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In the Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh
Post Subject: Buckner, Toscanini, Celibidache, Asahina and... YoshiPosted by Romy the Cat on: 7/23/2007
Yep, the Toscanini performance was a big surprise to me as well. Interestingly he does not play it as I would like Buckner generally, it is too “artistically expressive”, good only for Rimsky-Korsakov or Ravel but… still the way how Toscanini’s orchestra pump the pressure is nothing short of phenomenal. It is certainly the class of it’s own! I am not a huge fan of Toscanini but sometime he can really burn the ground with his play.
Interestingly that Celibidache is completely ran out from my preferences: his brushed-up studio recordings with full of artificial affords play I nowadays perceive as boring.
I keep bugging Yoshi, he is in Japan now, to bring me a set of 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 by Takashi Asahina with Tokyo SO from 90s it should be very interesting… The damn Japanese have quite a price tag on the Asahina’s Buckner… :-(
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