Post by tommwi October 22, 2007 (31 of 37)
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Windsurfer said:
She is appearing in Carnegie Hall with Temirkanov and the St Petersburg Philharmonic, formerly the Leningrad Philharmonic if that rings a bell. Who said anything about a Dutch Orchestra? Anyway since PentaTone has announced nothing of the sort, its all moot, yes?
Oh yes - that became weird, strange post indeed. Excuse me! I was thinking of a new partnership for Julia Fisher, but can’t figure out anything really interesting within the past orchestra/conductor configuration from Pentatone to match JF and Beethoven. Thought you had an idea. As you (partly) had-I missed that.
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Post by jlaurson October 22, 2007 (32 of 37)
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Windsurfer said:
Yes "it" means the Beethoven, but to my knowledge no one ever mentioned anything about an imminent recording, but oh how I wish it would happen and with Temirkanov, ideally!
Do let me know how the St.P/Temirkanov/Fischer performance was! I am afraid I won't be able to go (wrong continent, currently)... but yes - the idea of her recording the work (in that set-up; Temirkanov/RNO is politically not feasible, anyway) must make all those who have heard her in one of those four concerts (or three?) salivate.
Much as I love my local crowds... I would not necessarily consider the B'more Audience more sophisticated than the Philly audience. But for the audience to "get it", more must be 'in place' than just a good audience. Seems these moments are special and rare. Any chance you heard Znaider in the Bruch concerto with the NSO? That was spectacular, too.
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jlaurson said:
Do let me know how the St.P/Temirkanov/Fischer performance was! I am afraid I won't be able to go (wrong continent, currently)... but yes - the idea of her recording the work (in that set-up; Temirkanov/RNO is politically not feasible, anyway) must make all those who have heard her in one of those four concerts (or three?) salivate.
Much as I love my local crowds... I would not necessarily consider the B'more Audience more sophisticated than the Philly audience. But for the audience to "get it", more must be 'in place' than just a good audience. Seems these moments are special and rare. Any chance you heard Znaider in the Bruch concerto with the NSO? That was spectacular, too.
Politically not feasible ??
Someone at the concert told me that the Sunday afternoon audience was not quite "with it".
My attendance at the Baltimore performances was because I wanted to take my then 89 yr old dad for a birthday present - he lives about 12 miles away. I took him to the Saturday morning performance. I couldn't resist the Thursday evening one as well.
I haven't been to Kennedy Center for maybe 35 yrs. Acoustically I don't think it is worth the bother. (We are talking about 375 miles one-way) I have never heard Znaider. I did however hear Leonidas Kavakos in Boston last season playing the Bartok #2 and that was memorable!
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Post by jlaurson October 24, 2007 (34 of 37)
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Windsurfer said:
Politically not feasible ??
I think you are right that the KC is not worth the bother of a 400 mile drive. However, Strathmore can be, if thats where a spectacular event takes place that is not showing up any closer to your.
Politics and Culture mingle, in Russia... and *especially* as regards the RNO, the "Rebel" Orchestra that fought against being taken over as the main propaganda orchestra and then very, very poignantly and politically made 2006 the BEETHOVEN year (Freedom, Liberty, Republicanism), as opposed to jumping on the DSCH-year bandwagon. Long story and sodden with lurid details. :-)
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jlaurson said:
Politics and Culture mingle, in Russia... and *especially* as regards the RNO, the "Rebel" Orchestra that fought against being taken over as the main propaganda orchestra and then very, very poignantly and politically made 2006 the BEETHOVEN year (Freedom, Liberty, Republicanism), as opposed to jumping on the DSCH-year bandwagon. Long story and sodden with lurid details. :-)
Thanks for the tip on Strathmore, I've never been there, but just "googled" it and it looks to be pretty easy to access coming from Baltimore!
What would stand in the way of PentaTone recording Julia with Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic? Now here is something audiophile dreams are made of - do it someday when they come to Amsterdam, in the Concertgebouw!
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Post by jlaurson October 25, 2007 (36 of 37)
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What would stand in the way of PentaTone recording Julia with Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic?
Nothing that I am aware of. I just said that Temirkanov would not likely be recording with the RNO. I wish that Fischer's colleague Arabella Steinbacher would be recorded on SACD by Orfeo -- they had the same teacher and are, dramatic differences in their style of playing notwithstanding, really qualitatively equivalent. Has anyone listened to the latter's Milhaud or the Latin American album (not usually my cup of tea, that repertoire) or the DSCH recordings? I've heard plenty DSCH VCs lately (Khachatryan, Hope, Josefowicz) and I find Steinbacher more convincing than all those (but not Vengerov, whose recordings of those two concertos are, despite Rostropovich, exceptional, indeed.)
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jlaurson said:
I wish that Fischer's colleague Arabella Steinbacher would be recorded on SACD by Orfeo
I wonder how we could persuade Orfeo to do that? (rhetorical question?)
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