Ferras' Sibelius Violin Concerto

Dufus

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Feb 8, 2012, 9:23:44 PM2/8/12

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Holy cow !! The final mov.with Metha :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-kUgjCAKo

Does the DGG cd with Karajan / BPO bring the same level of playing ?
Thanks :

http://tinyurl.com/758hkqp

Probably my fav violin concerto ( with the Prokofiev 1st ) so I
probably need to add Ferras to Heifetz/Beecham ?

Dufus

Gerard

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Feb 9, 2012, 7:19:46 AM2/9/12

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Dufus <steve...@gmail.com> typed:
> Holy cow !!

Where?

Your fav violin concerto and you have one recording only?
Try Oistrach/Rozhdestvensky.

Alan Cooper

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Feb 9, 2012, 8:32:13 AM2/9/12

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Dufus <steve...@gmail.com> wrote in
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Yep. You also need Bustabo, Wicks, and Spivakovsky among others :-)

AC

Paul Goldstein

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Feb 9, 2012, 10:47:40 AM2/9/12

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In article <fad440be-3dde-41f5...@pm3g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>,
Dufus says...

>
>Holy cow !! The final mov.with Metha :
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-kUgjCAKo
>
>Does the DGG cd with Karajan / BPO bring the same level of playing ?
>Thanks :
>
>http://tinyurl.com/758hkqp

The DGG version is superb. Sibelius usually brought out the best in HvK. This
is
no exception (that bizarre ca. 1980 EMI 2nd is an exception IMO).

Alan Cooper

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Feb 9, 2012, 11:45:17 AM2/9/12

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Paul Goldstein <pgol...@newsguy.com> wrote in
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> In article
> <fad440be-3dde-41f5...@pm3g2000pbb.googlegroups.co

> m>, Dufus says...
>>
>>Holy cow !! The final mov.with Metha :
>>
>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZX-kUgjCAKo
>>
>>Does the DGG cd with Karajan / BPO bring the same level of
>>playing ? Thanks :
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/758hkqp
>
> The DGG version is superb. Sibelius usually brought out the
> best in HvK. This is
> no exception (that bizarre ca. 1980 EMI 2nd is an exception
> IMO).

Totally agree, and the Galleria reissue of the VC is c/w K's stupendous recording of
Tapiola.

AC

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whisky...@yahoo.com

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Feb 9, 2012, 8:04:34 PM2/9/12

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Very good performance by Ferras, whose work I am not at all familiar
with. I presume it's stolen off the following DVD.
http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Sibelius-Stravinsky-Classic-Archive/dp/B0001AW0BG/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1328835356&sr=1-1

The young Mehta does a good job, but what the hell happened to him in
his recording of the Sibelius Second Symphony on Teldec? Bloated
unpleasant performance to be avoided at all costs. Or buy it as a
party record, to demonstrate just how NOT to play the Sibelius Second
Symphony.

http://www.amazon.com/Symphony-No-Op-Major-Finlandia/dp/B000009II0/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1328835306&sr=1-1

Paul Goldstein

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Feb 10, 2012, 10:07:44 AM2/10/12

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In article <a4526$4f344bf7$5355658e$13...@cache70.multikabel.net>, EM says...
>
>Paul Goldstein <pgol...@newsguy.com> - 9 Feb 2012 07:47:40 -0800:

>
>>The DGG version is superb. Sibelius usually brought out the best in HvK. This
>> is
>> no exception (that bizarre ca. 1980 EMI 2nd is an exception IMO).
>

>What's bizarre about that 2nd?

As I recall, sluggish, stop-go tempi; overemphasis of secondary details;
seemingly
wilful subversion of the dramatic line of the piece.