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In Reply to: RE: Any love for Leinsdorf? posted by TGR on June 26, 2015 at 12:56:05
I have a couple of copies of the RCA red seal Brahms PC 2 with Sv Richter. Apparently, from the liner notes, Fritz R got sick and Erich Leinsdorf was brought in. How is that recording (the first stereo concerto ever done by Richter in the US)? I believe my copies are used and imperfect representatives of pretty beautiful records. I have a couple of wonderfully preserved Rubinstein Red Seals of the set you mention. My uncle's, but I haven't spun them in a while.My impression is that Leinsdorf was close but not of the top rank of the famed conductors of that Golden Era. Have you heard his BSO recordings? Many in the catalog. I remember a very beautiful Pavane (Dynagroove copy).
I am at work, typing from memory.
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....so they agreed to disagree in that Brahms Second. It was just offered on the basis of Richter's name and reputation. The sound is not that good for a Living Stereo, either.
. . . it's the greatest recording ever of the Brahms Second Piano Concerto IMHO (my wife's too). That EMI re-make that Richter did with Maazel is nothing but warmed-over porridge in comparison. ;-)
'Warmed-over porridge'... That sums it up nicely...
Compared to the Leinsdorf set, this one sounds a bit sat on and rhythmically challenged. Lacking spontaneity. Particularly in the slow movement, tension just isn't there. Everything sounds a bit artificial and ever more ponderous and ostentatious. Did John Williams get an aha-moment for the Star Wars soundtrack listening to this? Maazel's direction is full of Hollywood moments. This certainly wasn't my style.
My LP is in the Franklin Mint set, so I don't know if the sound is the same as the Red Seal or not. This has become my favorite Brahms 2, although I am certainly no maven - I have heard it live once (with Bronfman) and have 5 recordings, I think. But the sound is not representative of the best sound RCA was getting in 1960. I thought at first it might be an air check, although it is better than that.
The Rubenstein Beethoven piano concertos are with the BSO. Very nicely recorded, too.
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