In Reply to: Great recording, IMNSHO.... posted by Ivan303 on April 28, 2015 at 16:53:25:
I'd read some reviews indicating the tempos were slow in this new performance, but I just re-checked my Celibidache/Munich (EMI) recording and Ballot even manages to out-slow Celibidache in two of the four movements (second and fourth, although just by a few seconds in the fourth) - I would never have thought this kind of accomplishment would even be possible! ;-)
I've also read that the echo-ey acoustics of St. Florian influenced Ballot's tempo choices. In a previous discussion, we noted that this is a minimally microphoned recording (one omni for each of the five channels), so that's pretty exciting for me and I do plan to acquire this release soon. (I've been so busy getting my CD's onto computer - it's taking almost all of my free time because of all the meta info acquisition and listening checks involved.) Also, I can't listen on Spotify right now since my Facebook/Spotify account was hacked and I'm giving it some time before I re-enroll.
It's too bad that a blu-ray was not made of this performance - from the looks of that still photo on the back, it appears as if the Oberösterreichisches Jugendsinfonieorchester (the "OÖ JSO", as some folks fondly call it!) has some babes within its ranks. Babes and Bruckner - does it get any better than that? ;-) In fact, let's post another pic of them:
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Follow Ups
- Wow! - those are some SLOW timings! - Chris from Lafayette 20:32:37 04/28/15 (7)
- RE: SLOW! - Ivan303 07:28:59 04/29/15 (3)
- BTW, it's good to see that Lehnert caught himself with his purple prose! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 11:28:14 04/29/15 (0)
- OK - Just ordered it! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 11:21:09 04/29/15 (1)
- Invite us all over when you get it ;-) /nt - Ivan303 14:09:52 04/29/15 (0)
- And as it's a live performance.... - Ivan303 07:13:48 04/29/15 (0)
- RE: Wow! - those are some SLOW timings! - Todd Krieger 02:48:56 04/29/15 (1)
- Yes - I have all the commercially issued Celi recordings - Chris from Lafayette 10:56:02 04/29/15 (0)