneighbor]

Unfortunately Warner (Teldec) ditched him when the CD market slowed down - a very, very stupid decision. 

Q

Fortunately, he seems to be recording quite a bit for Harmonia Mundi now, so we can still can look forward to a lot from him.

[Grazioso]

I don't know about my top 10, but here are a couple I quite enjoy:

Wispelwey's Haydn cello concerti:



The Nepomuk Fortepiano Quintet playing works by Hummel, Dussek, and Onslow:

[mozartsneighbor]

I don't know about my top 10, but here are a couple I quite enjoy:

Wispelwey's Haydn cello concerti:

Agreed, Wispelwey's Haydn cello concerti are stunning.

[MishaK]

I won't make a top 10 list, but among my absolute favorite HIP recordings are:

1. Brandenburg Concertos - Il Giardino Armonico - Teldec
2. Il ritorno di Ullisse in patria - William Christie, les Arts Florissants - Virgin DVD (had the pleasure of seeing this production live in Brooklyn)
3. Viaggio musicale; Musica Italiana del Seicento - Il Giardino Armonico - Teldec
Haydn Symphonies - Sigiswald Kuijken, La Petite Bande/Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Virgin

[(poco) Sforzando]

2. Il ritorno di Ullisse in patria - William Christie, les Arts Florissants - Virgin DVD (had the pleasure of seeing this production live in Brooklyn)

An absolutely fantastic experience. Did you get to all three? As a production, I thought this was the highlight of the series.

[MishaK]

An absolutely fantastic experience. Did you get to all three? As a production, I thought this was the highlight of the series.

Yes, I saw all three and I agree. The Ulisse was the best. I did not like the Pierre Audi production of Poppea with Les Talens lyriques.