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Rodney Corkin ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>>I'd like some opinions regarding period instrument performace of Classical
>>period music, especially Beethoven. ...
>Well, no. Try Schnabel and Furtwaengler instead....:-)
I suggest Paul Badura-Skoda's recordings of the complete piano sonatas on
period instruments, and the Hanover Band for the symphonies and overtures.
Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Firstly I think you're going to have to say exactly what you mean by
>"nuances". If you're referring to aural textures as the composer
>would have heard them then I am broadly in agreement with you.
This is what I was refering to.
>But there is more to it than that. I own most of the HIP Beethoven
>symphony recordings ... and many of them are very good, I'd humbly
>submit that (with the honorable exceptions of Bru"ggen's Eroica and Choral)
>none of them can hold a candle to the finest performances of the past.
I've heard all the above and as I've said its Goodman/Huggett and the
Hanover Band that I prefer. The sound captured on these recordings is the
most beautiful I have heard. I cannot listen to my old Karajan, Bohm etc
recordings eny more, they just don't have the colour and electricity for
me.
Rod
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