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A couple of suggestions for those of you who enjoy vintage recordings. First the RCA Living Stereo box sets, which can be had for about £65 online for 60 CDs. These contain classic recordings from greats like Heifetz, Reiner, Rubinstein, Munch etc made in the 50s and early 60s. The sound quality is just amazing, even by today's standards.

Also my favourite music download site: Pristine Classical. www.pristineclassical.com. The proprietor,
Andrew Rose, is an ex-BBC sound engineer, who relocated to rural France and now spends his time re mastering out of copyright classic recordings. He did the technical work to expose the Joyce Hatto hoax. The results he gets are astonishing and there are treasures galore.

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I've not heard Andrew Davis' RVW. I've a couple of complete RVW Symphony sets - Boult/LPO(NPO) on EMI, and Handley (RLPO) on EMI/CfP, plus various individual symphonies by Handley/LPO (CfP) and many other performers. For a couple of decades RVW was an obsession! Then Walton, then Bax. Not forgetting Carl Nielsen's tremendous symphonies - try Nos 4 and 5 on Decca with Blomstedt and his San Francisco band. No.4 with it's duelling sets of tympani doing a tug of war between keys is a brilliant piece of music . . . . ShockedApprove
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I must try to hear those alternatives Bob. Thanks.
Talking of great British composers,  must also mention this superb collection of RVW
symphonies and other pieces. A repeat posting from the other long-running thread
but a re-post will do no harm!
Outstanding.
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I have both of those, Rich! 

Boult's later EMI, and Zubin Mehta's Los Angeles PO on Decca are my favourite Enigmas though. And Jacqeline du Pre's Elgar Cello with Barbirolli (EMI) is the "gold standard" (at least for me!).

The Decca LAPO recording is pretty special, too.
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That Elgar Symphony no.1 is indeed a top class recording.
Continuing with Elgar for a mo', the Enigma Variations & Cello Concerto are both highly recommended additions to any classical collection.

These are the two I happen to own on vinyl.
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I've been meaning to add a couple of my favourites to this thread for a while so, here goes, a quartet at random:
 - Elgar Symphony No1 - LPO/Georg Solti (DECCA SXL6569) - a beautiful recording with tremendous range, depth and subtlety, the third movement is sublime.
 
 - RVW A Sea Symphony and Music from The Wasps - LPO/Boult (DECCA LXT2907 &2908) - these FFRR records really come alive through my Revelation.
 
 - Faure Requiem - Willcocks/New Philharmonia Orchestra (HMV ASD2358) - peace, perfect peace for the late evening.
 
 - Saint-Saens Organ Symphony - Von Karajan/Berlin Phil (Deutsche Grammophon 2532 045) - a late recording on vinyl (1982) and the polar opposite of the Faure. Overblown, bombastic and very loud. Guaranteed to get it all out of one's system  -  did the earth move for you? You bet!
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If I may continue with Mahler, and if you like Mahler too, I would heartily recommend the recording of the 'Songs from Des Knaben Wunderhorn' by the Symphony Orchestra of the Vienna Festival conducted by Felix Prohaska, sung by Maureen Forrester and Heinz Rehfuss (Vanguard Stereolab VSD-2154). In my view a great performance, and probably my favorite 'Knaben Wunderhorn' recording (on any medium). On LP it is just a wonderful listen, but I think would never buy it on CD: to my ears the vintage LP breathes some extra kind of life into the recording and performance.
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