Beethoven. Oistrakh/Cluytens on EMI
Mozart 5-I like Andrew Manze cycle the best.
Bach-Rachel Podger on Channel Classic
Mendelsohn-take your pick here-I will go with Perlman or Michael Rabin.
Brahms-Leonid Kogan/Monteux and the Boston.SO
Bruch-Francescatti/Schippers NYP
Sibelius- Francescatti/Bernstein NYP
Barber-Vadim Guzman in BIS
Korngold-Ditto
Tchaikovsky-many favorites Heifetz/Reiner today’s pick
Shostakovich 1- Oistrakh/ Metropolous in excellent mono, Vengerov/Rostropovich in stereo.
Prokofiev 1&2- I like Steinbacher on Pentatone-not the flashiest but she seems to humanize them
works I have never grown to like-Bartok, Elgar, Britten
this survey ignores the bazillion Vivaldi,Tartini, and other baroque masters
Mozart 5-I like Andrew Manze cycle the best.
Bach-Rachel Podger on Channel Classic
Mendelsohn-take your pick here-I will go with Perlman or Michael Rabin.
Brahms-Leonid Kogan/Monteux and the Boston.SO
Bruch-Francescatti/Schippers NYP
Sibelius- Francescatti/Bernstein NYP
Barber-Vadim Guzman in BIS
Korngold-Ditto
Tchaikovsky-many favorites Heifetz/Reiner today’s pick
Shostakovich 1- Oistrakh/ Metropolous in excellent mono, Vengerov/Rostropovich in stereo.
Prokofiev 1&2- I like Steinbacher on Pentatone-not the flashiest but she seems to humanize them
works I have never grown to like-Bartok, Elgar, Britten
this survey ignores the bazillion Vivaldi,Tartini, and other baroque masters