Mark Shanks ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>Segerstam on Chandos is the only recording that I know of where the
>performance and recording live up to the potential of this work.
Much as I love the Segerstam I think it is now overshadowed by the
offical release of the Horenstein.
>... Avoid the later Bernstein on DG - it was released only because of
>Bernstein's death before the DG cycle was completed, and it was taken from
>tapes of a live performance and frankly, I don't think it was a good idea
>to palm this one off on an unsuspecting public.
I've been waiting for someone else to say that.
>(And I'm not very fond of his earlier CBS recording, either.)
Well I love it as a performance, but the recording...
>Colin Davis's recent recording on RCA isn't bad - it is certainly better
>than the Telarc/Robert Shaw one, anyway.
Talk about damning with faint praise...
>I haven't heard the Jarvi or Abbado recordings.
Don't waste your time or money.
Deryk Barker
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