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Menuhin recordings
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostMore sense would probably have been obtained from a heifer .
( heading rapidly into S E F X territory...)I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
I am not a number, I am a free man.
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Originally posted by EdgeleyRob View PostBlimey,beggars belief !!"...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 visualnickmos View PostFunnily enough, I had just put a CD in the machine, which arrived today. I decided to glance on here - saw this thread. Said CD being Beethoven's violin concerto with YM and Klemperer (plus a couple of the usual overture fill-ups) on HMV Classics (rec. 1966) at a price much less than the stamp
A recording I've been aware of for decades, but this is the first time I've ever heard it!
Love it - the first movement cadenza is fabulous - makes you want to get up and dance!!! The whole concerto is a superb balance of Klemperer's richness and fine sound, with YM's playful mastery. Getting to become quite fond of YM...
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostI agree entirely this recording has received a lot of stick over the years and I avoided it . Show how much musical criticism is no more than opinion. Yes a few scratchy moments but a real performance and a glorious Larghetto and a terrific foot stamping Rondo .
When all is said and done, we have to be our own critics; Opinion is fine, of course, and informed opinion, too - but in the end we listen, we like or not like what we hear - voila! Job done. A little example; I, for one love HvK's Brandenburg Concertos, knowing full-well that it's probably as far away as it's possible to get from Bach's envisaged sound. Who knows - he may have liked modern grand orchestras had he the opportunity to hear them.....?
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostLove Menuhin's Elgar symphony recordings - they may lack the particular individual touches of Boult and Barbirolli but for straightforward very well played deeply committed and unvarnished accounts of both works they are terrific.
One thing I find particularly appealing with Menuhin's (conducting) recordings, is that he doesn't hang about, but nothing sounds rushed; just brisk and lively...
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