Favorite Telarc releases.....

My personal CD favorites are:
Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, Fanfare for the Common Man. Louis Lane & Atlanta Sym. Orch.

Mahler: Sym. 1 "Titan", Leonard Slatkin, St.Louis Sym. Orch.

Respighi: Pines Of Rome, The Birds & Fountains of Rome. Louis Lane & Atlanta Sym. Orch.

Telarc also has a great sampler titled: Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn which is worth the price.

The Boston-Zanders are not on Telarc but I recommend both his Boston recordings (Le Sacre is a blast!) and his Telarc Mahlers/Beethovens highly.

Kal

Brahms' "Ein Deutsches Requiem" with Robert Shaw and Atlanta on Telarc is a definitive recording in so many respects - especially with regards to the choral performance. Also, Arleen Augér was one of my very favorite sopranos, and her performance on this recording is IMO one of the highlights of her career.

Oh and the sound quality is typically Telarc - very dynamic and detailled, perhaps a hair on the bright side. I have both the CD and the LP set . . . and I (blasphomer!) prefer the CD. This work has such loud, dynamic passages at the ends of movements, and in mastering the LPs have some noticible dynamic compression applied towards the inner grooves.

Since you left music type open,may I mention Ray Brown,'Live at Scullers',and'Don't Get Sassy'.

Haydn- symphony Nos 31 & 45
Sir Charles 'shaking his' Mackerras, Orchestra of St Lukes.
CD-80156.

'Iberia' music of Rimsky-Korsakov, Debussy, Turina-
Eduardo Mata, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
CD-80055

Bruckner-Symphony No7
Jesus Lopez Cobos,
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
CD-80188