Chris Bonds wrote:

>A question: can anyone here share an experience of deciding an
>interpretation was perverse after many hearings? One of the things I'm
>wondering is: Do we too often listen to a performance once, decide it's not
>for us, without giving it a second, or third, or 7th chance? To what extent
>can repeated hearings of a recording actually change our notion of how a
>piece should be interpreted? ...

A 7th chance can be surprising.  That was the point of my previous
remarks.  When you are hearing a Klemperer (or Walter or Furtwangleer or
Toscanini or -- whoever) and you are disappointed in what you hear,
recognize that the problem is more likely to be you than the artist.

In my case I admit to having had an existing prejudice regarding Otto K.,
which for sure is more my fault than his!

Bill S