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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: Beginning a classical collection
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.200705.28113@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- References: <1992Dec29.174734.13196@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:07:05 GMT
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- gustavo@dent.uchicago.edu (Gustavo Comezana) writes:
- : In article <MARCA.92Dec29035642@wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu> marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
- [....]
- : 2) With all due respect, I feel that generalizations like Marc's are
- : quite worthless as purchasing guidelines. Each and every one of these
- : conductors has turned out wonderful work, as well as some pretty
- : dreadful records. So let me single out a few areas of the repertoire
- : which IMHO are well-served by some of the conductors in the above
- : list, and certain things I think they are not so great at:
- :
- : Giulini: Excellent Verdi, Bruckner, Mahler. His Beethoven and Schubert
- : are not to my taste.
-
- Just to demonstrate that it's a question of chacun a son gout, I very
- much like Giulini's Eroica and Schubert 9.
-
- : Dutoit: Very good in the French repertoire. Not so great elsewhere;
- : I must be the only person on Earth who does not care for
- : recording of "The Planets".
-
- No, there are at least two of us.
- [....]
- : Tennstedt: No quibbles here. Whatever he does, he does very well, but
- : I have a hard time thinking of anything that I've heard from
- : him (recorded of live) that was not Beethoven, Bruckner, R.
- : Strauss or Mahler.
-
- I think his Strauss and Mahler are over-rated myself.
-
- : Rattle: A little overrated by the English press, not as awful as some
- : American press would have you believe. Very good Sibelius
- : (great no. 7, but Maazel is better); very bad Janacek (his
- : recording of the Glagolitic Mass is incredibly boring).
-
- Well I think the US press opften suffers from the NIH (not invented
- here) syndrome. I think I prefer Rattle's Sibelius 7 to Maazel's, and
- his Mahler 10 is outstanding.
-
- : Of course, your list also omits some outstanding names whose output is
- : of very high quality overall: Carlos Kleiber, Charles Mackerras,
- : Wolfgang Sawallisch, Istvan Kertesz, Eugen Jochum, Gunther Wand,
- : Giuseppe Sinopoli, Jean Martinon, Kirill Kondrashin, Herbert
- : Blomstedt, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, Andre Previn, Gerard
- : Schwarz, Otto Klemperer, Rudolf Kempe, Frans Bruggen, Sigiswald
- : Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt, Reinhard Goebel, etc. Each has his
- : strengths and weaknesses, and I'm sure other netters will want to
- : comment on likes and dislikes from this list, as well as add a few
- : names to it.
-
- Indeed: Furtwaengler, Toscanin, Erich Kleiber, Bruno Walter, Jascha
- Horenstein, Carl Schuricht, Yevgeni Mravinski to name just a few.
- --
- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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