In Reply to: RE: Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Planets? posted by rbolaw on July 17, 2016 at 06:37:30:
Hi rbolaw - sorry I just saw this, been off this board for a few days. I hope you see this reply. If so, I'm really not sure exactly what you are trying to say here. I would agree with pretty much everything in your post, and I am not sure why you seem to think I was implying that only the very best orchestras should be listened to?? I was merely stating that a) many audiophiles do NOT value the actual playing of the orchestra very highly, being stuck only on recording quality (a couple of inferior performances are mentioned here, but which ones are not really the point), and b) I have not heard a recording in which the Planets was better played by the entire orchestra than that Montreal one. I notice you did not offer an alternative....FYI it is very possible that you were hearing me when you heard a live MTT/SF Symphony Rite, depending on when you heard it, I performed it multiple times with them....but I will say no more about that.
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- RE: Charles Dutoit, Montreal Symphony Planets? - learsfool 21:40:22 07/21/16 (0)