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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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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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I've heard butcher jobs of orchestral works over the years, but I just heard Mozart's 39th symphony (which happens to be my favorite Mozart symphony) performed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.... (On Los Angeles station KUSC 91.5.) I almost started throwing stuff at the stereo.... At first, I merely thought it was Mozart done wrong.... Choppy with very little sense of melodic flow or delicate tonal sonority. Then came the third movement.... I almost fell out of my chair.... The music was performed about twice as fast as it should. And all I heard was the rhythmic "chop, chop, chop"..... It was so fast, Harnoncourt actually had to slow down considerably for the middle wind portion. The final movement had a playing style that was so stiff and bombastic, it would have been too stiff and bombastic for Beethoven's 7th Symphony.....I love the Mozart 39, but I hated the COE/Harnoncourt performance of it.
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Topic - A Recording to Avoid..... - Todd Krieger 01:47:24 12/05/06 (33)
- I'll tell you something weird... - gd 18:06:21 12/06/06 (1)
- Re: I'll tell you something weird... - Todd Krieger 04:09:09 12/08/06 (0)
- Re: A Recording to Avoid..... - robertkeir 21:38:53 12/05/06 (2)
- Re: A Recording to Avoid..... - Todd Krieger 02:31:54 12/08/06 (0)
- Thanks--the Bernstein is slowish (40 & 41 VPO) - docw 09:21:53 12/06/06 (0)
- But his Mozart Requiem SACD is quite good. nt - sser2 17:40:08 12/05/06 (0)
- thanks Todd Krieger - docw 12:57:31 12/05/06 (0)
- You're lucky. It cost you zip to find out!....... - Chuck Y 10:13:12 12/05/06 (1)
- "His Mozart is Beethovian!" is how one review put it. n/t - SE 10:55:11 12/05/06 (0)
- Re: A Recording to Avoid..... - Larry I 08:57:19 12/05/06 (2)
- It's a conspiracy... - SE 09:48:44 12/05/06 (1)
- That may be true of some performers... - C.B. 13:10:29 12/05/06 (0)
- Mozart is not easy to play well - rbolaw 07:51:34 12/05/06 (9)
- Try Bruno Walter with the NY Phil - greenpig 19:36:08 12/05/06 (0)
- Francois Paillard, Otmar Suitner, Joseph Krips. nt - sser2 14:42:40 12/05/06 (0)
- Re: Mozart is not easy to play well - SR 10:47:07 12/05/06 (4)
- Pinnock. - Pat D 15:24:44 12/05/06 (2)
- I agree--Pinnock trumps Hogwood... - C.B. 06:07:26 12/06/06 (1)
- I still like the few Hogwood Mozart recordings I have. - Pat D 08:09:22 12/06/06 (0)
- Well, to each his own. (Nothing personal, SR!) nt - markrohr 11:40:45 12/05/06 (0)
- Hmm... now try Beecham and the London Phils. nt - clarkjohnsen 08:09:11 12/05/06 (1)
- Re: Hmm... now try Beecham and the London Phils. nt - rbolaw 13:11:16 12/05/06 (0)
- Screwing up Mozart - lipmanl 06:33:01 12/05/06 (9)
- Re: Screwing up Mozart - Pat D 09:38:52 12/05/06 (8)
- What's hard in Carmina... - C.B. 13:17:39 12/05/06 (0)
- I would say . . . - markrohr 11:36:37 12/05/06 (2)
- Re: I would say . . . - Pat D 15:17:25 12/05/06 (1)
- Only - markrohr 05:45:30 12/06/06 (0)
- Re: Screwing up Mozart - lipmanl 10:39:51 12/05/06 (3)
- Re: Screwing up Mozart - Pat D 11:03:49 12/05/06 (2)
- Re: Screwing up Mozart - lipmanl 11:24:56 12/05/06 (1)
- Re: Screwing up Mozart - Pat D 11:39:50 12/05/06 (0)
- Re: A Recording to Avoid..... - robertkeir 06:03:54 12/05/06 (0)
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