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Originally posted by bluestateprommer View PostSome more archival Blomstedt from this side of the pond, specifically the Fabulous Philadelphians, a WRTI broadcast tomorrow at 6 PM UK time (I think):
Join us on Sunday, September 20th at 1 PM on WRTI 90.1 and Monday, September 21st at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2 to hear a Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert…
This program, of Mozart's Concerto No. 25 and Brahms 3, makes a for an interesting complement to the Chicago concert of Mozart 23 / Brahms 2 that RF mentioned at the start of this thread. I just found from the CSO's page that they've made audio of that Mozart / Brahms concert available very recently:
https://csosoundsandstories.org/cso-...rand-chamayou/
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Through the Night - Sunday night late I was listening and:
"Herbert Blomstedt conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, performing Haydn's 'London' Symphony and Bruckner's Sixth Symphony".
Sounded pretty good, to my inexpert ears.
There was also a performance of Bruckner's 3rd in January 2018:
Which has been broadcast on Afternoon on 3 (April 2018) - perhaps it will come around again :
I never managed to find that Leipzig GO Bruckner cycle set at a reasonable price, but I do have cycles from others, and as I say, I'm not an expert (one day maye I'll have a crack at getting a handle on all those editions and their respective merits, upgrading from my patchy awareness).
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Some months ago, Blomstedt gave a deeply affecting interview on the BerlinPO’s DCH website, but I can’t recall the work he was extolling; it was probably Bruckner. (I’ve cancelled my subscription after three years, so can’t check.)
He first came to my attention conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden in those superb Denon releases of the early 1980s, notably the Bruckner 4 & 7 and several R. Strauss orchestral works, Also Sprach and Heldenleben in particular. I’d recently bought my first CD player, a Denon 1500, and it seemed a good idea to try it out with recordings made by the same company, who professed to make recordings with a more natural concert hall perspective using a ‘one-point recording’ technique thus avoiding the spotlighting caused by multi-miking. Whatever they did, the combination of my favourite orchestra and repertoire in a gloriously natural sound perspective emanating from my first CD player sent me to musical heaven at the time. A MusicWeb review reckons the Bruckner 7 ‘is one of the greatest performances of anything ever to be caught on tape’ - assuming that the PCM-digital recording went to tape rather than hard disk!
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Originally posted by Keraulophone View PostSome months ago, Blomstedt gave a deeply affecting interview on the BerlinPO’s DCH website, but I can’t recall the work he was extolling; it was probably Bruckner. (I’ve cancelled my subscription after three years, so can’t check.)
He first came to my attention conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden in those superb Denon releases of the early 1980s, notably the Bruckner 4 & 7 and several R. Strauss orchestral works, Also Sprach and Heldenleben in particular. I’d recently bought my first CD player, a Denon 1500, and it seemed a good idea to try it out with recordings made by the same company, who professed to make recordings with a more natural concert hall perspective using a ‘one-point recording’ technique thus avoiding the spotlighting caused by multi-miking. Whatever they did, the combination of my favourite orchestra and repertoire in a gloriously natural sound perspective emanating from my first CD player sent me to musical heaven at the time. A MusicWeb review reckons the Bruckner 7 ‘is one of the greatest performances of anything ever to be caught on tape’ - assuming that the PCM-digital recording went to tape rather than hard disk!
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Originally posted by Keraulophone View PostSome months ago, Blomstedt gave a deeply affecting interview on the BerlinPO’s DCH website, but I can’t recall the work he was extolling; it was probably Bruckner. (I’ve cancelled my subscription after three years, so can’t check.)
He first came to my attention conducting the Staatskapelle Dresden in those superb Denon releases of the early 1980s, notably the Bruckner 4 & 7 and several R. Strauss orchestral works, Also Sprach and Heldenleben in particular. I’d recently bought my first CD player, a Denon 1500, and it seemed a good idea to try it out with recordings made by the same company, who professed to make recordings with a more natural concert hall perspective using a ‘one-point recording’ technique thus avoiding the spotlighting caused by multi-miking. Whatever they did, the combination of my favourite orchestra and repertoire in a gloriously natural sound perspective emanating from my first CD player sent me to musical heaven at the time. A MusicWeb review reckons the Bruckner 7 ‘is one of the greatest performances of anything ever to be caught on tape’ - assuming that the PCM-digital recording went to tape rather than hard disk!"I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest
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Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostThrough the Night - Sunday night late I was listening and:
"Herbert Blomstedt conducts the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra in Hamburg, performing Haydn's 'London' Symphony and Bruckner's Sixth Symphony".
Sounded pretty good, to my inexpert ears.
