Originally posted by smittims
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I played Ave Maris Stella recently with my Köln colleagues. I’ve always been struck by the fact that the official Fires recording of that has almost none of the players that premiered the piece—there was a big changing of the guard between the two events. I had always wanted to hear the ‘original cast’, then I found out relatively recently that a recording of the premiere exists, and I managed to hear it. I was astonished at how badly it seemed to fit the original players, even allowing for how terrifying it must have been to play that piece new. I got the impression Max’s music had moved on from his performers, even slightly before those performers moved on from his music…
It must be tricky to be a pioneer. You have to think up a new path, then you need to make it properly yours, then people eventually have to follow you down it (without overtaking you of course) because if that doesn’t happen eventually you’re just a misfit
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