Comments on: My Lewes Sunday https://wolfiewolfgang.com/my-lewes-sunday/ Check in for my regular blogs and reviews Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:41:47 +0000 hourly 1 By: WolfieWolfgang (Colin Bell) https://wolfiewolfgang.com/my-lewes-sunday/#comment-1102 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 09:41:47 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=609#comment-1102 Thanks Eddi. It is particularly beautiful here at the moment but, before you get too nostalgic, we've had a dreary summer with low temperatures and a lot of rain. October is making up for it though.

The Brahms One recording I'm listening to at the moment is Levine and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1976)- a particular favourite of mine as I got to know the work through Levine's passionate interpretation which got a bit too smooth in his later versions. I've also been playing the Furtwangler (1951), Klemperer (1959) – both wonderful, of course and John Eliot Gardiner (2008) – "historically informed" but a bit rough in parts. I'm interested to hear Bernstein's recordings of Brahms too but haven't heard any of them yet.

]]> By: Eddi Haskell https://wolfiewolfgang.com/my-lewes-sunday/#comment-1101 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 06:14:59 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=609#comment-1101 I wish I was there. I moved to the USA, hot and humid Florida, in 2006 from Richmond near Kew and so miss the gorgeous October days that you should here. So sunny it is almost warm during the day, and cooler at night as soon as the Sun descends. I too love Brahms First Symphony, just curious which conductor you listen too. I am partial to the later Furtwangler versions, but Bruno Walters account with the Columbia Symphony Orchestra is magnificent. Thanks for the wonderful post.

]]> By: WolfieWolfgang (Colin Bell) https://wolfiewolfgang.com/my-lewes-sunday/#comment-1100 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:41:34 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=609#comment-1100 Thanks Katie! It was a truly wonderful light today.

]]> By: Katie https://wolfiewolfgang.com/my-lewes-sunday/#comment-1099 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:19:32 +0000 https://wolfiewolfgang.com/?p=609#comment-1099 Great photos 🙂 I didn't venture out in the lovely Lewes sunshine today, but looking at your photos I can pretend I did!

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