RE: Very nice! Competition for Bruno Walter...

Posted by Todd Krieger (A) on September 18, 2014 at 23:59:49

In Reply to: Very nice! Competition for Bruno Walter... posted by andy evans on September 18, 2014 at 12:03:54:

I've always viewed Bruno Walter as the standard for Brahms.... In the case of the Two, there is an added delicacy to the lighter passages.... One of my favorite passages is the wind calls echoing the heavy orchestration in the final movement.... Walter captures the magic here..... Munch, as well as Szell, very close, but not quite. Szell's Brahms Two is IMO very similar to Munch's read, but the recording isn't nearly as good. (Szell did the best Brahms Three to make recording. The Brahms Four goes back to Walter, but Serge Koussevitzky was great too.)

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Topic - Speaking of Brahms........ [yt] - Todd Krieger 23:42:00 09/16/14 (12)

Very nice! Competition for Bruno Walter... - andy evans 12:03:54 09/18/14 (2)

RE: Very nice! Competition for Bruno Walter... - Todd Krieger 23:59:49 09/18/14 (1)

There's a rehearsal of Brahms 2 here.. - andy evans 02:43:31 09/19/14 (0)

Great recording! Odd that RCA didn't issue it in stereo until much later, except for: - vinyl phanatic 06:03:36 09/17/14 (0)

RE: Speaking of Brahms........ [yt] - pbarach 03:50:02 09/17/14 (0)

Exactly - I've always liked that recording even more for its engineering - Chris from Lafayette 00:51:26 09/17/14 (6)

RE: Exactly - I've always liked that recording even more for its engineering - learsfool 22:01:05 09/17/14 (5)

But. . . but. . . you can have minimalist microphoning with digital too - Chris from Lafayette 22:32:35 09/17/14 (4)

RE: But. . . but. . . you can have minimalist microphoning with digital too - learsfool 18:17:35 09/18/14 (2)

Yup, I agree - we need audiophile fighters in charge of the recording companies! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 21:55:42 09/18/14 (1)

Hmm. . . that didn't come out the way I wanted it to - Chris from Lafayette 01:01:15 09/19/14 (0)

RE: But. . . but. . . you can have minimalist microphoning with digital too - Old SteveA 08:03:53 09/18/14 (0)

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RE: Very nice! Competition for Bruno Walter... - Todd Krieger 23:59:49 09/18/14 (1)

There's a rehearsal of Brahms 2 here.. - andy evans 02:43:31 09/19/14 (0)

RE: Very nice! Competition for Bruno Walter...

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