The ALDA (Avoid Like Death Awards) Are Out! Celebrating The Worst Classical Recordings of 2024!

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• MA

  @mauriciootazo209 · 1 year ago (edited)

  What? Is it ALDA season already? Marry ALDAS to everyone. Thank you Dave for sharing all this time with us!

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• FR

  @francoisjoubert6867 · 1 year ago (edited)

  I stopped Munch conducting Mendelssohn to listen to this!  Thanks for making our lives so much richer.  Merry Christmas to you and your family.  And Happy Hannukah.

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• JE

  @jennyhirschowitz1999 · 11 months ago

  As a music teacher and Yiddishist, I enjoyed this so much…… tears to my eyes……especially the adjectival ‘chutzpedik’ …… “boreh pre ha Hurwitz” …… Miss Jenny

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• JA

  @Jasper_the_Cat · 1 year ago

  Dave you're hilarious! Being newer to classical music, though, I might actually give a few of these a listen as a way of testing my ability to listen critically and compare performances. I know some people might say that I should judge the quality of the performance for myself - but my first goal wouldn't be so much to judge based on my liking or not liking the performance, but just to (hopefully) notice the contrasts in approach. I think it might be a good starting place for me, because I'm not sure I could notice a difference between a good and great performance - or what the criteria between the two would be. But the contrast between an obviously lackluster and great performance might help. I'll probably start with Mahler's 9th because I've been studying the score for a while, and have listened to so many versions of it. The idea of it being played without vibrato in the strings sounds really strange.

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• TO

  @toastonmitchelltheOG · 1 year ago

  My favorite award show is back!!

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• DE

  @DennisKretzschmar-h1l · 1 year ago

  Regarding Barenboim and losing momentum during a work. I remember a video here on YouTube of him doing the Ninth (Beethoven) on behalf of the 'Berliner Staatsoper' or something like that. A live performance, done outside on a temporary stage. During the performance everything more and more slows down to a crawl where, at times, one cannot clearly tell what work it is they're playing. Add microphones increasingly picking up wind gusts, which later happily start to flip score pages on the stands in the orchestra. By the start of the fourth movement it's like witnessing the Titanic going down. Everyone on the stage seems to know the thing is doomed, yet the crew can't just leave the ship. Good to be able to leave, to stop the horror by the click of your mouse! And that I did.

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• MI

  @mitchellgeorge6031 · 1 year ago

  The only award show worth watching

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• ED

  @edfromlongisland2623 · 1 year ago

  Mr. Hurwitz,  thank you for your YouTube commentaries!  I have learned so much and you have enhanced my enjoyment of music!  I look forward to each and every talk!  Happy Hanukkah 🕎 and a Happy and Healthy New Year!  My best to your lovely cat, Mildred!

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• RO

  @robkeeleycomposer · 1 year ago (edited)

  The Night of the Long Scarves…. My cup overfloweth….😂 AND I get to brush up on my Yiddish!<br>‘He can conduct. But he just chooses not to.’ 😂

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• JG

  @jgesselberty · 1 year ago

  Dave, I love how you delineate between bad and pointless. &nbsp;Most conductors have had, in their careers, performances or recordings that missed the mark and were bad; but to do something that should never have been attempted in the first place, let alone, committed to a performance or recording is unforgiveable.

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• MA

  @maxwellkrem2779 · 1 year ago

  I would love to see a new category, the Hot Pink (or perhaps Heliotrope) Scarf of Hysterically Informed Performance. For all of those recordings of Mahler, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and DSch on &quot;original instruments.&quot; Thank you for the vid!

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• DA

  @danielfrancis4799 · 1 year ago

  Love your Awards Programme!

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