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What Classical Music Are You listening to Now? III
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Originally posted by Pulcinella View PostThe AAM version is with Hogwood, and it got MickyD's vote rather than the Pinnock (with The English Concert).
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Originally posted by Leinster Lass View PostI recently bought that in a local charity shop for the princely sum of 1 euro 25 cents. I didn't realize it was a 'live' recording - what a remarkably well-behaved audience!
Just been listening to the 1971 recording conducted by Gielen. I wonder if anyone here has that in one of its c. 2000 bootleg manifestations, supposedly under either "Edvard [van] Lindenberg" or "Helmut Haenchen"?
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Originally posted by Leinster Lass View PostI recently bought that in a local charity shop for the princely sum of 1 euro 25 cents. I didn't realize it was a 'live' recording - what a remarkably well-behaved audience!
Now where have I seen that phrase used elsewhere?
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Originally posted by Leinster Lass View PostYes I do, as it happens!
I guess the audience was so well behaved as it possibly feared Szell's reaction had they acted otherwise!
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View PostIt's the latter that's the problem as far as I'm concerned. It isn't much slower in terms of overall duration but it seems too slow because it's dragging itself from one phrase to the next rather laboriously. (There's only one Guido Balestracci recording and it isn't all Schubert in fact.)
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Originally posted by Richard Barrett View Post(There's only one Guido Balestracci recording and it isn't all Schubert in fact.)
: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B081WRC1JP
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Originally posted by HighlandDougie View PostMahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Janet Baker (Alto)/Waldemar Kmentt/Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra/Rafael Kubelik (recorded live 27.02.1970)
As a pendant to his symphony cycle, Kubelik's DLvdE is just as good as one would have expected from those recordings. Janet Baker is at her very considerable best, the orchestra plays beautifully, the recording (Herkulessaal) is excellent and Kubelik adopts a - I was tempted to say "ton neutre" - clear-eyed, unsentimental approach (like Abbado in Berlin in 2011). Listening to this rather wonderful performance serves as a welcome antidote to the rather silly point-scoring going on elsewhere in this forum.
According to the liner notes in the Leppard recording, the conductor at the first performance (almost six months to the day after Mahler's death) was Bruno Walter, "whose choice of a contralto for the low-voice part has set the fashion for modern performances: Mahler had suggested either a baritone or a contralto with the tenor singer".
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