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I'll never forget... although it wasn't that long ago...Twenty years, maybe.Symphony Hall, the Leipzigers under Masur.And only an encore: The Egmont Overture.After it was over I turned to my buddy and said, "I think I've just heard Beethoven for the ...
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Yes, I do know what you mean about Asahina. I have DVDs of a Brahms symphony cycle - 4 is good (not wonderful), 2 not bad, 3 is just plain boring (and it is one of my favourite symphonies). I haven't gotten around to 1 yet - t...
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...(and it repeats tonight) under von Dohnanyi. The Fifth Symphony was middle-of-the-road mittel-Europaenisch, but the Third Concerto with Lars Vogt was decidedly different and very tasty! The pianist, instead of just doing runs and spinning not...
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I guess young people like Romy are going to be facing a quiet future - or you will get a visit from OSHA. The symphony orchestra hall will have QUIET signs posted everywhere and the orchestra will have a top screen that flashes the dynamic level the...
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Zubin Mehta played B8 with Israel Philharmonic in Chicago, the concert that Matt attended. I presume that the very same result is reasonably to expect from the same performance that we will have tomorrow in symphony Hall. I hope you will be attending...
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I saw the Symphony do the Nutcracker a few years ago. The orchestra was able and conductor followed the dancers perfectly. I think the pit was miked, but not in an obnoxious way. How they'll sound on stage I don't know. ...
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I do not even know where to start. I my comfortably warm and presold to myself world there is only one way to play Bruckner 8 symphony. I have quite a few recordings of the work that I like and I have “The Supper Recording” that makes all there r...
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As I told, I’m generally not a fan of the Shostakovich’s orchestral music. There is in Shostakovich’s “large music” a constant sense of vulgarity, peasant intellectualism, humiliation and a sense of blown-up meaningless artificial musicality that ver...
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I am thinking again about “detail” in the context of this thread. The issue is which, what sort and/or how much/many detail[s] “should” we be able to hear at any given volume setting?
I have been guilty of enjoying details, etc. I knew were mo...
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The 1962-62 recording cycle of Karajan’s Beethoven were probably the best among few others that Karajan undertook. The 62’s cycles are Ok but nothing extraordinary. There were many-many other more interesting attempts by the different conductors to p...
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Hi Romy,Is this date right? Simon Rattle was 22 in 1977 and was appointed assistant conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic in that year. I didn't think he joined the CBSO until 1980.Coming originally from Birmingham, I've been lucky enough to ...
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I have been listening to and greatly enjoying a rather tired and worn vinyl copy of this piece with Leonard Bernstein playing with and conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra on Philips. I'm unlikely to find another copy. Can anyone rec...
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George Balanchine’s made ballet around the Tchaikovsky’s Sixth symphony. This is a photograph is taken during the Balanchine’s performance of the last movement of the Tchaikovsky’s “Pathetique”… Do anyone know anything about this performance? Are any...
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I agreed with everything until it got to, "The Golovanov’s version is hardly Tchaikovsky’s symphony but rather Golovanov’s own re-composition…"Yet not a note was changed! (Was it?...)Therefore what Golovanov did was shuck decades of sentamentalism to...
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I admit tat I ma kind of a freak of nature in my pursuit to the abstract absolute tone of orchestra. Attending life performances I practically never hear “tone” that satisfies me. In the Mecca of my tonal satisfaction there was 3 years ago a vi...
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MIT Summer PHilharmonic Orchestra is playing Bruckner's Symphony No.6 in A major (1881) on Saturday, August 11, 2007, at 8:00 P.M. in Kresge Auditorium at MIT.http://www.mitspo.org/...
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A brief crash-guide across Tchaikovsky’s Sixth symphony by WHRB’s Brain Bell:http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Audio_Files/Pathetique_Guide.wav(7 Meg file)...
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The Levine’s Mozart was not exiting, the last week and this week… I hope today on Saturday, the last convert of the series with the most famed Mozart symphony the BSO will show off something more interesting.
However, today was something very remark...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
Amphissa wrote:Mats, I agree with you. The recording of the cello concerto by Natalia Gutman with Svetlanov conducting is the best overall performance of this beautiful concerto. It is unfortunate that she never toured i...
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I heard her play Schnittke's First Cello Concerto with the SF Symphony two years ago. It was one of the most devastating and searing (in a good way!) live performances I have ever heard! She put's 120% into her performances. Gutman has her own series...
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[quote user="zako"]What would I do if I lost every thing in a fire ?? I reflect back, when I was a youngster...care free with no possessions,,,I,m much older than you,,Life was much simpler,, What would i do different ??....I would not rebuild any ...
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Clark, what made the performance stand out for you?My next door neighbor for 10 years had played with SLSO and she had quite a few of their recordings.I can't say that much Slatkin/SLSO has stuck with me, and I am sure I do not have the recording in ...
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Here I am... I've been a Benjamin Britten's fan most of my life... from Simple Symphony Op. 1 to Death in Venice, Noye's Fludde, Ceremony of Carols, the Peter Pears/Benjamin Britten tenor & piano folk songs... to Violin Concerto... I only own and...
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I recently heard Koussevitsky's interpretation of Debussy's La Mer as performed by the Boston Symphony, and I found it to be delightful, very fluid and pregnant with passion. Does anyone else have an opinion about this performance or have another pr...
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Then do not miss the live-to tape WGBH 89.7 broadcast on Sunday Oct. 26, 3pm James Levine leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra with Gustav Mahler #6. They might do something very interesting and combine different movements from 3 concerts that they pl...
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If you never heard the USSR Symphony with Svetlanov then you might try a cheap circle “Symphonic Poems From Russia” where Svetlanov lead his orchestra on all-Russian program (74321 34165 2 and 74321 34166 2, each box has 2 CD). If you want the Svetla...
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[quote user="op.9"]Well, I found Janacek strange and unfathomable. I was brought up on Haydn-Beethoven-Schubert-Brahms-(Mahler)-Schoenberg route... so I had no entering point for Janacek. I also loved Dvorák and Smetana... but this was no help ei...
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A couple of weeks ago I heard a superb perfomance of the Lutoslawski Concerto performed by the Boston Symphony. I do not have a recording of this work in my library. Looking on Amazon there were quite a number of available offerings. Can someone a...
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my 6 year old has been my main listening partner since birth. One of my proudest moments as a father is when I put on tchaikovsky's 5th symphony and she said at 4 years old: "it's the Nutcracker guy." She could discern that the same composer created ...
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Well, as I said – you never know. I was listing the live Friday WGBH broadcast over internet from my work (very bad quality) and when I got home I listen my recording. The Brahms Double Concerto I did not like, but the Bruckner 7 was very-very good. ...
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