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Otto Klemperer EMI Catalogue
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Yes - the Jochum is one of my favorite modern instrument versions. And believe it or not, Solti's version is also excellent.
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I'd have to say, either Klemps, Gardiner, Jochum, or whoever, any excuse to listen to the Matthew Passion is a good one.
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I bought an inexpensive 10 cd set of Bach choral works from EMI France many years ago - it has A St Matthew Passion with soloists including Theo Altmeyer, Nicolai Gedda, Hermann Prey with the Consortium Classicum conducted by Wolfgang Gonnenwein.
Truth be told I have never listened to it as I was after other recordings in the set, until this morning - my question is simply: does anyone know this recording and if they do what are their thoughts on it.
Thanks.
Truth be told I have never listened to it as I was after other recordings in the set, until this morning - my question is simply: does anyone know this recording and if they do what are their thoughts on it.
Thanks.
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A dance!!!!!!! ................
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You're misreading it. It's an urgent call. 'Come ye daughters.....'
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Well, the full sentence is Come ye daughters and help me lament. They're not going to the disco; they're watching a man carrying his cross to be brutally killed. I mean, I think that's what Klemperer wants to bring out of it; it reflects the slow, halting steps of Christ carrying his cross and their realization that he is doing it for them ("Behold our guilt").
Of course, technically, I think Klemperer is taking it slower than Bach intended, but he wants to turn a sarabande into a death march.
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Amazing!
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Fascinating!
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I'm going through the romantic box set this weekend. I've never heard anybody do Dvorak's 9th like Klemperer. I guess you could call it the New World with old world sensibilities. But I enjoyed the beauty and elegance of it even though ol' Klempy couldn't really give it the New world vibe.
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After listening to the Tchaikovsky No.4 in the context of my symphony challenge, I'm thinking of waiting for Warner to release a complete set with all the recordings remastered, including the Beethoven cycle and buy it one Christmas. It's kind of the same with Celibidache, but this Tchaikovsky No.4 was completely the opposite to what most conductors (still don't know about the Russians) seem to do. It's a unique merciless aproach, no sharp edges or spectacular string and brass codas (like Karajan does, in the best way). With him, and his conducting, plus the touch of the orchestra, it's like the No.4 is not a "common" or "vulgar" piece of music anymore.
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I've heard a little of the No.5 just for pleasure and the woodwinds sounded a bit odd... I'll soon rate it in context.
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I've heard a little of the No.5 just for pleasure and the woodwinds sounded a bit odd... I'll soon rate it in context.
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Wow. As far as musical greats in one room, I think that beats that picture with Elvis with Jerry Lee and the rest of the Million Dollar Quartet.
Bach, Brahms, Schubert, Sibelius, Mahler, Messiaen
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Alright, who's the one in the middle between Toscanini and Klemperer? The rest I recognized instantly but I'm drawing a blank on him.Wow. Anyone ever seen this 1929 picture?
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Sorry if it's off-topic.
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Erich Kleiber?................
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Damn, Klempy was a giant. Great pic.Wow. Anyone ever seen this 1929 picture?
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Sorry if it's off-topic.
This is a quite well known picture...Eric Kleiber between AT and Klemp.
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Thanks, I hadn't seen that photo before. Some titan's there!Wow. Anyone ever seen this 1929 picture?
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Sorry if it's off-topic.
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