> > On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 13:08:49 +1100, Taree Dawg wrote
> > (in article <RgMHm.51734$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>):

> > > Gerard wrote:
> > >> td wrote:
> > >>> On Nov 2, 5:01 am, "Gerard" <ghen_nospam_drik...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > >>>> Taree Dawg wrote:
> > >>>>> Gerard wrote:
> > >>>>>> Taree Dawg wrote:
> > >>>>>>> I still regard Berglund's Bournemouth set as one of the very
> > >>>>>>> best, for the whole cycle. Excellent EMI sound, and obtained
> > >>>>>>> on Brill Classics.
> > >>>>>> Probably you mean Royal Classics.
> > >>>>> Correct.
> > >>>>> Btw, the rest of the orchestral works, including the Kullervo,
> > >>>>> done by Berglund/Bournemouth, are on a couple of well filled, and
> > >>>>> excellent EMI Classics (Gemini) twofers. I don't know why the
> > >>>>> symphonies haven't appeared on this series though. Strangely, I
> > >>>>> have never come across the first two Legends by Berglund. Maybe
> > >>>>> he didn't rate them.
> > >>>> I've never seen the Bournemouth recordings of the symphonies
> > >>>> (Kullervo excepted, on a EMI forte twofer, in which series the
> > >>>> Helsinki recordings of the symphonies have been issued, as in an
> > >>>> EMI boxed set).
> > >>>> The label Royal Classics, being a product made in the Netherlands,
> > >>>> never has been available in the Netherlands - with a few exceptions
> > >>>> concerning an irregular availability.
> > >>>> I suppose the Bournemouth recordings of the symphonies are OOP
> > >>>> since long now.
> > >>> Well, I bought my set a long time ago, Gerard, and snapped it up as
> > >>> soon as it was made available, as I prefer it to the Helsinki
> > >>> recordings.

> > >>> Perhaps if you hunt on the various Amazons you will luck out. Hope so.

> > >>> I still have my LPs, by the way, and those should really be fairly
> > >>> easy to find.

> > >>> TD

> > >> I'm not looking for a new Sibelius set actually (there IS a new one by Colin
> > >> Davis, on LSO Live, and I should say "no, it's enough"), but if that
> > >> Bournemouth
> > >> set crosses my path somewhere sometime, I will think about snapping it,
> > >> getting
> > >> soooo tired of all those recommendations by Ray Hall during al those years
> > >> ;)

> > > The EMI box is seen on this link. Well worth it at 17pounds, containing
> > > the symphonies and the tone poems. Amazon say there is more coming too.

> >http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sibelius-Complete-Symphonies-Tone-
> > Poems/dp/B00005MIZT/

> > > ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1257213896&sr=1-6

> > > Ray Hall, Taree

> > In my opinion, the Colin Davis set on RCA, also involving the London Symphony
> > Orchestra, is far superior in all respects to those he made in Boston and in
> > the Barbican. In fact, I find it now the most recommendable complete set, if
> > that's what anyone wants.

> In regards to the 5th and FWIW (which probably isn't very much) a few
> years ago, I did an extensive comparison of this work between all of
> my recordings  (which are numerous but does not include Collins). I
> was expecting to find a *winner* -someone that I could put above the
> others, but I could not. They all had they differing merits.

> Dil.