Originally posted by ferneyhoughgeliebte
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Sad to say, Shaw appears to have been right. One may wonder, by way of mitigation, whether the ‘language’ existed in music to make an adequate treatment possible in 1892; but the creator of Amfortas might have created a Job, and the composer of Act 2 of Fidelio might have coped with the progression from sickness-unto-death to happy-ever-after. The fact is that Parry’s Job is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of work, and it shouldn’t be.
However, I once heard Adrian Boult conduct the work and his performance impressed me. There's more work to be done to rescue Job from the naysayers, I fear.
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