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In the Thread: ... and some Bruckner buzz
Post Subject: DefinitionsPosted by steverino on: 2/4/2024
Romy,
When you say no good sounding Bruckner LPs do you mean no "great" sounding, or that all Bruckner LPs sonics are average or worse?
It would help if you gave an example of late 19th C Romantic music on LP that you did consider good or better. Also do you think there any good sounding Bruckner CDs?
For myself, if I'm using "good" as above average but not a demonstration recording, I would say the Mehta Symphony 9, the Karajan Symphony 4 on the EMI german gold postage stamp label and the Bohm Symphony 3 are good recordings. I am only talking about the recording not the performance.
I think it is very difficult to make a demonstration recording of any large orchestra playing late Romantic works whether on LP or CD.
I do strongly agree with you that the pairing of Bruckner and Mahler is quite lazy. I think Mahler took one class from Bruckner. He never did much for him as conductor and his music has little relationship to Bruckner's except for some Schubertian tendencies in the interior movements. But music criticism (as opposed to scholarship) is almost always extremely lazy in everything.
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