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In Reply to: RE: Speaking of Brahms........ [yt] posted by Todd Krieger on September 16, 2014 at 23:42:00
Bruno Walter is my go-to version of this, the later stereo.
But damn, this is good!
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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.)
He managed to get the same sound out of different orchestras - at the start of the rehearsal in Vancouver (38 min) he asks "where are the horns?", "who is the first trumpet" etc. And almost immediately his sound was apparent. "Sing, SIng, Sing!" he continually says to the strings and at the start it is continually "expressivo - diminuendo.."
Very interesting comments on Walter by Isaac Stern - "He cajoled the orchestra - it was gentle but insistent and it would not stop until he had his way. There was an apparent gentleness, because he was one of the most stubborn and iron willed of persons"
Walter himself talks of "warm heart, sincerity, human qualities" as the way to connect with the orchestra.
Orchestras liked him (and Solti) for talking as they conducted so the music didn't stop so often.
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