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Unfortunately Lenny Bernstein did nothing to advance Bruckner here and the critic Harold Schonberg kept up the verbal abuse against him for 30 years or so. Romy is correct that Bruckner requires performance familiarity. A few rehearsals won't cut it....
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Partly too, if not largely, this blandness results from the recording process and its expectations wherein performers strive for perfection at the cost of expressiveness. Even orchestras that have not recorded for ages fall prey to it. A band like th...
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Sadly not a blissful evening at Symphony Center.To my ears the orchestra sounded unrefined, and the intonation of the horn section way off.Occasionally in the quiet passages some magic was communicated, but overall they seemed unable to come to harmo...
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[quote user="rowuk"]The orchestra played B7 last year and I can testify the first trumpeter (regardless of "quality") cannot just play without abandon from beginning to end. Bruckner did not compose with earthly bounds in mind. It is not a case of ha...
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While in general I agree with Romy about Wilsons, I have once or twice heard them sound really, really good. On the other hand I have also heard them sound really, really miserable -- worse than anything. I'm not talking merely mediocre her...
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Christoph Eschenbach led last night BSO with the Bruckner symphony and it was somewhere between “boring” and “waste of time”. I hope the Saturday performance will be better. We had tickets for Saturday but we will be out of town, so we went for Thurs...
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This is apparently a "good week" for Bruckner fans, according to The Guardian:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/oct/31/classical-home-listening-bruckner-vienna-philharmonic-choir-of-kings-college-cambridge-cleobury-bruckner-collegium-vocale-gent...
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I know very little about this composer. I've got just three discs, two of his suites excerpts (Masquerade, Spartacus and Gayaneh) but none with any complete suite, and the violin concerto. I find his music very expressive, romanti...
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I'm looking for more recordings of my favourite Bartok works.These are the ones I got, in order of preference:Piano Concertos #1 & #2:Yefim Bronfman and Esa-Pekka Salonen + Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra (Sony)Superb! Seems like these guys ha...
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Antonio, nether Glazunov nor Myaskovsky were composers about whom I ever cared a lot, perhaps mistakably. Also, and maybe regrettably, not a lot of Interesting” performers play Glazunov’s and Myaskovsky’s works.
Myaskovsky has violin and cello conce...
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I have been enjoying the "Euroclassic Notturno" (BBC?) program on swedish radio tonight. As a happy rookie in the world of classical music, I seek advice on Tchaikovsky based on what I just heard; His Symphony No. 5.I thought: "Horrible waltz mi...
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I know that performance of Bach's Double Concerto by Oistrakhs. It was with Moscow Chamber Orchestra. It is a very good band and BTW some of their even later recordings are very good as well. I am not a huge fun of the Oistrakhs performance generally...
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“…stop by and bring some of your music….” – how many times we hear when we invited to listen someone’s playback. I am sure all of us have a selected favorite recording to assess playbacks and I would like to share some of mine that I have been ...
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I recently become expectedly infatuated with a great contemporary conductor: Myung-Whun Chung. Myung-Whun Chung was born in 50s and he is a well-accomplished pianist. He started his conducting under Giulini’s wing and as a guest conductor have l...
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I have a tradition of exchanging music with people in the end of the year. This morning I made some “selected” CD-copies to a local guy and among them I recorded my favorite performance of Tchaikovsky violin concerto by Tossy Spivakovsky. This kind o...
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Hi Romy,I knew that my asking about the cart used would make you to write the kind of comment you've done.What I've enjoyed most and exclusively of the disc has been the music, all are terrific pieces and some, like the Kodaly, Kalman and S...
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Steve, thanks for the ideas, re-capped now in the other thread. And how often is the 4th movement of the 7th rendered and recorded intelligibly? Maybe it's only I who think the versions I have heard tend to dangle off the end of the symphony... agai...
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the box set just arrived, listened to the third symphony twice tonight. geez romy if this is bad bruckner then I would really love to hear the good stuff!very nice flow, always teling a story, superb layering of themes. crisp horns, clear woodwinds, ...
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The local, mostly whoreish publications, are drooling over themselves about the Beethoven’s Third symphony BSO played this week. I sat on Saturday and listed it (and recorded of cause). God, listening the concert I realized that it was epiphany why I...
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Sounds reasonable to me. There has to be some sort of soft target we're aiming at, with all our mechanical manipulations. I recently got a new clock radio (C Crane 2E) that I listen to a good deal more than I do my Big Rig, although I can foresee thi...
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The New Jersey Symphony purchased a number of high priced instruments - Strads, Guanaris, etc. in what they called "The Golden Collection". They paid way too much money for the collection, but thought that the better sound and the "Mystique" of...
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...of wines and power conditioners and Bruckner and cigars. That said, I don't do cigars; I really, really do do Bruckner; power conditioners vary in their effect from place to place, day to day, and hour to hour (not only that, but most of them need...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]Must disagree with Romy that
the M8 is useless and without point. Just for starts, there's Goethe, the
tallest hero of German literature, and his Faust, of which schoolchildren there
must memorize significant portions. [...
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Important thought I need to share with you all: try to make every piece of acoustical treatment accessible and adjustable for tuning by ear. This is perfectly in-line with acoustics theory by Skudrzyk (??????) and the great Wallace Sabine who defined...
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[quote user="clarkjohnsen"]At any rate I've already heard two pre-recorded DJ programs on CRB repeated later, both originating from other sources, as well as numerous waltzes and other super-lightweight material reminiscent of the old CRB. And they s...
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There is a Canadian company - Atma Classique that has some very good Bruckner recording available in 24bit. Yannick Nézet-Séguin is yong but very interesting conductor with in my view very good grab of Bruckner. I have his 8 symphony with Métropolita...
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Mani, Pacific is freaky and it detects HDCD code only at the resolution that it was encoded. If it was coded at 16 bit then it will not read the HDCD at 20 Bit. There is an option in there that set the HDCD detection death… I did not play a lot ...
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This week WHRB broadcasted live-to-tape Britten Britten’s Violin Concerto from SF with Medori. I did not know the work well, I nearly is not a huge fun of Britten but this Violin concerto was interesting, what attracted me that it was not annoying, i...
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It looks like there are several iterations of this particular performance floating around, and I do not know about the "others". Since this site won't load my photos, here is a link to the version I am telling about (I believe this 8th was performed/...
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PCA LM 2355 (2-channel mono)I don't listen to a lot of Rachmaninoff, buut I would if more of it was done like this.Here is a young Van Cliburn, just back from his USSR tour, playing at Carnigie hall with Kiril Kondrashin directing the Symphony o...
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