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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Recommended Beethoven Pastorale recordings posted by Awacs on August 30, 2016 at 20:48:23:
I am personally not fond of the Bohm recording - in fact I find his entire Beethoven symphony set to be a disappointment - four-square and slack. I posted my detailed observations over on the vinyl asylum, maybe a year ago. I found a pristine set of the vinyl for $4.99.
My top three would be Reiner CSO (a surprisingly lovely and affectionate reading reading given that conductor's reputation), the Walter Columbia Symphony, and the Vanska Minnesota. Karajan's 62 recording is also quite good, if you accept his tempo for the 1st movement, which is quite brisk.
Maybe 18 months I had the occasion to listen to the Toscanini set of Beethoven symphonies back to back, and besides being surprised by the variability of the readings (and the sound - the tremendous performance ot the 5th is betrayed by truly poor sound, for example), I was also surprised to hear, as Paul Henry Lang said in his High Fidelity survey of Beethoven symphonies (that was published back in 1970 - makes for entertaining reading), that Toscanini misjudges the climax of the Pastorale and his recording ends on a flat note.
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Follow Ups
- A short list - TGR 08/31/1607:57:56 08/31/16 (9)
- When you say "the climax", do you mean the end? - Chris from Lafayette 09:24:37 08/31/16 (8)
- More detail - TGR 11:11:12 08/31/16 (7)
- But the last two chords in the Pastoral are marked fortissimo - Chris from Lafayette 11:48:07 08/31/16 (6)
- yes, but - TGR 11:54:40 08/31/16 (5)
- Still more - Chris from Lafayette 12:39:50 08/31/16 (2)
- You mean rests are not notes? - TGR 13:11:33 08/31/16 (1)
- So when you listen to the end of the Pastoral Symphony on a recording. . . - Chris from Lafayette 15:22:51 08/31/16 (0)
- More - Chris from Lafayette 12:35:16 08/31/16 (0)
- I never said it was the climax - it's very Brucknerian however [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 12:27:40 08/31/16 (0)
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