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Post Subject: From a point of view of an ordinary snob…Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/17/2010
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 JANDL100 wrote: |
| Yes, a great Bruckner conductor …. |
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Hay, Jerry, long time no see…. I need to admit that Volkmar Andreae is better Bruckner conductor then his recordings are. Even though I do like what is trying to do but I am not wild what he does. Volkmar Andreae clearly need better orchestras for his take on Bruckner. His recordings I listen were made Vienna Symphony. This is great orchestra and they had great musical directors: Furtwängler, Kabasta; Karajan but they do not sound like Vienna Philharmonic. What Volkmar Andreae in his take on Bruckner does not have (in my view) if the nobility and the very final authority of orchestral potency. Tonally his orchestra is not as complex and in ability to play soft his orchestra is not as able as Vienna Philharmonic or Berlin Philharmonic or Prague Philharmonic. Might he was screwed by the way how he was recorded? I do not know but his orchestra does sound to me as a final destination for Bruckner. BTW, this is the very same reasons why I do not like most of the Takashi Asahina’s Bruckner. All those Osaka Philharmonic, Tokyo Metropolitan, Japan Philharmonic, NHK Symphony Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony and others – they very seldom sound “serious” to me and frequently, if not always lack gravitas that I feel the Bruckner orchestra shall have. The Volkmar Andreae’s orchestra is not the NHK Symphony but it is not Vienna Philharmonic either….
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