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Just checked the Gramophone wrap up.....

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Tom

In Reply to: RE: MWI already out with its "best" recordings of 2024 posted by Chris from Lafayette on December 01, 2024 at 20:03:21

There's some Bruckner in there, but no Honeck/Bruckner. Strange?

I'm not outraged since I'm not a Bruckner guy :-)

Gramophone 2024 (Open in New Window)

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Thanks for the link! - Chris from Lafayette 13:21:09 12/03/24 (4)
I didn't see any Bruckner among the Gramophone selections, but maybe the Bruckner choices are within the "sub articles". I checked a couple of these too, but still didn't find any Bruckner - maybe I was just too hasty.

Another interesting thing about that Honeck Pittsburgh Bruckner Seventh (aside from the lack of any mention in the Gramophone awards) is that, for me, there was another recording of that work from this past year which, IMHO, was just as good as the Honeck recording: Vladimir Jurowski with the Berlin RSO* on Apple's own Platoon label. Both the Honeck and the Jurowski recordings will be on my own list of faves this year. (Probably more Bruckner too - remember that September 2024 was the 200th anniversary of Bruckner's birth.)

* That's my own abbreviation. The orchestra's own abbreviated identification of themselves is "RSB" (presumably Rundfunk-Symphonieorchester Berlin, or Radio Symphony [Orchestra] Berlin).
- RE: Thanks for the link! - Tom 16:32:06 12/03/24 (3)
  My message referred to a link from last week. Sorry for the confusion.
  - Gramophone semi-finalists from a week ago (Open in New Window)
  - Which now appears to be behind a paywall! nt - Tom 16:35:38 12/03/24 (2)
    - No paywall today - pbarach 04:16:03 12/04/24 (1)
      I had no problem accessing the article. But if you aren't a Gramophone subscriber, you get asked to register when you have used up your monthly allotment of articles. If you have a VPN, turning it on and choosing a different country will get around that limitation.
      - Thanks for the suggestion! - Chris from Lafayette 16:40:13 12/04/24 (0)
        
        In Reply to: RE: No paywall today posted by pbarach on December 04, 2024 at 04:16:03
        
        My VPN happened to be parked in Qatar today, so I got through, and saw the references to the Bruckner recordings which Tom was referring to. One of these was to the Jurowski/Berlin RSO recording of the Seventh Symphony, which I'd just posted about here on AA. The other recording mentioned in the Gramophone article, to which I also have to give a "thumbs way up", is the Paavo Jarvi / ZTO set of Mendelssohn Symphonies on the Alpha label. There are more of course, but, for me, these are the standouts.
RE: Just checked the Gramophone wrap up..... - fstein 08:40:43 12/03/24 (1)
not invented here?
- RE: Just checked the Gramophone wrap up..... - Tom 10:55:33 12/03/24 (0)
  MWI and Gramophone are both UK-based (I think).
  
  I found it odd that the Honeck recording was pretty much universally praised at MWI and snubbed at Gramophone. I do note that the reviewers are not necessarily all UK/Euro or North American.
  
  But I have no dog in this fight.

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