Since you are interested in Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor 'Resurrection', here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
TCHAIKOVSKY
1812 Overture / Slavonic March (with music by Mendelssohn, Liszt, Kabalevsky, etc) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner (conductor) [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Reiner's performance has enormous brilliance and accuracy." (Gramophone) |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No 8 'Symphony of a Thousand' Heather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Auger, Rene Kollo / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Here is a version from Solti which ... conveys the feeling of a great occasion ... so overwhelming is the build-up of tension." Gramophone |
PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Capriccio Italien (with Beethoven-Wellington's Victory) Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / London Symphony Orchestra / Antal Dorati [ Mercury Originals / CD - released 14/Jun/2007 ] "This most famous of all Mercury records was one of the most successful classical LPs of all time, selling some two million copies in the analogue era. Remastered for CD, it sounds even more spectacular than it ever did in its vinyl format, vividly... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Salome (complete opera) Birgit Nilsson / Grace Hoffman / Gerhard Stolze / Eberhard WANchter / Vienna Philharmonic / Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Originals / 2 CD - released 10/Apr/2006 ] "A truly hair-raising experience that finds Nilsson and Solti at their most dramatically involved, but also at their most moving." - GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: Symphony No.1 in D major Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Originals / CD - released 25/Mar/2007 ] 'The Chicago players give Solti everything he asks for in sonority, power, and rhythmic attack...as an interpreter of this symphony Solti has lost little of his old flair and insight.' Gramophone October 1984 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem / Quattro pezzi sacri Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Luciano Pavarotti, Martti Talvela / Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus / Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Originals / 2 CD - released 11/Nov/2007 ] "Horne is the formidable mezzo, although her singing isn't always lit with inner feeling. The beauty of the youthful Pavarotti's tone is admirable, but he is sometimes restrained by four-square support. Talvela is sonorous but lacks legato.... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Overtures & Preludes / Siegfried Idyll Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti [ Decca Originals / CD - released 20/Jul/2007 ] Solti and Wagner - the ultimate combination! Stunning new remasters of Solti's exciting readings of these overtures as well as what is generally considered the most beautiful recording of Siegfried Idyll. |