 | Tchaikovsky: The Complete Symphonies by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Buy used from: $142.02 Direct interpretations, digital sound, committed playing, incredible results
|
 | Johannes Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 - Carlos Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra by Johannes Brahms
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.49 A justly renowned recording of Brahm's valedictory score
|
 | Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Romance in C
Buy new: $20.98 / Used from: $4.85 Strong BIS sound and a non-oversentimentalized reading from Jarvi's Sibelius cycle
|
 | Beethoven: Symphonien Nos. 7 & 8
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.74 Maybe the best disc from Abbado's underrated first Beethoven cycle
|
 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
Buy used from: $19.95 The audience is occasionaly intrusive, but Mravinsky succeeds in making the closing sound grim and tense
|
 | Dvorák: Symphony No.9 (New World)
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $2.89 The Decca sound is demonstration class here
|
 | Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.24 The most famous classical recording of all time
|
 | Mahler: Symphonies No. 1 & No. 2; Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen by Bruno Walter
Buy used from: $13.50 The "Resurrection" has a natural spontaneity in Walter's hands
|
 | Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 9; Overtures
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.45 The "Eroica" is magnificent under Bohm's clarity
|
 | Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (original 1913 version) / Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow - London Symphony Orchestra / Richard Hickox
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.54 Along with Elgar's First, a landmark British symphony, in its orginal version with even more music!
|
 | Gustav Mahler: Symphonie No. 9
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $12.94 Who says Karajan doesn't suit Mahler?
|
 | Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, Schubert: Symphony No. 5 / Böhm, Vienna Philharmonic Orch.
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.97 The 'Scene by the Brook' has rarely sounded so beautiful
|
 | Vaughan Williams: Symphony #5, Norfolk Rhapsody & The Lark Ascending; Bernard Haitink; Sarah Chang by Sarah Chang
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $3.83 A gorgeous pastoral symphony
|
 | Franz Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4
Buy used from: $11.77 The Third is the surprise of Schubert's nine, and written in his teens!
|
 | Mozart: The Symphonies
Buy new: $49.99 / Used from: $43.99 Sample any of the individual discs in this set and admire the vigor of the "authentic" era playing, using modern instruments
|
 | Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5; Lieder by Gustav Mahler
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $10.25 Both these interpretations should belong to every Mahlerian
|
 | Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3; Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.25 One of Dohnanyi's better achievements on Telarc. Try his earlier Decca version too.
|
 | Howard Hanson Symphonies No. 1 "Nordic" and No. 2 "Romantic" by Howard Hanson
Buy used from: $4.00 The "Romantic" is a pleasant surprise, and maybe the best known work of this American composer
|
 | Edward Elgar: In The South/Symphony No. 1
Buy used from: $1.49 The slow movement will get you every time
|
 | Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5, 6 "Pathetique"
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $18.99 The Pathetique's march is played with reckless abandon. Love it!
|
 | Bruckner: Symphonies 1-9
Buy new: $178.99 / Used from: $69.98 Look no further if you want Bruckner. The Fourth is powerful and the Seventh is finer than his later VPO version
|
 | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No6, Op74; Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Buy used from: $8.82 Giulini manages to hold the tension in his expansive account of the Pathetique
|
 | Mahler: Symphony No. 4
Buy used from: $3.00 My favorite of several Fourths I own
|
 | Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies; 7 Overtures
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $21.45 Great bargain on great music
|
 | Haydn: London Symphonies V.2 Nos. 95, 96, 98, 99, 101, 102 by Dorati
Dorati's Hadyn is pure delight. Sample any of the 104!
|
Listmania!
