Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Mats Norrman ([log in to unmask]) wrote: > >>... Jeffrey Tate is an interesting figure, but the only Mahler he has >>done lately as I know of is Mahlers arrangement of Schuberts "Death and >>the Maiden", which I heard a month ago. > >You;re losing ground Mats! tate recorded DatM in June 1985 a few days >after giving the UK premiere. It's been deleted for some time I believe. jaja, anyway I can say that I have the highest respect for Tate as man as well as musician. I met him a year back when he held repetitions for a Bruckner symphony with the Royal Philharmonics, and he is a very nice man. To watch the work with getting Bruckner 7 on right edge was a fantastic event. He interrupted the orchestra very often, and always he had something to adjust. My company at the visit asked one of the musicians if it was not tiresome to get stopped all the time, but he replied "No, as long as he says something constructive it is just interesting to learn, and Tate always has something of value to say when he stops us.". I must say he showed a remarkable knowledge of all sort of things, which not all conductors do. The performance which followed was of course splendid. To sum up I would like to say that special with Tate is that I have never heard a performance by him on record or elleswhere that was not very good quality. Most of conductors tend to produce at least a few flawed performanced, but he not. The same goes for Antal Dorati, although I haven't heard as much with him, although I have heard more than Petterssons breakthrough. Mats Norrman [log in to unmask]