Great to meet you: definitely following you now! I take it you mean the Prelude to Act 1 of Parsifal, which is indeed amazing (there's no "overture" as such). Which performances do you like? Kna (Knappertsbusch) and Goodall are pretty much top of my list! ( saw Goodall conduct act III at the Proms one year).
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Yes, my bad! I meant the Prelude ;) Oh, Kna is incredible, he can be so full of pathos at one moment, and then light as a feather right after... I never heard the Goodall version! Must have been so beautiful to see him live! I do like Karajan's take as well. Of course, my favourite Wagner work is "Tristan und Isolde".
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Deffo search out the Goodall if you can find it. It's incredibly slow, but no-one did slow quite like Reggie. I grew up with the Karajan Parsifal (an amazing Kundry in that cast). Tristan is astonishing, too. Where do you stand on Carlos Kleiber?
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I'm gonna look out for Goodall! There's nothing like a well constructed slow tempo shivering you little by little hehe! To me C. Kleiber is probably the best Beethoven, I know I'm not being particulary original saying this but honestly I feel he just deliver like no one else! Do you listen to Mahler?
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I do listen to Mahler although not as much as I once did. I think we all overdosed on Mahler in the 1980s to about 10 years ago. There was a time you could hardly move for performances of the Second Symphony in London. Agree re Carlos Kleiber in what Beethoven he recorded; I'm not convinced his Tristan is the best though.
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Oh, I didnt knew Kleiber had a Tristan! Another one to look out for! I have a special place for Mahler within me; in Brazil its dreadfully rare to catch a Mahler performancw... I sure would like to overdose on him! Specially with his 5th and 7th! haha Wonderful to have this conversation with you, @parsifalangel!
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Ps interesting you like the Seventh; not so many people do. I remember a performance conducted by Salonen in I think the 1980s that convinced me of its worth; from there to Tennsyedt'd EMI recording ....
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May I ask what your thoughts on Bernstein's Mahler are?
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I appreciate Bernstein's Mahler very much, he was pivotal in popularizing Mahler's works, I guess... but its not my favorite Mahler. I may favor his rival Karajan! What about you, what do you think on Bernstein's Mahler?
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