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I've been taking full advantage of the BPO DCH archive. Some terrific performances on there. This afternoon I played the Berg Violin Concerto and Shostakovich 8 with Baiba Skride and Andris Nelsons. All of the Bruckner performances that are in the recently released CD set are to be found here.
Yesterday played Bernard Haitink in Lutoslawski's 4th Symphony."The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Stunsworth View Post
Kirill Petrenko conducting Mahler 6 as I type"...the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."
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Just watched Abbado conducting Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde. Not to be missed!
The credits at the end indicate that it was recorded in association with Euroarts and Accentus but in the 9 years since there has been no DVD or CD release. Does anyone know why not?"The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink
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Originally posted by Petrushka View PostI've been taking full advantage of the BPO DCH archive. Some terrific performances on there. This afternoon I played the Berg Violin Concerto and Shostakovich 8 with Baiba Skride and Andris Nelsons. All of the Bruckner performances that are in the recently released CD set are to be found here.
Yesterday played Bernard Haitink in Lutoslawski's 4th Symphony.
Have also caught Jansons' final concert, and one from Paavo Jarvi with the new Hans Abrahamsen horn concerto composed for Stefan Dohr (on the amusements of language, mentioned in the VPO New Year's Concert / Nelsons thread separately, the discussion between a German hornist, an Estonian conductor, and a Danish composer, was in English). Otherwise, I've cherry-picked individual pieces here and there, like FPZ with the Hindemith violin concerto, and some of SSR's Sibelius. In the last, SSR does a 'trick' with the Symphony No. 6 ending, and he then launches after a slight pause in to Sibelius 7. With all due respect to SSR, I actually think that this is a bad move, because the sometimes-overpowering mood of 7 actually wipes out the gentler memories of 6. IMHO, it's best to perform them, if in the same concert, well separated, or at least with a break for applause, or one in the first half and the other in the 2nd half. But then no one asked me :) . As well, have watched some of the documentaries.
I did find Edgy's mention of Neeme Jarvi with Taneyev 4. Worth hearing once, but when NJ provided one of his trademark encores at the end of the concert, the choice of the "Trepak" from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker unfortunately showed why Taneyev 4 is very rarely, if ever, heard, namely that the 1 minute of the "Trepak" is more memorable than the whole of the Taneyev.
One other concert features this surprise aspect, with 4 words that you would never expect to see in the same sentence: Pierre Boulez conducts Mozart. In fairness, Boulez did conduct some Mozart during his New York Philharmonic tenure. More surprises no doubt await. The DCH really is a tremendous treasure trove, which I'm now appreciating with seeing several concerts and checking it out in full for the first time.
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