Re: RCMR hits bottom



On May 16, 2:32 pm, schu...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Schultz) wrote:


Someone lent me the EMI "Complete Mahler" collection.  The only Bertini
in that set is what claims to be a live recording of a performance given
in Japan.  The Japanese are certainly polite -- they neither cough nor
applaud.  In any case, I thought that the performance was overrated, although
perhaps not as much as the Barbirolli 5th and Maazel 4th that are also
part of the set.


Hello Richard. You're right, the Japanese *are* very polite (I married
one). Audiences rarely, if ever cough and splutter during a
performance. In the UK, everyone sounds as though they have terminal
bronchitis. They do applaud, very enthusiastically in fact, but this
has obviously been edited.

JB.
.



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