Best recordings of all time ...

[Chuck Jackson]

Brahms Requem- Robert Shaw w/ Atlanta Symphony

Favorite Recordings

Dennis Brain playing the 4 Mozart Concertos. May be the best thing recorded in the 20th Century.

Shostakovich 8- The first recording done in the 70's with the LSO and Previn

Bruckner 8- 1944 Live recording with the VPO/Furtwangler. Stunning in every aspect.

Prokofiev 5- Cleveland/Szell 1959. May be the best interpretation of the piece and the best performed tuba part by Chester Roberts

Bach B Minor Mass-Shaw/Atlanta Listening to this is what I think a conversation with God would be like.

Firehouse 5+2- Around the World. The BEST two beat band that ever was recorded. Amazing tuba playing.

Rain Dogs- Tom Waits. Someone will understand.

Parsifal- Bayreuth/Knappersbusch 1963. Not a note out of place. Total devotion to Wagner's true masterpiece. Along with the Bach B Minor Mass, maybe th most reverent music ever written.

I am not a "jock" when it coms to buying a recording to hear the tuba except for the Boston/Leinsdorf Prokofiev R&J from 1972. Chester Schmitz is stupendous. Done on his Alex.

Chuck

[Mojo workin']

Rain Dogs- Tom Waits. Someone will understand.

Aye, mate. A good recording it is. Mule Variations and Bone Machine not too shabby either.

[tubafatness]

Rain Dogs- Tom Waits. Someone will understand.

Aye, mate. A good recording it is. Mule Variations and Bone Machine not too shabby either.

I like all of the above recordings but either "Blood Money" or "Alice" is my favorite. I find it terrifying but I can't shut it off!

I like all of these, but I've actually been listening to his album "Real Gone" a bunch lately. "Sins of my Father" is up on my list of his all-time best songs.

[Billy M.]

I'm wondering what are IYHO the best ever recordings of:
Brahms Requiem
Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony
Feel free to add your favorite pieces, but don't to forget to mention the recording (orchestra, year, etc.). DVDs, CDs, Tapes & LP's accepted. 8-tracks est verboten!

Brahms Requiem for me has to go to Otto Klemperer with Philharmonia on EMI. It's a fantastic performance by a true Brahms afficianado.

Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony, there are a few to recommend: I'd say for an 'Americanized' version of it, the recent Atlanta Symphony recording with Robert Spano conducting on Telarc is impressively well played and as is typical with Telarc is incredibly well recorded. For a nuance of atmosphere and savage British performance style it's hard to do better than Sir Adrian Boult with the London Phil on EMI. Sensational recording that still sounds very live for as old as it is.

Personal favorites:

Mahler 5 - German Youth Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai (Brilliant Classics) HOLY CRAP! A high school orchestra playing Mahler and it sounds as good as any professional group I've heard playing (sometimes even BETTER!).

Prokofiev 5 - London Symphony, André Previn (EMI) Sorry, Chuck. My vote goes to LSO and Previn for this symphony. John Fletcher is better recorded and plays the tuba part as well as anyone can ask.

Holst, The Planets - Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit (Decca) This is quite possibly the best recording of The Planets ever. Great overall recording, great tuba, bass bone, and euphonium playing.

[David]

Prokofiev 5 - London Symphony, André Previn (EMI) Sorry, Chuck. My vote goes to LSO and Previn for this symphony. John Fletcher is better recorded and plays the tuba part as well as anyone can ask.

Have you heard Previn do it with the LA Philharmonic and Bobo on tuba?

[Chuck Jackson]

Have you heard Previn do it with the LA Philharmonic and Bobo on tuba?

Yup. Great in every aspect. Bobo sounds phenomenal on it. Actually #2 on my all-time fvorite list behind the Szell/Cleveland.

Chuck"who owns 12 recordings of the piece, all great in some aspect or another and one other that may be the worst recording of all time"Jackson

[eupher61]

St Louis Prok 5 Grammy Winner c. 1985??

