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In Reply to: RE: Can't get away from Bruckner! posted by mrjdub33@aol.com on April 28, 2015 at 12:50:12
Don't have the SACD but am streaming it right now at 16/44.1 via QOBUZ and can at least tell it's well recorded.
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I'd read some reviews indicating the tempos were slow in this new performance, but I just re-checked my Celibidache/Munich (EMI) recording and Ballot even manages to out-slow Celibidache in two of the four movements (second and fourth, although just by a few seconds in the fourth) - I would never have thought this kind of accomplishment would even be possible! ;-)
I've also read that the echo-ey acoustics of St. Florian influenced Ballot's tempo choices. In a previous discussion, we noted that this is a minimally microphoned recording (one omni for each of the five channels), so that's pretty exciting for me and I do plan to acquire this release soon. (I've been so busy getting my CD's onto computer - it's taking almost all of my free time because of all the meta info acquisition and listening checks involved.) Also, I can't listen on Spotify right now since my Facebook/Spotify account was hacked and I'm giving it some time before I re-enroll.
It's too bad that a blu-ray was not made of this performance - from the looks of that still photo on the back, it appears as if the Oberösterreichisches Jugendsinfonieorchester (the "OÖ JSO", as some folks fondly call it!) has some babes within its ranks. Babes and Bruckner - does it get any better than that? ;-) In fact, let's post another pic of them:
"This may not be the best performance of Bruckner's Eighth, but it has become the one I most cherish, because it is the one that most cherishes the music. More than any other, it takes me where I want to go when I listen to Bruckner. If music so rich needs to be listened to as slowly as possible, well, with this recording, it can be. — Richard Lehnert"
Stereophile review is below: Hard to disagree.
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you'll hear some clinking and clanking in the background. But no snoring, thankfully.
Amazon sellers are now offering it for less that $20 and for a 5 channel double SACD, that ain't bad.
That said, the only 5 channel systems I can recall hearing were 'home theater' systems and not very 'audiophile' sounding as most of my friends can only afford TWO good speakers! =:-0
Sergiu Celibidache was oft criticized for doing Bruckner "slow".... But if you listen, you'll realize he maybe understood the composer most of all.
(by which I mean the complete DG and EMI sets). Like Steve Jobs, Celi had a kind of "reality distortion field" which, while you were in its presence, could convince you that the way he did things (no matter how slow the tempo in Celibidache's case) was the only possible right way to do them! Part of the reason for this is that he usually got more time than other conductors did for rehearsals, and this shows in the unity of approach from every member of the orchestra. I saw Celibidache and the Munich Phil live doing their (in)famous 85-minute rendition of the Bruckner Fourth, and it was this unanimity in thinking from every member of the orchestra which was so impressive - they really were all on the same page to a much greater extent than I've heard from almost any other orchestral performance. Of course, that doesn't mean that that's the only way to do Bruckner - as I mention above, the recent Honeck/Pittsburgh recording of Bruckner's Fourth is also magnificent IMHO, and also features impressively unified playing on the part of the orhcestra.
That's good to hear!
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