Bloomin Untidy Musician

Hi EC

With reference to your Old school thread and my recent Solti CSO complete Mahler cycle acquisition, it got me thinking, what are the Orchestral Brass "must have" recordings?
For me Mahler no.5 with Solti. Bud Herseth is quite simply stunning! What a sound! It may be cheesy but Star Wars with the LSO, Tchaikovsky with Andrew Litton conducting the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra! Great horn solo. Here is a few to get us kicked off.


PS loved that Shostakovich 8 recording. It was a very interesting one. Very controlled and measured i thought. All to often the strings rush the part at the beginning to the detriment of the sound. Aside from the wonderful brass playing i love that thick cold, spacious, thick gritty string sound.

Cheers B.U.M.

Bloomin Untidy Musician

Just thought, Karajan with the Berlin Phil playing the Planets

Sterling

Steinberg and Boston Symphony for Holst's Planets. Steinberg and Pittsburgh for Hindemith's Mathis Der Mahler. Both are on Deutsche Grammophone.

Smithi20

The original version of Britten´s War Requiem warms up many a frosty morning!

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trumpetlore

I love the extraordinary musicality of Montreal's Planets both as a brass player, but more from the musical point of view. I feel they really do the work justice. Also, almost any recording of Tchaik or Shosti by the Ministry of Culture is pretty special (both for the strings and the brass, nobody else can do Russian music like the Russians!)

There's also a Concertgebouw recording of Symphony Fantastique (I'll find the info later, but it's the only one they did which includes the cornet solo in Un Bal) which I find especially musical throughout. They even nail the offbeat thing at the end which very few recordings really do IMO.

PhishyTrumpeter

Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis w/ San Francisco Symphony Orch and Blomstedt, Beethoven 9 w/ Chicago Symphony and Solti '72, Strauss' Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme w/ Chicago Symphony and Reiner, Brandenburg 2 Herseth and Ravinia Music Festival w/ Levine.

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Mahler
Bernstein cycle DG/Sony
Chailly cycle with RCO
Gielen cycle with Baden-Baden/Frieburg
The Mahler Broadcast set, especially 5th, 7th, 2nd and 3rd. The 7th is incredible, Kubelik takes it a third slower than would be normal. Murder for the trumpet. Some of the best ensemble playing6
on disc.
Kirill Kondrashin cycle on Melodiya
Kubelik, BRSO on Audite
Zinman, Tonhalle Zurich cycle
Barenboim Mahler 7 Staatskapelle Berlin
Esenbach, Philly Mahler 6
Sanderling, Mahler 6 can't remember orchestra. It's fabulous though.
Sanderling, Das Lied von der Erde
Jarvi, Mahler 3 RSNO
Previn, Mahler 4 Pittsburgh
Jansons Mahler 5 Pittsburgh

richtom

The Reiner/CSO Richard Strauss recordings should be on any list and there is one somewhat neglected one that one has to hear to believe and that is the Symphonia Domestica.
This is a very knotty work and to these ears, only Reiner managed to control this lengthy work in proper context. The recording, though quite good, was not one of RCAs best work of that era and there is some tape overload that cannot be removed.
The brass playing is absolutely astonishing (as is all the playing) and the incredible power generated is remarkable. The first trumpet part may be the most difficult of all Strauss tone poems and Bud Herseth does something darn near impossible: he carries over the entire orchestra during the argument between Herr and Frau Strauss and the entire orchestra is playing as loud as it can. I've never heard anyone on any other recording come close.
The last nine bars are culminated by the 4 trumpets playing the most astonishing F major chord with Bud's incredible high C on top two bars before the end of the work should send goosebumps down your spine.
We all are fortunate to have the many hundreds of recordings to choose from, both current and past recordings.
Rich T

ecarroll

Rich,

I can't agree more.

Best,
EC

rowuk

Here some historic highlights!
Brückner Symphonies with the Concetgebouw Orchestra under Haitink
West Side Story original cast with NY Phil and Leonard Bernstein
New Horizons Vol 1+2 Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra, Stan Kenton Conductor
Berlioz Damnation of Faust, NBC Symphony Orchestra Toscanini
Gershwin American in Paris, NBC Symphony Orchestra Toscanini

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