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• Don't be weened. - rbolaw 08:40:10 05/23/15 (1)
  In Reply to: RE: Glad you liked his Brahms 1st. I assumed its more stormy and "Wagnerian" quality wouldn't have suited him posted by jdaniel@jps.net on May 23, 2015 at 07:31:54

  You're allowed to listen to more than one version, you know. As a very young (pre-teen) kid listening to classical radio, it was almost a joke how everything they played was by Ansermet and the OSR. Now the opposite is true, and he's almost forgotten except for the connoisseurs.
  
  I have his Beethoven symphonies 1 and 8 on my iPod, downloaded from somewhere, both good. I don't have his no. 6, but I do have a good no. 6 from Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony, surprisingly gentle and lyrical.
  

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  • No worries : ) His performances often just feel so "alive." Only his Debussy fails to satisfy me, with one - jdaniel@jps.net 08:52:26 05/23/15 (0)
    In Reply to: RE: Don't be weened. posted by rbolaw on May 23, 2015 at 08:40:10

    huge exception: Ansermet's Images for Orchestra. *What* a party atmosphere he conjures for the last mov't of Iberia! Otherwise I prefer a more luminous/heavy string sound for Debussy and a little bit more of an "erotic" turn of phrase, if that makes sense. Ansermet tends to be very straight-forward/just the facts, IMHO.
    
    So strange though: Ravel sounds more "erotic" and "luminous" with *less* string weight, to me anyway.
    

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