Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben
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BaL 24.12.22 - Beethoven: Symphony no. 9 in D minor
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostI played the Fricsay recording the other day and was bowled over again. Tom Service could do much worse than choose this one as the 'winner'. The BPO playing is glorious; just listen to the delightful interplay between the woodwind, especially in the second movement. The 1957 DG sound could have been recorded yesterday. Everything is beautifully 'placed', timpani and aforementioned woodwind (nice bassoon) fine as any other version I know and the Turkish percussion in the last movement catches the ear better than most.
There's a fine team of soloists and excellent choral work too. It also has the excitement of a live performance (which it isn't).
If it doesn't 'win' then it certainly deserves to be heard. Of all the LVB 9s I have this one really is an 'Ode to Joy' and I'd be happy to take it as my recommended version.
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Don’t know if I’m the only one here with a Digital Concert Hall subscription, but the Petrenko performance is available to watch and listen.
We did seem to spend a lot of time with Furtwangler, who surely - with ancient sound in any of his many versions - could not be a library choice. Would have been very interesting had this been Interpretations on Record, but it wasn’t.
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Originally posted by Barbirollians View PostAnother very small field and frankly I was not inspired by the winner and hasn’t the 1942 Furtwangler been described elsewhere as hysterical ?
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Originally posted by Ein Heldenleben View PostI find that shrill Furtwangler finale almost unlistenable to . It’s almost anti-music.
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Originally posted by Goon525 View PostDon’t know if I’m the only one here with a Digital Concert Hall subscription, but the Petrenko performance is available to watch and listen.
We did seem to spend a lot of time with Furtwangler, who surely - with ancient sound in any of his many versions - could not be a library choice. Would have been very interesting had this been Interpretations on Record, but it wasn’t.
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Originally posted by Master Jacques View PostIt is most bizarre, sounding as if the chorus is being firmly pushed out into the street as the band gets more and more frantic. Whatever the political complications, as music-making goes it's a no-no.
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Originally posted by Bryn View PostAnd, unless I missed it, no mention of Toscanini.
His thesis seemed to be ‘Beethoven’s 9th symphony as a indicator of socio-political change in the 20th and 21st centuries’. Which actually was very interesting, but it did seem to hinder his ability somewhat to present a wider range of interpretations and approaches. In addition to Klemperer and Toscanini, the absence of versions from people such as Mackerras and more recent ones from the likes of Jarvi and Honeck was to be regretted.
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Originally posted by visualnickmos View PostThat's as may be, but it's far removed from the notion of BaL, making it one of the worst BaLs I can recall.
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Originally posted by Wolfram View PostI’m understand that. But isn’t intelligent discussion and insight of the sort that we got this morning better than the usual “this one’s a bit slower, this one’s a bit quicker” glibness that we tend to get these days from these twofers?
Rather it seemed to me - and I'm a TS admirer - to be one of those cases where he was opening his mouth before getting his brain in gear.
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Originally posted by Wolfram View PostJust one question. If period performances are now all different: Norrington is diffferent from Gardiner who in turn is different from Savall. Which one is authentic?
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