Rob's 'Essential Choice'

[old khayyam]

So wither the art of interpretation..?

[amateur51]

anton and aeolium's posts have reminded me how good Casals was playing Schubert as a member of a chamber ensemble (there's also a very good recording of the Fifth Symphony that he conducts with the Marlboro Festival Orchestra).

I just don't like his solo Bach recordings.

(I love Edwin Fischer's, though, and Menuhin's ... and the Busch Ensemble's Brandenburgs)

There's a wonderful CD of his conducting Schubert symphony no 8 (Unfinished) that is sometimes available on Sony, ferney.

Glad you like Edwin Fischer et al too

Do you know Feinberg's Bach on piano? Very old-fashioned but :swoon:

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

There's a wonderful CD of his conducting Schubert symphony no 8 (Unfinished) that is sometimes available on Sony, ferney.

YES! I have that on vinyl, ammie (must get something to play it on! )

Do you know Feinberg's Bach on piano? Very old-fashioned but :swoon:

I'd never heard of him before your post! Playing him now, courtesy of youTube - Bach played as if it were Brahms: LOVE it!

[LeMartinPecheur]

So wither the art of interpretation..?

ok: perhaps you mean 'whither'? But then again, perhaps not Though the imperative mood seems a bit OTT!

[old khayyam]

ok: perhaps you mean 'whither'? But then again, perhaps not Though the imperative mood seems a bit OTT!

Yes, i did mean 'whither'.

To bend to a prevailing wind which suddenly declares a certain artist no longer a genius smacks of what they call 'fickle trendiness'. It can be the case that some composers only appear to be geniuses within the frame of their particular time (eg, when they are merely advancing an already established change), but when it comes to recitalists interpreting music already centuries old, we can never say their interpretation has lost its validity, only that we have grown bored of it at this current time.

Ultimately, recitation in its purest sense is clinical. Interpretation is... . . . life!

[amateur51]

YES! I have that on vinyl, ammie (must get something to play it on! )


I'd never heard of him before your post! Playing him now, courtesy of youTube - Bach played as if it were Brahms: LOVE it!

[LeMartinPecheur]

To bend to a prevailing wind which suddenly declares a certain artist no longer a genius smacks of what they call 'fickle trendiness'. It can be the case that some composers only appear to be geniuses within the frame of their particular time (eg, when they are merely advancing an already established change), but when it comes to recitalists interpreting music already centuries old, we can never say their interpretation has lost its validity, only that we have grown bored of it at this current time.

Ultimately, recitation in its purest sense is clinical. Interpretation is... . . . life!