bollemanneke

When were they planning to elaborate on these online concerts that we were going to get in May?

The money pit. Happy I finished it. Hanks sounds almost unrecognisable, Long is fantastic, the sound mix and the music is great and the OST doesn't exist.

I'm not really complaining, I'm just astonished that, going through these conductor boxes, so many people seemed to insist on recording the same stuff over and over again. And even more astonished that the financial powers that be let them do it. Like, why did no one say: Listen, your 60s recording is good enough, you're not doing this anymore. Do something else. Can you imagine LLL allowing a re-print of Hook while the first version was still available just because they managed to make a violin line a bit more audible?

Why could he, though? I never understood why labels kept forking out money for stuff they already had. Plus, this one in particular just sounds bad.

No, Berlin. Vienna is later. I don't understand why he needed to re-record everything 8 times.

The Terminal, Prayer for Peace, Yorktown March, Joy Ride, the People's House...

I'm curious if his set list will differ at all. It would probably be too much to hope for more Hook, Jane Eyre, Home Alone, Schindler's List etc, but I could do without all the usual marches and stuff at this point. Give me Window to the Past and The Banquet Scene in stead.

Tchaikovsky 5, Karajan, EMI. Yet another wholly unnecessay recording. Brass flubs abound, sonics are awful. Worse than his previous DG recording, so why on earth bother?

Maybe this news will encourage DG to put Vienna 2 and Milan out soon now that they need to start butchering Berlin 2.

They're great. I've never heard Tchaikovsky's 3rd symphony played the way they did it with Jansons.

I mean, 2018 was sad and all, but the concert still ended up being pretty awesome. The only thing missing from that one is a decent recording.

I'll try and go too this time.

Oh wow wow wow, God...

Huh, why can Japan get it earlier?

Wait, so what's on May 3rd now?

No, because he said he was done with films, right? He's done enough, he needs to enjoy the time he has left.

You will never behave like that again.

Unlikely. God himself can't sink it.

I think I asked him about recording ideas before the concert, and he said he had no ideas. It's proabbly copyright nonsense no sensible human being cares about, but maybe he could use his Italian charm. I'm sure JW wouldn't mind us having the Milan concert.

Pulcinella suite, Marriner. Wow. Stravinsky can write... music?

Well that didn't work, 2 minutes too long.

I'm really excited to try your alternate OST program suggestion. But I want to take things further still: I'm going to insert the Boston Pops concert arrangements in it.

I'm just starting to listen to the Hook Pre-Concorde bootleg, just to see how bad it is. Violin totally botching Hook's March. Nice.

But this is what I don't understand. Flashpoint, as an album, is great. But we can't have a second disc that contains those B-sides, and thereby covering everything. Meanwhile, Steel Wheels 2000 seems to favour different performances, which I don't want. Straightforward releases would be heaven.

But it still seems to be missing Play with Fire, which Wikipedia says was recorded too.