I just heard a marvelous CD over the CBC with pianist Stefan Mickish playing his transcriptions of Wagner's Parsifal. The CD is on a label I don't know,...
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Andy Kimbrell
kimbrell@...
Sep 1, 1999 8:13 pm
Re responses to my last listings. Thanks Steve -- to SG I truly like your Rule (though I had to read it about ten time to understand it) and I got a good...
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samir ghiocel golescu
golescu@...
Sep 1, 1999 10:07 pm
... I really don't want to keep going over it. What particularized Husch was that I really heard him singing a sinister song, that's all. Curtain! About your...
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Andy Kimbrell
kimbrell@...
Sep 1, 1999 10:24 pm
SG your english is great, it's my mind thats going (witness my typos). Has anybody heard the Brendel/Rattle Beethoven Concerti? What do folks think of Rattle....
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Victor Eskenasy
EskenasyV@...
Sep 2, 1999 9:44 am
Andy wrote: As for Husch and other glorious voices --Rosvaenge, Patzak, Anders, Cebotari, Lemnitz, et al who collaborated with the Nazis -- it is disgusting -...
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Thomas Christopher Sc...
tschnaub@...
Sep 2, 1999 9:45 am
Re; The Nazi question. It's a tough one. Perhaps some of those artists were trying to do what WF was trying: save Art and the real Germany with all its...
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Thomas Christopher Sc...
tschnaub@...
Sep 2, 1999 9:48 am
Re; Rattle: I once heard him lead the LAPO in Beethovens 3rd. It was the strangest version I had ever heard. All the quirkyness of the piece was accentuated....
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Victor Eskenasy
EskenasyV@...
Sep 2, 1999 10:49 am
something about a Beethoven - Missa Solemnis, released by Atlas Edition (SAC CD003). I've bought the CD as... SAC 004... Bach, Magnificat with Maria Stader. ...
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Alan Spaeth
aspaeth@...
Sep 2, 1999 12:01 pm
Following up on the discussion about how to get a copy of the 1984 Asahina performance of WF's 2nd Symphony, I surfed to Neil's site and www.thump.org and...
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Gil Ariel Zilkha
gz200@...
Sep 2, 1999 12:10 pm
I've just noticed that in addition to the Beethoven set, Music and Arts has also issued the much-acclaimed Brahms symphony set as well. I consider each of...
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Charles D. Laughlin
CDLaughlin@...
Sep 2, 1999 12:11 pm
Joel, You wrote : "My psychoanalyst wife confirms what all have already concluded, of course, that it was THE Carl Jung with whom FW was concerned." How has...
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Alan_Carrier@...
Sep 2, 1999 12:11 pm
I have been unpacking records from on eof my storage units and found not 1 BUT 3 of the beautiful DGG sets "Wilhelm Furtwangler In Memoriam". This sets were...
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Drew Capuder
d.capuder@...
Sep 2, 1999 12:12 pm
From: David Henning <dah@...> ... sculptor ... (at ... You may be referring to Michelangelo's view that the figure which he was sculpting was...
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Simon Clark
simonclark99@...
Sep 2, 1999 12:13 pm
At the risk of lowering the tone of this endlessly fascinating theme, let me throw in two little anecdotes about composers whose music I admire greatly. ...
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Phlmaestro@...
Sep 2, 1999 2:17 pm
I've also seen Rattle conduct the Eroica (with the Philadelphia Orchestra) and didn't like it very much. He went with the sort of quick tempos that seem to be...
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Gil Ariel Zilkha
gz200@...
Sep 2, 1999 3:29 pm
Its interesting that less than fifty years after Furtwangler, the BPO should choose a conductor who, to my knowledge, has never recorded any symphony of...
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Meclb@...
Sep 2, 1999 3:46 pm
Rattle has recorded Bruckner's 7th Symphony for EMI with the CBSO and is near completion of a full Beethoven cycle with the VPO. Marc ... * POSTED to furt-l -...
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Victor Eskenasy
EskenasyV@...
Sep 2, 1999 3:59 pm
Well, if you look at the EMI Catalogue for the composers mentionned you'll see that Rattle has no more space... He recorded a Bruckner, 7th, not bad. I don't ...
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Ian Rowlands
ir@...
Sep 2, 1999 4:05 pm
Gunther Wand didn't conduct Schubert 9 until he was 60. Rattle is a shrewd operator who knows exactly where he's going and has paced his career to date with...
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samir ghiocel golescu
golescu@...
Sep 2, 1999 4:12 pm
... Uhh, I didn't want to stir up all this again! Now... I'm sorry, if I can understand Mr. Kimbrell's assumedly ambiguous position, let's not grant absolution...
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Meclb@...
Sep 2, 1999 5:07 pm
He has plenty of space....but do we really want another Bruckner cycle or Brahms cycle? I'd be quite happy for Rattle to do some Richard Strauss and ...
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Gil Ariel Zilkha
gz200@...
Sep 2, 1999 5:31 pm
Perhaps my message was misunderstood somewhat. I am not questioning Rattle's qualifications or readiness. I am pointing out that he seems, at the very least,...
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Thomas Christopher Sc...
tschnaub@...
Sep 2, 1999 6:05 pm
I'll just throw this out: Kleiber (Carlos) would have been my choice. He probably wasn't even up for consideration, or didn't want the job (I've heard he...
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ruizmi@...
Sep 2, 1999 6:07 pm
Right, Carlos Kleiber is great, but... his repertory is too narrow to be in tenure of an Orchester as the BPO: his programm is always quite the same....
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jay kauffman
wagner2@...
Sep 2, 1999 7:39 pm
No No some of them were rabid Nazis (Lemnitz and Bockelman) to their dying days. Jay Kauffman ... From: Thomas Christopher Schnauber <tschnaub@...> To:...
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Meclb@...
Sep 2, 1999 9:02 pm
It is arguable that the BPOs horizons have already been boadened under Abaddo - recordings by Stockhausen, Kurtag, Nono and other post war composers to name a...
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samir ghiocel golescu
golescu@...
Sep 2, 1999 9:16 pm
... I'm afraid that for a Kleiber-Berlin PO Beethoven Fourth, I would throw away many "integrales" with any other of the lesser contenders to the WF's throne. ...
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Phlmaestro@...
Sep 3, 1999 12:01 am
With regard to Kleiber, I don't think there is much of a chance that he would ever accept a directorship. He conducts maybe two or three times per year and has...
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samir ghiocel golescu
golescu@...
Sep 3, 1999 1:25 am
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Phlmaestro@...
Sep 3, 1999 1:33 am
In a message dated 99-09-02 21:28:15 EDT, you write: << I think the selection of Rattle was an indication that the ... Well if they completely stop playing...
