I'm there tomorrow night for the St. Louis SO playing Bartok and Sibelius. A couple of weeks ago I heard the Leipzig Gewandhaus play Strauss there, and I agree that there is no system on earth that can have that kind of power and authority. The live classical concert experience is a different experience than any reproduced music, and one that should be participated in by every classical music fan. It's not just the sheer power or volume of sound, it's the spontenaety, the chance that something truly magical can happen when the performers get it just right.
Live performance of Mahler's Symphony No.1
This was really something special.
Carnegie Hall, NDR Orchestra conducted by Cristoph von Dohnanyi, this was the best live classical music I have ever heard.
Program consisted of Georgy Ligeti's "Lontano", which was a really interesting piece, followed by Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto No.2 performed by Vadim Repin who was simply great, and then Mahler's Symphony No.1 and this is where the orchestra really displayed what they're capable of.
Great acoustics of Carnegie Hall, great musicians and a brilliant conductor made the Mahler sound like I have never heard before. It was purely magic.
I attended the performance of the 5th Symphony last month at Carnegie and it was excellent, but these guys topped it all.
Just wanted to share this and see if anyone else had attended this concert.
Now the bad part....my system doesn't even come close and I don't even know if a system capable of it exists.
There is nothing like a good live performance.
Nothing comes remotely near this kind of sound.
Carnegie Hall, NDR Orchestra conducted by Cristoph von Dohnanyi, this was the best live classical music I have ever heard.
Program consisted of Georgy Ligeti's "Lontano", which was a really interesting piece, followed by Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto No.2 performed by Vadim Repin who was simply great, and then Mahler's Symphony No.1 and this is where the orchestra really displayed what they're capable of.
Great acoustics of Carnegie Hall, great musicians and a brilliant conductor made the Mahler sound like I have never heard before. It was purely magic.
I attended the performance of the 5th Symphony last month at Carnegie and it was excellent, but these guys topped it all.
Just wanted to share this and see if anyone else had attended this concert.
Now the bad part....my system doesn't even come close and I don't even know if a system capable of it exists.
There is nothing like a good live performance.
Nothing comes remotely near this kind of sound.
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