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List 4 or 5 recordings YOU consider "definitive"
Posted by pbarach on May 17, 2020 at 15:13:12:
As a way of leading Classical Courtiers to discover some new recordings, can people list 4 or 5 recordings that THEY PERSONALLY consider definitive. I'm suggesting a limit of 4-5 so we don't get page-long discographies. I'm also suggesting we merely list the recordings without explaining why we consider them definitive, and please NO ARGUMENTS (e.g., "Are you kidding? That recording sucks" "You're an idiot, ____ is a much better recording")
For this purpose, I'm defining a "definitive recording" as one that you feel captures the essence of what makes that composition meaningful to you.
Here are some of mine:
Brahms Piano Concerto 2: Gilels, Reiner, CSO
Mozart Piano Concerto 27: Casadesus, Szell/"Columbia Symphony" (CLE)
Mahler Das Lied von der Erde: King, Fischer-Dieskau, Bernstein/VPO
Vaughan Williams The Pilgrim's Progress: Boult
Mahler 5: Solti/CSO (the first one, despite multi-miking)