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  • pastoralguy
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 7766

    #46
    I got one too. I've only listened once after an appalling day at work but what penetrated my shocked state sounded superb. It's on my weekend pile. (When we're not going to the Festival concerts).

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    • pastoralguy
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 7766

      #47
      Originally posted by Bryn View Post
      I knew I had intended to place an order before heading for work yesterday morning, but thought I had better check that I had indeed done so. I had. Estimated delivery date range is 21st to 23rd this month.
      How many is that now?

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      • HighlandDougie
        Full Member
        • Nov 2010
        • 3093

        #48
        Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
        How many is that now?
        My copy is finally on its way to France .......

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        • silvestrione
          Full Member
          • Jan 2011
          • 1708

          #49
          Originally posted by pastoralguy View Post
          How many is that now?
          I have ordered one as well!

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          • Petrushka
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 12260

            #50
            Is Caliban perhaps earning commission?

            The single Amazon review seems to bear out Calban's enthusiasm and what a well written review it is too! Looking forward to listening to this.
            "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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            • Nick Armstrong
              Host
              • Nov 2010
              • 26540

              #51
              Originally posted by Petrushka View Post
              Is Caliban perhaps earning commission?

              The single Amazon review seems to bear out Calban's enthusiasm and what a well written review it is too! Looking forward to listening to this.
              No but I refer the Hon. Member to the idea, in my #36...!

              I haven't seen the amazon page; the Testament website mentions that it was Sunday Times CD of the week or similar.
              "...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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              • Karafan
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 786

                #52
                Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Post
                It's a terrific work - Mahler's Midsummer Night's Dream: a little scary, a little spooky, and with lots of magic and humour (including the "Tongs and Bones" bit in the Finale). It was the best performance in Abravenal's Utah Mahler cycle, Horenstein's Live recording with the NPO is phenomenal (some particularly fine Horn playing here)
                Ferney - which label is your Horenstein M7 on, please? Is the sound as insufferable as some make out?

                K.
                "Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas Carlyle

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                • Petrushka
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12260

                  #53
                  Originally posted by Karafan View Post
                  Ferney - which label is your Horenstein M7 on, please? Is the sound as insufferable as some make out?
                  If it's this one - http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mahler-Symph...r+7+horenstein - as I expect it is, I hope your pockets are deep.
                  "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                  • ferneyhoughgeliebte
                    Gone fishin'
                    • Sep 2011
                    • 30163

                    #54
                    Originally posted by Karafan View Post
                    Ferney - which label is your Horenstein M7 on, please? Is the sound as insufferable as some make out?
                    Not the BBC Legends version that Pet mentions, but this one from Music & Arts:



                    ... the same performance (I think) - I don't find the sound "insufferable" at all: Mono, and with "audience participation" but one of those performances that takes you right to the heart of the work, so that you forget about any recording shortcomings. (If you can cope with Furtwangler's La Scala Ring, this presents no problems!)
                    [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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                    • Petrushka
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 12260

                      #55
                      My copy of the Gielen has been dispatched.
                      "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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                      • HighlandDougie
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 3093

                        #56
                        Reverting to Horenstein, this article is illuminating vis à vis the sound quality of the various issues:



                        I have the Descant issue which sounds fine - as in:

                        Gustav Mahler: Symphony no.7 in E minorNew Philharmonia OrchestraJascha Horensteinlive, Royal Albert Hall, London, 29 August 1969(first Promenade Concerts pe...


                        Who was that horn player though??

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                        • BBMmk2
                          Late Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 20908

                          #57
                          All these YouTube treasures! I have found quite a lot, all on my email site.
                          Don’t cry for me
                          I go where music was born

                          J S Bach 1685-1750

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                          • Stanley Stewart
                            Late Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 1071

                            #58
                            "Include me in" My Gielen/BPO (Testament) CD, ordered on Thursday was delivered this morning (Sat, 17 Aug). A something for the weekend treat!

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                            • Karafan
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 786

                              #59
                              Great news on the Gielen influx - mine also arrived today (the joys of Amazon-Prime!). Be interested to hear responses to it!

                              (Thanks also for the notes on the Horenstein).

                              K.
                              "Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas Carlyle

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                              • richardfinegold
                                Full Member
                                • Sep 2012
                                • 7673

                                #60
                                Originally posted by HighlandDougie View Post
                                Reverting to Horenstein, this article is illuminating vis à vis the sound quality of the various issues:



                                I have the Descant issue which sounds fine - as in:

                                Gustav Mahler: Symphony no.7 in E minorNew Philharmonia OrchestraJascha Horensteinlive, Royal Albert Hall, London, 29 August 1969(first Promenade Concerts pe...


                                Who was that horn player though??
                                excellent discussion of sound issues

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