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In Reply to: RE: I don't share your enthusiasm for the live Karajan performance posted by Chris from Lafayette on August 29, 2016 at 09:49:55
The Dudamel/LAPO is surprisingly good, and well recorded. I have to respectfully disagree with you on the Maazel/VPO. I find the set as a whole deathly boring (sound quality isn't that good, either). His farewell cycle with the Philharmonia was better to me, but still not top drawer.
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I have to say that Maazel's Fifth with the VPO sounded wonderfully engineered to my ears. IIRC, this whole cycle was recorded "quasi" minimally microphoned, i.e., they had multiple microphones available but tried mostly not to use them, according to an interview with the producer I read.
I don't remember that (maybe my negative reaction to the performances affected my perception of the sound quality). I do remember his last several recordings with Pittsburgh including a Pines of Rome, a Sibelius cycle and others were noted as minimally miked. I wrote a letter (!) to Sony thanking them for doing that but never received a response.
I think most posters (myself included) were disappointed in that recording, since the microphones seemed to be too far away and the sound lacked impact. Like you, I applaud Sony for taking the chance on the minimal microphoning, but in this case (and although I favor minimalist microphoning), I didn't feel that the results were what they could (or should) have been. I didn't hear any of the Pittsburgh Sibelius recordings with Maazel.
(BTW, if the prospect of a youth orchestra doesn't throw you off, I again recommend the recently released recording of Respighi Roman Trilogy available on the HDTT site.)
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