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It was 2 days ago – I opened my mails box and found a gift from Yoshi with a few very interesting Japanese CDs.

It was September 17, 1986. The ending his career Eugen Jochum takes Royal Concertgebouw to Japanese tour and plays in Tokyo Bruckner 7. It is recorded “live” and Altus Label released it on ALTO15/6 in their series “Tokyo Live”. What an interesting performance, particularly the first movement

There are many problems here and there in the Concertgebouw play under that Jochum, the second part of Adagio the sections were chasing each other and almost off the tune. But the Concertgebouw is one of the very few orchestras who can play slow and they in the first movement demonstrated a tour-de-force of slow play. There is some very freakish confidence with which Concertgebouw roles to own notes. It hard to explain: it is not really a tempo but a very idiosyncratic prolonging of notes before to collapsing them to the targeted pitch. Very, almost physically pleasant!

The Jochum opening thyme of the first movement has also one of the best ever introduction of the cellos among many others, not to mention that this cellos opening has a specials meaning to me…

After listening the Tokyo performance I decided to learn what else they play during that Japanese tour. To my big surprised I discovered that the entire performance was videotaped and… available on you tube.  God bless that Japanese Island and God bless the internet! Here is the first part, follow up the rest parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpvvzwbcSPo

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