I've recently been listening to a lot of Bruckner (he's great isn't he? :)), so I thought I'd take some recommendations on great recordings. For now I'm pretty much sticking to symphonies 4-9. Feel free to post more than five recordings if you must, I just don't want to be overwhelmed with choices! For the record, here's my current favorites:
5th - Sinopoli
4th - Celibidache/Munich
9th - Furtwangler
5th - Celibidache/Stuttgart
8th - Boulez
Quote from: spaghetti on December 10, 2007, 03:35:02 PM
I've recently been listening to a lot of Bruckner (he's great isn't he? :)), so I thought I'd take some recommendations on great recordings. For now I'm pretty much sticking to symphonies 4-9. Feel free to post more than five recordings if you must, I just don't want to be overwhelmed with choices! For the record, here's my current favorites:
5th - Sinopoli
4th - Celibidache/Munich
9th - Furtwangler
5th - Celibidache/Stuttgart
8th - Boulez
No order of preference.
4 - Karajan/BPO (1970), 5 - Horenstein/BBC, 6 - Barenboim/BPO, 7 - Karajan/VPO, 8 - Boulez/VPO, 9 - Karajan/BPO (1966).
My top 5:
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Here is my list (subject to change at any moment): ;D
5th: Thielemann/Orchester of Deutsche Opera Berlin (Live 1999)
6th: Klemperer/New Philharmonia
7th: Karajan/VPO
8th: Boulez/VPO
8th: Celibidache/Munich
Quote from: Gustav on December 10, 2007, 05:32:09 PM
My top 5:
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Any tips on how one can get this (without paying a gross amount of money)?
1. Karajan/VPO on the 8th
2. Wand/MPO on the 4th
3. Celibidache/MPO on the 8th
4. Celibidache/MPO on the 4th
5. Solti/CSO on the 6th tied with
6. Karajan/? on the 5th (the one on Andante label, with a noisy audience and horrible acoustics)
Quote from: CS on December 10, 2007, 06:06:35 PM
Any tips on how one can get this (without paying a gross amount of money)?
sorry, i don't think it's possible, recently i have seen one from eBay, it ended up selling for 78 dollars.
Quote from: CS on December 10, 2007, 06:06:35 PM
Any tips on how one can get this (without paying a gross amount of money)?
Hold your breath and hope that it shows up on DG Web Shop or as an ArkivCD release.
I'd say hope for a DG Originals release, but I don't know how the new web presence will affect that. It seems more likely that they'd sell the download.
1) Karajan/VPO/DG 7th
2) Giulini/VPO/DG 9th
3) Bohm/Great Conductors of 20th Century 8th
4) Klemperer/EMI 6th
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8th Symphony - Jochum with the BPO
9th Symphony - Giulini with the VPO
5th Symphony - Jochum with the Concertgebow
7th Symphony - Karl Böhm with the VPO
3rd Symphony - Knappertsbusch with the VPO
I unexpectedly enjoyed the Celibidache 6th last night. I say "unexpectedly" because no one had as of yet recommended it in this thread. :)
New to me, too, is the Boulez 8th. Playing now...
I can only recommend Jochum with Dresden Staatskapelle. It's the only set I have, but enjoy it tremendously.
My favorites are the 5th, 9th and 4th.
My top five in no order:
no 1: Tintner/RSNSO
no 4: Jochum/BPO (yet to hear Celibidache)
no 8: Giulini/VPO
no 9: Harnoncourt/VPO
Mass nr 3: Celibidache/MunichPO
My five choices...from the other end of the Bruckner list:
1 - Chailly/RSO Berlin
2 - Barenboim/Berlin Phil
3 - Celibidache/Munich Phil
4 - Karajan/Berlin Phil (EMI)
5 - Dohnányi/Cleveland
Sarge
I like your thinking Sarge.
I would make it:
2 Barenboim/BPO
3 Haitink/VPO
8 Schuricht/VPO
4 Kubelik/BRSO
5 Furtwängler/BPO
Hey look at what one dude wrote about on Amazon about Sinopoli's DG Bruckner 8th:
Here he leads what is generally regarded as a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, in the performance of their lives. :o
Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on December 14, 2007, 11:52:07 AM
Hey look at what one dude wrote about on Amazon about Sinopoli's DG Bruckner 8th:
Here he leads what is generally regarded as a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, in the performance of their lives. :o
Amazon reviews are almost as hilarious as youtube comments on classical clips.
Quote from: PerfectWagnerite on December 14, 2007, 11:52:07 AM
Hey look at what one dude wrote about on Amazon about Sinopoli's DG Bruckner 8th:
Here he leads what is generally regarded as a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, in the performance of their lives. :o
idiots...
'a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle' :P
what moron dreamed this up??
hehehe...padded cell time, get him off the street NOW!
dj
8. Karajan/VPO
8 Chailly/RCO
8 Giulini/VPO
7 Chailly/ BRSO
7 Karajan/VPO
4 Chailly/RCO
Quote from: gmstudio on December 13, 2007, 05:43:38 AM
New to me, too, is the Boulez 8th. Playing now...
Hey, gmstudio, what'd you think of the Boulez 8th? It's my favorite of the Bruckner 8's that I have, but I have yet to hear Giulini, Karajan or the others cited in this thread. :)