Dilemma

Try as I might, Mahler does nothing for me. I gave up with tonight's Prom and turned to Elton John's Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. The trouble is, Hilary and I sing along and the children look at us with that withering 'sad old gits' look. Now, if I had played something cool instead............

Nigel

I am not clear on what you are doing.

If you are playing a dvd and the audio/video is not tracking the same, there should be an adjustment in your player menu (mine is called av alignment and has a sliding scale of 100 ms). I have found most music dvds I have track best at 100ms setting - only one dvd I own can I not align, the Sarah McLachlan Afterglow Live.

If you are trying to integrate tv and simulcast radio, that won't be much help I suppose.

Jeff A

Nigel,

Mahler 7 is a particularly difficult work and not to be recommended for someone starting out with Mahler. To make matters worse, this was not a particularly impressive performance (or, at least, when I attended their concert in Edinburgh on Thursday it wasn't particularly impressive). If you haven't already tried, the best starting point is the first symphony. Mariss Jansons has just made a fine recording on the Concertgebouw's own label (his previous effort with the Oslo Philharmonic is even finer but comes coupled with a slightly less good 9th, which is probably not a good introduction and is therefore a little pricier), Mackerras has a cheap recording with the RLPO on classics for pleasure and the Bernstein recording with the Concertgebouw is also very fine (though this is only available coupled with his recording of the 5th which, while remarkable, is not a good starting point).


Nick, I miss the days of proper simulcasting.....


regards, Tam