The one recording you think everyone should bin

Started by Michel, May 13, 2007, 08:24:20 AM

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orbital

Quote from: Drasko on May 13, 2007, 09:56:58 AM


FBI-style magnification method determined this image to be  :o


George

Quote from: orbital on May 13, 2007, 12:18:38 PM
FBI-style magnification method determined this image to be  :o



I believe its the sound that he rejects. I remember a post ahwile back to that effect.

knight66

Quote from: Don on May 13, 2007, 12:08:29 PM
Agreed.  Marriner and Bach are a poor match.

I need to take my own advice...bin it and get a decent recording.

Mike
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I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Novi

Quote from: Michel on May 13, 2007, 09:08:30 AM
Although I know this fun is suposed to be fun and it would be wayward of me to strongly slam you here, Harry, but this kind of ignorance is unacceptable. Why do silly people like you go along with absurd stereotypes that you have not experienced yourself, only heard?

Toscanini did have relatively fast first movements, but little else. If we take is Brahms 1, for example, his average length is longer than that of Mouteux, Stokowski and within ten seconds or so of Cantelli, Walter and even Karajan!

Toscanini manipluated tempi much more than he did perform things overall faster. And that is obviously what you hear and then wrongly assume. He certainly wasn't the speed freak you suggest.



A slight digression here:

Michel, have you seen this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbGLDrepqLA
Durch alle Töne tönet
Im bunten Erdentraum
Ein leiser Ton gezogen
Für den der heimlich lauschet.

knight66

With Toscanini, it was often the way he articulated the music and injected energy into it that made people think he was a speed merchant. Though, he was not one to linger!

Mike
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I wasted time: and time wasted me.

Bogey

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Quote from: Que on May 13, 2007, 10:44:00 AM
Another folly of my teens (fortunately I don't blindly follow the recommendations in CD guides anymore  ;D)
Opinions will be divided on this one, but I don't like Uchida's Mozart....at all.
8)

Q



(I have used this photo before for Sarge....your turn Q! :D)

Q being escorted out of Rick's for his comments concerning the above Uchida effort:

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bogey

To dump:

Beethoven Violin Sonatas Nos. 5 and 9 Zukerman/Barenboim EMI
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Bogey

Also possible dumps, these two Pinnock cds:

   

There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Dancing Divertimentian

Quote from: Bogey on May 13, 2007, 08:36:25 PM
Q being escorted out of Rick's for his comments concerning the above Uchida effort:




Indeed!

And that's me in the black hat awaiting orders from Rick Bill!




Veit Bach-a baker who found his greatest pleasure in a little cittern which he took with him even into the mill and played while the grinding was going on. In this way he had a chance to have the rhythm drilled into him. And this was the beginning of a musical inclination in his descendants. JS Bach

Que

Quote from: donwyn on May 13, 2007, 09:08:06 PM

Indeed!

And that's me in the black hat awaiting orders from Rick Bill!

HA! ;D The "Uchida Avengers"! ;D

Q

Steve

Quote from: George on May 13, 2007, 10:48:19 AM

I actually like this one. Haven't heard a better Hammerklavier...There must be something wrong with me.  ;D



Yes, I'm quite fond of this set too. I've always enjoyed his Waldstein.

rubio

Quote from: Bogey on May 13, 2007, 08:52:05 PM
Also possible dumps, these two Pinnock cds:

   



So, who do you keep for these works, and why are they better?
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George

Quote from: Steve on May 13, 2007, 09:31:29 PM
Yes, I'm quite fond of this set too. I've always enjoyed his Waldstein.

Yes, I assume you've heard the live one?

Michel

I like a lot of Pinnock recordings a GREAT deal!

val

To give only one example:

MUSSORGSKI: Boris Godunov, by Claudio Abbado (with Kotcherga, Leiferkus). A version without life, presence (the choir in the first scene seems an exercise in the Conservatory, when compared to the Melik-Pachaev version) and with the most mediocre Boris I ever heard. And that has nothing to do with the choice of the original version or the one of Rimski.

Michel

Interesting; I often find Abbado great in opera. Not heard this one.

Todd

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