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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: Franz Welser-Moest posted by Brian Cheney on February 1, 2007 at 19:23:42:
... and I can't say I agree with your observations, although I do at least partly agree with your conclusions about FWM. Cleveland still sounded like a top-tier orchestra, with many of the same players leading sections that have been among the best in the world for decades. Far from making pointless changes, Welser-Most was, if anything, a "non-interventionist" to a fault.I agree that "Frankly Worst than Most" was a less than ideal choice, but for entirely different reasons. I don't think he puts up with slack ensembles, and I didn't hear that myself. What I don't much care for is that his music-making is rather faceless, and you don't, in listening to him, get the sense that he has much to say about the music.
He has said that playing Haydn and Mozart is "like doing personal hygene," by which I'm sure he meant something like "a way of keeping the orchestra in good working order." But the phrase also bespeaks a sense of routine, of dutiful fulfillment of obligation, which is exactly what I felt hearing him playing that sort of stuff. Where was the joy? They also had some contemporary music on the bill, and it too sounded a bit like something that was done out of a sense of duty, and done well, but still lacking in passion.
Cleveland's still a great band, and it would take more than a couple years worth of a mediocre conductor to destroy the musicians they have. But I do fear that they're embarking on an era of routine professionalism, not great music-making.
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