Posted by and a few more on July 23, 2002 at 16:50:14:
In Reply to: Re: Essential Orchestral Recordings? posted by Chuck on July 23, 2002 at 14:46:34:
agree with everything you recommended
Meistersinger - CSO/Barenboim
Symphonie Fantastique - CSO/Barenboim
Ride - Cleveland/Szell
Hungarian March - Detroit/Paray
Matamorphosis - Cleveland/Szell
Mahler 1 - Concertgebouw/Bernstein
Prok 5 - London Symphony/Tilson Thomas
Petrouchka - Cleveland/Boulez (awesome musicianship all around)
as well as
Bruckner 7 - Berlin/Barenboim
Great R. Strauss Tone Poems (includes Till Eulenspiegal, Also Sprach Zarathustra, Ein Heldenleben) - Concertgebouw/Haitink
Fountains of Rome - NY Phil/Sinopoli