BaL 25.06.22 - Rachmaninov: Symphony no 2

[Alison]

https://youtu.be/ptkPjwIkBuM

This is required listening. Previn's last performance of the symphony with the LSO, moving and touched with greatness.

[cloughie]

Bucking the trend, I enjoyed the review and and Mr Seckerson's insights and comments about the performances. Ormandy fell at the last but its still my favourite performance, cuts or not. Such a pity that Ed Seckerson's programme about musical theatre has never returned to R3.

which Ormandy do you mean CBS cut or RCA not cut?

I have a massive affection for this Symphony - overall preferring the uncut to the cut but the Leningrad/Sanderling with minor cuts is one I return to again and again. Some of the earlier American very cut versions though, do have massive energy - Mitropoulos, Rodzinski, Steinberg, Wallenstein - all fun but I do like a long lingering version. Then there are the authentic? Russians - Svetlanov, Rozhdestvensky, Temirkanov conducting Russian and British orchestras!

[cloughie]

https://youtu.be/ptkPjwIkBuM

This is required listening. Previn's last performance of the symphony with the LSO, moving and touched with greatness.

He clearly loved this work - he seems to caress each phrase!

[mahlerfan]

I'm sticking with Ashkenazy (great Decca sound)

[richardfinegold]

He clearly loved this work - he seems to caress each phrase!

Try Paray—kind of an anti Previn

[ucanseetheend]

Listened to Eds selection of Janson/St Petersburg (on spotify) and it is rip roaring finale and overall very good playing.

https://open.spotify.com/album/6MleEAdRzENotuZeqJM7Y6

[ucanseetheend]

There are several nice compilations that are selling for less than the inflated price of the single CD at the moment, including 5/6 CD boxes with all the Jansons symphonies plus the concertos etc. with Mikhail Rudy, a pianist I don't know (the versions with the 6th CD also include Rudy's Tchaikovsky 1, probably carried over from some earlier release). I don't know much of Rachmaninov's 'pianoless' symphonic work either, so picked one up to do a bit of exploration.

Spotify or apple music much better... done with CDS

https://open.spotify.com/album/6MleEAdRzENotuZeqJM7Y6

[Bryn]

Spotify or apple music much better... done with CDS
https://open.spotify.com/album/6MleEAdRzENotuZeqJM7Y6

Record Review Extra tonight via BBC Sounds will serve well enough in that company, I reckon.

[cloughie]

Try Paray—kind of an anti Previn

Indeed - and coupling with Franck Sym does not permit much lingering.

[BBMmk2]

I have the Previn, Jansons and Tirmakanov.

[Retune]

Spotify or apple music much better... done with CDS
https://open.spotify.com/album/6MleEAdRzENotuZeqJM7Y6

Well, for that matter they are all on YouTube for free (uploaded by the publisher). But I'm not sure what a preference for streaming does to the whole concept of BaL. 'Building a Playlist', perhaps?

[richardfinegold]

Well, for that matter they are all on YouTube for free (uploaded by the publisher). But I'm not sure what a preference for streaming does to the whole concept of BaL. 'Building a Playlist', perhaps?

A Library can consist of playlists, or Physical Media

[Ein Heldenleben]

Well, for that matter they are all on YouTube for free (uploaded by the publisher). But I'm not sure what a preference for streaming does to the whole concept of BaL. 'Building a Playlist', perhaps?

It completely undermines its raison d’être since you ask. It might be better entitled finding a track

[Bryn]

Well, for that matter they are all on YouTube for free (uploaded by the publisher). . . .

Yes, all on YouTube, in heavily data-compressed relatively low audio quality, far lower than that offered by even the lossy stream options on Spotify or Apple.

[Retune]

Yes, all on YouTube, in heavily data-compressed relatively low audio quality, far lower than that offered by even the lossy stream options on Spotify or Apple.

You'd probably be horrified about what I'm going to do to the CDs when they arrive, as I generally encode them as 'V 2' VBR (~190 kbps) mp3s.