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John F
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by John F » Tue Nov 19, 2019 2:52 pm
The Chicago Symphony’s Brass Is World-Famous. Hear It Blast.
By Michael Cooper
Nov. 18, 2019
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by barney » Tue Nov 19, 2019 5:30 pm
I was fortunate enough to hear the CSO do Shostakovich 13 last year. I happened to be in Chicago for the season-opener. Believe me, their brass still had it.
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by Belle » Tue Nov 19, 2019 10:36 pm
As it happens, last Thursday at our music group the presentation was about Trombones. Our presenter is a Trombonist, retired academic, erstwhile bandleader and jazz musician. He adores the 'bones, suggesting they represent the most beautiful sound 'here on earth'!!
About 3 or 4 years ago he observed that, by the age of 18, if you're not as good as the first Trombone in the Chicago Symphony you'll never make a career with the instrument!! A slight exaggeration, but we got the point.
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by maestrob » Wed Nov 20, 2019 11:29 am
The article mentions two recordings I have had since they were originally issued: Mahler VII/Solti, and Shostakovich VII/Bernstein. Both are benchmarks in my library. I was fortunate enough to hear Bernstein/Shostakovich VII when he brought the Chicago Symphony to Avery Fisher Hall in June of 1988. This was one of the great concert experiences in my life. Frankly, the brass stood out, but never too strongly, and the depth of sound from the whole orchestra was emotionally overwhelming. The recording is great, but that live performance was greater still.
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by Belle » Wed Nov 20, 2019 3:40 pm
I've had two experiences of the CSO: one with Solti in 1988 in Adelaide and the other with Muti in 2011 at the Musikverein where I literally sat 3 feet from the first violins (virtually right in that section in the Links Parterre Loge). The orchestra was overwhelming!!! I'll never forget it. But I thought Muti's Beethoven tempo was too slow overall.
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by maestrob » Thu Nov 21, 2019 10:43 am
Belle wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2019 3:40 pm
I've had two experiences of the CSO: one with Solti in 1988 in Adelaide and the other with Muti in 2011 at the Musikverein where I literally sat 3 feet from the first violins (virtually right in that section in the Links Parterre Loge). The orchestra was overwhelming!!! I'll never forget it. But I thought Muti's Beethoven tempo was too slow overall.
IMHO, Muti was never at his best in German repertoire. I have a video of him leading Philadelphia in Brahms II that doesn't quite gel, and I saw him live (again w/Philadelphia) in a quite awful Bruckner IV in Carnegie Hall. His Beethoven Symphonies with Philadelphia (now on Warner) are quite dull overall.
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by Belle » Thu Nov 21, 2019 3:30 pm
It was the older woman sitting next to me in the Musikverein, during interval, who started talking to me about Muti's Beethoven. I hadn't heard much of it before that.
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by barney » Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:26 pm
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, his Shostakovich 13 last year was electrifying.
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by maestrob » Fri Nov 22, 2019 10:46 am
barney wrote: ↑Thu Nov 21, 2019 4:26 pm
At the risk of sounding like a broken record, his Shostakovich 13 last year was electrifying.
I have a Rite of Spring/Petrushka on EMI from Muti's Philadelphia years that is electrifying. And, of course, his opera videos are really excellent. I don't have any of his Chicago recordings, since none of them have been brought to my attention, so can have no opinion, but the amazon reviews are not overwhelmingly good.
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