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[quote user="twogoodears"] ... some credits also to Sir Barbirolli's direction, of course. [/quote]
Last night a local audio guy visited me and it happened that I played for him the Du Prè Elgar. As many times I played the pices as many times ...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] 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 do...
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A couple hours ago WGBH in their “BSO on Record” program span a recording of Brahms’ Piano Concerto B-flat that was made in Boston in November 95:
http://www.wgbh.org/playlists/playlist?program_id=3368365&episode_id=3981909&airing_id=3845593...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you like very slow interpretation,
like I do, then you might start to listen some Barbirolli Mahler… [/quote]I've found Barbirolli Mahler 6 & 9 by New Philharmonia Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic respectively. I...
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My local “Borders” in Downtown Crossing always has some interesting music. I have no idea why but they have it all but if I stop by in their small classical section I always fish something “kinky”. Today I pulled of from there a few CDs and among th...
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When I was making a sarcastic joke about you begin to enjoy slow
interpretations (something that any VERY good playback should do to a system
owner) and referred you to the Barbirolli’s Mahler of cause I mean the exquisite performance of 1967 of S...
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[quote user="twogoodears"] ... some credits also to Sir Barbirolli's direction, of course. [/quote]
Last night a local audio guy visited me and it happened that I played for him the Du Prè Elgar. As many times I played the pices as many times ...
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I always felt that my demands for quality of Audio Sound might be to degree be moderated by conducting efforts. The true enigma for me is this aspect is John Barbirolli. Barbirolli is one of my the most admired conductors of mine and he is one ve...
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Got two recordings from Tokyo and from London yesterday. The first one is Wand’s live recording with Berlin in 1999. It was Bruckner Seventh. I heard a few Wand’s Bruckner Seventh and I do not like any of them. This one from 1999 is the best Wand wit...
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I was truing to figure out what was my most impressive musical experience in just past year. After a little consideration and without naming the nominees I'm declaring the winner: Brahms Symphony #4 by Sir John Barbirolli and Wiener Philharmoniker du...
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Mentioned in the list above is a composer that I particularly enjoy is John Barbirolli, as the French, Italian and English influences on his upbringing reminds me of the cultural mix of my own family. There is a perceptive article published last moon...
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When I was making a sarcastic joke about you begin to enjoy slow
interpretations (something that any VERY good playback should do to a system
owner) and referred you to the Barbirolli’s Mahler of cause I mean the exquisite performance of 1967 of S...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If you like very slow interpretation,
like I do, then you might start to listen some Barbirolli Mahler… [/quote]I've found Barbirolli Mahler 6 & 9 by New Philharmonia Orchestra and Berlin Philharmonic respectively. I...
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[quote user="JANDL100"] 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 do...
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I was playing today my beloved Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment Schubert 9 symphony under of Charles Mackerras. It is not absolutely “right” Schubert. It has good phasing attempt and it has very good verbalization of Schubert’s metaphors but it...
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My local “Borders” in Downtown Crossing always has some interesting music. I have no idea why but they have it all but if I stop by in their small classical section I always fish something “kinky”. Today I pulled of from there a few CDs and among th...
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It would be interesting to hear this recorded at a more sensible level. Enjoyable music & playing (I think)[IMG]http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/pure_sound/Solerscreengrab.jpg[/IMG]It has the quality of a ballet dancer wearing hobnail boo...
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Eventually I was able to fish the LP of the Brahms #4 by Barbirolli and Wiener Philharmoniker during the Musikvereinssaal 1967. I got it in UK for somewhere around $50. I have a special ever-growing shelf in my room with the best performances ever we...
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It was on March 1930. Clemens Krauss lead Vienna Philharmonic. After Walter, Bernstein (with Vienna only),Toscanini, Barbirolli, Cantelli, Levine, Furtwangler and Got only knows who esle I finally “got” the Brahms Third! What a Sound Krauss thrown!Th...
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Yes, it is. Grab is with inhumane speed. BTW, on the jacket of this CD the recording venue is incorrect. Barbirolli never recorded there with this orchestra. The Cat ...
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The musical performances on the disc all seem excellent to me. I particularly liked the Kodaly cello piece which was new to me. The sound quality (when played on the ghetto blaster) seems pretty good as well. It certainly brings that machine to life....
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Jerry,
Why you are so afraid of the notion of accidentally good performance – it always happens and I do not see in it any sign of negativism. Since your introduction, listening many of the Ljubliana recordings, I would say that I ...
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This morning, while driving to work, the Classical station was playing the first movement of Gerald Finzi's Cello Concerto (14 July 1901 - 27 September 1956):
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThe Cello Concerto in A minor, Op 40, was compo...
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Unquestionably to me, piano concertos are the very much The Concertos for an instrument and orchestras. My second favorite is Cello Concertos. The violin concertos are popular and they great but I frequently find that they might be annoying, particul...
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I never was a big fun of Cliburn, if you like him then try to found Josef Lhevinne… much more interning. I do remember however that Cliburn’s Rach3 was OK. If I am not mistaken Cliburn played alternative slow cadenza in fist moment – a rarity at that...
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Thanks Romy, I'm getting one of those renditions by Carlos. Any better sounding, or most remarcable edition?You should post some day your preferences/obsessions about conductors making great works of specific composers. I mean something like "I gener...
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Well, Jerry, I can pitch you some CDs. They would be from US resellers but I am sure you can found your local UK equivalent. Be advised that I have none of the Gieseking’s CD only LPs, so I have no idea how good sound transfer was made to CD. G...
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The Boston FM radio and my Sansui TU-X1 tuner gave another magnificent treat - a whole weekend of Bruno Walter music. I always liked Bruno Walter, although he never was my “buy on spot” conductor. Performances of some conductor (for instance Sc...
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Japanese are very strange people and fortunately sometimes this strangeness manifest itself in very cool way. For years I fish in Japan for some interesting recordings. Sometimes the Japanese folks release something that is not available anywhere els...
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It is not that I do not like Mahler: I like him but I do not love him. I listen Mahler for a while and am quite familiar with most of recorded performances, heard “live” in a number of occasions the Mahler’s symphonies and songs, read a lot abo...
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