Best VPO Beethoven cycle?

[3Bs]

OK, that's a lame subject if there ever was one, but I m transferring
my Bohm cycle from LP right now (which a Google search in RMC shows I
bought in 1994 for $4.50!), and find I still very much like the sound
quality DG captured, especially the clear timps. It isn't Bohm on
fire, however, so you know what to expect. He never completely drops
the ball or does anything really strange, so it is pretty easy going.
I read something favorable about the 4th from this cycle the other
day- can't remember where, so we'll see if that was deserved. I
certainly haven't listened to any of these in at least ten years.

IIRC, Rattle did a cycle with them recently, but I'm really not
interested in the VPO playing anything like HIP, and just want to hear
the orchestra being itself, even if that isn't cutting edge. Lenny got
it right in a few of his- I've got most of those on Laserdisc still.

What VPO cycle represents them at their best, sonority-wise,
neverminding the abilities of the conductor?

[johnd012033]

I liked Böhm in the 1972 VPO set for
Deutsche Gramophon better than any.
The horns in the 3rd Symphony, I recall,
are different from any I have ever heard.
Dr. John Duffy in Iowa.

[RVG]

3Bs a �crit :

> OK, that's a lame subject if there ever was one, but I m transferring
> my Bohm cycle from LP right now (which a Google search in RMC shows I
> bought in 1994 for $4.50!), and find I still very much like the sound
> quality DG captured, especially the clear timps. It isn't Bohm on
> fire, however, so you know what to expect. He never completely drops
> the ball or does anything really strange, so it is pretty easy going.
> I read something favorable about the 4th from this cycle the other
> day- can't remember where, so we'll see if that was deserved. I
> certainly haven't listened to any of these in at least ten years.
>

I really love his Pastoral.

You may want to listen to his recordings of the Brahms symphonies too,
with the VPO of course.

> IIRC, Rattle did a cycle with them recently, but I'm really not
> interested in the VPO playing anything like HIP, and just want to hear
> the orchestra being itself, even if that isn't cutting edge. Lenny got
> it right in a few of his- I've got most of those on Laserdisc still.
>
> What VPO cycle represents them at their best, sonority-wise,
> neverminding the abilities of the conductor?

Perhaps Mozart's Requiem, with HvK.

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