And you have to add your own hard-drive to make it work plus the warranty is just average, i.e. 2 - 3 years. I thought its warranty for its traditional audio components is better ...
Thanks for asking my opinion. My top choices are easy......after that it gets to be toss ups. For the First my top choice easily is Bernstein/Weiner. I do not like many of his later recordings due to the slow tempi but this one just hits home for me. The playing is amazing and the tempo just fits for me. It is about three minutes longer overall than most recordings but for me it makes sense with the contrasts in tempo and the flow of the melodies. My second choice would probably be Segerstam/Helsinki. It is a middle of the road when it comes to tempos. The Second Symphony choice is pretty easy as well. My first choice is Barbirolli/Royal PO. Bernstein's Second with the Weiner I like as well. The Berglund/Bournemouth is also great. So is Segerstam. The Vanska/Minnesota is a great alternative to the romantic approach of most other conductors. Of course one can go broke with this stuff trying to find the performance that is just right for one's taste. But here are my top choices for the first two. I am not sure if the Chesky is still in print.
Where do you place the Lenny recording? I usually do not go out on a limb but IMO, it is the greatest recording of the Sibelius First on record. I am listening to it. The playing is right up there with the Kleiber Beethoven Fifth recording as far as virtuosity goes.
No opinion so far. Since I have over 12 Sibelius Symphonies cycles, it is not that easy to decide ... For Symphony No. 2, the Barbirolli version on Chesky is my go-to recording.
When I registered my Naim CD player and amp with Naim UK my warranty was automatically extended to 5 years; it was standard practice back then, I don't know if that's still their policy. My local dealer had already given me 5 years, so it didn't make any difference.
I think @Wugged knows more about Naim than anyone else on the thread. I would put a music server in the same category as a computer and is in fact a specialized computer and one generally does not get 5-year warranty on such product ...
Thanks very much! I remember when I was getting into classical I used to marvel at the VPO's playing and sound, but I do not have this Sibelius disc, I'll keep an out for it and the Barbirolli. The second one is probably out of print, but I have a knack for finding OOP items It is really just having some online friends from other countries from back in the day on the Headfi forum and I have a local record store that texts me when they get classical collections in. I always had a gut feeling New England is particularly dense in classical listeners with our proximity to BSO and NYPO. More and more classical CD and vinyl collections seem to be coming in these days. ==== After getting home I listened to Schubert's Moment's Musicaux D780 from the 30 CD Japan "Wilhelm Backhaus Edition"
Checked this one out of the library. A rather odd interpretation. Not much grace or poetry. Lots of jerky phrases and crashing around. I'll stick with my Berglund/Bournemouth, and Gibson/Royal Scottish.
I have not heard that one. I have the Second and Fifth by Vanska and the Minn on BIS but I can't say it is my favorite 2 or 5. A lot of competition. I think the recording sounds too laid back dynamically.
Don't have any Vanska Sibelius and will not bother since I already have many versions. BTW, do you like anyone of the three versions recorded by Colin Davis?
Colin Davis/BSO is one cycle I was seriously considering. Sounded good to me from what I sampled. I bought some cheap used copies of Gibson's Chandos cycle instead.
No. 1 is not laid back. These BIS recordings are incredibly dynamic. I'm liking the other movements more than the first.
Yeah, they're spread out over 2 of the Mercury boxes. I don't think Dorati recorded Manfred, at least not for Mercury.
Debussy: Chamber Music Beaux Arts Trio, Grumiaux, Gendron, et al Philips Eloquence Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 Vienna Philharmonic & Hans Knappertbusch Clifford Curzon, piano Decca Next up: Brahms: Piano Concerto No.1; Piano Pieces Vienna Philharmonic & Karl Bohm Wilhelm Backhaus, piano Decca Eloquence