Since LVB symphonies' are a frequent topic of discussion often with questions arising when discussing other issues, I'd like to ask you some questions to share views. I'm willing to listen to the symphonies for some days, since (some of you may find it curious) those are among LvB works I've paid less attention, since I've been more focused on chamber music and piano concertos.
So let's see:
What do you think about the Savall/Concert des Nations recording of the 3rd? I've read really bad critics, describing it as superficial, unsensitive...
And about the 1962 Karajan/BP cycle? From comments in this forum as well from other sources, I have the impression Karajan's recordings seem quite controversial.
Do you think Abbado's cycle is that radically different from Karajan's one or perhaps could be more applicated to the last years of Karajan in the BP? I've even read in an spanish magazine that it represented the clearing away of the cobwebs made by Karajan. Don't you think the difference perhaps obeys more to the current movement that puts the stress in the historical fidelity, more than artistical differences or a real determination to sever ties with a past "modus interpretandi"?
Which historical recordings would you recommend? Yesterday I started listening to the 7th (Abbado, Karajan and Toscanini) and Toscanini's (one of those BBC remastered recordings, it was a live performance by the BBC orchestra at Queen's Hall in 1935) was really energic, passionate (perhaps the 3rd movement was even too fast I'd say "hurried up").
Is Gardiner set recommendable as period instruments recording?
So let's see:
What do you think about the Savall/Concert des Nations recording of the 3rd? I've read really bad critics, describing it as superficial, unsensitive...
And about the 1962 Karajan/BP cycle? From comments in this forum as well from other sources, I have the impression Karajan's recordings seem quite controversial.
Do you think Abbado's cycle is that radically different from Karajan's one or perhaps could be more applicated to the last years of Karajan in the BP? I've even read in an spanish magazine that it represented the clearing away of the cobwebs made by Karajan. Don't you think the difference perhaps obeys more to the current movement that puts the stress in the historical fidelity, more than artistical differences or a real determination to sever ties with a past "modus interpretandi"?
Which historical recordings would you recommend? Yesterday I started listening to the 7th (Abbado, Karajan and Toscanini) and Toscanini's (one of those BBC remastered recordings, it was a live performance by the BBC orchestra at Queen's Hall in 1935) was really energic, passionate (perhaps the 3rd movement was even too fast I'd say "hurried up").
Is Gardiner set recommendable as period instruments recording?
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and they sale their entire stock at ridiculous prices for recurring clients (yes, I'm one of those). One shop assistant mentioned me Sir Georg, but I don't know anything about his Beethove besides one catalogue he showed me in which something like "in conducting Beethoven, he held that the symphonies should be played with all their repeats to maintain their structural integrity...".
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