Schubert Symphony No 5 Recordings

[The One]

Please vote and declare your favorite if "other"

[Mahlerian]

Please vote only if you have listened to at least most of these recordings.

Edit: At least comment on why you do not vote after 34 views

I think I've only heard three or so of those recordings.  So I didn't vote.

[Baron Scarpia]

I've listened to one of these recordings (Bohm, Berlin). I don't have any memory of it. I think it was pretty dull. I vote for Harnoncourt/Concertgebouw because I own it, I listened to No 2 from the same set, it was great, and I believe I will listen to No 5 someday.

[Sergeant Rock]

The Fifth, my favorite Schubert symphony. Of the ones you listed, I've only heard Solti, Davis and Abbado. But they aren't my favorite performances. I own these:

SOLTI
WEIL
WAND
BERNSTEIN
CELIBIDACHE
GOODMAN
HARNONCOURT
IMMERSEEL
DAVIS
BLOMSTEDT
MAAZEL
ABBADO

Wand (his last recording) and Weil (with a swift Andante con moto) are at the top of my heap.

Harnoncourt gets my vote for the best complete cycle (not that you asked  )

Sarge

[Turner]

I only own

- HARNONCOURT
- MARRINER
- BEECHAM
- SCHERCHEN
- KERTESZ

so didn´t vote, but have no real favourite.
Except Scherchen is disppointing here, and Marriner´s set overall lacks interest IMO.
I´d probably grab for Kertesz or Beecham for an entertaining listening experience.
I prefer Schubert´s symphonies 8+9.

[Daverz]

Bruno Walter!

[Baron Scarpia]

The Fifth, my favorite Schubert symphony. Of the ones you listed, I've only heard Solti, Davis and Abbado. But they aren't my favorite performances. I own these:

SOLTI
WEIL
WAND
BERNSTEIN
CELIBIDACHE
GOODMAN
HARNONCOURT
IMMERSEEL
DAVIS
BLOMSTEDT
MAAZEL
ABBADO

Wand (his last recording) and Weil (with a swift Andante con moto) are at the top of my heap.

Harnoncourt gets my vote for the best complete cycle (not that you asked  )

Sarge

The Fifth is your favorite? 

Maazel did it? Wow! I wish I liked Schubert symphonies better, I'd get it.

[The One]

I think I've only heard three or so of those recordings.  So I didn't vote.

So why don't you use 'other' and post your favorite among those "three or so"? 

[Sergeant Rock]

The Fifth is your favorite? 

It is...partly nostalgia: I played a band version of the Andante con moto in high school.

Maazel did it?

Yes, with the SOBR:



Sarge

[André]

My favourites are wide apart stylistically, although their conductors belong to the same generation:

Fritz Busch and the Winterthur Symphony Orchestra.
Bruno Walter and the Columbia Symphony.

[Mahlerian]

So why don't you use 'other' and post your favorite among those "three or so"? 

You specified that we should only vote if we have heard "most of these recordings," and I don't have a strong enough preference anyway.  Nice symphony, though!

[The One]

Nice symphony, though!

Give it a try after listening to Mozart's 40

[Jo498]

I don't very much care for this charming piece (my favorite early Schubert symphonies are 2 and 3), probably because it is played so frequently or appears as a filler. Of the ones mentioned I have heard one Böhm on LP (with the b minor) many years ago, as well as Davis, Mackerras, Harnoncourt.
I have probably around 5-7 others (Klemperer, Maazel, Beecham, Fischer-Dieskau (EMI, one of his handful as a conductor), Weil, Spering,...)

This is an earlier recording with Maazel and the Berlin Phil (around 1960) on DG. Unfortunately this cycle lacks 1 and 9 but the extant 2-8 are lively and brilliant, maybe even a little too much on the brilliant side. I highly recommend it although as I said I can hardly single out the 5th because I tend to listen to others more, if I want to listen at all to early Schubert.

[TheGSMoeller]

Other...

Harnoncourt, with RCO or BPO, either one. Both are great.

[Baron Scarpia]

Other...

Harnoncourt, with RCO or BPO, either one. Both are great.

He did the 5th with Berlin? Why was I not informed? (I've only come across the Schubert 4th with Berlin.)

[GioCar]

Recently I was very impressed by Marc Minkowsky/Les musiciens du Louvre.

I don't remember such a joyful and dreaming opening by any other I've heard.

[Daverz]

I don't very much care for this charming piece

I must admit that I burnt out on it a bit in the early CD era when the Beecham was one of my few CDs and was played over and over.

[RebLem]

Best Schubert 5th is the Thomas Beecham recording with the Royal Philharmonic.  Of the others listed, the Marriner is best.

[Daverz]

I didn't vote because the only one of those I've heard is Böhm/Berlin.  I like that one quite a bit, it's lithe and airy sounding.  But again, it's hard to beat Walter in Schubert.  I should listen to the Kertesz, as I usually love his recordings.

[ComposerOfAvantGarde]

Damn, this would have been a great blind listening thing I reckon. I don't listen to much orchestral Schubert, but I really like Minkowski's recording.