Originally posted by visualnickmos
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... ditto some of the Israel Phil recordings, imo.
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... ditto some of the Israel Phil recordings, imo.
"...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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Or his NYStadiumSO from the early 50s!Originally posted by visualnickmos View PostBut try LB's NYPO for size! Mega-good
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Oh, Yes!Originally posted by cloughie View Post
Wasn't Schumann #2 on the programme of Lennie's famous "first" concert where he substituted for an indisposed Bruno Walter?[FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]Comment
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"It turns out that, with proper care taken by the conductor, there is no problem of balance within the orchestration" - You tell 'em Lennie!
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Thanks for that, Ferney!Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View Posthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwPKz-nv-LI
"It turns out that, with proper care taken by the conductor, there is no problem of balance within the orchestration" - You tell 'em Lennie!"Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and more pleasant creature does not exist." Thomas CarlyleComment
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No - but it was a piece he conducted very often all through his career.Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte View PostOh, Yes!
Wasn't Schumann #2 on the programme of Lennie's famous "first" concert where he substituted for an indisposed Bruno Walter?
Re the "first" concert (14 November 1943), there was Schumann on the programme:
Schumann: Manfred Overture
Rosza: Theme, Variations and Finale
Strauss: Don Quixote
Wagner: Meistersinger Overture
For a very early Lenny Schumann 2, the West Hill Radio Archives box of LB historic broadcast performances includes Schumann 2 from 23 March 1946 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Well worth a listen!Comment
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It is so encouraging one just has to mention Lenny and the thread takes off - my VPO/Bernstein order is apparently on its way !!!Comment
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I agree - great to have such a lively thread - and I do hope you're not disappointed!Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostComment
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I am looking forward to it ! I may not agree with every Bernstein decision but I have a lot of his records and none of them I have ever regretted buying- not even that late duo of Tchaikovsky 6 and Dvorak 9 -extraordinary performancesOriginally posted by makropulos View Post
I see there is a DG box of those 1953 recordings coupled in each case with Lenny's talk - oh dear that has gone in the basket tooComment
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Thanks for that, makro!Originally posted by makropulos View Post
Originally posted by Barbirollians
and Dvorak 9
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Am I missing something, I thought, after Wigmore's BaL praise for Yannick Nezet-Seguin's 2nd? I had been fascinated by 1 & 3, drawn back to them, enjoying them more and more. So - back to No.2...
Long story short, after further system-tuning (and a really hefty boost to volume) I was able to achieve a warmer, more immediate sound, bringing the detail into the room more vividly.
Then HiFiNews arrived, and Chris Breunig made Ticciati's cycle his Album Choice, with this:
"Ticciati's very individual interpretations, which rank as some of the most insightful to be had (far superior, to my mind, to the recent hard-driven Nezet-Seguin series which others seem to like)..."
It would have been easy it leave it there, right?
Well, no. N-Z's 2nd - in the 1st movement especially - is a hi-energy, often explosive reading, but one not without expressive subtlety, rather in the way Pruslin commented on : those slight variations within a haupttempo, relaxing into a second subject without obvious tempo reduction. With a more sympathetic balance there is much beautiful playing to be heard in the adagio, you note how the scherzo repeats are nicely varied, the trios sweet and songful, and the finale really thrilling with a terrific final impact (as are all the finales here)...
BUT with a cool, distant recording/system balance, with a high speed 1st movement to condition your responses, these things are easily missed (or misjudged). That's why the reviews have diverged so much, and why I've had such a tussle with it myself. But I dislike being unfair to performers, and Yannick N-S does have something special to offer in this repertoire. A marvellously jaunty sense of rhythm, especially in finales, among much else.
No.4 didn't improve though. Despite some lovely playing, the first 3 movements still seem too safe, and dynamically constrained - you find yourself urging the music into bigger climaxes than ever quite arrive; then the finale explodes with rhythm, dynamics - and infectious joy and brilliance, one of the best I've ever heard. Perhaps it was edited in from a different performance?
It's a flawed, often very exciting cycle, this. Bouncy and foot-tapping, sometimes rushing past in a blur - but with such fresh ideas interpretatively that any obsessive Schumanista should try to get a listen. BUT it is system-sensitive, and you'll need a big soundstage and high volume to appreciate its unique rewards...
(**Travellers on the hi-res highway - note that Holliger's Schumann is available direct from Audite in 24/48 res., and for FAR less money than lossless/CD elsewhere! Vol. 1 looks worth a shot...)Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 04-12-14, 20:13.Comment
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Do you have a link please, dear Barbs?Originally posted by Barbirollians View Post
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Wow - 23 quid for the downloads versus 67 for the CDs ... no contest!Originally posted by cloughie View Post"...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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