BaL 22.01.11 - Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie

[Brassbandmaestro]

EA, who's your favourite?

[Richard Tarleton]

Please add others if there are any.

I enjoy an occasional spin of Karajan/BPO's live May 1972 RFH perf. on Testament.

[StephenO]

A difficult choice. Having said that, I've only got three versions - Haitink, Wit and Dresden/Kempe. I suppose, of the three, Haitink is the one I'd least happily be without. And it has the best cover!

[Brassbandmaestro]

Judging a book by it's cover

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

EA, who's your favourite?

RPO/Kempe

[Alison]

of the three, Haitink is the one I'd least happily be without. And it has the best cover!

If a disc is REALLY special I will buy a second copy just in case the first one gets lost or damaged.

The LSO/Haitink falls into this category.

[Petrushka]

I enjoy an occasional spin of Karajan/BPO's live May 1972 RFH perf. on Testament.

Sorry to have to be the one to correct this (and a similar error by EA, of all people, in message 36) but the Karajan 1972 recording on Testament is of Ein Heldenleben not Eine Alpensinfonie.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I'll remove the "similar error" which was an update.

[Richard Tarleton]

Sorry to have to be the one to correct this (and a similar error by EA, of all people, in message 36) but the Karajan 1972 recording on Testament is of Ein Heldenleben not Eine Alpensinfonie.

:doh: Thanks Petrushka. Very stupid of me.

In that case it's Haitink (LP) and Thielmann (CD). The latter was one of my test CDs when buying my B&W speakers. And I always enjoy seeing Alpen's avatar, it reminds me of walking past the Matterhorn about 5 years ago on the Tour of Monte Rosa, a challenging Alpine trek. The view of the Matterhorn from Zermatt is unforgettable. The churchyard in Zermatt contains a large number of graves of young men, many of them English, who perished in the attempt. Though that has nothing to do with the piece, as Alpen says.....

I'll go and have my bath.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

:doh: Thanks Petrushka. Very stupid of me.

In that case it's Haitink (LP) and Thielmann (CD). The latter was one of my test CDs when buying my B&W speakers. And I always enjoy seeing Alpen's avatar, it reminds me of walking past the Matterhorn about 5 years ago on the Tour of Monte Rosa, a challenging Alpine trek. The view of the Matterhorn from Zermatt is unforgettable. The churchyard in Zermatt contains a large number of graves of young men, many of them English, who perished in the attempt. Though that has nothing to do with the piece, as Alpen says.....

I'll go and have my bath.

My fascination with the Matterhorn has been for the following reasons:
1. I love mountains, and this is the ultimate mountain!
2. There was a girl I fancied when at school whose parents had climbed it, so I was mightily impressed.
3. My mother used to buy me books to encourage me to read more. One of these was "Banner in the Sky", based upon the first successful climbing of the Matterhorn (though in the story it was renamed The Citadel). The book was filmed as "The Thrid Man on the Mountain.)
4. The RCA RPO/Kempe LP has a that wonderful cover...