Originally posted by jayne lee wilson
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You know, I have never understood why individuals sometimes post incredibly negative comments about this artist, or that orchestra, or this performance, or that particular work.
What is the point of someone saying they’ve never rated something or someone, for example? Is this a request for others to gently persuade them? For if it isn’t, what do they expect to gain? A conversion of millions who love this work to their way of thinking?
I confess that there are solo artists and conductors here who do absolutely nothing for me in works we all know and love. Why would I wish to post negative comments of why “they don’t do it for me”? I simply move on and let others enjoy these performances.
And so Jayne, to your posting on David Zinman. Shall I simply say that his interpretation of Beethoven’s works is at variance with my own, and simply leave it at that? I’m hardly ever going to win this argument anyway.
For me at least , since I first heard Toscanini’s performance of the Missa Solemnis for example, nothing, but nothing gets anywhere near the depth of interpretation, abundance of profundity, width of scouring deeper in the score and a universality of conception of the entire work, than does the Italian.
I’m pleased, genuinely pleased that you find much to admire in DZ & the TZO.
And no, the highest level of sound fidelity is not important to me, as my example of Toscanini’s performance of the MS in 1940 (preferable to his 1953 one) shows.
Best wishes,
Mario
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