Re: Weingartner Brahms recordings

I didn't answer your question about the best masters. I think the
Living Era set is the only one that's easily available at the moment,
certainly in the UK. The mastering on that is unobtrusive but clean -
they sound like 78s but there's decent body to the sound of the
orchestra. From memory, it is at least as good - perhaps better - than
an earlier EMI Réferences set. I don't have that any more, but I do
remember that early copies (and maybe all of them) had a serious
mastering fault in - as I recall - the third movement of No.4 (a couple
of bars went missing).

I haven't heard the Japanese remasterings of these same performances so
I can't comment on what they sound like. All I would say is that if you
are wanting a decent version of Weingartner's Brahms, then the Living
Era set is an excellent buy.

Ian Pace wrote:
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The only ones I know about are these:

Symphony No.1, 28 Nov 1923 and 21 March 1924 / ?LSO (I think)
Symphony No.1, 11 and 12 April 1928 / [old] Royal PO
Symphony No.1, 16 and 18 Feb 1939 / LSO*
Symphony No.2, 26 Feb 1940 / LPO*
Symphony No.3, 6 Oct 1938 / LPO*
Symphony No.4, 14 Feb 1938 / LSO*
Haydn Variations, 6 Oct 1938 / LPO
Academic Festival Overture, 29 Feb 1940 / LSO*

The ones marked with an asterisk are all on the recent Sanctuary Living
Era set (AJD 2009) which gets you all four symphonies for around
£8.00.

The earlier recordings of No.1 and the Haydn Vars. were issued on a
Japanese "Felix Weingartner Complete Edition" issued in the late 1990s.



Many thanks.

Ian

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