Favourite Sargent recordings.

[Don Petter]

Sorry, Don (I can see salymap tittering) Beni Mora often comes up as my suggestion for Room 101 threads. And that is with anyone conducting it: even my heroes, Adrian Boult and Charles Mackerras!!

Chris,

I can fully understand your stance here, so no hard feelings. It is, perhaps, a work of peculiar nature, which is likely to polarise opinion. I'm not that mad on it per se, but the thread was about MS. (And I think there would be other works which would get into my Room 101 ahead of it, Lambert's Rio Grande, for one. )

[EdgeleyRob]

This mb is an ongoing source of anecdotes and information. My sole complaint is the number of CD's I end up buying after reading many contributions - but then it's a lovely way to go bankrupt!

I am not a musician,cannot read music and knew very little about musical form or history before joining this forum. What makes this mb so good is that are so many musically knowledgeable people on here it is an education.
I agree it is a very expensive hobby reading the contributions.

[salymap]

Ah Chris those caravans crossing the desert will haunt you forever. You may yet come to appreciate it.

[Chris Newman]

saly and Don.
NOOOO!!!!!! Please lock me away with Lambert's Rio Grande. Now, I love that.

[Don Petter]

saly and Don.
NOOOO!!!!!! Please lock me away with Lambert's Rio Grande. Now, I love that.

I think what put me off Rio Grande was an earlier incarnation of R3, when, although isolated movements were still taboo, they did tend to get a bee in their bonnet and repeat some works seemingly ad nauseam. I doubt that Suffolkcoastal can go back far enough to confirm my memory, and of course events have now overtaken this mild peccadillo.

[Ferretfancy]

Another nice Sargent recording that comes to mind is Dohnanyi's Suite for Orchestra Op.19 with the RPO. My CD is probably deleted, but it is coupled with the Nursery Variations played by Dohnanyi himself, with Boult and again the LPO. Dohnanyi was 79 when he made the recording in 1956, and died in 1960. It's in good early stereo, but I can't really say it's a competitive version, however, the Suite is a gem, recorded in 1961.

[salymap]

I still have a cassette tape of MS conducting Dohnanyi's Suite in F sharp minor which he included in his programmes quite lot, also the Nursery Variations, often with Cyril Smith [remember him?] and with Phyllis Sellick in the Carnival of Animals by St Saens. I had them all but they have been lost over the years.

[Barbirollians]

One missed out inadvertently here - the Du Pre recording of the Delius Cello Concerto. A wonderful performance .

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

One missed out inadvertently here - the Du Pre recording of the Delius Cello Concerto. A wonderful performance .

Oh YES! How could I have forgotten that life-enhancing recording???!!!

[barber olly]

I seem to remember a quite good Eroica on HMV Concert Classics.