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In Reply to: Recent SACD Acquisitions posted by Doktor Brahms on February 15, 2007 at 09:21:12:
completely agree re the bis beethoven cycle- i own both the 9th and 4&5, and really wanted to like them. but the performances, and the sound, see cold. i've sung w/ the orchestra, under slatkin and marriner, including the beethoven 9th, and they can play w/ much more fire than this. (an aside, marriner had a pair of magneplanars in his office).and you forgot to mention one key point of the tosca, the absolutely stunning sining of jose carreras, who is in glorious, fresh, voice. the recording is from 1977, before the ravages of radames, and later, lukemia, took a heavy toll on what may have been the most beautiful tenor voice ever.
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The choral movement of 9th is extremely difficult to do right. All I've heard so far was boring in one way or another, mostly because it was overdone, soloists not matching each other, tempos too fast, chorus shouting, not singing.Vanska is coherent, tasteful, and seamlessly executed. It is without a bang, yes, almost chamber style. But it is something new and fresh in the endless row of lookalike performances that repeat each other's mistakes.
Just for the record, I've only heard Vanska's recordings of Symphonies 3 and 8. I have not heard the others.
I found Vanska's 9th so intolerable that I never made it to the last movement.
NT
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