Posted by Richard on March 21, 2002 at 15:04:52:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Vienna Bruckner 8 posted by Barry Guerrero on March 21, 2002 at 13:37:17:
Your point is well made, but the VPO is getting more sophisticated and worldly by the minute. Bernstein got them to play a bitchin' Prelude, Fugue, and Riffs (I believe that's on the DG collection Essential Bernstein. On the other hand, an Israeli conductor I know told me there was nothing more amusing to him than a rehearsal he attended where Bernstein explained in detail to the players of the VPO, the meaning of his Kaddish Symphony.