Bruckner: Symphony no. 7
Silver: Berlin Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwangler 1949
Honorable Mention:
Brahms: Symphony no. 1
Gold: NDR Symphony/Wilhelm Furtwangler 1951
Silver: Orchestre de Paris/Charles Munch 1968
Bronze: Chicago Symphony/Sir Georg Solti 1978
Place:
Honorable Mention:
Brahms: Symphony no. 2
Silver: Boston Symphony/Charles Munch
Place:
Honorable Mention:
Brahms: Symphony no 3
Silver: NDR Symphony/Günter Wand
Place:
Staatskapelle Dresden/Christian Thielemann (their CD recording is even better, but it was too hard to find)
Honorable Mention:
Brahms: Symphony no: 4
Gold: Berlin Philharmonic/Sergiu Celibidache (1945)
Silver: Berlin Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwangler (1949)
Bronze: Berlin Philharmonic/Eugen Jochum
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Honorable Mention:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 1 "Winter Daydreams"
Silver: London Symphony/Valery Gergiev
Bronze: Orchestra of the Bolshoi/Nikolai Golovanov 1947
Honorable Mentions:
London Philharmonic/Vladimir Jurowski
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 4
(these are in no way the usual recommendations, but I find the traditional Russian way in this piece is too slow and unimaginative. The first three are from 1929, 1941, and 1936, in listenable sound but hardly even adequate by today's standards. They are of an individuality that would never be considered bad taste today - but are glorious. Leonard Bernstein and Wilhelm Furtwangler have something like this freedom, but they usually take ten minutes longer with it, and it gets boring.)
Special Medals:
Place:
Honorable Mention
New York Philharmonic/Jaap Van Zweden
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