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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: More Thursday night ramblings posted by Dave on January 7, 2000 at 04:29:44:
Let's not discuss the Inbal 3rd, I already warned you it was available again and you should already know I think Inbal's sixth is the best obtainable. Are you paying attention, my fellow-Mahler devotee?On the second, maybe only for the dry basses and celli with lots of bowing, rougly sounding DAdaDAdaDAM - DAdaDADAAADoemdoemdoem of 'Todtenfeier' I'd go for Concertgebouw acoustics. Whether Klemperer in mono or Haitink with the beautifully warm sounding alto Aafje Heijnis, these both are great performances and when you want a recording by the Berliners I'd also recommend Haitink, because of the fantasticcally played 'Im tempo des Scherzos - Wild herausfahrend', it's like being an eagle climbing on thermics to the top of Mount St. Helens.
(Yes, this is a diss to Hohvaness:-)))The only problem is that CO/Haitink is produced by Jaap van Ginneken and BPO/Haitink by Volker Kraus who although he wrote great theory on how to record an orchestra: the sound is a little understatedly fridge-like.
I still don't like that Haitink DLVDE, although in England it's highly regarded, but that should have something in common with the singers, I prefer Walter with Patzak/Ferrier, that one is heartbreaking and Klemperer's is great as well and perhaps my favourite is Eduard van Beinum, but that one is very biased since I'm a total sucker for his musicianship and being one of the first conductors using his hands instead of a baton to conduct, after dropping it at a rehearsal. He's one with the musicians and that's what you hear in every single work he conducted and which fortunately has been recorded. Willem Mengelberg was succeeded by Van Beinum and Eugen Jochum came by later on and that's why those EVB recordings, usually pseudo-stereo but still mono sound so great, the orchestra is in great shape until Haitink came to weaken the brass and create that creamy sound in the strings. The early Haitink recordings are great, just like the live-recordings, but the later studio ones really suck because of Kraus, who obviously had the masses in mind instead of the real musiclovers wanting a realistic recording, but that's what Culshaw also did with Solti. I heard the CSO/Solti but that's not fantastic either - I like my Mahler to be lyric, but no sentimentalism and no spectacular effects and the Inbal perhaps is the most realistic due to the grunting of Inbal himself, but the tempi are to slow to my taste.
Pffff, I need a beer,
Rob, just returned from work
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