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Offline Jot N. Tittle

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Abbado M-4 DVD just released
« on: July 28, 2009, 09:35:12 PM »
According to Amazon.com, Abbado and the Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester's performance of M-4 was released today. It is paired with Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande. Apparently these were 2006 performances.

Anyone here know the details?

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Re: Abbado M-4 DVD just released
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2009, 12:19:17 AM »
Juliane Banse is the soprano. The orchestra is the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester. I watched this just last night! The performance is pretty good. I wouldn't say that it's the best I've ever seen or heard, but good none-the-less. To me, Banse sounds a bit better than she does on the Boulez M4. Then again, watching her may soften one's opinion, as she's not exactly hard on the eyes. Regardless, she does a better job here than Renee Fleming did on Abbado's last DG effort. Anyway, this performance was filmed at Vienna's Musikverein. It was a bit better than I had anticipated. 

Sorry, but I didn't watch the Schoenberg. Maybe sometime later.
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Re: Abbado M-4 DVD just released
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2009, 09:04:29 PM »
Bruno Luong reports on the MahlerList that there are tracking errors on this disc. Anyone else encounter that?

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Re: Abbado M-4 DVD just released
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2009, 09:31:05 PM »
What Bruno said, more exactly, was:

"technical flaw in the audio PCM stereo tracks, it was saturated at [a] few places."

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Re: Abbado M-4 DVD just released
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2009, 06:09:49 AM »
I didn't notice anything weird like that. Then again, we were watching it on a television set at my parents home.

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Re: Abbado M-4 DVD just released
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2009, 03:22:02 AM »
Subsequent messages from Bruno indicate that the problem is in the Schoenberg portion of the DVD.

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