Dausgaard is currently on my "suspect" list

Believe me, I'm tempted by this new title (and Acoustic Sounds even offers it in MCh). But the Dausgaard recordings I've purchased have not been impressive to me, especially his latest on BIS: a light-weight run-through of the Bruckner 6 which trivializes the music and loses all kinds of articulation. And it's not just his rapid tempos - Janowski on Pentatone takes similarly fast speeds, but imposes enough discipline on the OSR so that they manage to maintain fairly clear articulation. Not so with Dausgaard - his Bruckner 6 is a girlie-man performance.

This is certainly one case where I plan to take Ivan's recommendation and listen in stereo on Qobuz first before I commit to shelling out any money for the MCh download.

(In the meantime, I'm still working my way though the 55 discs of the complete Previn RCA/Columbia recordings. He did a surprising amount of Chamber music on those labels and, last night, we heard an absolutely super performance of the Saint-Saens Septet - the one with the trumpet - where Previn plays the piano part magnificently. This is absolutely the best recording I've heard of this work! We also liked his performance, on another volume of the set, of Schumann's wonderful Piano Quartet - even though the performance is not my top favorite, it's still extremely well done, and the same album includes a performance of ANOTHER piano quartet which Schumann apparently wrote when he was only 19. Schumann wasn't quite the prodigy that Mendelssohn was, and this early piano quartet has hardly any of the characteristics or turns of phrase we associate with Schumann's music. But the performance of the Op. 44 Piano Quartet certainly seemed marvelous. BTW, sorry for going off on a tangent here!)

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Topic - Didn't see this coming, blockbuster Strauss and Scriabin from Seattle? - jdaniel@jps.net 08:14:13 10/22/20 (17)

I listened to most of AsZ last night in 2-channel on Qobuz - Chris from Lafayette 10:56:06 10/26/20 (2)

Also Sprach from Urbanski - pbarach 14:15:36 10/26/20 (1)

If only that Urbanski recording were MCh! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 14:21:53 10/26/20 (0)

Only the best comes from Seattle - flyingdutchman 15:32:40 10/23/20 (0)

RE: Didn't see this coming, blockbuster Strauss and Scriabin from Seattle? - Mel 10:58:28 10/23/20 (0)

Dausgaard is currently on my "suspect" list - Chris from Lafayette 11:20:35 10/22/20 (2)

You seem to think of an Orchestra as a bunch of petulant, unruly children - oldmkvi 06:44:46 10/23/20 (1)

"Have you ever been in a professional orchestra?" - Yes - Chris from Lafayette 09:39:10 10/23/20 (0)

Not bad a CD resolutin sstreaming via QOBUZ... - Ivan303 09:04:15 10/22/20 (8)

How's the Organ? Nt - jdaniel@jps.net 09:24:09 10/22/20 (7)

What organ? - Ivan303 09:56:03 10/22/20 (6)

What about your Pulsars? nt - srl1 18:42:00 10/22/20 (4)

Been focused on the 'Casita' system of late... - Ivan303 19:44:37 10/22/20 (2)

RE: Been focused on the 'Casita' system of late... - pictureguy 20:33:42 10/22/20 (0)

You have no right to call yourself a child of the 20th Century... - jdaniel@jps.net 20:31:31 10/22/20 (0)

Oh come on! Enough of the mockery! Re: Also Sprach, everyone admits it's all downhill from the low C - jdaniel@jps.net 19:02:28 10/22/20 (0)

RE: What organ? - rivervalley817 10:38:17 10/22/20 (0)

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Dausgaard is currently on my "suspect" list - Chris from Lafayette 11:20:35 10/22/20 (2)

You seem to think of an Orchestra as a bunch of petulant, unruly children - oldmkvi 06:44:46 10/23/20 (1)

"Have you ever been in a professional orchestra?" - Yes - Chris from Lafayette 09:39:10 10/23/20 (0)

Dausgaard is currently on my "suspect" list

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