Two bearded maestros

Two bearded maestros

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norman lebrecht

May 16, 2016

New release:

segerstam brahms

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  • Gene Gaudette says:
    May 16, 2016 at 2:12 pm

    Album Cover of the yaer front-runner. So far.

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  • Mr Oakmountain says:
    May 16, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    I’m sure there must be a photo of Eschenbach looking similar to Bruckner.
    Any other possible composer-conductor combinations that might work? Szell-Stravinsky perhaps?

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  • DESR says:
    May 16, 2016 at 3:31 pm

    Alban Berg and Carlos Kleiber for the latter’s recording of Wozzeck would be interesting…
    Especially as they were father and son!

    Norman, can you find some relevant pictures and we can let readers judge?

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  • DESR says:
    May 16, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    Have you ever seen Barenboim and Albright in the same room? They are clearly one and the same person! Duh…

    But Kleiber and Berg were father and son. The primary evidence is the close resemblance. But it also makes sense of Kleiber’s famously fragile and problematic relationship with Erich, his desire for approval from him (and possibly his choice of career) but then it all comes together in Wozzeck.

    The work his father wrote, and his other father conducted at its premiere.

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  • Carmen says:
    May 16, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    I nominate the guy from Whiplash and Christoph Eschenbach. They should totally do an album together.

    https://www.google.es/search?q=whiplash&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjk2JXBkN_MAhUFzxQKHasACT8Q_AUIBygB&biw=1300&bih=683#imgdii=5BUo81_oDbuftM%3A%3B5BUo81_oDbuftM%3A%3Be0LZrcRp47qEPM%3A&imgrc=5BUo81_oDbuftM%3A

    https://www.google.es/search?q=christoph+eschenbach&espv=2&biw=1300&bih=683&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwihqY36kN_MAhVHDxoKHcRbChwQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=CE1D9Xucq1KadM%3A

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  • Cyril Blair says:
    May 17, 2016 at 1:32 am

    Christoph Eschenbach and Mike Myers’ Dr. Evil…

    Marin Alsop and Alfred Brendel…

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  • Robert Hairgrove says:
    May 17, 2016 at 9:37 am

    Only a private release, but I think this isn’t the first time the similarity was pointed out (Weissenberg and Rachmaninoff):

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTE94BRaMgo

    I’m sure that Alexis Weissenberg was very aware, and perhaps proud of, the similarity.

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  • Anon says:
    May 17, 2016 at 3:03 pm

    Rossini and John Goodman!

    http://tinyurl.com/hypoga6

    http://tinyurl.com/hyn6kxw

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  • John Borstlap says:
    May 17, 2016 at 9:25 pm

    Brahms’ classically-trimmed beard demonstrates more musical discipline than the bohemian wildgrowth of Segerstam. Where the one restricted himself to the number four, the other’s incontinence spills beyond the boundaries of musical meaning.

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    • joey b says:
      May 17, 2016 at 10:20 pm

      And Brahms was not fat except maybe in the last year of his life. The two truly have nothing in common. But Leif believes it so hard so let him have it…

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    • Holly Golightly says:
      May 18, 2016 at 3:05 am

      Harsh. And, anyway, Johannes was more handsome.

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