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In Reply to: RE: jec01 - I haven't forgotten you - list of recommended blu-ray discs posted by Chris from Lafayette on March 22, 2017 at 21:29:43
I was in the hall for the Thursday night program when the concert was recorded. I think that set of weekend concerts was Boulez's last appearance in Cleveland; one or two later dates were cancelled because of his health issues.
In the hall, Gerhaher sounded bad. His high notes were weak and forced. I didn't like Kozena, and I thought Boulez's leadership was rather enervated in the songs (slow and draggy), but excellent in the Mahler 10th adagio.
The vocal performances on the video version and CD were better; I'm guessing some of them were from other other nights of that week's program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZIfmfFSgQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oBGqOo7Fl0
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I agree with your supposition that parts of the album might have been edited in from the other nights' performances. My understanding is that this procedure is pretty par for the course with "live" recordings these days.
I was in the hall for three performances recorded for video: this Mahler/Boulez concert, some of the Brahms cycle that is out on BD now (great recording of the violin concerto with Julia Fischer), and the Bruckner 8.
I don't know how they managed to keep the camera boom out of the video. In all three concerts, there was a massive teeter-totter-like, counterweighted boom that took up several rows of orchestra seats right in front of the violins. It wasn't a robot--there was a guy operating it. The camera would move over the stage--didn't seem to distract the players--and then back some distance. It was a little distracting to me as an audience member.
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