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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: If I were starting fresh, right now... posted by SE on March 24, 2007 at 05:56:14:
I've been liking the Jansons quite a bit, too, and could easily see it as a first purchase. Interpretively, it's a nice middle ground between the more over-the-top readings we have from Kondrashin and other old Russians and the sometimes straightforward to a fault Haitink and Barshai.Barshai's a bargain, but it's one of those sets where everything is good, but nothing outstanding, IMO. Haitink at least is nice to have in terms of hearing these works played as beautifully as possible--which of course is both a plus and a minus in these works. I haven't heard the full Kondrashin set, though I have most of it on old lps. Jansons has good sound, and at least a few of these recordings would be among my top two or three. (He's really great in 7, 13, and 14--right up there with the best, IMO, and his 5, 8, and 10 are pretty distinctive if maybe not completely first rate. The only misfire, to me, is 1).
Anyway, glad to see MJ getting some love. I much prefer him to Barshai, who seems to be the standard recommendation these.
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