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Jerry,

I got your Nanut CDs, thank you very much.  I did not send to you anything yet – I will. Too much going on my plate now… Not to mention that I recently change my recording software and I need to see how this time I will be converting my 88/24 into the CD former - that has been always problem for me as I do not do it regularly….

You were absolutely corrects the Anton Nanut is a wonderful conductor and his orchestra was a first class-band.  I am listening now the Beethoven’s Third – it is remarkably good. I kind of have difficult time to equate Nanut with other “reference” conductors. Nanut has own very delicate touch, delicate up to the point the make music fragile and toy-like. However, Nanut cares his fragile toy with accuracy with which we care a grandma’s vase - never break it and protect it at all cost.  The Nanut’s orchestra certainly is no German orchestra – it is too overly-articulation in macro details but it also has no dissecting characteristics of Mravinsky band… - very interesting indeed

Listening the Beethoven’s Third now I am amassed how easy they play this work.  The Eroica in different hands might sound as whatever you wish - It might be tragic or celebratory or whatever…  In the hands of the Nanut’s orchestra it sound like the Nanut is leading his Slovenian orchestra and they record soundtrack for Walt Disney’s Cartoons. It has that feeling of ease and smile with no visible efforts in any kind… Very interesting… It is not necessarily how I see this work  and I personally would play it differently (if I could play) but I very much applaud to what the Nanut’s orchestra did as it is very noble implemented own vision.

The only one problem I have with that performance of the Third is that is a studio recording. The studio recordings are home-cooking and they have none of that “raw dangerous” that live music. Perhaps I am too spoiled with my FM broadcast but with “live”, none-studio play the time is compress itself in a different manner and sounds become as parts of Realty instead of the part of Contrived Reality …. I will make sure that the music that I will send you will be “live”, non-studio performances…

BTW, I bought recently a box-set a Anton Nanut doing 10 Mahler Symphonies… did not listen them yet… I paid $2.99 for the entire box… it is kind of shame….

Anyhow, I really appreciate that you pushed me toward to “your” Nanut. Can I push you toward to “my” Golovanov?

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