His RCA cycle is great stuff. He has a great touch with the orchestra, the Chicago, and he makes the symphonies sing which you'd expect, given his opera background.
Four discs in the set which includes the first piano concerto with Manny Ax in some exquisite playing, a great Deutsches Requiem and eight short, well sung lieder.
Sellers on Amazon have the set new for $7.20 US.
Other cycles I can recommend - Wand/ NDR SO/ BMG and Haitink/ Concertgebouw/ Decca which has both piano concertos w. Arrau, the Violin Concerto with Szeryng and a handful of orchestral pieces.
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Topic - Levine's reference Brahms. - Sigmund 09:10:55 09/16/14 (22)
- My intro to his symphonies. That said.... - jdaniel@jps.net 08:10:08 09/27/14 (0)
- RE: Levine's reference Brahms. - Berrell88 20:01:38 09/17/14 (0)
- RE:Here's a Link - amioutaline? 17:17:02 09/17/14 (0)
- RE: Levine's reference Brahms. - Todd Krieger 16:13:16 09/16/14 (14)
- RE: Levine's reference Brahms. - learsfool 21:43:21 09/16/14 (12)
- So who is an American? - TGR 09:02:02 09/17/14 (2)
- RE: So who is an American? - learsfool 21:51:00 09/17/14 (1)
- RE: "I meant born in the US." - Ivan303 10:59:19 09/18/14 (0)
- Do you trust Wikipedia? - Chris from Lafayette 00:48:19 09/17/14 (7)
- RE: Do you trust Wikipedia? - learsfool 21:57:47 09/17/14 (1)
- OK - I've not picked up on this - Thanks! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 22:17:37 09/17/14 (0)
- RE: Do you trust Wikipedia? - Old SteveA 15:17:14 09/17/14 (4)
- Why would you say that? [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 18:09:45 09/17/14 (3)
- RE: Why would you say that? [nt] - Old SteveA 19:08:33 09/17/14 (2)
- OK - I think you must know more than I do - Thanks! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 22:19:02 09/17/14 (1)
- RE: OK - I think you must know more than I do - Thanks! [nt] ;-) - Old SteveA 05:51:33 09/18/14 (0)
- Thanks for the Info....... - Todd Krieger 23:43:56 09/16/14 (0)
- Thanks for the info, Todd. - Sigmund 19:37:42 09/16/14 (0)
- I agree about the symphonies... - C.B. 09:47:36 09/16/14 (3)
- The SQ is indeed not the best - Chris from Lafayette 10:13:37 09/16/14 (2)
- It is always something, isn't it? - Sigmund 15:40:56 09/16/14 (1)
- Yes - a lot of it is just personal likes and dislikes: SQ, interpretation - you name it! [nt] - Chris from Lafayette 15:51:00 09/16/14 (0)