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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: Re: The one thing no music critic or annotator has ever mentioned AFAIK... posted by Soundmind on October 27, 2006 at 14:27:12:
You guys aren't listening to what I said--I'm suggesting that the first movement of Mozart's Sym. No. 39 may have served as a model (or inspiration, if you like) for the first movement of Beethoven's Eroica, nothing more--obviously Beethoven went far beyond Mozart, especially in the other three movements. There is no precedent in Mozart, for example, for Beethoven's "Funeral March", or for his "theme and variations" finale based on a contredance.>>I listened to VK's recording of the Mozart with the Berliner. Mozart IMO always lacks the driving force which impels Beethoven.<<
The "missing drive" to due to HvK, not the music. This interpretation, like so many others, is slow in tempo and lacking rhythmic "snap". It perpetuates the misguided notion that Mozart is all about "autumnal beauty" and classical serenity. Bull--Mozart was as much an iconoclast and innovator in his day as Beethoven was in his.
If the opening movement of K. 543 is performed with the appropriate drive, especially with the all-important brass parts emphasized, then its true nature becomes becomes apparent. I would suggest Trevor Pinnock's rendition with the English Concert--a brisk, big-boned performance with ballsy brass. Klemperer's from the late '50s is also very good--Philip Jones, the principal trumpet of the Philharmonia at the time, is not afraid to play out, especially on the opening main theme.
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