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In the Thread: Boston and Bruckner

Post Subject: No surprisePosted by steverino on: 1/17/2014

My and Romy's posts above from a few months ago indicated this would happen so there shouldn't be any surprise. Again, Eschenbach excels mainly in choral works for some reason. Many US orchestras have far more difficulty with Bruckner than with Mahler in my experience. Frequency of performance plays a role but I also think Bruckner is harder to play, except possibly the 7th Sym. I would assume Esch is OK in Mozart and Haydn as well given his recording history. Just out of curiosity did they play the Adagio "better" than the first 2 movements?

Re: Mehta. I decided to try the Berlin Phil Live website. He is performing the 9th this Saturday 1/18 at 8 Berlin time.

Re: Blomstedt. I heard a decent performance from him in B9 some years ago so it might be ok.

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