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« Reply #285 on: 09:59:19, 12-08-2007 » |
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Just a quick pointer that Boulez's 80th birthday concert of Mahler 2 with the Berlin Staatskapelle is being shown on SkyArts this afternoon, 5:30pm, repeated on Tuesday morning, 8am. http://www.skyarts.co.uk/SkyArts/Music/Article.aspx?artid=4611 |
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« Reply #286 on: 15:04:40, 12-08-2007 » |
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Another Ron TTN heads-up, but a wee bit more warning:
Thursday 16th August
01:36am
Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911): Symphony No 8 in E flat (Symphony of a Thousand)
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San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
I wish i could get excited about MTT as a Mahler conductor. Of course, SF crowds love him, but he's no Bernstein. Nor is he his own man, more of a slightly anaesthetized Bernstein. |
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« Reply #288 on: 08:53:02, 13-08-2007 » |
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You had me worried there, Ollie. I thought for a moment that you had found somewhere charging less than I paid for the set last year. Still a bargain at the current inflated Amazon price though.  |
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« Reply #289 on: 11:00:40, 13-08-2007 » |
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Obviously a misprint for Bed Achtzig. Which is fine unless you're trying to get to sleep in Bed Einundachtzig.
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« Reply #290 on: 14:22:44, 13-08-2007 » |
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I wish i could get excited about MTT as a Mahler conductor. Of course, SF crowds love him, but he's no Bernstein. Nor is he his own man, more of a slightly anaesthetized Bernstein.
I have heard a rumour that he kisses a picture of Bernstein before going out on stage. Anyway, my two meetings in person with Barry Manilow sorry, I mean MTT have both been distinctly odd affairs, so I shall say no more. |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #291 on: 10:24:15, 15-08-2007 » |
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Extra points to RCA/BMG, by the way, for their presentation: refreshing to see some artwork that's actually relevant to what's on the discs, and that's given a paragraph on the inside back cover. I hope this continues through the series - usual form for record companies is that they change art directors halfway through a cycle.
It certainly looks like it, opilec: http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product//88697129182.htmTake no notice of the release date, which actually looks like being early October. My Norrington Mahler 5 arrived this morning, so I shall have a listen some time today going to/ from London for tonight's Prom. |
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« Reply #292 on: 11:20:43, 15-08-2007 » |
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8th november RFH be there or be a triangle |
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« Reply #293 on: 13:24:59, 15-08-2007 » |
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it's the covers that are putting me off even trying the Norrington Mahler recordings ...  (What was it that Carlos Kleiber said about Michelangeli's 'ridiculous visage'?) You shold see the filmed introductions he gives to the Brahms Smphonies on this DVD. Talk about home video editing! There he is, slumped in a comfy chair, talking sense about Brahms. Pity the audio on the DVD is only a choice between 2.0 and 5.1 Dolby Digital (no LPCM). Still, I paid rather less than is now asked for on tat site, and rather like the performances. |
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« Reply #294 on: 13:30:48, 15-08-2007 » |
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8th november RFH be there or be a triangle Saraste doing Mahler 6? Think I'll stick with the Toblerone impression. |
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Il Grande Inquisitor
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« Reply #295 on: 00:07:42, 16-08-2007 » |
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8th november RFH be there or be a triangle Now, are you really going for the Mahler 6, Lord B?!! Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K.219 INTERVAL Gustav Mahler Symphony No.6 Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Janine Jansen violin (I already have my ticket!!) |
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« Reply #296 on: 08:53:17, 16-08-2007 » |
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Violin Concerto No.5 in A, K.219 INTERVAL Gustav Mahler Symphony No.6 Jukka-Pekka Saraste conductor Janine Jansen violin Indeed Lord B may well be the one person who leaves at interval. Or perhaps one of two. Or perhaps one of three. Or perhaps none of the above. I hope I've made myself clear. |
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« Reply #297 on: 14:47:44, 17-08-2007 » |
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(I was also rather gobsmacked but won't go into the details since I've provided them professionally elsewhere... ) |
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« Reply #298 on: 18:36:41, 17-08-2007 » |
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Look forward to it, Ollie! Has anyone heard the new Mahler 4 from Haitink yet?  It strikes me as the best No.4 I've heard for a number of years and the RCO are on fine form - fantastic climax to the third movement and Christine Schäfer is just the sort of soprano voice I want in the finale.  |
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« Reply #299 on: 18:44:48, 17-08-2007 » |
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I'm keen to hear it. Haitink was at the helm for what probably still counts overall as the most satisfying Mahler 4 for me - with the not yet Koninglijk Concertgebouworkest and Elly Ameling.
Climax of the third movement a little spoilt for me by the timpanist trying to play it on 2 drums, which is OK up to a point but the lower drum only comes halfway back to the B each time so the theme ends up as E-B B-C#-C natural (or B# if you prefer)...
Silly, that. I do hope the current chap does it better. That's really the only serious problem with it though: apart from that the playing is stunning, and Ameling is perfect.
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