BaL 25.01.25 - Brahms: Violin concerto

[mikealdren]

Odd choice in the end, it started with dated recording and nothing in the later extracts caught my attention. Shame he didn't like Gill Shaham, what a sound!

[pastoralguy]

Who won? I’ll listen at work tonight but it’s interesting to know who was first choice.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Who won? I’ll listen at work tonight but it’s interesting to know who was first choice.

Accardo / Masur . I agree with Mike . It did nothing for me at all. I preferred Mutter, Shahan and whoever played the miraculous post cadenza coda in the first movement whose name I didn’t catch.
Also prefer Kennedy who was rightly highly praised.

[rauschwerk]

First movement of DoN's choice too slow and soporific for me. I gave up after 10 minutes.

[teamsaint]

You must!
The coupling is a 1994 Proms performance of the Britten concerto (Haendel/BBCSO/Andrew Davis).

Copies available here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Britten-Bra...ar%2C83&sr=1-1

Thats looks a great recommendation Pulcers.

[kernelbogey]

Which soloist was playing Joachim's Strad?

[mikealdren]

Lisa Batiashvili

[kernelbogey]

Lisa Batiashvili

Thanks! In fact I've just ordered that CD from Presto!

[richardfinegold]

Streamed the winner on Apple. The second movement is superb, some of the most beautiful violin playing I’ve ever encountered. III is fine, nothing to quicken the pulse about, no real gypsy feel as Masur teutonicizes the music. I hangs fire, a bit tentative and stiff rhythms.
Definitely worth knowing for the slow movement

[Barbirollians]

Another very eccentric BAL from DON - some very odd versions to illustrate from . By the sounds of it not a work he knew well before doing the BAL.

[Barbirollians]

And Andrew McGregor appears to have invented a version with Oistrakh/Ormandy !

[Barbirollians]

Kennedy’s cadenza is bizarre too nearly as bad as his quarter tones in his first Four Seasons.

Perlman/Giulini - lack lustre for heavens sake .

[Barbirollians]

Another absurdly eccentric BAL - ignoring the vast majority of the great recordings of the piece . I think Richard is right about the winner . When the opening of the Accardo/Masur was played it was so sleepy and entirely lacking in excitement and drama - and heavens that finale sounded clunky .

[Pulcinella]

Another very eccentric BAL from DON - some very odd versions to illustrate from . By the sounds of it not a work he knew well before doing the BAL.

I'd say just the opposite (and so might kb); I though he talked knowledgeably about the piece.

[Barbirollians]

I'd say just the opposite (and so might kb); I thought he talked knowledgeably about the piece.

He suggested to Andrew McGregor that before preparing for this BAL that AMcG as a violinist probably knew the piece better than him .