Quote from: George on Today at 11:01:39 AMNicely done!
Finally picked up my first complete set of the Mozart symphonies. For years I had a set cobbled together with Ward/Naxos in the early symphonies and the Kruips set of nos 21-41, along with Szell, Walter, Mackerras (SACDs) and Fricsay in the late works.
Hurwitz gave this set a thumbs up on his survey of Mozart sets, I sampled it on Spotify and loved it. Unfortunately it was OOP, so I waited until I could find a cheap copy. Today was the day! Scored a like new copy for $23 at a local used store.
Enjoying CD 1 now.
Quote from: JBS on April 04, 2024, 07:03:58 PMOh, there's plenty of recordings I don't have.Are the Norrington performances any good? I would've thought they are instantly written-off for not using vibrato. Quite late in the game to not use vibrato, no?
And M2 has a special place for me, there's only a couple of recordings of it I don't like.
And both of them happen to be conducted by Abbado (the Vienna Phil. and Lucerne Festival recordings)--although his middle one, with the CSO, is very good.
I also wasn't keen on Norrington, although I like his other Mahler recordings.
Other than that they're all good.
Quote from: vandermolen on Today at 12:13:03 AMWalton: Symphony No.1
Philharmonia Orch. Haitink
I'd forgotten what a fine performance this is. Haitink treats it a bit like Bruckner or Mahler - the slow movement is especially impressive given this treatment, however I was gripped throughout.
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