Andrew Clements Disses Mahler's Fifth

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  • Petrushka
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    • Nov 2010
    • 12333
    #31
    Originally posted by Caliban View Post
    Was that the live one, Alison, on 13th December ?1988, I think? One of the best concert experiences of my life, that
    I was there, too! What a shame that the Schoenberg Survivor from Warsaw that began that concert was not included on the same disc. Incidentally, I met Tennstedt backstage after the concert. An unforgettable evening.
    "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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    • Tony Halstead
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      • Nov 2010
      • 1717
      #32
      one of the very greatest symphonies of the 19th century.
      Apologies - I got the dates wrong!

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      • Roehre
        #33
        Originally posted by waldhorn View Post
        ....
        I am deliberately ignoring all this recent nonsense about the 'hanging together' of one of the very greatest symphonies of the 19th century.
        Many thanks for the compliment.

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        • Alison
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          • Nov 2010
          • 6475
          #34
          Originally posted by Caliban View Post
          Was that the live one, Alison, on 13th December ?1988, I think? One of the best concert experiences of my life, that
          Yes, the very one. A miracle of edge-of-seat excitement.

          As someone said of the same combo's Resurrection, Lordy Lou !!

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          • Petrushka
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            • Nov 2010
            • 12333
            #35
            Originally posted by Alison View Post
            Yes, the very one. A miracle of edge-of-seat excitement.
            I was certainly on the edge of my seat! I have my ticket inside the CD booklet and see that I was on the Green side in Stalls seat H6.

            I retain a vivid memory of Tennstedt in a state of considerable nervous agitation, pacing up and down in his dressing room, the inevitable cigarette between his lips as I asked him to sign my programme. It reminded me of Alma's description of Mahler himself at the premiere of the 6th. How I wish I'd had my camera!
            "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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            • Nick Armstrong
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              • Nov 2010
              • 26575
              #36
              Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
              I was certainly on the edge of my seat! I have my ticket inside the CD booklet and see that I was on the Green side in Stalls seat H6.

              I retain a vivid memory of Tennstedt in a state of considerable nervous agitation, pacing up and down in his dressing room, the inevitable cigarette between his lips as I asked him to sign my programme. It reminded me of Alma's description of Mahler himself at the premiere of the 6th. How I wish I'd had my camera!
              I got his autograph a couple of times, too - maybe that very evening. Once it was outside the artists' entrance at the back of the RFH, but the other time I was with some people and KT and Mrs T in the big lift down to the artists' entrance. I have no idea what I was doing in there. Anyway, on both occasions, as well as the fags, I recall a distinct whiff of schnapps...
              "...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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              • Petrushka
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                • Nov 2010
                • 12333
                #37
                Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                I got his autograph a couple of times, too - maybe that very evening. Once it was outside the artists' entrance at the back of the RFH, but the other time I was with some people and KT and Mrs T in the big lift down to the artists' entrance. I have no idea what I was doing in there. Anyway, on both occasions, as well as the fags, I recall a distinct whiff of schnapps...
                "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                • amateur51
                  #38
                  Originally posted by Caliban View Post
                  I got his autograph a couple of times, too - maybe that very evening. Once it was outside the artists' entrance at the back of the RFH, but the other time I was with some people and KT and Mrs T in the big lift down to the artists' entrance. I have no idea what I was doing in there. Anyway, on both occasions, as well as the fags, I recall a distinct whiff of schnapps...
                  I'm amazed that KT had time to get schnapps at the RFH bar, given the low staffing level at that time - a chap could die of thirst

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