I'm looking forward to hearing Ivan Fischer conduct Mahler's 5th on Wednesday with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. Their accounts of Mahler's 4th and recently released 1st (Channel Classics) have been excellent.
Edinburgh Festival 2012
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Thropplenoggin
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Originally posted by Kuhlau View PostWhilst in Edinburgh, I also took in Busoni's Piano Concerto, Garrick Ohlson as Soloist. Astonishing stamina required! I'm still trying to quite comprehend such a labyrinthine piece - it must be a life's work for some pianists to reach a performance standard for this work - incredible!
I have a feeling it's just about to finish.
Ah yes!
"...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostJust listening to this! Amazing stamina indeed.... It started just after I got home from work, just checked, and it's still going! Feels like I've been home ages.
I have a feeling it's just about to finish.
Ah yes!
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"...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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Thropplenoggin
I didn't, no, but had it on my list of things to do today. How disappointing! I have Fischer's 4th on CD - a sensual delight: exquisitely played, an especially rapt adagio, and fantastic detail in the recording. And I've just bought his Mahler 1, too, which, to these ears, sounds a bit more muffled or distant, as if one of the knobs on the mixing desk was turned down. He is just about to record the 5th - or so MacGregor said t'other day. I hope his trumpet was in tune then!
How did you find the adagietto?
Finally, I always thought the saying was: 'as dull as ditch-water'.
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Originally posted by Thropplenoggin View Post
How did you find the adagietto?
Finally, I always thought the saying was: 'as dull as ditch-water'."...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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Originally posted by Caliban View PostDid you hear it? I thought the wayward tuning of the principal trumpet ("flat as ditch-water", as my school band-master would have said) made the first movement unlistenable-to - I wondered in fact if iPlayer was malfunctioning, it was so bad.
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