How to hold the baton

[mahler10th]

solti - fine mahler, whether with the lso or cso!

dj

Yes.  Pity he was one of the many conductors who refuse(d) to do the tenth.  I would have loved to hear what he made of the Adagio, especially the great painful interpolation about three quarters way through.  By the looks of things, I should rename this thread "How to not Hold a baton and hold it correctly which isn't right" or something.

[M forever]

Yes.  Pity he was one of the many conductors who refuse(d) to do the tenth.  I would have loved to hear what he made of the Adagio

That's easy to imagine. He would have hacked it to pieces, like he did just about everything else, especially lyrical music. When I first heard it, I couldn't believe just how bad (musically, technically it's OK) his recording of the 9th with the CSO is, especially the first movement - only a few years after the same orchestra had made its "benchmark" recording of the same work with Giulini. The way he and the ochestra hack, slash, blare, bang through the 7th is also really nasty. Again, the contrast with another CSO recording of the same work - in this case conducted by Abbado - is extreme, not just in musical approach (that is after all what we expect from different conductor personalities), but simply in quality. Of course, some people think that these extremely closemiked, glaringly overEQed Decca recordings are "brilliant" and "exciting".

[mahler10th]

Righto Sir.

[eyeresist]

Lully displayed a less than stellar technique.

Mike

Boom boom!

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