Carl
How allergic are you to mono and/or less than great sounding recordings? My recommendations will vary greatly depending on your preference. Following are great performances with at least good sonics, so should be safe:
Beethoven 5&7th sym. Carlos Kleiber/VPO
Beethoven 9th sym. Eugene Jochum/Royal Concertgebouw or
Herbert von Karajan/BPO (1962)
Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto Stephen Kovacevich (pianist)/LSO/Sir Colin Davis
Brahms Sym. 1 - 4 Kurt Sanderling/Dresden Staatskapelle
Brahms Sym. 1 Jascha Horenstein/LSO
Dvorak Sym. 9 Vaclav Smetacek/Prague Radio SO or
Istvan Kertesz/LSO
Mahler Sym. 1 Rafael Kubelik/SO des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Mahler Sym. 6 Sir John Barbirolli/New Philharmonia
Orff Carmina Burana Riccardo Muti/Philharmonia
Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto William Kapell/Dallas SO/Antal Dorati
Tchaikovsky Sym. 4 George Szell/LSO
Tchaikovsky Sym. 5 Valery Gergiev/VPO <--- Give this a shot, Meech33 =)
Hope that helps and lots more recs if you can tolerate less than good sonics.
How allergic are you to mono and/or less than great sounding recordings? My recommendations will vary greatly depending on your preference. Following are great performances with at least good sonics, so should be safe:
Beethoven 5&7th sym. Carlos Kleiber/VPO
Beethoven 9th sym. Eugene Jochum/Royal Concertgebouw or
Herbert von Karajan/BPO (1962)
Beethoven 5th Piano Concerto Stephen Kovacevich (pianist)/LSO/Sir Colin Davis
Brahms Sym. 1 - 4 Kurt Sanderling/Dresden Staatskapelle
Brahms Sym. 1 Jascha Horenstein/LSO
Dvorak Sym. 9 Vaclav Smetacek/Prague Radio SO or
Istvan Kertesz/LSO
Mahler Sym. 1 Rafael Kubelik/SO des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Mahler Sym. 6 Sir John Barbirolli/New Philharmonia
Orff Carmina Burana Riccardo Muti/Philharmonia
Prokofiev 3rd Piano Concerto William Kapell/Dallas SO/Antal Dorati
Tchaikovsky Sym. 4 George Szell/LSO
Tchaikovsky Sym. 5 Valery Gergiev/VPO <--- Give this a shot, Meech33 =)
Hope that helps and lots more recs if you can tolerate less than good sonics.