My personal favorite is Brahms under Bohm, available as a 3-CD set from DG. Favorite simply because this is the reading I am listening to since my teens.
Gentle folks here pushed me towards "NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection". Now is a good time to say a Big THANK YOU for the tip!!!!!!!! Its the first "guide" in my collection which resembles my fav book on the 20th century Classical, "The Rest is Noise" by Alex Ross. In short: buy it!!!! Spoiler Alert!: NPR’s top recommendations for Brahms are Bruno Walter (have it), Claudio Abbado (got it!), Istvan Kertesz (ain’t got it! ;-( )
start with those, my fav is just my uneducated guess of someone who listens to "classical" allthetime but who dropped out of Musik Skool at the age of 10 to become an "engineer"!!
Gentle folks here pushed me towards "NPR Guide to Building a Classical CD Collection". Now is a good time to say a Big THANK YOU for the tip!!!!!!!! Its the first "guide" in my collection which resembles my fav book on the 20th century Classical, "The Rest is Noise" by Alex Ross. In short: buy it!!!! Spoiler Alert!: NPR’s top recommendations for Brahms are Bruno Walter (have it), Claudio Abbado (got it!), Istvan Kertesz (ain’t got it! ;-( )
start with those, my fav is just my uneducated guess of someone who listens to "classical" allthetime but who dropped out of Musik Skool at the age of 10 to become an "engineer"!!