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In the Thread: Zander, BPO, George Li and Saint-Saens
Post Subject: More about the Benjamin Zander and the 5thPosted by Romy the Cat on: 2/3/2009
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Yes, Zander was talking about his upcoming release of the 5th with Philharmonia Orchestra. The Philharmonia is unquestionably more cable orchestra then Boston Philharmonic and it might be interesting. I hope it will not be a studio recording as it would kill everything. Also, only god knows if the “magic” that Zander cought with Boston Philharmonic will be there. I recorded off air two recordings of Boston Philharmonic playing Bruckner 5 under Zander – they both different in many ways.
Anyhow, I would not agree with Zander that Bruckner 5 is “one of the greatest symphonies ever written” as well as I degree with his view of the symphony message. But those conductors are always popup excitement before releases. Unquestionably the new Philharmonia release will be on my list to buy. In order to pump up the excitement from my end here is the Zander interview that was included into the last years WGBH live-to-tape broadcast. It is a small 4meg file of very highly compressed MP3, I hope it will be listenable.
http://www.mediafire.com/?0wjbsn0isv4
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