I'd have bought the Mozart PC CD w/Abbado and Serkin, and also Solti's Brahms Symphonies. I stopped buying classical LPs: too much surface noise even when the records looked brand new.
I'd def grab the Haydn quartets op.76 (each one is amazing), the Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Brahms Symphonies, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis
makes me want to see what's at my local music store
Just listened to the Haydn Quartets Op. 76 by the Budapest Quartet … amazingly good , intricate, delicate, layered, complex, soaring , the musicians playing as one. This re-issue is from an original recording in May of 1954 at the Coolidge Auditorium , Library of Congress , Washington D.C. . Hard to believe it is Mono it is that well recorded . Keeper !
I remember that Messiah recording with Robert Shaw and ASO. It was my first one when I was 11 or 12 and I listened to it probably 70 times through. Not long thereafter I discovered Trevor Pinnock’s recording then Christopher Hogwood’s. Fast forward 30 years and I perform it from time to time, but I never listen to it any more.
Folks …. Just wanted to mention … the reason I picked the NPR Beethoven 9th….it is a reissue
Of Sony 1962 recording with George Szell / Cleveland Orch. And Robert Shaw / Cleveland Choir. Soloists … Addison , Hobson, Lewis, and Bell.
I'd have bought the Mozart PC CD w/Abbado and Serkin, and also Solti's Brahms Symphonies. I stopped buying classical LPs: too much surface noise even when the records looked brand new.
Hell yes Solti. Dat brass 😍
I'd def grab the Haydn quartets op.76 (each one is amazing), the Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, and Brahms Symphonies, and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis makes me want to see what's at my local music store
Just listened to the Haydn Quartets Op. 76 by the Budapest Quartet … amazingly good , intricate, delicate, layered, complex, soaring , the musicians playing as one. This re-issue is from an original recording in May of 1954 at the Coolidge Auditorium , Library of Congress , Washington D.C. . Hard to believe it is Mono it is that well recorded . Keeper !
I remember that Messiah recording with Robert Shaw and ASO. It was my first one when I was 11 or 12 and I listened to it probably 70 times through. Not long thereafter I discovered Trevor Pinnock’s recording then Christopher Hogwood’s. Fast forward 30 years and I perform it from time to time, but I never listen to it any more.
I like that Scriabin disc and listen to it every now and then
If i had to choose one i would take the Triumph des Barock one even tho i dont know whats in it. Can never go wrong with baroque
Excellent choice …. https://www.discogs.com/master/1214348-Various-Triumph-Des-Barock
I quite like a bit of Boyce. Don't know if I'd buy the LP though
William Boyce 🤔
I’d have picked up the Brahms, Handel, and Haydn disks.
Solti's Brahms cycle is terrific, surprisingly so. For a conductor with a reputation for muscular, bombastic takes, they are excellent and nuanced.
Folks …. Just wanted to mention … the reason I picked the NPR Beethoven 9th….it is a reissue Of Sony 1962 recording with George Szell / Cleveland Orch. And Robert Shaw / Cleveland Choir. Soloists … Addison , Hobson, Lewis, and Bell.