Osmo Vanska, Carlos Kleiber

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Vanska, baby! If you like Carlos Kleiber's approach to Beethoven's symphonies, you'll probably like Vanska - they are similar. The audio quality on all the Vanska/Minnesota BIS label recordings is outstanding.

Of course, you need the Kleibers as well, and Walter, Toscanini, Abbaddo, Bohm, Ansermet, Jochum, Boulez, von Karajan, Bernstein, Erich Kleiber, and Reiner. I know I'm forgetting a few. The only "bad" one I now of was the Bernstein perf after the fall of the Berlin wall, which I found ridiculously slow and self-indulgent. (Who you gonna believe, me or Bernstein? Don't answer that.)

You need 'em all, including those with awful sound, or transfers from 78's.

Here's a suggestion: pick a symphony (I'd avoid the 9th, because the choral movement almost takes it into different territory) and get all the recordings of it you can find. Listen to one each week, and *really* listen to it, phone turned off, in the dark, maybe twice. After you cycle through all the recordings, which will probably take half a year or so, start to re-listen to the different conductors to see how they approached it, what they brought out in it. When you're done, you'll be able to get *so* much more enjoyment from any performance of that symphony, it's really pretty shocking. There is no substitute for deep understanding of a masterpiece. Some say having a printed score helps as well.

Enjoy.

WW
"Put on your high heeled sneakers. Baby, we''re goin'' out tonight.

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Topic - Nominate the best SACD recording of Beethoven's 9th, or any other of his symphonies. NT - sleeper 18:53:43 12/10/19 (13)

Haitink(LSO) & Vanska(BIS) - krisjan 16:46:09 12/15/19 (8)

RE: Haitink(LSO) & Vanska(BIS) - pbarach 14:14:34 12/28/19 (7)

RE: Haitink(LSO) & Vanska(BIS) - airheadair 08:08:16 01/14/20 (2)

RE: Haitink(LSO) & Vanska(BIS) - airheadair 10:49:13 01/15/20 (0)

RE: Haitink(LSO) & Vanska(BIS) - pbarach 08:24:59 01/14/20 (0)

RE: Haitink(LSO) & Vanska(BIS) - krisjan 04:13:34 12/30/19 (3)

Vanska's "chamber music approach" - pbarach 11:00:20 12/30/19 (2)

RE: Vanska's "chamber music approach" - krisjan 12:38:38 12/30/19 (0)

RE: Vanska's "chamber music approach" - krisjan 12:33:17 12/30/19 (0)

RE: Nominate the best SACD recording of Beethoven's 9th, or any other of his symphonies. NT - Mel 08:30:04 12/14/19 (2)

Osmo Vanska, Carlos Kleiber - Bill Way 15:28:19 12/14/19 (1)

RE: Osmo Vanska, Carlos Kleiber - sleeper 18:31:54 12/14/19 (0)

For the Ninth: Kubelik on Pentatone (with its original quad tracks available) - Chris from Lafayette 20:37:33 12/10/19 (0)

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Osmo Vanska, Carlos Kleiber - Bill Way 15:28:19 12/14/19 (1)

RE: Osmo Vanska, Carlos Kleiber - sleeper 18:31:54 12/14/19 (0)

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