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Joseph L / Singapore
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From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of
Jeffery Smith
Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 10:01 AM
To: 'Leica Users Group'
Subject: RE: [Leica] planars and vinyl v. CD
The only Mahler I know Kleiber to have conducted was Lied von der Erde, and
I think that was from a concert.
Jeffery Smith
New Orleans, LA
http://www.400tx.com
http://400tx.blogspot.com/
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From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Steve
Barbour
Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 7:34 PM
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] planars and vinyl v. CD
On Feb 3, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Joseph Low wrote:
> Bruno Walter was Mahler's prot?g? and his
> interpretations stand
> out
>
> The Symphony No 4 by Carlos Kleiber is outstanding
really ? a Mahler S 4 by Carlos Kleiber....are you sure?
thanks, Steve
> - so is the
> interpretation by
> George Szell with Judith Raskin
>
> Joseph L / Singapore
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+joelct=singnet.com.sg@leica-users.org]On Behalf Of
> Jeffery Smith
> Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 4:38 AM
> To: 'Leica Users Group'
> Subject: RE: [Leica] planars and vinyl v. CD
>
> For a digital collection of 1-9, Inbal is at the top of my list. I
> grew up
> on Haitink and Solti, and like Kubelik much more than the critics
> do. I
> think Barbirolli is the only one who got the 6th right. And
> Bernstein's 7th
> on Columbia (Sony) is pretty blood-curdling.
>
> I'll keep my eyes open for the others you list.
>
> Jeffery Smith
> New Orleans, LA
> http://www.400tx.com
> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
> Douglas
> Sharp
> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 11:26 AM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] planars and vinyl v. CD
>
>
> G?nter Wand is definitely the best for Bruckner:
> My favourite Mahler interpretations are by Eliahu Inbal and Rafael
> Kubelik.
> If you can find it, Orff's Carmina Burana is superb with Lucia Popp,
> John van Kesteren and the wonderful Hermann Prey.
> With the chorus and orchester of the Bavarian Broadcasting Company -
> conducted by Kurt Eichhorn.
> This is the version authorised by Orff himself, and is also
> available as
> a film version from Jean-Pierre Ponelle - absolutely brilliant!!
> Frau Popp
> is also wunderbar in Sinopoli's Brahms Deutsches Requiem along
> with Wolfgang Brendel
>
> On another tack completely, and unfortunately only on CD - I'm rather
> fond of French composers of the 19th and early 20th Century and I
> recently discovered a gentleman who went by the name of Louis James
> Alfred Lefebure-Wely, the most glorious organ music I ever heard - a
> mixture between the Mighty Wurlitzer and Cesar Franck with a touch of
> Poulenc's humour, or perhaps an organ version of Louis Moreau
> Gottschalk.
> Try here for a sample:
> http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/4115629/rk/home/rsk/
> hitlist
> or here
> http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/4293060/rk/home/rsk/
> hitlist
>
> Cheers
> Douglas
>
>
> Jeffery Smith wrote:
>> I can't tolerate any Winterreise not sung by Fischer-Dieskau. And
>> Carmina Burana pretty much as to be by Slatkin. I'm trying to
>> learn to
>> like Bruckner, and am searching for the best renderings of those
>> symphonies. I think Wand might be the place to go.
>>
>> And, against the critics, I like Chailly's Mahler the very best.
>>
>> Jeffery Smith
>> New Orleans, LA
>> http://www.400tx.com
>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> Luis Ripoll
>> Sent: Saturday, February 03, 2007 6:16 AM
>> To: 'Leica Users Group'
>> Subject: RE: [Leica] planars and vinyl v. CD
>>
>>
>> This arrive sometimes with the very great myths, i.e. to leasen a
>> Winterreise should be Fischer-Dieskau, to listen Wotan Hans Hotter,
>> and still many thing the magicals hands of Furtwangler!
>>
>> Sludos cordiales
>> Luis
>>
>> -----Mensaje original-----
>> De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En
>> nombre de Jeffery Smith Enviado el: s?bado, 03 de febrero de 2007
>> 4:13
>> Para: 'Leica Users Group'
>> Asunto: RE: [Leica] planars and vinyl v. CD
>>
>> I'm of the camp that thinks Kleiber's best recording is the Brahm's
>> 4th symphony. After hearing it a few times, I just cannot hack the
>> others.
>>
>> Jeffery Smith
>> New Orleans, LA
>> http://www.400tx.com
>> http://400tx.blogspot.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org
>> [mailto:lug-bounces+jsmith342=cox.net@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
>> Ken Carney
>> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 8:33 PM
>> To: 'Leica Users Group'
>> Subject: RE: [Leica] planars and vinyl v. CD
>>
>>
>>
>>> btw any discs , hard to find of Carlos Kleiber ?
>>>
>>> thanks, Steve
>>>
>>
>> I have most of the Kleiber recordings on black disk (but they are
>> staying here...). The Beethoven 7 is exceptional if you can find it.
>> I am glad I invested in a Keith Monks record cleaning machine way
>> back, though in today's USD it was probably the cost of an M8.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
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