Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.

[amateur51]

I think that is a very good point - with the CBSO was he in the position of developing the orchestra and its repertoire - very much loved by his orchestra and audiences. The CBSO Mahler 2 is very interesting and recently seems to have come in for quite a bit of stick on these boards. I remember first hearing it - previously my choices were CSO Abbado and NYPO Walter - and thinking this is different. The singing of Arleen Auger and Janet Baker is spot on but his researches into the interpretation eg with Berthold Goldschmidt are what make it a unique interpretation. I am not an analytical expert in the way that many boarders are but could the difference between the CBSO and BPO recordings be in the nature of the orchestras he inherited. With the BPO a well-honed machine that has been turning out the core European repertoire for years has Rattle added much to interpretation of these - possibly not - but he has had rave reviews for his 'full' Bruckner 9 - the finale presumably new to the orchestra. There is much to like in his Schubert 9 and Heldenleben - standard BPO fare - but for me one of the disappointments is his Borodin 2, which somehow does not come alive in the way it should. After Berlin I hope he will take on an orchestra in need of rebuilding and developing in the way he worked with the CBSO.

I think your analysis, expert or not, is interesting and I agree with all of it

[cloughie]

I think your analysis, expert or not, is interesting and I agree with all of it

Thank you ams - I should have said 'After Berlin I hope he will take on a British orchestra in need of rebuilding and developing in the way he worked with the CBSO.'

[amateur51]

Thank you ams - I should have said 'After Berlin I hope he will take on a British orchestra in need of rebuilding and developing in the way he worked with the CBSO.'

Purely selfishly, I agree with that too. As Nelsons is going to Boston after CBSO, there'd be a vacancy for Rattle to fill there.

But does he want an American orchestra? Or does he want an opera house? So much will depend on his children and his marriage, I imagine and so the hope & wishes of two (relatively) old blokes don't amount to a hill o' beans

Or might he take on the El Sistema movement in UK (pace MrGG), taking it to the next level? Enough already!

[Barbirollians]

I should love to see him at the LSO . Somehow I think it would work .

[verismissimo]

Rattle to the Met?

[Thropplenoggin]

Kicking off tomorrow's show:

WAGNER: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg – Prelude; Siegfried – Idyll; Gotterdammerung - Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey; Gotterdammerung - Siegfried's Funeral March; Gotterdammerung - Immolation scene
Petra Lang (soprano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)
CHANNEL CCSSA32713 (Hybrid SACD)

Fischer's Mahler with the Budapest Festival Orchestra has often been revelatory (and always stunningly recorded) and this Wagner disc has already scored some good reviews in the broadsheets. A conductor who always brings something new out of a work. Who knows - perhaps the Berlin Phil. will come knocking?

[amateur51]

On Saturday 15 June 2013 at 10.30 Mark Padmore talks to Andrew about Decca's reissue of recordings of Benjamin Britten - presumably this means the £180 box of everything

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4785364

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[Thropplenoggin]

On Saturday 15 June 2013 at 10.30 Mark Padmore talks to Andrew about Decca's reissue of recordings of Benjamin Britten - presumably this means the £180 box of everything

http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Decca/4785364

start saving

Expect McG to say "a lovely sense of line" at some point during proceedings.

[Sir Velo]

Expect McG to say "a lovely sense of line" at some point during proceedings.

My money's on "traversal".

[amateur51]

So that's two saucers of milk then? ....

[Alison]

Expect McG to say "a lovely sense of line" at some point during proceedings.

Please be as kind to A McG as you expected me to be to Stephen Johnson.

[Sir Velo]

Could have been forgiven for thinking I had stumbled into an edition of Saturday Morning Kitchen yesterday as AMG's guest, Anna Picard, brought out a whole stockpot of gastronomic metaphors: pieces were described as being like "limes" (no, I've no idea either!) or "toffee flavoured" string writing (your guess is as good....etc). Still the music sounded intriguing.

[Sir Velo]

I see that, according to the CD Review Newsletter, Harriet Smith will be reviewing a selection of recent violin sonatas and cantatas (sic) this morning. I must confess that the combination of solo violin and cantata is a new one to me.

For those of us unable to listen live, I hope that the iplayer version will be available this week. I particularly regret missing the programme two weeks' ago in which one had the chance to "roadtest" Christian Blackshaw's Mozart against more authentic fortepianists. Maybe there is a listener out there who can advise how Mahan Estafani compared the respective performances?

[Nick Armstrong]

I particularly regret missing the programme two weeks' ago in which one had the chance to "roadtest" Christian Blackshaw's Mozart against more authentic fortepianists. Maybe there is a listener out there who can advise how Mahan Estafani compared the respective performances?

Sir V, peer in your inbox in a few moments...

[doversoul1]

I see that, according to the CD Review Newsletter, Harriet Smith will be reviewing a selection of recent violin sonatas and cantatas (sic) this morning. I must confess that the combination of solo violin and cantata is a new one to me.

Could it possibly be a simple typo?
STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D
PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 63
Patricia Kopatchinskaja (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)
NAIVE V5352 (CD)