This was a blistering performance. I was completely absorbed. I felt that orchestra and conductor were one (at last: it's taken me a long time to feel, to get the sense from the music-making, that Rattle really has them with him all the way). I thought a great performance, going with the Toscanini, Furtwangler, Karajan, and Norrington. And, though I'm not an expert in such things, i thought it was an appropriate approach for the Berlin Phil, completely IN their great tradition of performances of this symphony, free of the HIPP 'tweaks' he tried with his VPO versions.
After I'd listened and had these thoughts, I opened my new Gramophone in the evening, and there was a review of the same concert, on DVD, by Richard Osborne, in which he says if this had come out in time, it would have been virtually at the top of recent performances in his survey in the previous month's Gramophone Collection article.
Anyway, thought I'd flag it up in case people had not noticed it: catch it while you can!
(Admin might want to combine this thread with the Vilde Frang Mendelssohn one, the same concert.)
After I'd listened and had these thoughts, I opened my new Gramophone in the evening, and there was a review of the same concert, on DVD, by Richard Osborne, in which he says if this had come out in time, it would have been virtually at the top of recent performances in his survey in the previous month's Gramophone Collection article.
Anyway, thought I'd flag it up in case people had not noticed it: catch it while you can!
(Admin might want to combine this thread with the Vilde Frang Mendelssohn one, the same concert.)
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