Building a Library on BBC Radio 3 on 22 February 2014

[james]

Yes , it is and is was a great programme, do you want me to 'dish the dirt'? [Hint] Darren would be pleased.
Next week it's West Side [feckin'] Story, yuck!

Yes please .. who won ?

james

[Seán]

Yes , it is and is was a great programme, do you want me to 'dish the dirt'? [Hint] Darren would be pleased.
Next week it's West Side [feckin'] Story, yuck!

Yes please .. who won ?

james

Well it started with Toscainni's stirring 1936 recording:


he was positive about Klemperer:


considered Zinman anodyne when compared to Gardiner's latest Seventh, I quite liked the excerpt he played:


Considered Immersel's forces too light (I HAVE TO AGREE). they are actually half the number Beethoven recommended, where's the sense in that?


In the end he gave favourable mention to the last winner. I LOVE what I have heard of Kleiber's recording, I must get it, this is just heavenly music-making:


BUT THE WINNER was the wonderful Charles Mackerras with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra:

[fergus]

considered Zinman anodyne when compared to Gardiner's latest Seventh, I quite liked the excerpt he played:



In the end he gave favourable mention to the last winner. I LOVE what I have heard of Kleiber's recording, I must get it, this is just heavenly music-making:

The entire Zinman cycle from which that seventh is taken is a little bit more than anodyne IMHO.


Seán, that Kleiber version of Beethoven 5 is also magnificent; it is a disc well worth having on your shelf.

[james]

Thanks Sean
James

[Seán]

considered Zinman anodyne when compared to Gardiner's latest Seventh, I quite liked the excerpt he played:



In the end he gave favourable mention to the last winner. I LOVE what I have heard of Kleiber's recording, I must get it, this is just heavenly music-making:

The entire Zinman cycle from which that seventh is taken is a little bit more than anodyne IMHO.

I expect it is.

Seán, that Kleiber version of Beethoven 5 is also magnificent; it is a disc well worth having on your shelf.

Thanks Fergus, I am trying to avoid buying yet more performances of Beethoven's symphonies, that said, I do listen to them all the time so I would probably be daft to avoid getting it.