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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Scherchen's stereo 3rd pushed me from "like" into "love". Was disappointed in the legendary Furtwangler '44 posted by jdaniel@jps.net on August 20, 2016 at 20:05:14:
I mean, I had it myself and quickly jettisoned it. But don't take my word for it. Take this Amazon customer's:Hectically paced, poorly executedReally, I don't want to rain on your parade, but I wish you'd elaborate as to what's so compelling about particular recording. (It went by so fast, I guess I could have missed something!)
Hermann Scherchen belongs with Jascha Horenstein in that quirky category of great conductors who recorded with such poor orchestras that it's often hard to listen to the results. Considering how truly terrible the Vienna Symphon[y] (Pro Musica) was in the Westminster era, you have to tiptoe carefully indeed to avoid some real train wrecks. Even the Vienna Staatsoper orchestra, which is supposed to be composed of members of the Vienna Philharmonic, was veyr [sic] raggedy in those days. This is a breakneck Eroica performed without much technical finesse, yet among Scherhcen's [sic] Beethoven readings, it is typical in both respects.
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Follow Ups
- I'll never understand that "thing" you have for Scherchen's Eroica - Chris from Lafayette 00:26:05 08/21/16 (6)
- RE: I'll never understand that "thing" you have for Scherchen's Eroica - jdaniel@jps.net 08:56:50 08/21/16 (5)
- Wow! - Precise articulation is the one thing I did NOT hear in that (stereo) Scherchen performance - Chris from Lafayette 11:07:05 08/21/16 (4)
- I wish I could remember exactly how a performance sounded when I sampled it 40 years ago. : ) - jdaniel@jps.net 11:37:47 08/21/16 (3)
- This was more recent than 40 years ago - Chris from Lafayette 13:48:13 08/21/16 (2)
- "General sloppiness and lack of clarity" Love you and no offense but that's completey, absurdly inaccurate - jdaniel@jps.net 14:13:24 08/21/16 (1)
- Nah - it's the rumble and the surface noise on the LP! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 14:19:29 08/21/16 (0)
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