Joy of joys
Sun, Jan 22 2012, 12:28AM
Can you ever have too many Beethoven violin concerto recordings ? Oistrakh, Tetzlaff, Zehetmair, is already quite a lot. But just when your shelves are full along comes another. Isabelle Faust with Claudio Abbado. A pairing that made me want to purr at the cat it did. Abbado doesn't always do it in Beethoven but I think he is often underated. And Isabelle Faust is the thinking man's violin babe. Coupled with the Berg concerto as well. If anyone can bring Berg to the masses it has to be this pairing. It is ordered from amazon, the kettles on and the harvest is in. Feet up ready and enough oil in the generator for at least three plays. Boom boom boom boom, ner ner ner ner, da da da da da da, boom boom boom .......... Can you ever have too many Beethoven violin concerto recordings - I thinks not.
Sun, Jan 22 2012, 7:21PM
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RE: Joy of joys
Can you ever have too many Beethoven violin concerto recordings ?
I don't have one! But I can't get enough of Syzmanowski's first. Now there's a concerto to swap your combine for!
Anyway, are you the Wurzels' rejected drummer?
Sun, Jan 22 2012, 9:44PM
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RE: Joy of joys
Atonal wrote
But I can't get enough of Syzmanowski's first. Now there's a concerto to swap your combine for
What do you think Atonal of the much hyped Benedetti version? I thought it not helped by dullish recorded sound and would always go for my old Polish LP with Wanda Wilkomirska.
For Beethoven; Suk/Boult, Kreisler/Barbirolli and two lesser known versions, Iona Brown/ASMF/Marriner and Ronald Thomas/soloist & conductor/Bournemoth Sinfonietta.
Sun, Jan 22 2012, 9:57PM
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RE: Joy of joys
Atonal wrote
But I can't get enough of Syzmanowski's first. Now there's a concerto to swap your combine for
What do you think Atonal of the much hyped Benedetti version? I thought it not helped by dullish recorded sound and would always go for my old Polish LP with Wanda Wilkomirska.
For Beethoven; Suk/Boult, Kreisler/Barbirolli and two lesser known versions, Iona Brown/ASMF/Marriner and Ronald Thomas/soloist & conductor/Bournemoth Sinfonietta.
Curiously enough, as I type I'm listening to this previously unfamiliar (to me) work courtesy of Spotify. Multi-tasking, I think women call it. And eerily, it's the Benedetti version, picked on a random basis from the several available. Thanks for the recommendation, Atonal.
The recording's not noticeably dull to these ears, posssibly it thickens a little at climaxes, but not exceptionally so.
I'm just coming to the end of the 1st movement.
Can you ever have too many Beethoven violin concerto recordings ? .......Boom boom boom boom, ner ner ner ner, da da da da da da, boom boom boom .......... Can you ever have too many Beethoven violin concerto recordings - I thinks not.
You think right.
JKH