The Last Steps [Live]

the last steps [live]

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Available for the first time in the states, Gentle Giant's landmark live performance at Hollywood's Roxy Theater in 1980! Miniature gatefold LP sleeve. Purple Pyramid. 2002.

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The Last Steps [Live]
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Live Radio Recordings
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Three-and-a-half stars ... All-around good but not essential
  • Really a wonderful collection - & well recorded performances
 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Live Radio Recordings

Manufacturer: Nm Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00000K0P8
Release Date: 1999-10-15

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3 out of 5 stars Three-and-a-half stars ... All-around good but not essential.......2003-03-02

I'm a big admirer of Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink. I think he is among the most consistent maestros today. But while this treasury of live performances, recorded for broadcast, is very fine, there's surprisingly little in here that's indispensible. It's all uniformly "good," but I don't think this would make it to my desert isle.

One of the interesting thing this set shows is that the Concertgebouw Orchestra and Haitink are a bit rougher in person than in the studio. (An English Horn solo in the Ravel Concerto was particularly gruff.) Some highlights: a soulful, dedicated Mozart 27th Piano Concerto with Clifford Curzon; a martial, mercurial Mahler 6th that, for some reason, still doesn't convince me; same with a DSCH 10th, which lacks gravity and is too fleeting at times, especially in the scherzo; a superb Stravinsky Threni; a wonderfully colored and cohesive Prokofiev 5th Concerto with Ashkenazy, and a very fine, well-organized Bruckner 7th that only lacks a scherzo with enough portent and bite. Some of the disappointments: a Prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 with Oistrakh where Haitink never really sounds idiomatic, though Oistrakh is superb; a good-but-not-great Bartok Second Violin Concerto with Stern; the aforementioned Ravel Concerto, where the soloist, Daniel Wayenberg, is excellent but where support is sloppy in spots.

Perhaps the most impressive thing about the set, though, is the range of music presented here. Perhaps they did it on purpose, but the collection emphasizes music we don't normally associate with Haitink, such as much music by the Second Viennese School. He conducts it well, but Boulez and Bernstein do it better. Again, very good, but nothing definitive. I've heard Haitink in some really fine recordings and performances, but these, while certainly good, are not quite the cream of the cream. And there's so much great Haitink already out there that this set finds itself competing with other recordings by the same maestro. However, there is also a lot of unusual repertoire here, a strong selling point.

4 out of 5 stars Really a wonderful collection - & well recorded performances.......2002-04-27

You might laugh, but I bought this to get a recording of Stravinsky's "Threni". It does have a whole disk dedicated to performances of various Stravinsky works and it is a very nice disk. But there are 13 MORE disks full of really choice LIVE performances! I am a fan of live music and recorded live music is the next best thing.

Go ahead and just carefully look at the range and variety of music and musicians offered here and you will quickly realize as I did (after I bought it) what a wonderful collection this is.

I know it will take some waiting to get this collection, and it isn't cheap, but it is very much worth the bother and the price.

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