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fergus wrote: I am not so sure that I will prevail with Pendecki Jared....for me, to say that his sound world is challenging, is an understatement!!!

well, I have a tendancy to feel that you should be aloud to like what you like, and leave the rest alone for a future occasion... without anyone telling you that you must be deficient in some way for 'not being able to appreciate genius'

fergus wrote:


This is the first Gluck that I have listened to in quite some time and it was very pleasant indeed!

I hadn't appreciated that JEG had recorded some stuff on Warner, Fergus... was this in his early days, before Philips & Archiv?

continuing with Mahler...

Symphony No.6

Jared wrote:

DaveF wrote:Mahler, Symphony No.5

how are you finding the Chailly set, Dave?

It's consistently very good from start to finish Jared. Very well recorded too and overall the performances are very difficult to fault. Not as good as, or should I say as interesting as either of Bernstein's cycles but then again Bernstein's Mahler is not for everyone but its just the way I like mine. :-))

DaveF wrote:

Jared wrote:

DaveF wrote:Mahler, Symphony No.5

how are you finding the Chailly set, Dave?

It's consistently very good from start to finish Jared. Very well recorded too and overall the performances are very difficult to fault. Not as good as, or should I say as interesting as either of Bernstein's cycles but then again Bernstein's Mahler is not for everyone but its just the way I like mine. :-))

I have recordings of Mahler's Third and Fifth from Chailly's RCO cycle and they are very fine performances.

I have been giving a great deal of time to thjis recording over the past couple of weeks:



much of Schubert's later works for piano combined on a great Philips twofer, and wonderfuly played by Alfred Brendel... a bargain! That said, I can't help feeling that as good as it is, my other version of his Impromptus:



just shades for sheer sensitivity and occasional lightness of touch... any views in here as to your favourite Impromptus?

DaveF wrote: It's consistently very good from start to finish Jared. Very well recorded too and overall the performances are very difficult to fault. Not as good as, or should I say as interesting as either of Bernstein's cycles but then again Bernstein's Mahler is not for everyone but its just the way I like mine. :-))

thanks Dave... I'm not surprised about Chailly; imho, he's consistently good in that type of repertoire. I think I haven't heard enough Bernstein to make my mind up, although I can see he wouldn't be to everyone's liking.. I have his Haydn: Creation which seems pompously overblown, over-orchestrated, never-ending tempos and probably nothing like Haydn would have intended in the least, but somehow, I kind of like it... lol

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote: I am not so sure that I will prevail with Pendecki Jared....for me, to say that his sound world is challenging, is an understatement!!!

well, I have a tendancy to feel that you should be aloud to like what you like, and leave the rest alone for a future occasion... without anyone telling you that you must be deficient in some way for 'not being able to appreciate genius'

After two listens I think that this one is definitely for the future!!!

Jared wrote:

fergus wrote:


This is the first Gluck that I have listened to in quite some time and it was very pleasant indeed!

I hadn't appreciated that JEG had recorded some stuff on Warner, Fergus... was this in his early days, before Philips & Archiv?

The original recording dates from 1982 Jared....I am sure that I have one or two other recordings of JEG on Warner; I must check!!

DaveF wrote:

Jared wrote:

DaveF wrote:Mahler, Symphony No.5

how are you finding the Chailly set, Dave?

It's consistently very good from start to finish Jared. Very well recorded too and overall the performances are very difficult to fault. Not as good as, or should I say as interesting as either of Bernstein's cycles but then again Bernstein's Mahler is not for everyone but its just the way I like mine. :-))

I regard Chailly highly....his Bruckner is wonderful!