(Though Weingartner did conduct a couple of his works, I can't find any recordings.) And unfortunately, Carvalho - apparently the only good conductor who really understood how VL should be played - doesn't seem to have made very many recordings either. But as far as I can tell, no other conductor of similar caliber has produced any recordings, save Carvalho. I am aware of the existence of the recording of Kondrashin conducting Rostropovich in an arrangement of Bachianas 1, and also of Leinsdorf conducting Bidú Sayão on Bachianas 5, plus Bernstein doing the same work. Really the only solo pianist I've found to be satisfactory is the great and underappreciated Aline van Barentzen the Cuarteto Latinoamericano has produced by far the best recordings of the string quartets (though the Stuyvesant Quartet's offering is quite good - I think they only recorded one, though) only VL himself seems to have known how to interpret his guitar music (I include Segovia in that) and, most relevant to the topic, Eleazar de Carvalho was apparently the only great conductor to attempt more than one of VL's works. Sorry, but it's really true - finding a good VL recording is exceedingly difficult and I've become convinced that only a very small number exist. Given the number of recordings I've listened to it's hard not to notice that nearly all of the performers who attempt his work are relatively obscure unfortunately, many of them are also awful. Being a true VL fanatic, I've either purchased or sampled quite a number of recordings of many of his works, including the complete piano music, symphonies, many ballets, choral music, lieder, chamber music, etc.
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