This is the time of the year to make summaries and resolutions. In fact I've had a number of blog drafts to be published in the pipeline, but never had time to finish them. So now I list my planned entries, including those I expressed a wish to elaborate in the past:
1) My Furtwangler collection,
2) Keilberth's Bruckner recordings, in particular the 6th,
3) Bruckner recordings with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,
4) Bruckner recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra,
5) Bruckner recordings with the Gewandhaus Orchestra,
6) Recent releases: Blomstedt's and Haitink's Bruckner 5th, Maazel's Bruckner recordings,
7) Continue with more frequency the "Enlivening path" series,
8) More when they come to mind.
Once again, wish you all a healthy and happy 2011.
02 January 2011
25 December 2010
Meryy Christmas and Happy New Year to You All
During this festive season, may I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a healthy, peaceful and fruitful New Year.
26 November 2010
Lorin Maazel, the as-of-yet equivocal Brucknerian
The recently released Bruckner cycle by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra adds more substance to our understanding of Lorin Maazel as a Brucknerian. His first Bruckner recording was way back in 1974 (Vienna Philharmonic, the Fifth), a strange performance, and it was followed in the 1980's with the Seventh and the Eighth (Berlin Philharmonic), again very idiosyncratic ones.
His approach to Bruckner has fundamentally changed based on the comparison of these 3 symphonies with the "new" set recorded in 1999. Such drastic changes are seldom seen in Brucknerians, albeit with the exception of Celibidache in his late years. Even Celibidache had changes which can be expected to run through all, or at least the late, symphonies in a global sense, but Maazel had changes which were just equivocal and segmental.
Maybe just because of his revolutionalized (as far as his own is concerned) approach that this new set is interesting in itself. More later...
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