Zander

[Brian]

That was fantastic.  You're like "no that was Liszt, Gulda is a little interventionist in his approach..."

A simple mistake to make...!

[karlhenning]

What's Jim Morrison doing there?

[Szykneij]

What's Jim Morrison doing there?

Waiting for the sun 

[drogulus]

3.) Zander's Mahler-lectures aren't all hits. In fact, I find only one truly good... but that one I find absolutely superb. It's his lecture that goes with the 6th Symphony. It's nearly better than the performance, and the performance, too, is excellent. (In fact, if you don't mind the score being pulled around, it's one of the best.)

     The lecture is very good. Perhaps I wouldn't think so if I didn't have similar thoughts on the order of the Scherzo-Andante. I should listen to the performance again.

[Bunny]

I'm surprised to see Zander of all conductors raised as a standard for competence and motivation.   I find his lectures to be usually pretentious and superficial and his performances lacking.

Indeed!

My cousin's son played in his youth orchestra a few years back.  He has nothing good to say about Zander.  He describes him as egomaniacal, pretentious, nasty, bullying, and worse, as being at best a mediocre musician.  What is even more telling, he reported that none of the musicians he met who have played for Zander think highly of him.

[Sergeant Rock]

He describes him as egomaniacal, pretentious, nasty, bullying, and worse, as being at best a mediocre musician.

He could be all that but I'm still grateful he was given the opportunity to record Mahler. The Sixth in particular is a treasure. It allows us to hear clearly the third hammerblow...which, now that I've heard it, makes me regret all the more its absence in most other recordings.

Sarge

[Dr. Dread]

A reviewer in Fanfare was raving about this #5. Bruckner's not one of my favorite composers, but I might pick it up for the heck.