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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Subject: Re: all-inclusive list - not!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.205654.9448@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 20:56:54 GMT
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- bob.warren@canrem.com ("bob warren") writes:
- :
- : DB│°│: Of course, your list also omits some outstanding names whose output is
- : DB│°│: of very high quality overall: Carlos Kleiber, Charles Mackerras,
- : DB│°│: Wolfgang Sawallisch, Istvan Kertesz, Eugen Jochum, Gunther Wand,
- : DB│°│: Giuseppe Sinopoli, Jean Martinon, Kirill Kondrashin, Herbert
- : DB│°│: Blomstedt, Riccardo Muti, Leonard Slatkin, Andre Previn, Gerard
- : DB│°│: Schwarz, Otto Klemperer, Rudolf Kempe, Frans Bruggen, Sigiswald
- : DB│°│: Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt, Reinhard Goebel, etc. Each has his
- : DB│°│: strengths and weaknesses, and I'm sure other netters will want to
- : DB│°│: comment on likes and dislikes from this list, as well as add a few
- : DB│°│: names to it.
- :
- : DB│°│Indeed: Furtwaengler, Toscanin, Erich Kleiber, Bruno Walter, Jascha
- : DB│°│Horenstein, Carl Schuricht, Yevgeni Mravinski to name just a few.
- :
- : Realizing that you _do_ say " to name just a few. ", I am
- : curious that the name of Sir Colin Davis does not appear.
- :
- : Are his interpretations in the middle or lower half of the scale?
-
- Generally in the middle I would say. Davis is problematic: his Berlioz
- is excellent, indeed some would say unsurpassed. His 1964 (6?) messiah
- was groundbreaking, and I have read good things about his mid-60s
- Stravinsky and Beethoven 7, although I haven't heard them. But he does
- seem to get tempted into areas he should avoid: there's a Philips Das
- Lied von der Erde (Mahler) conducted by Davis - it's hopeless. He also
- recorded Mahler 1 for somebody, and what I heard of that was pretty
- dreadful too. I heard him conduct Mahler 8 in London in 1986 -
- disastrous! he seemed to think it was a rerun of Berlioz!
-
- Despite the fact that we share the same birthday (25 September) I feel
- no affinity with him and have very few of his recordings, which is why
- his name did not immediately spring to mind.
-
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
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