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Record Review: non-BaL discs reviewed, etc.
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostDoes anyone know the Chicago SO/Haitink or Los Angeles PO/Salonen recordings?
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View Postams I see there was a rave review of Haitink and the LSO in this in the Times today - any microphones apparent ? LSO Live ???
I'll try to access the Times review - many thanks
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostApart from the performance, which is all one would expect from BH, a big attraction of the CSO/Haitink is the accompanying DVD. Not only does it have Gerard McBurney's superb Beyond the Score (which stands starkly counterposed to Haitink's view of the relation of the Symphony to the industrialisation of the USSR) but interviews with both Haitink and McBurney.
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Good to be able to audition the whole of Schumann's rarely heard Piano Sonata No.2, as performed by Mitsuko Uchida, this weekend on CD Review. Hearing Uchida's sparkling performance makes one question anew the unaccountable neglect of this near masterpiece. The only movement I had difficulty with was the Scherzo in which Uchida's tempi were stodgy making those dotted rhythms of which Schumann was so fond, seem laboured and unconvincing. Argerich on a 1970s DG recording has the measure of this movement, wringing it for all its worth at breakneck speed. Otherwise, I thought Uchida's performance was inaginatively realised, and the recording truthful and involving. On this evidence, she can join the likes of Schiff, Argerich, Lupu and Perahia as the finest modern day interpreters of Schumann.
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Originally posted by Sir Velo View PostGood to be able to audition the whole of Schumann's rarely heard Piano Sonata No.2, as performed by Mitsuko Uchida, this weekend on CD Review. Hearing Uchida's sparkling performance makes one question anew the unaccountable neglect of this near masterpiece. The only movement I had difficulty with was the Scherzo in which Uchida's tempi were stodgy making those dotted rhythms of which Schumann was so fond, seem laboured and unconvincing. Argerich on a 1970s DG recording has the measure of this movement, wringing it for all its worth at breakneck speed. Otherwise, I thought Uchida's performance was inaginatively realised, and the recording truthful and involving. On this evidence, she can join the likes of Schiff, Argerich, Lupu and Perahia as the finest modern day interpreters of Schumann.
All of this is prelude to me saying: please record the Goldberg Variations, Uchida!
It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by amateur51 View PostI saw Kopatchinskaja and Jurowski/LPO playing the Prokofiev at the Royal Festival Hall recently and if this recording is anything like as good I think it will be a winner.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostI much enjoyed the Stravinsky tonight, and the CDs of Bartok 2, Ligeti et al, but I do find myself wondering whether her idio- is more -syncratic than -matic.It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostI don't like this Kavakos/Chailly Brahms concerto playing now . He is pulling the music all over the place .
"...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 Postthere's "not a note out of place"! http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...psodies-review
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Postwhich there wasn't on Thursday night in the Barbican, although being note-perfect is only the half of it. The rapport between conductor and soloist, the beauty of Kavakos's playing (poetry and fire when needed) ......
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I enjoyed Richard Wigmore's Bach discussion with AMcG this morning - he talks much sense, certainly concerning irksome Jacobsisms . I'm minded to investigate the Collegium 1704 disc of the Mass in B Minor further - I thought the 'instrumental' voice of the countertenor in the 'Agnus Dei' sounded very fine indeed.Last edited by Thropplenoggin; 02-11-13, 12:03.It loved to happen. -- Marcus Aurelius
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Originally posted by Caliban View Post... interesting. Andrew Clements thinks there's "not a note out of place"! http://www.theguardian.com/music/201...psodies-review
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