With apologies for cross posting: For a presentation at the annual conference of the Conductors' Guild, NYC, Friday 9 January 2009, on the First Symphony, I...
Friends, It is so long that there has been any posting on this site, I thought I had been dropped from the group. I cannot help on the subject. of the last...
Hello David, I really expected Gergiev to become a great ŒMahler conductor¹. I must say however that I don¹t like his Mahler¹s with the London SO. I don't...
Jan thanks for your reply. Â I was tempted to get out the score during Gergiev's performance to check on the tempi:Â but that can be such a distraction. The...
Conductors, generally, ?these days seem to be trying to?make ?their performances unique and original. Often tempi seem to me to be exaggerated and passages...
... I really expected Gergiev to become a great Å'Mahler conductor¹. I must say however that I don¹t like his Mahler¹s with the London SO. ... I have...
... Dear Jan, When I read the article in the NYTIMES online, I pondered whether to forward it to the list. Gergiev is an ethnic Ossetian. It is natural that he...
... one can ... music ... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/08/arts/music/08gerg.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=Gergiev&st=cse Here is the NYTIMES article from their...
Hi Yoël, Let me first say that your writing is to me not offensive. Who is right and who is wrong is for me impossible to say. All parties use propaganda. A...
... From: "Jan W. Tromp" <jan.tromp@...> ... Dear Jan, I continue to spend my life trying to convince my ISP that I do indeed have problems. Right now I...
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Interesting piece from the NY Times on Gilbert Kaplan and M2: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/arts/music/18kapl.html?_r=1&hp You probably have to register to...
With apologies for cross-posting... Has anyone a copy of the Steinberg/Pittsburgh Mahler 1 on CD which I could borrow? As I've mentioned before, I'm doing a...
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Greetings and a happy New Year, Contributors to this site have expressed a concern for AUTHENTICITY in performance. Some of you have considerable experience....
Greetings - I thought I would offer those here first bite as it were: I am buying a new Ring Cycle, Keilberth 1953 with Moedl and Windgassen in the top...
... I know that Tom did not ask for a response but why not? The Motley selection of tenors in the Keilberth 1952 are all (with one exception) great to my ears....
And yet, it's written in the libretto of Die Walkuere : "Nur eines will ich noch : Das Ende ! Das Ende !" <g>. As for Witte, just wait for the Siegfried...
"Another unnecessary recording of the 5th, more chore than pleasure to listen to..." -- that's more or less what I thought when I put the LPO-live recording of...
... I have ceased on the whole buying any more Mahler recordings. I do want to say something about Jaap van Zweden. About a year ago (or something like that) I...
... Do you know Elgar's own recordings (1927-1932) of his two symphonies, Falstaff symphonic poem, and Violin and Cello concerto, all reissued on EMI and, if...
... Mime is a hard character and music for me to get interested in. As to Meistersinger, I thought I saw in a Broinc catalogue (I use them for bathroom...
Thanks Yoel, I'll follow that one up. The only recordings I have of Elgar are fairly recent. I ought to have the recordings made by the composer.I'll let you...
The quality of the brass instruments (mainly trumpets/trombones) have improved enormous during the last decades. The F-trumpets (also G-trumpets) were used for...
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- What on earth do you mean by 'quality' and 'better' instruments? That they play louder and it is not so risky to hit the right note? Alas, almost all...
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