Class 4: The German Middle Class - Recommended Recordings

Mendelssohn Symphony no. 3 "Scottish":

Gold: Boston Symphony/Charles Munch

Silver: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Herbert Blomstedt

Bronze:  Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment/Sir Roger Norrington (note to blog readers: Shut the fuck up I don't want to hear it...)

Place: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly "Original Version": (not all that different)

HM:  Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt

HM: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Kurt Masur

HM: Vienna Philharmonic/Christoph von Dohnanyi

Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 4 "Italian"

Gold: Berlin Philharmonic/Klaus Tennstedt (scroll down and it's in the 10th row)

Silver: Israel Philharmonic/Sir Georg Solti

Bronze:Heidelberg Symphony/Thomas Fey (all in the first two rows)

Place: Vienna Philharmonic/John Eliot Gardiner "revised version" (the last 3 movements are very different)

HM: Cleveland Orchestra/George Szell

Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5 "Reformation"

Gold: Berlin Philharmonic/Lorin Maazel

Silver: New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein

Bronze: Heidelberg Symphony/Thomas Fey

Place:  Bavarian Radio Symphony/Sir John Eliot Gardiner  

Place: New York Philharmonic/Dmitri Mitropoulos

HM: Madrid Symphony/Peter Maag 

HM: Boston Symphony/Charles Munch

Schumann: Symphony no. 1 "Spring" 

Gold: Vienna Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein

Silver: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique/John Eliot Gardiner

Bronze: Leipzig Radio Symphony/Hermann Abendroth 

Place: RIAS Symphony Berlin/Ferenc Fricsay

Place: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt

HM: Detroit Symphony/Paul Paray

HM:  Boston Symphony/Charles Munch

Schumann: Symphony no. 4

Gold: Vienna Symphony/Herbert von Karajan

Silver: Leipzig Radio Symphony/Hermann Abendroth

Bronze: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Sir Simon Rattle (original version, very different) 

Place: Detroit Symphony/Paul Paray

Place: Danish Radio Symphony/Fritz Busch 

HM: San Francisco Symphony/Pierre Monteux 

HM: Cleveland Orchestra/George Szell

HM: NBC Symphony/Bruno Walter (Mahler re-orchestration, not hugely different)

Schumann: Symphony no. 2

Gold: Detroit Symphony/Paul Paray 

Silver: Cleveland Orchestra/Christoph von Dohnanyi

Bronze: Minneapolis Symphony/Dmitri Mitropoulos 

Place: Saarbrücken Radio Symphony/Stanislaw Skrowaczewski  

Place: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra/Riccardo Chailly (Mahler re-orchestration, not hugely different)

 Stadium Symphony of New York/Leonard Bernstein

HM: Chamber Orchestra of Europe/Nikolaus Harnoncourt

HM: Dresden State Orchestra/Wolfgang Sawallisch

Schumann: Symphony no. 3 "Rhennish"

Gold: Staatskapelle Berlin/Daniel Barenboim

Silver: Staatskapelle Dresden/Wolfgang Sawallisch

Bronze: Dusseldorf Symphony/Mario Venzago (scroll down and you'll see the other movements on the right sidebar)

Place: New York Philharmonic/Leonard Bernstein

HM: Philharmonia Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini