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Post Subject: The tales of two Bruckners.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/29/2011
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Got two recordings from Tokyo and from London yesterday.
The first one is Wand’s live recording with Berlin in 1999. It was Bruckner Seventh. I heard a few Wand’s Bruckner Seventh and I do not like any of them. This one from 1999 is the best Wand with Bruckner 7, however it does not rises to the pantheon of the greatest Bruckner 7. The sound of this recording is quite horrible. If it was not Wand’s Bruckner I would probably trash this CD, even I paid for it $40. Partially the sound is bad due to the idiots from BMG Japan re-master the recordings from original source in 192K. They use Sound Works K2, the industry leading tool and this crap destroys Sound like a nuclear bomb. It is unfortunate as this Wand’s Seventh is so bad…
The second one I got from UK is John Barbirolli’s Bruckner 8. I do have very soft spot in my for Barbirolli and I love pretty much whatever he made. This recording from 1970 with his own Hallé Orchestra and it was made a few weeks before Barbirolli died. This is very interesting Bruckner 8 and like most of the other Barbirolli recordings it is not as much Bruckner but rather Barbirolli own take on the work. It has no lash sound or I would ay not elegance in play but it is very idiosyncratic and powerful. It is BBS live broadcast.
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