I really have to admit that I had never heard of Opus Kura before but, if one looks e.g. at the reviews of the Weingartner Beethoven9 on both Naxos and Opus...
http://www.opuskura.com/sound_e.htm  As for Mayr, he remained in history as THE Ochs von Lerchenau. Otto Kunz wrote Mayr's biography and mentions that he...
... Very poetic and quasi-mystical adulation! Since no character in Strauss's all female opera (were Mayr and the "Italian Tenor" dude also females?) has ever...
... / /I am wondering, George, whether we shall have this discussion alone while others on the various other Mahler lists (of which I read none) might simply...
Dear Yoel,  Ouroboros is a nice word : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros  "What his works mean to us" means that we must look for the essence of a...
... I fear, Dear George, that Schoenberg's dictum almost sounds tautological. But I leave it at that since I am hardly in a position to debate with Schoenberg....
I fear, dear Yoel, that tautology becomes a necessity when people are eager to forget the obvious. Â When I speak on change of values and taste over time I...
Stunning Shostakovitch Performance in Mexico City Mexican capital is home to one of the world's great philharmonics: the OFUNAM Michael Werbowski (minou)Â ...
Speaking of recreations rather than Retuschen, may I remind what Weingartner mentions in his autobiography as Mahler's extravaganzas : He wanted to support the...
... << Music is a matter of love and this can hardly be "objective". ... It seems we forget over and over again that we are talking about music, not the rules...
The Wash. Post is full of Gus Dudamel and the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra. Thought his name rang a bell; he go the Gustav Mahler Conducting Prize in 2004. ...
... A while back, who knows, a year, two years???, Nathaniel Gutman was wild about Dudamel and used to carry on about him. One night there was a Dudamel...
I heard a live radio broadcast of the SBYO play Beethoven 7. It sounded beautiful and spirited. He takes over the LA Phil in a year or two. I live part-time...
Living in Venezuela, I've had the opportunity of seeing Dudamel conduct 7 or 8 times and spoken to him a couple of times backstage.The last time I saw him in...
I would never reveal the "culprit" but I was written privately to tell me that Dudamel is more showman than profound musician. This of course is my own...
... Nicht unbedingt. Dudamel might do all of those things and serve up an absolutely mediocre result, n'est-ce-pas? Of course, only a churl would suggest...
Sounds like a good idea. I just saw some album covers on itunes and thought do we really need more recordings? He is conducting youth orchestras. I don't know...
Interesting idea, dear Yoel, though not necessarily a very practical one. A new Gustav(o) to conduct the older one's work in the way he was accustomed to...
see below: ... 2.) More to the point, it is incorrect to state that ArkivMusic offers their on-demand reprints (CD-Rs, technically, but no more than BMG Music ...
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... George and Mark and Trevor, It's all too funny in a way. No, I have not visited his personal site. What would I really tell him? That I like his hair and...
mahler@yahoogroups.com wrote: (really Massimo): This occurs almost invariably with members who use free accounts (yahoo, hotmail etc.) and in the largest ...
Funny, I am probably one of the few in here that has sat in front of Nagano for a few years. We did a Beethoven 6th in the hills of Aspen and I had to wear my...
... Sorry, maybe I missed something,Trevor, but I never knew you were a violist. I am so envious. I so wish I played, if not professionally, at least ...
When his [Weingartner's] recorded performances are listened to, the difference with Mahler is easily understood. ... That is from the English notes to the Opus...
Well, apart from descriptions we also have Mahler's score AFAIK. Maybe some assumptions can be drawn from these sources, but in order to ba fair we must also...
... thank you, as always, George, for your interesting and informative responses. I agree that how anyone conducted in 1935 cannot say how he conducted 25...
dear friends and members, I would like to introduce a new discussion - who is your favourite conductor for mahlers symphonies? do you have a special one, who...
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