RCA is long gone from the classical business.  The RCA Living Stereo reissues are mostly decent performances, and they sound great for having been mostly recorded in the late 1950s.  But whoever owns the RCA Red Seal catalog needs to start reissuing some of the amazing stuff they have in their vault--everything from the Rubinstein/Boston Symphony recording of the "Emperor" Concerto to the first Western recording of Shostakovich Symphony No. 13, with Tom Krause and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy.

The "indie" labels that I seem to buy the most stuff from are Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Chandos, and BIS.  A fair number of major orchestras now have their own in-house labels.  The San Francisco Symphony was one of the first to make that move, and their high-res PCM Mahler cycle (most of which is also available in DSD from Downloads Now) is to die for.  LSO Live (London Symphony) has a great Sibelius symphonies cycle conducted by Gergiev.  Wigmore Hall Live releases performances that were held there, and they have some great stuff (most notably a three disc set of Beethoven violin sonatas by Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Thibergien).

hey thanks Burn, this was more what I was looking for. Never knew that about the SFS, I'll check it out. 

Claritas, that is news to me, I'll have to check those out.  Are there recordings of him doing the 3rd?

It's great to see so many here that enjoy this stuff as well.

Regrettably not. (I would have provided the recording info otherwise.)

Agreed.

I do have some piano testament recordings, haven't listened to any of their orchestral stuff though.  Good stuff man, thanks.

The Bruckner symphony cycle by Eugin Jochum on DG is phenomenal. Jochum shared some similarities in his life with Bruckner (both organists from similar Austrian Catholic upbringings, for example) and he really seems to get what Bruckner was trying to say. There's a real life to the music. I'd say the recordings are very good as well. I seem to remember a friend saying that there was a solo cd of the 8th with Jochum which wasn't quite as good as the one in the cycle, but that was just his opinion.

This is the one I have from a long time ago, haven't listened to it in ages:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fmVPyQdML.jpg

You go an amazon and there are 4-5 cycles by Jochum, but after closer inspection they are just repackagings/reissues of just the EMI cycle and the DG cycle.

I can't believe how many big box reissues are available at cheap prices now:

Richter 49 CD Set of decca, philips and DG recordings, comes out to around $2/disc.
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Philips-Recordings-Limited-Edition/dp/B00N9MWVVW/ref=wl_mb_wl_huc_mrai_5_dp

Bernstein Sony disc set, 80 discs, comes out to around $1.50/disc:

http://www.amazon.com/Leonard-Bernstein-Album-Collection-Set/dp/B00LL4U1TE/ref=cm_wl_huc_item

There are tons of others themed by performer as well, as far as I can tell this is the best time for great bargain sets I've ever seen on the classical labels.

I don't particularly want the Bernstein, but am tempted just for the "value".  The Richter's a no brainer for me, I remember when the philips pianists of the 20th century came out, that was a huge huge set, I made copies from the school library!