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Except for the decidedly unportentous, dancing opening chorus (as opposed to Klemperer’s monumental rendition or Herreweghe’s more effectual balance of weight, texture, and tempo), this
This 1974 live concert recording represents Kirill Kondrashin’s last appearance with the Staatskapelle Dresden, for what that bit of information is worth. He sets a
These performances, captured shortly before Sinopoli’s untimely death, make a fine memento of his art. His commercial recording of Mahler’s Ninth was a decadent mess:
Bernard Haitink’s Concertgebouw Bruckner Sixth was one of the finer items in his complete symphony cycle for Philips. This remake employs the Dresden Staatskapelle, the
Despite some strong casting, this 1977 studio recording (I believe it was the soundtrack to a film) cannot be considered a front-runner due to the
This isn’t Karl Böhm’s well-known Schubert Ninth with the Berlin Philharmonic, but a live version broadcast by (then) East German radio in 1979. It’s similar
It’s interesting that many artists will do things on recordings that they would seldom do live. Colin Davis recorded this same symphony with this same
The Staatskapelle Dresden was, and probably still is, Germany’s greatest orchestra overall, the one with the most distinctive sound, the grandest historical tradition, and the
My colleague Jed Distler has already praised this set to the skies in its previous budget-priced EMI incarnation (type Q704 in the search box for
Colin Davis is a fine Mozartean, as most readers/listeners will already know. His Philips recordings of the late symphonies with this orchestra stand among the
