Take five.
And those five are: Schubert from Leipzig with Blomstedt, enthusiasm and experience in parallel to produce performances for a lifetime conducted by someone with a lifetime’s wisdom, http://www.colinscolumn.com/herbert-blomstedt-the-gewandhausorchester-record-schuberts-unfinished-and-great-c-major-symphonies-for-deutsche-grammophon/; from a younger generation of conductor, Pablo Heras-Casado’s excellent Munich set of Robert Schumann’s Four Symphonies, http://www.colinscolumn.com/pablo-heras-casado-the-munich-philharmonic-record-robert-schumanns-four-symphonies-for-harmonia-mundi/. The latest volume, the seventh, of Louis Lortie’s Chopin survey proved to be a good listen, http://www.colinscolumn.com/louis-lortie-records-chopin-for-chandos-volume-7/, and so too did music by Ferdinand Ries, http://www.colinscolumn.com/the-nash-ensemble-records-music-by-ferdinand-ries-for-hyperion/. Returning to orchestral fare, the first instalment (of three) from the London Philharmonic with Vladimir Jurowski conducting Stravinsky, http://www.colinscolumn.com/london-philharmonic-orchestra-releases-vladimir-jurowski-conducting-stravinsky-volume-one/, includes recommendable performances, not least a thrilling Rite of Spring.
Bonus track: the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1959 recording of Paul Desmond’s Take Five.