Roger Hecht <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>D. Stephen Heersink wrote:
>
>>I've not heard Abbado conduct Bruckner, but the use of VPO rather than
>>BPO would count as two strikes against my purchase of the CD.
>
>My point in commenting, though, is not to argue, but rather to ask you to
>elaborate why you don't care for the VPO as a Bruckner orchestra. This I
>would find most interesting.
I would also like to know. There is no secret that I love the Wiener
Philarmoniker, even more than the Berliner Philarmoniker, and I think they
are good in playing all kinds of music, and I always thought. (As if I
would care about that Dick Grove labels them "gypsies":-)
James Zehm
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