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Bob Yoon ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>I grew up on Karajan recordings because my dad bought all those cds that
>he made when the medium first went public. It surely takes talent to get
>the BPO to sound like a student orchestra. I like his early stuff, but he
>seemed to stop caring after the 60's and coast on autopilot the rest of his
>career. No one seemed to notice since everyone was convinced otherwise by
>his charisma.
No argument here.
>Ashkenazy doesn't excite me as a conductor or a pianist. ...
Nor here, really, although I enjoy his Sibelius 1.
>Stokowsky rubs me the wrong way. I find his style to be very superficial
>and intrusive. ... Yes, he did cultivate the Philadelphia sound, but can
>this dog do any other tricks?
Indeed he could: listen to his Schoenberg Gurrelieder (1930s), his Mahler
8 (1950), his Ives 4 (1965), his Brahms 4 (on the old BBC label) or a
fabulous CD reissued last year containing some of his last recordings.
including a wonderful Tallis Fantasia.
>Rodzinsky does absolutely nothing for me. ...
There's a very fine 1941/2 Das Lied and some of his other live NYPO
stuff is worth hearing, although he'd never make my top 10 list.
>Previn annoys me wherever he is, and he's conducted them all. He's never
>convinced me that he knows the score well. ...
Previn's Walton 1 still remains unsurpassed and his Turangalila is
exceptional.
>... Muti's one of my favorite conductors and Sawallich negates just
>about all the improvements that Muti brought to the PO. ...
Well, now, Muti strikes me as one of the current crop of blandsters.
Sawallisch is also not a favourite, but his Bruckner 1 & 6 on Orfeo are
very fine.
Deryk Barker
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