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Classical Court From Perotin to Prokofiev (and beyond), performed by Caruso to Khatia, it's all here. |
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In Reply to: Hey, Zarlino - I finally heard Honeck's Beethoven Ninth posted by Chris from Lafayette on May 3, 2021 at 17:55:23:
First of all, I was entertained. Isn't that the idea? I wasn't listening for the conductor's edits as many reviewers are, though I heard them. Perhaps not the Beethoven 9th to have if you're having only one.
The most interesting aspect of this performance to me was taking the symphony at a speed normally taken by the original instrument crowd, and taking that with a full modern orchestra. And, at least to my ears, pulling it off. As I heard it, this amazing orchestra chorus and soloists seemed to handle it easily. Made for a very exciting listen, and though the applause was not heard on the recording I'm going to believe that the crowd went wild over it. While we may differ on what we like as to speed, we can hardly argue with the original metronome markings. Apparently those meant a lot to the composer. for among other reasons he was a friend of whomever invented the device.
But I find the recording quality less than very good and I think Soundmirror is a much overrated audio production company. Their work in Pittsburgh always sounds congested to me, a congestion with a large dynamic range. They cannot compare with Reference's original Keith Johnson. A good part of the difficulty, as I have written earlier, is created by having to record a live performance. Though even in that catagory, they are out-performed IMO by the Boston Symphony Shostakovich cycle and even in Pittsburgh by the Janowski Brahms cycle.
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Follow Ups
- I Had a Somewhat Different Reaction - Mel 13:09:30 05/04/21 (3)
- At least we agree about SoundMirror's less than stellar contribution to the proceedings - Chris from Lafayette 16:44:22 05/04/21 (0)
- Darn! Now I'm going to have to listen to it as well.... - Ivan303 13:26:21 05/04/21 (1)
- That was our plan all along! [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 16:45:06 05/04/21 (0)
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