Quote: Originally Posted by mbhaub Zender...Zander...must be old age. Yes, I do have the ZENDER, and it's ok. Actually I wish ZANDER would at least give us an analysis, but now that Telarc isn't making anymore classical we'll probably never get it. Keithdn: you get Vanska/Minnesota...

Quote: Originally Posted by keithdn I too enjoy Abbado; you said it correctly: "panache." He has a remarkable recording of M5 (live), even better than Bernstein's recording with Vienna Philharmonic. I do, however, envy you to see Abbado perform Mahler in concert! I only get to see Osmo...

Quote: Originally Posted by ssportclay I bought the mono Capital LP in 1967 which I believe was all there was in the USA at the time. My ears were much better then but my equipment wasn't so I cannot speak about the sound quality. A few years later I bought the Capital stereo copy. My...

Quote: Originally Posted by mbhaub Re: Zender. I didn't know Zender had a Mahler 7th. Did I miss out? While I greatly admire his analysis of the symphonies (M9 is particularly insightful), none of the Telarc recordings I have ever really catch fire. Is he too reticent? Is the orchestra...

Quote: Originally Posted by mbhaub In my insatiable desire to hear every recording of the Mahler 7th, I've heard something that's truly sensational. It's a new SACD release of Mariss Jansons conducting the Symphony Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio on their own label. Jansons gets it...

Quote: Originally Posted by radiohlite that may be why I'm responding so well to it. After Bernstein and some of the more histrionic conductors it's a kind of cleansing experience, listening to a completely opposite perspective. The lines are clarified, the balances are perfect. It's...

Quote: Originally Posted by mbhaub The general consensus on Boulez is that while it's analytically keen, brilliantly played without exception, and generally very well recorded, it's echt-Mahler. It's too cold, too bloodless. It's emotional devoid of those highs and lows that are what...

Takacs Quartet and Stephen Hough really does it for me. I think it's even better than the Emerson/Fleisher recording, which is saying a lot.

Quote: Originally Posted by vic225 Any comments on Gergiev and Chailly's cycle? Gergiev's orchestras (whichever they are, Kirov/Maryinsky, Vienna Phil, LSO, et al.) always play VERY LOUD. If you like loud music, then Gergiev is your man. Chailly's cycle is very well balanced...

I have multiple copies of Mahler's symphonies and song cycles as well as almost all of Beethoven, Mozart, Bach and Haydn's Music. I also have multiple copies of music by Brahms, Dvorak, Wagner, Schoenberg, Milhaud, Chopin, Liszt, Copland, Bernstein, Crumb, CPE Bach, WF Bach, Vivaldi, Pergolesi...

Favorite Concertos off the top of my head: Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, violin concertos, double Concertos, and the other "Concerts avec plusieurs instruments..." CPE Bach: Keyboard Concertos; Cello Concerto, Flute concertos, et al. Beethoven's 4th and 5th Piano Concertos Mozart: Late...

Quote: Originally Posted by wower The Beethoven Florestan isn't available on amazon.ca for some reason else that would be my choice. The Florestan Trio's Beethoven is available at Amazon Canada, it's just listed eccentricly. Here's a link. To find the other volumes of the...

To supplement the Beaux Arts Trio on modern instruments try the recordings by the Florestan Trio, which are excellent. They have recorded all of Beethoven's music for piano trio and the 4 volumes were at one time available at the BMG music clubs (YourMusic.com and BMGMusic.com). Volumes may...

Look for albums with La Folia or La Folia d'Espagne in them. It's another very famous canon -- probably the platinum no. 1 hit of the baroque period -- that worked its way all through Europe from Spain. Handel used it as did Corelli before him and later it was used to great effect on the...

Quote: Originally Posted by DarkAngel Just had a thread about this a couple months ago here....... I'm waiting for the new crop of tenors to get to it. Out with the old and in with the new.