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opilec
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« Reply #1 on: 22:16:12, 08-06-2007 »
Fantastic, opilec! Thankyou.
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« Reply #2 on: 22:34:23, 08-06-2007 »
Yes, thankyou from me too Opilec. It's great to see these photos!

The concert sounds extraordinary.

I've never seen Bronfman live but whatever I've heard I've really liked, including a fantastic Rach 3 somewhere. Lucky you.
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« Reply #3 on: 23:14:31, 08-06-2007 »
Yes, he really does seem to have a fairly mighty musical presence, and from what you say it is only on the stage that he really throws it about. Interesting to hear.

Thanks again for these lovely photos.
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« Reply #4 on: 23:19:07, 08-06-2007 »
Yes, thanks opilec and Tony for a real treat today. What a great forum!!
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« Reply #5 on: 23:25:15, 08-06-2007 »
OPi

Any chance of you asking Sir Charles whether he likes Bruckner when you next see him ?   Ive always wondered.
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« Reply #6 on: 10:42:11, 10-06-2007 »
He seems to be ageing dynamically, and what you see in the photos is a directness and lackof hauteur.
Made the aquaintance of an Oz guitarist called Roland Chadwick last night who also has this quality.
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« Reply #7 on: 11:05:39, 10-06-2007 »
I suppose its something to do with pacing yourself and some economy of gesture? Thisandthe Boulez Pel and Mel are great nudges toward the Eurostar terminal.
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« Reply #8 on: 11:26:23, 10-06-2007 »
he'sjust been at it in Aix-en-Provence (see concerts thread?) . A spell in Paris shortly? Sorry answers' vague, about to move flat Grin so suchlike plans suspended.Hopeyou can catch it.
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« Reply #9 on: 11:43:26, 10-06-2007 »
Thanks Op,excuse my sunday morning confusion, youre quite right, I may make it over yet for FTHD.
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« Reply #10 on: 12:09:29, 10-06-2007 »
Mackerras in Bruckner would be fascinating to hear. I suspect it would not be a million miles away from the kind of reading Oramo gave us of the first symphony in Edinburgh last year.

Totally off topic, but I'm currently very much enjoying a wonderfully cheap (under £20) set of Knappetsbusch conducting 3-5&7-9 (not nearly as slow as I would have expected).

In two weeks time, I'm off south to catch Mackerras, first at Kata at the ROH, then at the RFH for the sinfionetta and Mozart's 25th piano concerto with Uchida (can't wait).

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« Reply #11 on: 12:15:50, 10-06-2007 »
I shall next catch Sir Charles at the OAE's 21st Birthday celebrations at the newly reopened RFH - an attractive programme and tempting line-up of performers:

Henry Purcell Suite from Welcome to all the Pleasures & Now does the glorious day appear
Jean-Philippe Rameau Suite from Dardanus
INTERVAL 1
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto in E flat for 2 pianos, K.365
Joseph Haydn Symphony No.63 (original version)
INTERVAL 2
Carl Maria Von Weber Der Freischütz - Act II Finale (The Wolf's Glen)
George Frideric Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks

Mark Elder  conductor
Vladimir Jurowski  conductor
Sir Charles Mackerras  conductor
Sir Roger Norrington  conductor
Richard Egarr  fortepiano
Robert Levin  fortepiano
John Mark Ainsleytenor
Clive Bayley  bass
Robin Blaze  counter-tenor
Philip Langridge  tenor
Peter Sidhom  speaker
David Wilson-Johnson  bass
Choir of the Enlightenment
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/calendar?action=production&production=1395&performance=1396
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« Reply #12 on: 12:36:47, 10-06-2007 »
The OAE concert does sound interesting. Hope R3 is there to tape it.

Joking aside, opilec, when one googles for Mackerras and Bruckner, what you get are stories about last year's festival. I taped the Oramo 1st (with his Finnish orchestra) but it's still sitting on my computer waiting to be put onto CD. Unfortunately, the BBC engineers (well, they're outsourced when they tape things at the Usher Hall) really didn't do a very good job and the result was horribly harsh. A shame, because it was a wonderful and extremely exciting concert.

No, it's on a label I've never come across before called Andromeda. The sound on the 1944 4th I'm currently listening to is remarkably fine. The 5th is apparently in stereo:

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/pages/product/product.asp?prod=ANDRCD9010&affiliatecode=Froogle&utm_source=ANDRCD9010&utm_medium=Froogle&utm_campaign=Froogle&cookie%5Ftest=1

Was hard to track down online (Amazon don't appear to carry it HMV), I only stumbled across it by accident in my local CD shop the other day.

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« Reply #13 on: 12:49:28, 10-06-2007 »
As a post-script, the Kna 4th has one of the finest finales of the work I've heard.
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« Reply #14 on: 13:04:15, 10-06-2007 »
I must pick up a copy of that biography at some point. Quite true, though, Furtwangler's Bruckner was rather special.

I've only listened to the 3rd and 4th from the Kna (as well as the Wagner and Liszt fillers from the 3rd, and I think I may already have the 8th as part of another set) but already it's proved more than worth the money.

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