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In Reply to: RE: Sorry, the concertmaster solos in Scheherazade never worked for me... posted by John Marks on October 03, 2016 at 17:41:09
Although R-K is my favorite composer, Scheherazade is far from my favorite of his works. So I might defer to others on this question. ;-)
BTW, I got to hang out with Leon Spierer, another of the Karajan-era BPO concertmasters (besides Schwalbe) for a couple of days. He was a friend of my piano teacher and I had written the program notes for his recital in San Francisco. (He must have gotten some time off from the BPO to do the recital.) It's funny, but the only work on this recital that I remember now is the Schoenberg Phantasy, Op. 47 - a tough nut to crack, even for committed Schoenbergians.
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And here he is!
I don't believe I ever heard that Maazel/BPO version either - it comes from a time when DG's recorded sound with the BPO was at its worst IMHO (when the Tonmeisters seemed to be thinking "the more microphones the better!"), so I'm sure that that influenced my decision not to investigate it. Maazel certainly had his moments - as an interpretation, it might be pretty good.
That's him..
And it ain't half bad.
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