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Romy the Cat wrote:

A wonderful Hungarian conductor Carl Melles performed in 90s a cycle of all Beethoven symphonies leading Brunswick State Orchestra. It was not the New Jersey Brunswick band but the “Staatsorchester Braunschweig” – probably the oldest orchestra in the world, founded in mid 16 century.  That orchestra played Beethoven during Beethoven's time…  Anyhow, I do not know what the reason is but the Sound that Braunschweig has in own sound that "ultimate Beethoven’s Sound" that I was looking in Beethoven. I got a CD of Brunswick's Beethoven1-3 symphonies (RAM 59511-2) and then bought all the rest Beethoven CDs Braunschweig ever recorded.

OK, boys, I doubt that it is possible for anybody to found Melles/Braunschweig recordings but I would like you guys hear what I was taking about, as the Melles/Braunschweig orchestra has the balance and style of play is my vision of how Beethoven shell be played.  Among whoever Beethoven I heard the only Melles orchestra can care that stingingly tasteful tempi, to hold those delicious poses, to play elegantly-soft and have absolutely mandatory for Beethoven lower-range “might” and confidence. What is most important is that Melles/Braunschweig does absolutely nothing impressive, showy or glitzy. They do not attack listener with overly articulated phrases as US orchestras do.  In Braunschweig each instrument and each section plays in fantastic harmony with recognition of own might and they do not do to show it off.  Pay attention how hugely respectful Braunschweig play, how much it let the “music to go”.  The Braunschweig play does not incarcerate music into presentational restrictions and juts let it very organically flow. It is like a ball that juts occasionally pushed/directed and the rest time just let to roll at own inertia. Also, pay attention the tonal balance of the orchestra, the relationship between the balance of the orchestra and the performing space’s natural acoustic and how Carl Melles used it all together with his tempi. It is what I call – the ultimate critical mass necessary to create the Beethoven’s chain reaction. The Melles/Braunschweig re like that old bull that has not needs to rush – they know where they go, how they go and what they will be doing when they arrive….

I have a tendency after I wasted another $100 listening my local BSO at Symphony Hall to return home, to warm up my playback and to play some recordings; the recordings that reinforce me that orchestral sound is not a sequence of sonic fasts performed by playing style of Broadway musicales…

I was thinking which fragment to show for you guys. Since this conversation derived from the Nanut’s Eroica then here is the opening of the Eroica’s their movement. It is 16/44 file and you can play if anywhere. Save the file on your machine first – do not play it off my sever. It is around 34 Meg

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Audio_Files/B3_Melles.wav

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