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Looking for a Great Coriolan

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Mike Porper

I've got Reiner/CSO, which is really good, IMO, but I'm looking for an even better alternative. Most of the modern orchestra ones I've heard are just awful to my ears. Slow, ponderous, complacent, and utterly lacking Beethovenian intensity. I'm hoping to find a performance with whiplash power.

Open to HIPs, as long as it's not some absurd radical makeover with something like 4 strings and a medieval wind band.

Thanks.

Follow Ups:

Don't overlook Harnoncourt's performance... - Chuck Y 09:02:28 05/31/12 (1)
Routine and/or boring it's not! Not slow and ponderous either. You can preview the Coriolan as well as the other overtures on You Tube I believe(all on the same Teldec CD). I really enjoy Beethoven's Symphonies by Harnoncourt. If you do you might give these overtures a listen.
- RE: Don't overlook Harnoncourt's performance... - phlogiston 15:06:31 05/31/12 (0)
  Norrington's London performance goes at quite a lick. I like it.
  
  Listen here:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFWlt4EoIEE
  
  Best wishes,
  
  P
Thanks [nt] - Mike Porper 07:30:57 05/31/12 (0)
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Chailly/Gewandhausorchester - Thornhill 19:03:24 05/30/12 (0)
He recorded most of the overtures with his new cycle. To my ears it's the most exciting in years.
RE: Looking for a Great Coriolan - MichaelV8 16:37:40 05/30/12 (0)
Try Szell's CD of Beethoven Overtures.
My imprint recording was the Munch/BSO - Chris from Lafayette 16:21:13 05/30/12 (0)
Like Reiner's, Munch's performance is pretty whiplash in the way it propels itself forward, with lots of nervous energy and menacing drive. I remember being very dismayed when I first heard a typical "mitteleurop�isch" perfromance (I forget whose it was) - it seemed so dull, compared to Munch's. Since then, I've seen the benefits of the slower-moving performances too. In fact, there's a very good example of a slower performance from that same era: the Kempe/BPO, which first appeared in the US on the Capitol label. (To add to the confusion, Kempe re-recorded this overture with the Munich Philharmonic when he made his great set of the Beethoven symphonies. That performance is very good too - but I prefer the absolute solidity and integrity of his BPO recording.) The tiny image below is of the Capitol LP of the Kempe/BPO performance:
RE: Looking for a Great Coriolan - pbarach 15:18:56 05/30/12 (0)
Toscanini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkc7wXS1Xbg
(and the rehearsal for the above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkc7wXS1Xbg)

Carlos Kleiber: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUngfVi5p4k

Wilhelm Furtw�ngler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoultibNlus
RE: Looking for a Great Coriolan - Old Listener 14:25:45 05/30/12 (0)
I like the performance by Jordi Savall and his Concert of Nations ensemble. It comes with a Symphony No. 3 that I also like very well.

Bill

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