Recordings you have forgotten how good they are

[Petrushka]

The boxed set with Herbie playing Air Violin on the cover:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Karajan-Leg.../dp/B00114LF4E

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

The VPO/Maazel Tchaikovsky symphonies.

[pastoralguy]

The VPO/Maazel Tchaikovsky symphonies.

I hunted high and low on the internet thingy for these only to discover I had them already...

[silvestrione]

Don't worry it's only 9 discs at around £35 or less from Amazon. Can't do link on this phone but should be easy to find.

The Mozart 40 & 41 in this set are a revelation.

I've gone for a twenty quid second hand copy! Looking forward to those Mozart symphonies....

[Maclintick]

I'm exploring my Karajan '1960's' DG box set and I have to say that I'm really enjoying them. I believe they were re-mastered to expunge some of the Maestro's 'knob twiddling' and I find the balance to be infinitely better.

I may be wrong but I believe HvKs "knob-twiddling" phase occurred in the mid-to-late seventies when rudimentary multitrack technology appeared on the classical music scene, affording hitherto unavailable opportunities for tweaking orchestral recordings. HvK's legendary 60s Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & Sibelius sets were taped directly to stereo by the non-pareil of DG tonmeisters Günter Hermanns, & the contemporaneous vinyl LPs weren't subjected to later conductorial re-jigging for the simple reason that this wasn't technically possible.

[Conchis]

Currently listening to the Decca recording of Adriana Lecouvreur with Tebaldi and Del Monaco, conducted by Capuana. It's amazingly good - and I didn't even think I was that keen on the opera.

[Conchis]

I may be wrong but I believe HvKs "knob-twiddling" phase occurred in the mid-to-late seventies when rudimentary multitrack technology appeared on the classical music scene, affording hitherto unavailable opportunities for tweaking orchestral recordings. HvK's legendary 60s Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & Sibelius sets were taped directly to stereo by the non-pareil of DG tonmeisters Günter Hermanns, & the contemporaneous vinyl LPs weren't subjected to later conductorial re-jigging for the simple reason that this wasn't technically possible.

Michel Glotz gets the blame for the strange balances on Karajan's 70s recordings - though the balances were noticeably more eccentric when von K was recording for EMI. Glotz described himself as 'the extension of his (von K's) will in the control room.' DG and Decca had a policy of barring Karajan from the mixing desk by various means but I think EMI were just desperate to have him.

[hmvman]

Steinberg's Planets on DG and Loughran's Brahms symphonies on CfP.

[pastoralguy]

Michel Glotz gets the blame for the strange balances on Karajan's 70s recordings - though the balances were noticeably more eccentric when von K was recording for EMI. Glotz described himself as 'the extension of his (von K's) will in the control room.' DG and Decca had a policy of barring Karajan from the mixing desk by various means but I think EMI were just desperate to have him.

That's very interesting. I know I much prefer these new issues in the 1960's, 70's & 80's boxes. Much less String heavy.

[pastoralguy]

Steinberg's Planets on DG and Loughran's Brahms symphonies on CfP.

Those Loughran recordings still stand up well in comparison to some more glamorous names.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Come to think of it - almost every Decca recording from the 1960s.