tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post7641648742611755035..comments2024-03-29T04:15:17.481-05:00Comments on <a href="http://ionarts.blogspot.com/">Ionarts</a>: Best Recordings of 2008 - "Almost List"Charles T. Downeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978821617871429169noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-41052015836055570562008-12-15T12:37:00.000-05:002008-12-15T12:37:00.000-05:00Wait for my comments on the Munich Orchestra hiera...Wait for my comments on the Munich Orchestra hierarchy... :-) <BR/><BR/>I respect Jansons tremendously and he's turned in performances and made recordings that I absolutely adore. But I go to his concerts expecting high-quality, not hoping for excitement. Welser-Moest complex? Excellent orchestra, very accomplished results, lack of that <I>Je ne sais quoi</I>.jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-75184655841872142272008-12-15T03:23:00.000-05:002008-12-15T03:23:00.000-05:00"the bland, unexciting, and sometimes even dull re..."the bland, unexciting, and sometimes even dull results that Jansons and his super-orchestra achieved"<BR/><BR/>THANK YOU, Jens! Finally someone else daring to say it. Reactions in the newspapers here to Jansons' conducting of the orchestra are as if everything he touches turns to gold, and I am much more inclined towards bland, unexciting and dull. If you ask me, Jansons is reaping the benefits Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-91078722654016487492008-12-13T12:03:00.000-05:002008-12-13T12:03:00.000-05:00I guess he (rightly) figured "This stuff is too go...I guess he (rightly) figured "This stuff is too good to let go to waste." And much as I adore Brahms in chamber music: Better a wacky Schumann third movement in a violin sonata than one from stodgy Johannes.jflhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03017753357752263113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5607352.post-41346324308209872132008-12-13T08:23:00.000-05:002008-12-13T08:23:00.000-05:00All this time listening to the Schumann sonatas, a...All this time listening to the Schumann sonatas, and I'd never realized that he'd "finished" the FAE sonata into a third -- I have to check it out@Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com