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In Reply to: RE: Do you audition classical recordings blind? posted by Todd Krieger on November 17, 2014 at 08:50:36
I also come across performances on YouTube that are far better than expected.... I'll never forget the first time I watched a clip with the NHK Symphony, for example.... (Ayako Uehara/Charles Dutoit doing the Tchaikovsky Concerto One.) At the time, I never imagined Japan having a top 25 orchestra, let alone (to my ears) the very best....
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NHK don't do anything for me.
But they have been working for a long time to get a some sort of credibility.
I am not sure if we ever get it. I am inclined to think that it's not in our blood.
Should have mentioned it... The vast majority of YouTube videos of the NHK Symphony were of performances that took place prior to 1995.... But I believe this orchestra only got really good after the year 2000. (You might still not care for it. No problem.)
I thought Cleveland had the best orchestra in the world prior to 1990, then Montreal between 1990 and 2000, then NHK since 2000.
Technical standards in classical music performance are sky high today in many parts of the world. Japan, (South) Korea, Finland and Estonia, for example, are right up there with the US and Western Europe. I don't think China will be far behind.But looking back, I don't think you can hold impoverished, war-torn post W.W. II Europe, with many of its greatest musicians still living in exile, to quite the same standard. Alfred Brendel told a funny story about how as an unknown young pianist in Vienna, he was hired to record the Prokofiev 5th piano concerto, a piece neither he nor the orchestra knew. Well, he got through it well enough to help his budding career, and you can still buy it and listen to it, but ...
Edits: 11/17/14
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