I respectfully disagree with selfdivider's recommendation of Karajan. I also like the Boston Symphony Orchestra recording on DG, conducted by Steinberg. I bought this box for about $25-30 at Borders. There are 7 CD's of mostly excellent performances in up to date sound, including Zarathustra. Also, the organ at the end of the opening fanfare is outstandingly flat! For better sound and pretty good performances, there is a bargain box of a LOT of Strauss orchestral music performanced by the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra under Zinman. The performance is excellent, but I do think the sound is showing its age. It's the 1954 version that's been routinely reissued (most recently as an SACD/CD hybrid). Generally, you can't really go wrong with Karajan (DG) on any Strauss. Reiner on RCA's pretty hard to beat on Zarathustra, but I also like Haitink (Philips) a lot.
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One I'd recommend is the Liszt disc by Nojima on Reference.
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If you do want a CD where a "huge dynamic range" involves sound effects as well as the orchestra, there are a lot of much better Kunzel performances on Telarc, mostly of movie music.Īlthough you're asking for full orchestra only, have you considered the dynamic range in a good solo piano recording? It's difficult to reproduce in a lifelike manner but it's pretty astounding on a great system. It has a huge dynamic range when you consider the LOUD cannons, but I find nothing else recommendable about this disc. The orchestral performance is dull and so is the sound. I would warn you away from the Kunzel Telarc CD of the Tchaikovsky 1812 overture. Ravel: Orchestral Music (Skrowaczewski, Minnesota - this has been reissued on several different labels, and there are maybe 4 CD-fulls of this, all wonderfully recorded and played). Vaughan Williams: Symphony 2 (Hickox Chandos - or Previn Telarc) Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe complete (Munch BMG) Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances (Oue Reference)
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Mussorgsky Pictures (Oue Reference - or Maazel Telarc) Sometimes i prefer different recordings.īeethoven 3 (Vanska BIS-and Vanska's 9th as well, already mentioned)Ĭopland: Symphony 3 (Oue Reference - or Slatkin BMG) I like many of the items posted by selfdivider.