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One of my favorite recordings of this venerable piece from one of my favorite conductors.
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Went to a live jazz concert yesterday (Friday) evening. John Engels is a Dutch jazz drummer. 80 years and still going strong! He's been in the business for 60 years, he's played everything with everybody. He is known as the master of the brushes. He demonstrated that in a ballad medley. Amazing to watch and listen to!
"The torture never stops"Greetings Freek.
I am always up for Bruno Walter. How are the Odyssey pressings? After being burned with RCA Gold Seal, I have avoided budget labels.
Dave
I will give them a try. There is some great music on Odyssey.
Dave
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IT was almost Friday when I gave a spin to Eberhard Weber - Orchestra
Happy Listening
I felt the need for some Pipe Organ (one of my favorite classical instruments, second only to the Cello). These two very (IMHO) accomplished players get the job done with a variety of old and (then) new stuff.
It's also a pretty darn good sounding recording. While it is not state of the art (lows aren't quite as visceral as say a Telarc), it captures the sound of the venue, as well as the each instrument's texture quite well.
A remarkably quiet surface for a used record (it needed a spin on the 16.5 before hand, of course); quiet enough in fact that one can hear the tape hiss "around" some of the "ppp" passages (this record is amazingly dynamic for the era).
Now that D-Wife is away for a week, I wonder what trouble I can get into with 5 days of total and absolute play-list control!?
Cheers,
Dman
Analog Junkie
Those are all great titles, but the one that caught my eye is the Horowitz! I haven't heard that one, but I have Horiwitz in Moscow (my first introduction to his playing!) and it is quite remarkable!!
I must investigate him more...
Dman
Analog Junkie
These Preludes ( Book II No. 4, 5, 6) are rather good.
He didn't record much of Debussy's work but small pieces he did record and played got full Horowitz treatment. Less romantic and much more high energy than Gieseking. Wish he played the whole set!
Played on the Boesendorfer Imperial piano by Uriel Tsachor. EMS SB026 Belgium.
Classic Records pressing.
Well - maybe 10, when I ended up getting his stereo set of Brahms symphonies in the original box. Blew me away. I now have a lot of his stuff- Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Mahler, etc.. The one recording he did that doesn't work for me is his Schubert Great C-Major - too slow and underpowered, but he is terrific in the Unfinished.
I agree on the Schubert. The stereo remake has good sound, but is slowish and low-energy. His old mono performance with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York is everything the stereo remake isn't. It's fleet-footed, sure of itself, and engaging. The sound isn't bad for the period. I have it on nicely unworn 78s of the time, and have digitized it and assembled it into a complete performance. The sound is clean, with good dynamic range, but the highs are a bit restricted. I'm sure it probably sounded better on Columbia LP dubbed from the acetates!
The "Double Concerto" with Zino Francescatti and Pierre Fournier is really nice, too.
Lots of excellent Bruno recordings with the NYPSO are available, too. Their Mahler Symphony Nš 1 is killer.
-=- Charlie F.
The Tilson Thomas Mahler cycle is recommended.....great sound, great performances, great music.
And I don't know that I have listened to it - I was seduced by the great Fricsay reading, with Schneiderhan and Starker - I found a 10" stereo of this and it sounds fantastic - could have been recorded yesterday - but I bet the Walter reading is great as well. Need to take it out for a spin soon.
Walter is not always my first choice in everything -but just about everything he recorded is worth hearing.
By the way, his stereo Beethoven set, although old-fashioned in places, is worth hearing. While I prefer Szell (and others) you'll learn a lot from more than the Pastorale.
For example, his 5th. If you know the Furtwangler (which honestly I loathe) you'll know that he treats the opening bars as a separate introduction, instead of the organic kernel form which the symphony is built. Listening to Szell with the Concertegebouw with score in hand is to watch the score come alive. But Walter is an interesting alternative - he hints at the fact that the intro might be a separate entity - but without losing momentum, a far more subtle treatment than the Furtwangler, which slaps you in the face.
His Eroica is powerful, and there is something to enjoy in each of the recordings.
Regarding the Fricsay/Schneiderhan/Starker -- YES! I am with you: this is my go-to recording of the Brahms Double.
Thank you for the recce on the stereo Bruno! LvB symphonies. When I was first digging into more classical listening (circa 1999), I bought Sony CDs of most of his stereo cycle with the Columbia players. I haven't played them in over 10 years. I will do so.
Ditto his Beethoven's 6th.
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Wouldn't want to be without his Beethoven 6th either, though I'm currently cleansing my ears with Scherchen's mono version.
My cherished Walter is his Mahler 4th and esp fresh Dvorak 9th.
Love his Mahler 1st but recently bumped out of the way by Kubelik's Audite "live" recording.
Don't care for Walter's M2 (undercharged) or M9 (once again massed strings are like fingers on a chalkboard)
and the LP is the more strident of the two. Go figure.
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is the final repeat of the lovely 3rd mov't theme.
Although IMHO Walter absolutely nails the 1st mov't, my overall fav 3rd is Wand's early NDR recording, for the exquisite pacing and playing during the 2nd mov't, which I believe to be one of the most perfect creations in all the literature.
And it's digital, but I don't care.
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