There was also a performance of Bruckner's 3rd in January 2018:
Which has been broadcast on Afternoon on 3 (April 2018) - perhaps it will come around again :
I never managed to find that Leipzig GO Bruckner cycle set at a reasonable price, but I do have cycles from others, and as I say, I'm not an expert (one day maye I'll have a crack at getting a handle on all those editions and their respective merits, upgrading from my patchy awareness).
Keep looking for that late Leipzig set, or the separate releases.... some of the best Bruckner I ever heard, of the first three especially (all in their original versions...)...
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I've checked - the 1873 original version (according to Penny Gore....). Additionally, I have to admit that after the Blomstedt/Leipzig 3rd won the Buildin a Library (incidentally by Tom service) - I think in January 2017 - I bought the individual disc (Nowak,1977 / 1873 it says on the case).
I decided against assembling the rest of the set from the individual discs - enthusiastic recommendations for other readings of the symphonies fly around these boards so I keep to what I have (e.g. Wand - the NDR plus a couple of RCA live, Jochum). I'm also aware of the wealth of versions and performances available on Naxos Music Library* including a lot of the more recent issues mentioned on threads here.
* As ever, to mention free via my local library - at the least "try before I buy" http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-library/page2Last edited by Cockney Sparrow; 10-11-20, 20:14. Reason: "according to Penny Gore...." corrected to 1873.
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Originally posted by LHC View PostI see the Denon Bruckner 4 & 7 have recently been reissued under license by MDG as a double CD set. Apparently MDG will be releasing more of Denon’s recordings.
It looks as though MDG has only reissued the Bruckner 2CD set (2019). Sadly, no sign of any other Blomstedt or Inbal (Mahler) Denons from MDG.
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Originally posted by Keraulophone View PostThanks for this, LHC.
It looks as though MDG has only reissued the Bruckner 2CD set (2019). Sadly, no sign of any other Blomstedt or Inbal (Mahler) Denons from MDG.
So it looks as if this is the first installment, and some of the other Denon discs, including those you mention, may be forthcoming."I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
Lady Bracknell The importance of Being Earnest
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Originally posted by Cockney Sparrow View PostI've checked - the 1877 original version (according to Penny Gore....). Additionally, I have to admit that after the Blomstedt/Leipzig 3rd won the Buildin a Library (incidentally by Tom service) - I think in January 2017 - I bought the individual disc (Nowak,1977 / 1873 it says on the case).
I decided against assembling the rest of the set from the individual discs - enthusiastic recommendations for other readings of the symphonies fly around these boards so I keep to what I have (e.g. Wand - the NDR plus a couple of RCA live, Jochum). I'm also aware of the wealth of versions and performances available on Naxos Music Library* including a lot of the more recent issues mentioned on threads here.
* As ever, to mention free via my local library - at the least "try before I buy" http://www.for3.org/forums/showthrea...-library/page2
1873 is indeed ed. Nowak, published in 1977. There exists an even finer 1874 Edition, by William Carragan, very close to 1873 but with greater textual and thematic elaboration and a richer orchestration. Possibly Bruckner's favourite, it has only been recorded, and very beautifully, by Gerd Schaller to date on Profil.
The BaL by Tom Service on NO.3 was excellent, and much discussed here at the time....
One of the longest and most vigorously argued threads ever on here.....highly diverting.Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 11-11-20, 03:26.
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I've listened to Penny Gore again and I have to apologise to her - she did indeed say 1873. (Classic case of more haste less speed.). I'm going to have to double check my facts in future........
While I'm at it, I've checked my Gunter Wand set (the one in the vinyl lp sized box) and the Bruckner symphonies there were recorded with the Cologne RSO.
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Originally posted by LHC View PostI see the Denon Bruckner 4 & 7 have recently been reissued under license by MDG as a double CD set. Apparently MDG will be releasing more of Denon’s recordings.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0014g94"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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New video of Blomstedt remembering the first time he heard Bruckner in 1942.
The famous conductor tells us about his love for Stenhammar, and why it took him so long to feature the second symphony in his concert programmes. A fascinating glimpse into Stenhammar’s music and the relationship with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, from Herbert Blomstedt’s point of view. Recorded for GSOplay 19 December 2013
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Just on my way home from the RFH - sensational performance of Bruckner 7 from Philharmonia/Blomstedt. I was at Haitink’s last Prom and fine and moving as that was this was to my ears much the greater performance - it was enormously cogent, everything unfolded superbly from first note to last .
And to top it off Mozart Pc23 in the first half with Maria Joao Pires in a lovely , polished gorgeously musical performance - dancing finale and a pin drop slow movement - much the best concert I have been to for a long time.
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