Jazz for aficionados
alexatpos I will get to that McMaster article . Thanks. Just wondering I saw frogman's reply to your: Johnny Griffin. Was wondering where you read he had claustrophobia in studio. I had never heard that. He is one of my favorites. Just read rok's post. Are you from Croatia? I have been watching and following Worls Cup matches all month. This is really huge, man!! Best of luck to you and your country on sunday. |
Thanks, Rok and Nsp, very nice of you to say that (yes,I am from Croatia) By the way, it seems that scottish fans are even more happy than ours, after win over England.... https://www.facebook.com/SPORTbible/videos/3021999441278901/ Aldo there is massive hysteria over football, here, now, I cant see it more than a sport achievement,(as it as) oppose to a feeling of 'identification' with 'collective national spirit', that such things, sometimes, have tendency to represent. We are still very small (but beautiful) country with lots of problems and such things are sometimes purposlely used as distraction from dealings with more important stuff... It was one of the Frogman posts, an article, where there was a line about Griffin, not so long ago.You can try to browse his posts and find it. |
**** The difference in time was approx. 17 minutes!! Is that possible? Or is this a result of repeats taken or not taken? **** Sure it’s possible. Much controversy around what the “correct” tempos for Beethoven’s works should be. In recent times his symphonies have seldom been performed using Beethoven’s metronome markings in the score which would result in much faster performances. They are usually performed much slower than marked and Bohm’s recordings of the 9th are known for being some of the slowest. I have Bohm’s recording with Vienna, but I don’t know the Gardiner. It’s possible that Gardiner made an effort to, as some “purists” insist on doing, stick to Beethoven’s markings. This would result in a performance under one hour in duration vs many others which are in the 70+ min range. An interesting factoid that you may not be aware of: the possible total length of a CD was determined by Sony execs to be 74 mins in order for a single cd to accommodate the 9th in its entirety. At the time, the slowest known recorded performance was with Furtwangler conducting which clocks in at.......74 mins. |
I knew about the Sony CD thing. Seems as if Gardiner could conduct the 9th, and the 1812 overture, and still finish before Bohm finished his 9th. You should check out the Gardiner. The one I have is from a set of all Beethoven's Symphonies on the Archiv label. Released in 1994. Was all the rage in Europe at the time. Recording of the year etc... Thanks for the info. Cheers |
