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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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In Reply to: Converted posted by Amphissa on May 17, 2007 at 17:30:03:
Whenever I hear a composer's intended interpretation first-hand, more often than not, I prefer it over any other interpretation.....I also tend to prefer hearing the composer, with as little "stamp on the music" by the conductor as possible. I'm even re-thinking the Dvorak "New World", in which the Szell interpretation has been one glaring exception. But I want to get more doses of a "straight reading." I once thought Szell was *the* Schumann conductor, but over the years, I've been attaining a liking for unadulterated readings of this composer. Now save for the Third Symphony, I no longer care much for Szell's Schumann.
My complaint about Leonard Bernstein is very similar to my complaint about Carlos Kleiber- I'm not a fan of hyped up interpretations of any composer, aside from maybe Tchaikovsky. I tend to drift toward the Furtwangler/Bruno Walter/Carlo Maria Giulini approach to the music, which is often understated, but after a while, you realize the music has a lot more depth and inner complexity than imagined.
I think the biggest example of this is Aaron Copland's Third Symphony. You should listen to Bertstein's interpretation, then to the composer's own. To me, the Bernstein sounds like nothing more than an intro to a TV documentary. Where Copland's own hits me as a hard-core classical work that approches Brahms in complexity and depth.
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