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JANDL100 wrote:

The Barbirolli / VPO Brahms 4 is waaaay too slow for me though - I just cannot get into the music when it's played that way.   I do like some "slow" classics though - I love the way Celibidace slows a lot of music down - I heard a Celi concert of the Brahms Requiem live in London's Royal Festival Hall about 25 years ago that took about 85 minutes !! - absolutely mind-blowing, just unbelievably wonderful - sorry, but Barbi is not in that class, imo.

I disagree, this Brahms 4 does insultingly slow but it has own very own merit, When we hear it for a first time it feels like a slow move but eventually you might grow on it. it is not about an absolute tempt but how the rest of the play is mapped to the given selected tempo. Barbirolli/VPO does here absolutely phenomenal job and I pretty mu consider it as my “the best Brahms 4”. Well, perhaps not the best but the most interesting.  As it allow to look much deeper and much longer into nuances. It is like when we about to have sex with unattractive woman: we would like her take her cloth off and jump into the bad for actions. In a contrary, what the woman very attractive we would like to prolog the process of undressing and foreplay as long as possible as it gives to us an esthetic pleasure to observe what is going on. The same with Barbirolli playing this Brahms 4 during the festival… Though I do admit that I am big sucker for Barbirolli generally and he is my one of the most beloved conductors.

JANDL100 wrote:

The Nanut Mahler I have had a brief listen to so far - hmmm ... the sound is a bit unpleasant, kind of harsh and forward, far from ideal in Mahler -  I'm going to have to play with some equalisation here, I think.

Yep, I do not like the rest of the Nanut Mahler at all. That Mahler 6 I think was a big accident….

JANDL100 wrote:

By the way - have you had a chance to listen yet to the Shostakovich Piano Quintet played by the Trio di Torino that I sent.  Must admit that I think it is very special!

Yes, it was good; I was looking the original CD to buy but was not able to found it. I always buy the original CDs if I like the CDRs

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