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Has anyone else heard this recent Sony release, featuring the above-named performers and the NDR SO in Mozart's sublime Sinfonia Concertante? I found it shockingly bad: bloated, vulgar. Some of the tempo exaggerations and outbursts from the violinist have to be heard to be believed. Poor violist Imai, a fine player, sounds like she is wishing she were in a different performance. The 'DSD' sound (whatever that is) is blowzy, overblown, incoherent, with ridiculous spotlighting of Midori's scenery chewing. Ugh. Caveat emptor. Soon to be on ebay.
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Adolf
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I thought it pretty awful too (as did my father who played it to me via an SACD); I would have minded it less had Midori's playing been technically better, but even there the performance is lacking.
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JasicaCHINA
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Perhaps Midori needs to be lured away to another label? ;
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SkyLeach
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I thought it was pretty bad too - having Isaac Stern's 60th birthday gala as my reference - but I just pulled the CD from the library to listen to the other work on the program, the world premiere (?) of Wilby's reconstruction of K. Anh. 56, the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Orchestra. I thought that was quite good, good enough that I'm interested in playing it myself with another Oberlin student!
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Elder
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Yes, I agree that the reconstruction is an interesting work and it is far more successful than the K. 364. Eschenbach is on good behavoir, and the work is charming in Mozart's galant mode.
Paul Goldstein
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ugosanchezo
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Interesting? There is no reconstruction on my copy of the 60th Stern Anniversary Celebration disc (CBS MK 36692) which does contain a K. 364. There *is* a Wilby reconstruction of KV App. 56/3151* on Disc 4 within Volume 8, Philips Complete Mozart Edition, 422 508-2. Who is showing the early signs of Alzheimer's?
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sophia8
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Tbe incompletion of K.Anh.56 is a terrible loss to music. Before Wilby's reconstruction, there was Robert Levin's, IIRC the first of his several Mozart restorations, among which was the fragment of an oboe concerto movement K293. I wish these were available on a modern-instruments recording.
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audiclub
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I'll leave that for you to decide, Norm, but Sonarrat was obviously talking about the Midori disc, not the Stern, when he referred to the K. Anh. 56.
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bluehorse
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Bingo. The Stern concert is paired with the Bach D minor Double, a recording which never fails to floor me every time. So does the Sinfonie Concertante on that same disc, for that matter.
The K. Anh. 56 is Eschenbach/Midori.
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On 10 Apr 2003 13:29:17 -0700, Paul Goldstein
I bought, I listened, I auctioned.
Mike Prager North Carolina, USA (Remove symbols from email address to reply.)
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eva12
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Will there soon be another 'defection' from Sony, do you think?
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