If CDs aren’t available (I can’t find any immediately) there are several like this - https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/music-...s-hd_100984417
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Originally posted by Dave2002 View PostIf CDs aren’t available (I can’t find any immediately) there are several like this - https://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/music-...s-hd_100984417
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This is the opening sections of 2 recent no-holds-barred reviews on classicstoday.com
A review by David Hurwitz of Bruckner 5 on CPO titled 'Alvin and the Chipmunks Play Bruckner'
Yes, you saw it correctly. Asking the Tapiola Sinfonietta (about 46 members) to play Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, his grandest work before the Eighth, is like asking Alvin and the Chipmunks to perform Wagner’s Ring. All of it. The result is cartoonish when not simply silly, emphasized at every point by Mario Venzago’s absurdly rushed tempos and loopy but necessary balances (to allow the strings, 28 strong, to be heard at all). CPO calls this series “A Different Bruckner”, but really it’s nothing more than stupid Bruckner; and at a time when stupid Bruckner is all the rage, that’s saying a lot...
And another review by David Hurwitz on Oehms titled: CD From Hell - The Worst Ever Mozart Violin Concertos
How long are we going to have to put up with a crew of tasteless jokers pretending to be experts in “authentic” performance practice selling us junk like this? Just about everything about these recordings is anti-musical, from the unwelcome harpsichord continuo to the patently...Last edited by Stanfordian; 22-11-18, 11:33.
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostThis is the opening sections of 2 recent no-holds-barred reviews on classicstoday.com
A review by David Hurwitz of Bruckner 5 on CPO titled 'Alvin and the Chipmunks Play Bruckner'
Yes, you saw it correctly. Asking the Tapiola Sinfonietta (about 46 members) to play Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, his grandest work before the Eighth, is like asking Alvin and the Chipmunks to perform Wagner’s Ring. All of it. The result is cartoonish when not simply silly, emphasized at every point by Mario Venzago’s absurdly rushed tempos and loopy but necessary balances (to allow the strings, 28 strong, to be heard at all). CPO calls this series “A Different Bruckner”, but really it’s nothing more than stupid Bruckner; and at a time when stupid Bruckner is all the rage, that’s saying a lot...
And another review by David Hurwitz on Oehms titled: CD From Hell - The Worst Ever Mozart Violin Concertos
How long are we going to have to put up with a crew of tasteless jokers pretending to be experts in “authentic” performance practice selling us junk like this? Just about everything about these recordings is anti-musical, from the unwelcome harpsichord continuo to the patently...
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostThis is the opening sections of 2 recent no-holds-barred reviews on classicstoday.com
A review by David Hurwitz of Bruckner 5 on CPO titled 'Alvin and the Chipmunks Play Bruckner'
Yes, you saw it correctly. Asking the Tapiola Sinfonietta (about 46 members) to play Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, his grandest work before the Eighth, is like asking Alvin and the Chipmunks to perform Wagner’s Ring. All of it. The result is cartoonish when not simply silly, emphasized at every point by Mario Venzago’s absurdly rushed tempos and loopy but necessary balances (to allow the strings, 28 strong, to be heard at all). CPO calls this series “A Different Bruckner”, but really it’s nothing more than stupid Bruckner; and at a time when stupid Bruckner is all the rage, that’s saying a lot...
And another review by David Hurwitz on Oehms titled: CD From Hell - The Worst Ever Mozart Violin Concertos
How long are we going to have to put up with a crew of tasteless jokers pretending to be experts in “authentic” performance practice selling us junk like this? Just about everything about these recordings is anti-musical, from the unwelcome harpsichord continuo to the patently...
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Originally posted by Bryn View Post
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Originally posted by Stanfordian View PostThis is the opening sections of 2 recent no-holds-barred reviews on classicstoday.com
A review by David Hurwitz of Bruckner 5 on CPO titled 'Alvin and the Chipmunks Play Bruckner'
Yes, you saw it correctly. Asking the Tapiola Sinfonietta (about 46 members) to play Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony, his grandest work before the Eighth, is like asking Alvin and the Chipmunks to perform Wagner’s Ring. All of it. The result is cartoonish when not simply silly, emphasized at every point by Mario Venzago’s absurdly rushed tempos and loopy but necessary balances (to allow the strings, 28 strong, to be heard at all). CPO calls this series “A Different Bruckner”, but really it’s nothing more than stupid Bruckner; and at a time when stupid Bruckner is all the rage, that’s saying a lot...
And another review by David Hurwitz on Oehms titled: CD From Hell - The Worst Ever Mozart Violin Concertos
How long are we going to have to put up with a crew of tasteless jokers pretending to be experts in “authentic” performance practice selling us junk like this? Just about everything about these recordings is anti-musical, from the unwelcome harpsichord continuo to the patently...
It gave me cause to wonder if, in the music's very nature, which seems to reach beyond almost all other Bruckner in its Apollonian imagination, the remoteness of its serenity, it needs an interpretative approach and a sound, which Venzago's own conception of Bruckner couldn't quite encompass.
....I may revisit, but I gave it my best shot when it appeared, and I don't think I'll change my mind much...Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 22-11-18, 22:05.
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I think Hurwitz is wrong to call it 'stupid Bruckner'. Venzago obviously offered a very challenging aural experience with his Bruckner cycle. A challenge that people ostensibly welcomed and went along with, at least in theory. The trouble is, it it was just too quick, too lean and denied people of their right to be fatigued for one and a half hours with reverential, granite hewn, craggy, monolithic, gothic grandeur. They could take the Schubert stuff with 1-3, but No! Not the mighty fifth! Hands off!
Hurwtitz and the up-thread mentioned Bernard O'H do offer some interesting perspectives. Sometimes.
Hurwitz can come across as a handsome show-off. I do like his writing though.
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Originally posted by MickyD View PostFollowing discussion on the recent Mendelssohn thread, this is due out very soon...really looking forward to getting it as I am a fan of Ronald Brautigam. Here he's using a copy of an 1830 Pleyel
Never heard it though....
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Originally posted by jayne lee wilson View Post
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The earlier one is on Qobuz but I can't see the new one yet....
Last edited by jayne lee wilson; 01-12-18, 17:53.
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