Chicago Tchaik 5 c. 1965??

Montreal Fantastique c. 1995??

The dates are possibly quite inaccurate.

FH5+2 was fine, but I'll take the Original Salty Dogs. Mike Wallbridge...tasty! Specifically the Live On The Goldenrod Showboat album, some editions of the CD call it "Live and Incredible". The Panama is undoubtedly my favorite track of any recording by anyone of any kind. The band was supplemented with Ernie Carson to begin with, and then Turk Murphy and at least one other from his band (??Bob Schulz or Leon Oakley??) join in. It's cacophonous, possibly too many horns going on (well, no...not really), and extremely well done. The recording does have one glitch, but it's a factor of the original tape. No matter...it's amazing.

[Casey Tucker]

tchaik 5 - New York Phil w/ Berstein
bruckner 4 - Vienna w/ Bohm
mahler 7 - Cleveland
enigma variations - New York Phil w/ Bernstein. quite possibly the slowest yet emotional recording of nimrod i've EVER heard. i get chills everytime.

[WoodSheddin]

Prokofiev 5 - London Symphony, André Previn (EMI) Sorry, Chuck. My vote goes to LSO and Previn for this symphony. John Fletcher is better recorded and plays the tuba part as well as anyone can ask.

Have you heard Previn do it with the LA Philharmonic and Bobo on tuba?

don't care for it

[Kory101]

How about the CSO Pines with Reiner? Or the CSO Pictures with Reiner? Any takers?

[BriceT]

I really love the CSO Low Brass Excerpts, but also

Bruckner 8: 1944 VPO great recording

[ZNC Dandy]

No tuba on this but...
The Vienna/ Carlos Kleiber Beethoven Symphony No.7, may be the best recording of anything on the planet. You just feel as if you're on a higher plane listening to it.

[Thomas Maurice Booth]

Mahler 8 with the Atlanta Symphony and Chorus with Robert Shaw.

TMB

[Nick Pierce]

I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet.

Don't know for sure the date or the orchestra, but what about that famous (infamous?) recording of the Planets, with Tommy Johnson and Roger Bobo both on tuba ? I heard it at ITEC 2006, but I forget what recording it was, anyone know?

[Dan Castillo]

Yeah, me. Especially Jacobs doing 'Bydlo'.

Actually, Jacobs is not playing Bydlo on that recording. Jacobs only played Bydlo on CSO recordings conducted by Rafael Kubelik and Seiji Ozawa. At least that is what's printed in the discography from Song and Wind.

I heard it at ITEC 2006, but I forget what recording it was, anyone know?

Los Angeles Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta.

[Pozzie]

Los Angeles Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta.

I would like purchase this recording... Is it this?
http://www.amazon.com/Holst-Planets-Wil ... CUOB8FR5H3" target="_blank" target="_blank

Agostino

[sc_curtis]

Los Angeles Philharmonic with Zubin Mehta.

I would like purchase this recording... Is it this?
http://www.amazon.com/Holst-Planets-Wil ... CUOB8FR5H3" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Agostino

Yes

[eupher61]

Chicago/Szell Tchaik 5, c. 1968, maybe earlier?? AMAZING recording.

[Nick Pierce]

Ok, slightly off topic, but is there a recording of Carmina Burana that anyone recommends more than others?

[KevinMadden]

I found a few new favorite recordings over the course of the summer (well, new to me at least)

Fritz Reiner; CSO: Pictures, Pines, and Fountains (I think most of you know what I'm talking about)

Bernstein & NY Phil (Deutsche Grammaphone) : Mahler 2, (Warren Deck = drool)

DVD, Mahler 2, Lucerne Festival under Claudio Abbado. (put me in a semi-depressed funk for days after watching it)

Bernstein & CSO; Shosti 7 (one of Jakes last recordings, he sounds SICK)