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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: I haven't heard the BSO in many years, but..... posted by Rick W on February 11, 2007 at 14:49:49:
"Who -- other than possibly touring soloists and conductors -- gets to hear a variety of music played by even 10 orchestras in a variety of halls over, say, a three year span? How else could informed judgements be made?"The great ones in history, Stokowski's Philadelphia, Koussevitzky's Boston, Reiner's Chicago, Szell's Cleveland, Karajan's Berlin, and Dutoit's Montreal had distinctive tonal character that could make one pick these bands out when listening to something for the first time. Even over the radio. (I personally think Charles Dutoit has been the best conductor I've experienced during my lifetime.) For example, the Koussevitzky Boston had a clarity of melodic line that IMO was never equalled. (This was still notable early in Charles Munch's tenure.) No orchestra had better chops and tonal nuance than Szell's Cleveland. (Which may have actually peaked under Lorin Maazel.) Chicago's brass was overpowering and easily recognized. Berlin had a unique articulation for composers like Wagner that was unmistakable. I thought Montreal combined the sonorities of Cleveland and the melodic integrity of Boston. Even Vienna, with its superb string tone and raw in the brass.
But for the past decade, in my opinion, no orchestra had such uniqueness in character to pick it out like at one time. (Although I have not heard Montreal or Cleveland in recent time.) I will also say that the digitization of music has stunted our ability to discern such character.
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Follow Ups
- Re: I haven't heard the BSO in many years, but..... - Todd Krieger 01:43:47 02/12/07 (3)
- Maybe so, but this was about *ranking* orchestras. nt - Rick W 14:59:30 02/12/07 (0)
- attaboy, Todd K---go, go, go - docw 12:38:58 02/12/07 (0)
- "The digitization of music has stunted our ability..." Indeed! The CD (untreated) makes it almost impossible... - clarkjohnsen 11:23:20 02/12/07 (1)
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