John Smythe on Dutoit:

>>Very surprised that I was not as delighted with Dutoit's Debussy.
>>Too cool for my taste.  Jarvi and Abbado and Rattle do much better w/
>>Prokofiev and Bartok.  ...

I wrote:

>Jarvi (senior?) and Debussy? Sound like an impossible combination,
>especially after I heard Jarvi conduct VW.

I now realize that John didn't say anything about Jaarvi and Debussy.
Prokofiev and (especially) Bartok are composers who sounds good (at least
live) under Jaarvi's baton.

Mikael
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