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In Reply to: RE: Tried two different browsers - video unavailable [nt] posted by Eldragon on September 21, 2020 at 11:27:29
. . . and is certainly one of the more rational voices around when it comes to HIPsters vs. vibrato! ;-) In fact, I appreciate how he belittles Snorrington's claims that the Bruno Walter / VPO recording is played with no vibrato in the strings. WRONG, Roger! - according to the audible evidence was well as Walter's own recollections. You would think that a conductor like Snorrington, who clearly cannot hear what's actually on these old recordings, would have fallen into disrepute by now, but I guess the "anti-vibrato deep state" (thanks for the term, tin!) must be managing to find ways to keep him on life support. Disgusting really.Having said that though, I want to point out that Dave's top choices for the Mahler Ninth are not my choices, although he does acknowledge that a large number of conductors have made magnificent recordings of this work, and I agree with that assessment. I recently posted about the Exton MCh remaster of the Neumann/CzPO recording, originally on the Canyon label (not the earlier Denon/Supraphon, which is also great IMHO). I prefer The Neumann/Exton album to Dave's CzPO choice of Ancerl/Supraphon - I'm not saying that Ancerl is bad by any means, but Neumann's modern engineering really tips the balance for me and it allows us to hear the incredibly beautiful string tone which Neumann coaxes out of the orchestra. Interestingly, the original issue of the Ancerl recording in the US, on the Crossroads label, had an editing mistake on it, which cut out a short section of the work and which was mentioned in the ARG review at the time - I assume Supraphon corrected this long ago.
Finally, I love how Dave is sitting in front of a big gong - his favorite instrument in the orchestra (and which is never played loud enough for him on recordings!). ;-)
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Hi Chris, I discovered him recently and it had become like a religion. He is hilarious. I watched Norrington's review today, I laughed my arse off. There are other extremely funny. Sadly I either can't afford his recommendations or they aren't available, and best I can get his second-tier choices. I got Wand's Bruckner: Symphony No. 4, there are some others I am watching on eBay. Cheers!
Also, it's amazing what turns up on YouTube these days, even if the fi there isn't the highest.
I was thinking about it, but yes youtube has pretty much all of it. I am really shocked how pricey are CD's nowadays...despite the fact "everyone stopped buying them"
Used CDs are pretty cheap. It's hard to find one that doesn't play as new.
I am a cheapskate, I don't want to spend more than 5 - 7 bucks for a used CD. "critically acclaimed" go up to 20 or more. Box sets 80 and up
I don't buy too many CDs these days, but earlier this year on ebay I bought an SACD of Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7; En Saga BSO Davis for $3.25 and a five disk CD box set of Beethoven: 9 Symphonies David Zinman for $2.50. I was just looking for one disk, but this came up. Both included shipping.
You just search on what you want. Sometimes you get a nice surprise.
The Zinman is a great set, by the way.
I was never that lucky. Those are some great finds. Thanks for the recommendation! Cheers brother!
I had that Crossroads LP. I didn't know the music well enough at that time to detect an editing mistake, but I do remember the cover cartoon:
And, like you, I wasn't familiar enough with the music at the time to detect any editing mistake. IIRC, the ARG reviewer who pointed it out was Jack Diether, a well known Mahler expert in those days.
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