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In Reply to: Mstislav Rostropovich... posted by orejones on April 27, 2007 at 04:31:36:
It is moving, disheartening, and also tragic.You can't help but feel that the last gasps of some great powerful wind from the last century have died with him. I think he was the last one in a magnificent lineage of old-world musicians who grew up in an age of many contradictions and were there right in time for the heyday of classical music recording industry. They were not just instrumentalists or singers; instead, humanisms and the arts were their uncompromised passions, and they rose to the highest ranks because of the extreme purity of that conviction.
This was a jolt I didn't expect, and certainly haven't felt since Richter, Schwarzkopf, and then Sinopoli died.
Of those still with us we should speak maybe only of the immortal Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the same sentence. Those coming after are all marching behind the banner held high by Maurizio Pollini and Claudio Abbado - the last of the kind but already of another kind of an era.
(OK, I shouldn't write a word very late Friday evenings.)
TL
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