I'd be interested to hear about the concerts you'd be attending and your impressions. I will post mine after this superb event. Last time I heard this performance my wife broke in tears at the end, as Ozawa held up the score to a standing ovation...
I'd be interested to hear about the concerts you'd be attending and your impressions. I will post mine after this superb event. Last time I heard this performance my wife broke in tears at the end, as Ozawa held up the score to a standing ovation...
I'd be interested to hear about the concerts you'd be attending and your impressions. I will post mine after this superb event. Last time I heard this performance my wife broke in tears at the end, as Ozawa held up the score to a standing ovation...
Years ago heard Rattle conducting the BSO doing Mahler's 7th at Symphony Hall. Now that was an experience and ain't no system ever going to that piece justice (kinda like Walton's Belshazzar's Feast and Britten's War Requiem). The sound literally washed over the audience!
Well, the concert was simply ravishing - Don, what did you think? While the tempo slower than Ozawa's or Solti's, the performance and sound was just spectacular. I find the second balcony center to offer the best seats at Symphony Hall for such scale music, and someone at the concert told me that Ozawa's favorite seat was the very last row of the second balcony.
Myles' words of wisdom above reflect my sentiment, although this time I wasn't embarrased coming back home to my system, unlike 8 years ago - a lot has changed since then in terms of technology, but I am not sure that CD or LP have what it takes to reproduce such large scale music, that's why I am excited but 24/176 digital.
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