Your best Live Concert recordings: can they beat studio sessions?

Granate · Jul 19, 2016

Pip said:
He was totally different live! I saw him many times and every one of the performances was much greater than his equivalent studio recording. That is why I collect as many of his live performances as possible.
Try any of his live performances available on CD, you won't be disappointed. Here are a few examples. View attachment 52272 View attachment 52273 View attachment 52274 View attachment 52275 View attachment 52276

There are many more, and that is without considering all the private/pirate issues as well.
The Frau Ohne Schatten listed above is the only time he performed it. He never made a studio recording of it.

This answer in the Karajan.... poll thread led me to open this new thread. I do think that Karajan recordings have a lot of mastering on them and sometimes it sounds unnatural, but if he could be different on Live Concerts, I wonder...
Do some of you praise Live recordings over Studio versions? Which are your favourites?
It can be from any conductor.

Pugg · Jul 20, 2016

Do I understand this topic right that it's about Karajan alone?
By the way, the pic's are very, very small.

Granate · Jul 20, 2016

No. Karajan's post was the user's idea. This thread is for every conductor or orchestra you come up with.

Templeton · Jul 20, 2016

I will assume that the topic refers to any recording and therefore, will highlight my preference for Carlos Kleiber's live performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, over the very famous recording with the Vienna Philharmonic.

kanishknishar · Jul 21, 2016

I feel someone should comment regarding Solti's live recordings from his later years.

MarkW · Jul 21, 2016

Not a conductor, but how about Richter's live performance of Pictures at an Exhibition from Sophia?

Mandryka · Jul 21, 2016

One that came to mind is the Gulda/Rossi Beethoven Piano Concerto 3. And Arrau playing the Schumann Fantasie and Chopin op 62/i on old Erimtage CDs. And Arrau playing the Chopin preludes in Prague on an old APR CD.

One interesting question is to do with Gould's live recordings, interesting because he didn't enjoy playing live and thought his work was better in the studio. Does anyone prefer the live Mozart concerto from Stockholm over the studio one? Or the live Bach from Russia over the studio Goldbergs and Inventions? Or his live Beethoven concerto 3 with Karajan over his studio recording?

Bruckner Anton · Jul 22, 2016

I praise both live and studio recordings, as long as the rendition is convincing for me, and the recorded sound is not misleading a lot.

Pugg · Jul 22, 2016

I think for me it's the same, hard choices anyway .

Your best Live Concert recordings: can they beat studio sessions?

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