Tintners Schubert on Naxos

This disc doesn't seem to have been discussed much here, and I'm wondering what people's reactions are to it. I've just been listening to it and like it very much. The performances have warmth, subtlety and character. The 9th is surprisingly vigorous with prominent winds and timpani, a bit the way a Peter Maag performance might sound; the 8th is more conventionally steady and spacious. I'm looking forward to hearing other discs in this series.

Dear Naum:

Which disk are you describing? Which Schubert's works does it include?

Thanks Juan I. Cahis Santiago de Chile (South America)

Note: Please forgive me for my bad English, I am trying to improve it!

I found it short on polish and lacking intensity. It's already in the 'sell' pile, along with the earlier Mozart disc in the series.

I haven't seen any of these. I wasn't aware they had been issued.

Symphonies 8 and 9, with Symphony Nova Scotia. I liked the Unfinished much better than the Ninth. In the former, I loved the sense of mystery he conjures in the beginning, and the second movement has that 'cantabile' quality demanded by Schubert. The 9th I found under-rehearsed and not quite as good. This Schubert disc has a talk on the 1st track about the Unfinished and the inadequacy (in Tintner's view) of completion attempts; something Juan will dispute, I am sure.

IMO, the Mozart disc is much better, with a fantastic G-minor with all the repeats included. I have never heard so grand a first movement to the Paris symphony. Tintner's vigorous reading of the Haffner certainly belies his age when the recording was made.

Ramon Khalona

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Is this a new release? I've not seen it or heard about it until now.

It's the second release in Naxos' Tintner Memorial series:
http://tinyurl.com/ivij

I agree that the 8th is more polished, but a quite distinctive interpretation of the 9th still comes through IMO. It didn't seem to me to call for more tolerance than some of the weaker entries in the Bruckner cycle, and all of those were still worth hearing. (And for trivia collectors, this is another performance with the diminuendo ending.)

I held off buying the Mozart disc because of lukewarm comments that I'd read. I'll certainly give it a try now.