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2023-12-14 04:30:00
Is It Time for New Classic Recordings?
by Bill HeckAll right, I admit it, I confess: I'm spoiled by modern digital recordings by amazing musicians. Many readers of Classical Candor have been around long enough to know about the "classic" recordings of classical music, the ones on any number of "recommended performances" lists. Whose collection of recordings would be complete without, say, the Reiner / Chicago recording of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra, the Kleiber / Vienna Beethoven 5 and 7 pairing, or Beecham’s conducting of anything by Delius? I'm speaking here of stereo recordings, which puts us after the mid-1950s or so. There are specialists, as well as the more curious among us, who want to hear Toscanini's Beethoven symphony cycle, or Schnabel's set of the piano concertos, recordings of Rachmaninoff playing his own works: the list goes on and on, and for those folks, even bad recordings are better than no recordings at all. But […]
2023-09-07 03:30:00
Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra (Streaming review)
[…] tone poems!) But perhaps another reason was that classical music lovers just got tired of run-through performances designed for maximum sonic impact or lovely chords without much thought to capturing the expressiveness of the compositions, of treating them as serious music that should be played seriously. That said, there’s certainly no shortage of recorded performances of ASZ, what with umpteen versions dating from the mid-1950’s onward. The best of these, from famous names such as Reiner and Karajan, reveal the glories of Strauss’s orchestration, often in remarkably good sound; Strauss fans surely had nothing to complain about. But – and I admit this only sheepishly, even though I know that I had a certain amount of company – some of us found even the most well-regarded recordings a little too much of a good thing. I (we) found ourselves losing focus halfway through, wandering off to attend to other chores […]
2023-08-21 03:30:00
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6; Hamlet (CD Review)
[…] our band director chose an arrangement of the third movement march, marked Allegro molto vivace, as the centerpiece of our performance for the Indiana State Concert Band Contest (I played bass clarinet). Needless to say, we practiced and practiced and practiced until I felt as though I knew not only my part but every note of the piece. Curious as what the original orchestral version sounded like, I purchased a recording to play on our home stereo (Reiner/Chicago, as I recall) and listened to that over and over again with avid fascination. Although my playing had very little to do with it, our band got the highest score in the state, and to this day, the “Pathetique” is one of my favorite symphonies, even though I am not that much of a Tchaikovsky fan, to be honest. But back to the performances at hand. Along with a convincing performance of the symphony, Abravanel delivers […]
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