Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Art, would that be this recording? http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/8541910?rk=classic&rsk=hitlist Track 1- 4 are from the 2nd (unfortunately only excerpts that stop much too soon) Sounds a little aged but has (almost, for me) the same intensity as the Ashkenazy from what I can here over my PC speakers, I'd have to hear it downstairs on the heavy B&W s to really appreciate it - must look into ordering it. But open your ears to this!! - disc 2 track 12 - its breathtaking - Wagner would have been envious - panoramas enfold , deep dark forests, wild, bare mountain tops, the tart smell of peat on stone in the cold fresh air. I once listened to this on tape at the top of a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales in a place where I knew there was no other person in a radius of about 12 miles - intoxicating to say the least! http://www.jpc.de/jpcng/classic/detail/-/hnum/9752018?rk=classic&rsk=hitlist The clarity of the brass and the almost subsonic undertones are quite amazing even over my little PC screechers. What kind of camera did Sibelius use I wonder - he certainly got some wonderful colour rendition into his music :-) Cheers Douglas Art Peterson wrote: > Douglas wrote: > > 'Talking of interpretations - has anyone else ever compared Jean Sibelius > 2nd Symphony (and the Karelia Suite for that matter)? > 1 interpreted by Ashkenazy > 2 interpreted by Leonard Bernstein > > 'I have never heard such a difference in interpretation in my life - Lenny > took all > the emotion out of it, Ashkenazy brought out everything that Sibelius > stood for in > Finland and Karelia. An amazingly moving interpretation! > It has a similar 'ooomph' that a decent interpretation of Elgar's > Nimrod or Barber's Adagio has - pure distilled emotion.' > > Try to find and listen to Arturo Toscanini's live 1940 broadcast > performance of it with the NBC Symphony (it was on a Naxos CD), so > intense, dedicated, and passionately emotional that you'd almost expect to > find blood on the studio floor after it was over! As with so many > performances by Toscanini, no one else even comes close. The broadcast > (and the Naxos CD) also closed with an equally searing performance of > 'Finlandia.' > > Art Peterson > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Caf?. Stop > by today. > http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLtagline > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >