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A member of one of the horn lists provided this link:

http://www.arte.tv/fr/Echappees-culture ... 46628.html

This page apparently only comes in French or German. Yet it should be possible to deduct from the dates, which concerts are available by now. I haven’t tried the other ones, but the 3rd symphony actually works and is running on my system now.

Klaus

Watching this reminds me of the time in high school when I went over from the all-state band to play one piece (I don't remember what) with the orchestra, which had not auditioned any tubas. So they borrowed one (me) from the band. Playing under an orchestral conductor was crazy for me. I guess all the better players here are used to it. But the whole ensemble is behind the conductor. When he gives a downbeat, we'll get to it here in a little bit.

imperialbari wrote:I haven’t tried the other ones, but the 3rd symphony actually works and is running on my system now.

I'm watching the second symphony now, waiting to hear Sarah Connolly sing Urlicht.
Many thanks for the link, Klaus!

Apparently a French site has teamed up with the Leipzig Mahler Festival for this free broadcast project commemorating the composer’s death 100 years ago.

I have not subscribed to the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra’s streamed concerts. I find their sound too polished and Sir Simon certainly rattles nothing at all with me. In short I find the BPO boring, even if at a technically very high level. And I am aware of one TubeNet member subscribing to this series and being very happy about that.

The Dresden Staatskapelle playing Mahler 3 isn’t rough at all, yet I find it much more alive. I run the sound over a home theatre with a bass booster.

Klaus

I noticed that the tuba player of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester (the one that plays Symphony #10) uses an American-style front-action piston tuba. Do you know whether he is an American?

talleyrand wrote: But the whole ensemble is behind the conductor. When he gives a downbeat, we'll get to it here in a little bit.

That's really rampant in Europe: playing the better part of a second behind the ictus. It's utterly pointless, and makes big "crash chords" especially dangerous, as there's the added uncertainty of exactly how far behind the beat one's colleagues are likely to play.

talleyrand wrote:...But the whole ensemble is behind the conductor...

And how much behind is different from conductor to conductor...

Thanks for the great link Klaus.

It may be of interest for the Americans on TN to know there is a for free streaming of the NYPO under the baton of Alan Gilbert performing Kindertotenlieder and the 5th symphony at the 2011 Mahler Festival of Leipzig. The flip side of the original live stream being recycled is about the intermission not being cut out the symphony starts at about 57.40:

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Les_Kin ... av_Mahler/

PS: Looks like the sound is set to zero in link given. Easily corrected via the loudspeaker icon.

imperialbari wrote:It may be of interest for the Americans on TN to know there is a for free streaming of the NYPO under the baton of Alan Gilbert performing Kindertotenlieder and the 5th symphony at the 2011 Mahler Festival of Leipzig. The flip side of the original live stream being recycled is about the intermission not being cut out the symphony starts at about 57.40:

http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Les_Kin ... av_Mahler/

PS: Looks like the sound is set to zero in link given. Easily corrected via the loudspeaker icon.

If only they could get the sound and video sync'd!

Worth watching just to see the cutie playing horn to Phil Myers' left. Glad I tricked her into marrying me before she got all superstar